Survivorman's Secrets of Survival

[Sergeant Bob]

"Survivorman's Secrets of Survival" is showing on the Science Channel over about the next two weeks.
It encompasses three different categories, Fire, Water and Shelter with an hour of "how to" on each subject.
Much of it has already been shown on the regular Survivorman series but this series bundles them into one hour segments with extensive demonstrations of each.

The schedule is as follows:

Fire:  Sun 9/15 @4 am
         Sun 9/22 @7 pm
         Mon 9/23 @2 am
         Fri   9/27 @7 pm

Shelter:  Fri 9/20 @9 pm
              Sat 9/21 @12 am
              Sun 9/22 @4 am

Water  Fri 9/20 @10 pm
           Sat 9/21 @1 am
           Sun 9/22 @5 am.

Check it out, it's a very informative series!

[Ben]

Thanks for the heads up - gonna check it out!

[Fly320s]

Available online?

[T.O.M.]

Caught the Shelter episode.  Definitely worth the time.  Good information.

[Pharmacology]

might check it out.

the guy from dual survival used to have a YouTube channel called the Pathfinder school or something

[AJ Dual]

The biggest takeaway from his secrets compilation shows is that PRACTICE is key, when you're NOT lost, NOT cold, NOT thirsty, NOT hungry, so you're not wasting hours... days maybe trying to figure out these things, and the infinite combination of details that can befuddle you when you are lost, cold, thirsty, and hungry...

His first attempt at a fire-bow in the wild, vs. ten years later when he had it down to a few minutes was telling. And he was already something of an expert during that first example they showed.

[T.O.M.]

might check it out.

the guy from dual survival used to have a YouTube channel called the Pathfinder school or something

He still does.  Dave Canterbury.  More good stuff.

[Sergeant Bob]

Update on the series!

Food  Fri 9/27 @10pm
         Sat 9/28 @1am
         Sun 9/29 @5am

[AZRedhawk44]

Available online?

Usenet

[Ben]

Dammit! Forgot to set the DVR after the OP. Setting it on the phone right now before i forget.

[brimic]

The biggest takeaway from his secrets compilation shows is that PRACTICE is key, when you're NOT lost, NOT cold, NOT thirsty, NOT hungry, so you're not wasting hours... days maybe trying to figure out these things, and the infinite combination of details that can befuddle you when you are lost, cold, thirsty, and hungry...

His first attempt at a fire-bow in the wild, vs. ten years later when he had it down to a few minutes was telling. And he was already something of an expert during that first example they showed.

I've never got a firebow to work myself. I've even tried chucking up a spindle in a drill press which illustrated to me how much effort it would take to get smoke, let alone an ember. Discouraging is an understatement.

My son and I were able to start fires with swedish firesteels, but even that was not exactly easy.

[Ben]

I've never got a firebow to work myself. I've even tried chucking up a spindle in a drill press which illustrated to me how much effort it would take to get smoke, let alone an ember. Discouraging is an understatement.

My son and I were able to start fires with swedish firesteels, but even that was not exactly easy.

I've done a bow drill fire exactly once. My other attempts were, as you say, discouraging. I've almost always, except with pretty wet fixins' had good luck with metal matches (I think the same as Swedish steel) and magnesium blocks.

I was reading somewhere, can't remember where on the Internet, where some apparently fairly well known "survival expert" was saying bow drills really aren't hard, almost like you have to be an idiot not to succeed. I'm inclined to believe Les, and even though I may in fact be an idiot, my own experience.