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14-07-2016, 22:12 #11
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Re: Bushcraft / Survival Tv servies : Alone
I farking hated Survivor. They could just as well have dubbed it Conniver. I mean, it's hardly about surviving skills and all about conniving and backstabbing.
The alpha males that any group would want if they really needed to survive are always voted out first, mainly because they are seen as a "threat". Well, personally I regard threats as big, furry carnivorous animals with huge teeth. Or big, carnivorous fish with huge teeth. Or big, sweaty cannibals with huge spears.
Which means that alpha males are kind of good to have. Unless you're a gender studies professor with a penchant for androgynous ladyboys. In which case your biggest threat might be your data cap.
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14-07-2016, 23:04 #12
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Re: Bushcraft / Survival Tv servies : Alone
I like Survivor ! :)
Survivor was always a social game but these lone guys have something totally unrealistic in them and that is setting. There is just too few places on earth where food is abundant enough for one person collecting water, food and wood to go alone.
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15-07-2016, 07:46 #13
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Re: Bushcraft / Survival Tv servies : Alone
In many places it is entirely possible - provided you possess some basic survival skils and basic related equipment such as tarp, rope, fishing reel, water bottles, means of making fire, machete/axe, survival knife, warm clothing.
How do you think people survived 300 years ago?
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15-07-2016, 08:43 #14
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15-07-2016, 09:26 #15
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Re: Bushcraft / Survival Tv servies : Alone
I think survival is a concept most people do not understand, all people know is what they see on tv, and that ain't real.
Take any of these survival programs like ultimate survival, survivorman, marooned etc, ever seen how these people name plants of that habitat as if they always knew about it?
Well they don't, they go to great lengths to study the plants and animals in that territory, spend much time on research, all just to give them some advantage. If you don't know what is edible or poisonous, where to look for roots, which species of animals is poisonous or not, a long list of etc then it is difficult. Yes people did it for many years, but their knowledge was build up over thousands of years with much trial and error and much death.
Local knowledge is the key factor for surviving in any non resource rich environment, and it aint something a lone survivor from the city will suddenly work out in a few weeks. Take any of these experts, drop them in an unknown resource scarce environment without chance to prepare and they are in trouble.
First we must separate fact from fiction, start with TV, that's fiction, fact is 99.9% of all modern city folk will die in such scenario.
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15-07-2016, 16:06 #16
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15-07-2016, 16:14 #17
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Re: Bushcraft / Survival Tv servies : Alone
Most places where it was relatively easy to survive with easy to access resources are now inhabited and typically where towns and cities are located.
For instance most uninhabited islands ( a favorite setting for these shows) are usually not populated because the lack animals and accessible fresh water.
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15-07-2016, 18:53 #18
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Re: Bushcraft / Survival Tv servies : Alone
Alone is about folks on Vancouver Island, its realistic (Season 2) there are black bears and cougars wondering about as shown in the show.
Vancouver Island is a really wilderness area if you go to the west coast and head North, that's where this show is filmed - many trophy bears are hunted up there each year.
The weather can be really nice or really wet, and it can rain continually for days - even weeks on end.
Fishing is really good if you catch the salmon run just right, there area lso loads of bottom fish like ling cod same as *king klip* and halibut to keep you interested.
Surprisingly no one has crafted a bow out of the many opportunities there to make one, there are loads of edible critters walking around in the bush, one deer or bear would keep a person fed for a long time...
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