kiz
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Alone
Jun 14, 2018 15:34:57 GMT
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Post by kiz on Jun 14, 2018 15:34:57 GMT
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Alone
Jun 14, 2018 20:15:43 GMT
Post by pasnowbunny2 on Jun 14, 2018 20:15:43 GMT
YES! Thanks for the heads-up!
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Alone
Jun 14, 2018 21:32:12 GMT
Post by AZChristian on Jun 14, 2018 21:32:12 GMT
Such an interesting show. Heaven knows that I'd never try out for it . . . but I have a world of respect for those who do!
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Alone
Jul 26, 2018 0:59:59 GMT
Post by boliso on Jul 26, 2018 0:59:59 GMT
it's disgusting. Out of 47 entrants, only one has known to make netting and it took HIM a month to figure out that he needed it, and he didn't have brains enough to just cut up the 20x20 tarp to make it out of.
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Jul 26, 2018 6:00:01 GMT
Post by Bearcata on Jul 26, 2018 6:00:01 GMT
it's disgusting. Out of 47 entrants, only one has known to make netting and it took HIM a month to figure out that he needed it, and he didn't have brains enough to just cut up the 20x20 tarp to make it out of. Why would he cut up a tarp that would water proof his shelter?
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lonnie
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Jul 26, 2018 7:36:33 GMT
Post by lonnie on Jul 26, 2018 7:36:33 GMT
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Jul 27, 2018 4:58:06 GMT
Post by boliso on Jul 27, 2018 4:58:06 GMT
it's disgusting. Out of 47 entrants, only one has known to make netting and it took HIM a month to figure out that he needed it, and he didn't have brains enough to just cut up the 20x20 tarp to make it out of. Why would he cut up a tarp that would water proof his shelter? they give you a 10x10 also, that's enough shelter. They have all starved, all seasons. The netfishing is the key to having plenty of food. Once you have fish, you can use their heads and guts as bait for other fish, crawdads, birds, and mammals. Vary your diet, get some fat. They pretend that they get lonely, cause they are "survival instructors", but the truth is that they dont know how to feed themselves. They can take a 12x12 tarp as an option, they can cut up a hammock, or use it as shelter, too, ya know.
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Alone
Jul 27, 2018 5:01:22 GMT
Post by boliso on Jul 27, 2018 5:01:22 GMT
with just a coffee pot, skillet, small tarp, a wool blanket, a pocketknife, some hooks and line that he found, flint and steel and the clothes that he stood in! He took down the phonewire between the fire-towers and snared deer with it. The Alone contestants are bad jokes, actually.
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Alone
Jul 27, 2018 5:33:41 GMT
Post by Bearcata on Jul 27, 2018 5:33:41 GMT
with just a coffee pot, skillet, small tarp, a wool blanket, a pocketknife, some hooks and line that he found, flint and steel and the clothes that he stood in! He took down the phonewire between the fire-towers and snared deer with it. The Alone contestants are bad jokes, actually. What does this comment refer to?
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Alone
Jul 27, 2018 5:34:45 GMT
Post by Bearcata on Jul 27, 2018 5:34:45 GMT
with just a coffee pot, skillet, small tarp, a wool blanket, a pocketknife, some hooks and line that he found, flint and steel and the clothes that he stood in! He took down the phonewire between the fire-towers and snared deer with it. The Alone contestants are bad jokes, actually. I would think if a contestant wanted a fishing net they would bring one as one of their options as it is a waste of time and resources to make one when you can bring one and still have your tarp or two.
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Alone
Jul 27, 2018 5:49:58 GMT
Post by Arielflies on Jul 27, 2018 5:49:58 GMT
with just a coffee pot, skillet, small tarp, a wool blanket, a pocketknife, some hooks and line that he found, flint and steel and the clothes that he stood in! He took down the phonewire between the fire-towers and snared deer with it. The Alone contestants are bad jokes, actually. What does this comment refer to? My fault. The poster started a new thread about someone in the 30s who survived with nothing and I forgot to bring over the heading which had the name in it.
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Alone
Jul 30, 2018 15:34:29 GMT
Post by boliso on Jul 30, 2018 15:34:29 GMT
The size of the net that they are allowed to take is much too small to feed them properly. You need about 200 sq ft of 2" mesh and what they are allowed is just 75 sq ft of 1.5" mesh. They are only allowed to pick their 10 items from a VERY limited list of gear and many things are prohibited. No fishing rod or reel, no artificial lures, no steel traps, no cable snares, no guns or ammo, no poison, no water filter, no bug dope,
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Alone
Jul 30, 2018 15:41:23 GMT
Post by boliso on Jul 30, 2018 15:41:23 GMT
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Jul 30, 2018 15:45:20 GMT
Post by boliso on Jul 30, 2018 15:45:20 GMT
They often waste 2 weeks or more of precious time and calories making "winter shelters", when they will starve out before winter arrives! :-) A week of net making would set them up to have plenty of food, and the strength to make the winter shelter, WHEN they've made it far enough to NEED that shelter.
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Alone
Jul 30, 2018 17:02:15 GMT
Post by boliso on Jul 30, 2018 17:02:15 GMT
a Cold Steel shovel, modified to have an 8" saw edge. A Signal multitool, modified to have a file blade, for sharpening the saw. The warmest synthetic sleeping bag you can find, a 5 qt skillet and lid (Amazon) the snare wire, the fishing kit (as 8 BIG treblehooks for catching canines with salted fishhead baits) the big roll of duct tape, one of Chief Aj's slingbows (take 6 of the 9 alloted arrows as 4-tined fishing arrows) a hammock, and the 3 lb block of salt (for preserving food in the summertime, as bait, since they are not on a sea shore, and to help you choke down all the fish and cambium that you'll have to eat.
You can start your first fire easily, by "fire-rolling" a small chunk of your t-shirt, if you know to pre-rust the outside of your shovel. Rust is a great accelarant for friction fire. Then bed your coals under a small tarp and you'll always be able to re-ignite your fire. It will keep for 10 hours or more if you do this properly. Once you have one fire, you can vastly simplify making other fires (using any hard, sharp edged rock and any carbon steel tool) by having charred, saw/hatched wood, pine resin, rust, dried feathersticks, ashes, kept dry in a bag made of the duct tape and your gaiters. So when you hole up for the winter, emerging just once a week to melt snow and fill up the rainsuit water-container, dispose of wastes, you can readily start a new fire. Dont waste a pick on a ferrorod. There's more important, more versatile gear to take.
The rations have been cut to 2 lbs each (you can take 2) so they are not worth taking. Before you hole up for the winter, dig a 2x4 x 2 ft hole, to fill with snow or ice, and use heated stones to melt it. The snow melt is safe to drink, if you melt it in the skillet, but that's a VERY slow way to fill your 7 gallon rainsuit. If you boil the snowmelt or icepmelt, it will be safe to drink and if you pour it thru your field expedient water filter, that will get rid of the crud that's in the river ice and that will be the result of boiling in a hole in the ground.
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Alone
Aug 8, 2018 12:35:02 GMT
Post by boliso on Aug 8, 2018 12:35:02 GMT
The producers might well tell you that you can't cut up their 20x20 tarp. But they can't say the same about the "optional" 12x12 tarp that you can take as one of your 10 items. So take it instead of the skillet or the sleeping bag. Mongolia's full of dried grass, which makes great insulation. You simply MUST make a lot of 2" mesh netting and use it properly. That means that you make a seine and several baited net weirs.
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kiz
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Post by kiz on Aug 17, 2018 15:19:44 GMT
I really enjoyed this season. I would have been happy with any of the contestants winning. But my number one hope was for Sam. Just about all the rest were tied for my second place finish.
At the end, I was kind of hoping Britt and Sam would tie and share the $500,000. Sam did seem to have the stronger finish and the wherewithal to stay a little longer. Poor Britt was barely leaving his shelter.
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Post by Bearcata on Aug 17, 2018 22:50:39 GMT
Glad to see Sam be the winner. I will be curious to see how he spends the money as after taxes it is only $300,000. It can buy a nice house and two nice cars but then it is gone.
Larry seemed much better at the end as the man scared me with his roller coaster ups and downs.
Britt also seemed satisfied with his journey.
Looking forward to the reunion.
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Alone
Aug 17, 2018 22:54:09 GMT
Post by Bearcata on Aug 17, 2018 22:54:09 GMT
They often waste 2 weeks or more of precious time and calories making "winter shelters", when they will starve out before winter arrives! :-) A week of net making would set them up to have plenty of food, and the strength to make the winter shelter, WHEN they've made it far enough to NEED that shelter. I noticed that when it got cold the fish disappeared so a net would not be work much. When it got cold enough the net is useless as he can not wade into the deep water as he would get wet and the current looked fast. Those winter shelters didn't look all that great. The only one who looked as if he really put a lot of effort into his shelter I believe was Randy, who built that log cabin. The other shelters didn't look that sturdy. It does sound as if you are a proponent of Sam's Vancouver Island type of shelter, basically nothing.
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