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re: How Would You Rate Your Survival Skills?
Posted on 2/27/21 at 2:27 pm to BobABooey
Posted on 2/27/21 at 2:27 pm to BobABooey
quote:If you have ever read Hatchet, that is essentially what the main character does.
When I visited Belize in the 1970’s, the locals would build simple fences from the beach to maybe 20 feet out and then have the fence loop back on itself. Fish that swam into the fence would swim along the fence and enter the loop/circle and just keep swimming in circles until fishermen harvested them. I thought that was such a simple idea and could probably be modified for a small stream or creek.
The big issue for smaller lakes and ponds is getting the fish to swim in, usually requiring some sort of bait.
Once you get the initial fish in, it becomes easier since they can be used as bait themselves.
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Posted on 2/27/21 at 2:28 pm to SaintlyTiger88
work and play in the woods and waters and have an unbroken forty thousand acre block of national forests out my back door -literally- that i grew up playing and exploring in.
up until a few years back i'd backpack deep into the interior of the national forest taking only essential camping and hunting gear and turkey hunt for 3-5 days. have gone on many a "expedition" float for days at a time in a canoe where i had no direct intel on what i might encounter regarding conditions of the river.
a hot shower and a big greasy big mac are heaven after one of those wilderness trips.
maybe (maybe) 1 out of 500 people on this board could thrive for a
very long time with only a knife and some flint in suitable climates and ideal foraging/hunting/fishing conditions and i'm not one of them; for i know enough about doing it to know that, while i may survive, i'd be one miserable sob and one errant, poor move could spell disaster, even in climates like here in the south.
anytime i hear some jackass make a comment about, say, "wishing the grid would go down" so as to get back to the old days and ways, and who insists they'd be fine because they can throw a spinnerbait and kill and skin a doe to take to the processor, i roll my eyes because, in a small way, i personally know better. try sitting in the same basecamp for a week and watch how hard it becomes to even gather suitable firewood without having to constantly range farther and farther out. now sit there for years and find firewood. no wonder we were wanderers before we invented agriculture. try wiping your arse with an oak leaf for a couple of days and dealing with the red arse as a result. try finding/making potable water and finding/killing food with a fricking knife. seriously, go try it. i would imagine, with an informed mind based on some less extreme forms of wilderness living and having a backpack full of amenities, that it would suck, and many would die an early death if they didn't have a plan b, i.e., to go back home with their tails tucked.
sustenance living is hard as frick, and at the end of the day, it's just that and only that: sustaining life -nothing more. we do our ancestors an injustice by assuming willy nilly that we've what it takes to survive and thrive with only a knife and the clothes on our back. we don't know shite about that life, and thank God for it. it's such a feat to do with even modern "wilderness amenities" that it's a great way to get away and set your mind back right. you become more thankful for the things you have back in society, and after a few days in the woods, especially being there alone, even for an extreme introvert like myself, you can't wait to get back home to the good life. very few have what it takes to do what you speak of. very very few.
up until a few years back i'd backpack deep into the interior of the national forest taking only essential camping and hunting gear and turkey hunt for 3-5 days. have gone on many a "expedition" float for days at a time in a canoe where i had no direct intel on what i might encounter regarding conditions of the river.
a hot shower and a big greasy big mac are heaven after one of those wilderness trips.
maybe (maybe) 1 out of 500 people on this board could thrive for a
very long time with only a knife and some flint in suitable climates and ideal foraging/hunting/fishing conditions and i'm not one of them; for i know enough about doing it to know that, while i may survive, i'd be one miserable sob and one errant, poor move could spell disaster, even in climates like here in the south.
anytime i hear some jackass make a comment about, say, "wishing the grid would go down" so as to get back to the old days and ways, and who insists they'd be fine because they can throw a spinnerbait and kill and skin a doe to take to the processor, i roll my eyes because, in a small way, i personally know better. try sitting in the same basecamp for a week and watch how hard it becomes to even gather suitable firewood without having to constantly range farther and farther out. now sit there for years and find firewood. no wonder we were wanderers before we invented agriculture. try wiping your arse with an oak leaf for a couple of days and dealing with the red arse as a result. try finding/making potable water and finding/killing food with a fricking knife. seriously, go try it. i would imagine, with an informed mind based on some less extreme forms of wilderness living and having a backpack full of amenities, that it would suck, and many would die an early death if they didn't have a plan b, i.e., to go back home with their tails tucked.
sustenance living is hard as frick, and at the end of the day, it's just that and only that: sustaining life -nothing more. we do our ancestors an injustice by assuming willy nilly that we've what it takes to survive and thrive with only a knife and the clothes on our back. we don't know shite about that life, and thank God for it. it's such a feat to do with even modern "wilderness amenities" that it's a great way to get away and set your mind back right. you become more thankful for the things you have back in society, and after a few days in the woods, especially being there alone, even for an extreme introvert like myself, you can't wait to get back home to the good life. very few have what it takes to do what you speak of. very very few.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 2:30 pm to Scruffy
quote:
People overestimate their abilities.
Also, simply hunting is hard if you are just “out in the wild”, let alone with just a knife.
We as a species have lost a significant number of skills to survive in a situation like that in the OP.
Dropped in the middle of nowhere are 99% of us are screwed. If Im at that farm I could probably make it for a long time. I grow a lot of food and can most of it. I can fish and hunt for meat.
Problem would be after I have used up all the stuff I have horded there, like salt, fuel for saws etc. And Ive never reused lids for canning. I guess I could do that but I always buy new now.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 2:30 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I would be dead in 3 days. Probably self inflicted.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 2:32 pm to SaintlyTiger88
In a third world country outside of the Middle East and Africa, I’ve got pretty good instincts for getting around and adapting. In the actual wild though, I’d die quickly.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 2:42 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I would die within the first hour
Posted on 2/27/21 at 2:48 pm to SaintlyTiger88
If I had fire I could survive
Posted on 2/27/21 at 2:48 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I'm willing to kill to survive so that puts me at least a 5
Posted on 2/27/21 at 2:52 pm to dbeck
quote:Or if you found any family member.
I could survive indefinitely as long as I could find a piece of driftwood shaped like a vagina.
Posted on 2/27/21 at 2:53 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Relative to people on here?
I would end you clowns and claim your domicile as my own
I would end you clowns and claim your domicile as my own
Posted on 2/27/21 at 2:58 pm to Bigbee Hills
quote:
sustenance living is hard as frick, and at the end of the day, it's just that and only that: sustaining life
Yep
Subsistence farming is work all day long.
When you aren't carrying water, tending crops, tending chickens, repairing homestead structures, building new structures, cleaning, canning, etc.... when all those other chores are done- you are chopping, splitting, and stacking wood. All day long. There aren't many front porch lemonade moments. It's pure work. And that's if you know what you are doing and already have the homestead ready to go when SHTF.
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