Anyone See: Alaska: The Last Frontier.

I was wondering why the rifle was unloaded in the first place. If I'm out and about in a Brown bear area like that, I'm going to keep my primary working guns loaded. Always. I don't get it.

I also wondered why there happened to be a camera right there stationed where he would dismount and fire.

To me it seems this season there's more of the family as a whole getting in on the action($$). And most/more of the projects and whatnot are seem more-so or pretty much staged.

And I like Life Below Zero too. It has more basic 'subsistence living' with some of the characters.
 
KDucky's brother said:
And I like Life Below Zero too. It has more basic 'subsistence living' with some of the characters.
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I think that the further north you go, the more limited some natural resources are. Or they can be harder to acquire due to climate etc., making for a very basic lifestyle. That's my theory anyway. Of course we can't negate human ingenuity though, people can be amazing.
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I honestly don't know what to believe with some outdoor non? reality shows these days. Some of it looks legit, some contrived. I can be naive and I prefer to roll with the pleasurable aspects of the natural beauty, trees, clear streams, camps etc. I see things on these shows that I can identify with, and at times, scenarios that look made up and simply stupid.... I saw something called ''7 days in hell'' or some such last night. It was about a couple of guys trying to trace an old Yukon gold panning trail ? It seems that regardless of the set up, people tend to still get a whack of reality on these shows. Hunger is hunger, being cold\ wet is cold and wet. And sleeping outside in stinking slimy clothes can still suck, even in a contrived scenario. So I still see some reality in these shows now and then, and some seem closer to home than others.
 
Great content and very interesting subject material. I watched a couple of episodes before I deleted the timer because it is impossible to follow the show like most material Discovery channel broadcasts these days. Discovery butchers everything, then mixes it all up making it very confusing and annoying. They jump from one scene to another just as the viewer is becoming engaged, enough to make me hit delete and move on to something else. Very unfortunate given the potential of the content to make for great viewing.
 
Bufford said:
Great content and very interesting subject material. I watched a couple of episodes before I deleted the timer because it is impossible to follow the show like most material Discovery channel broadcasts these days. Discovery butchers everything, then mixes it all up making it very confusing and annoying. They jump from one scene to another just as the viewer is becoming engaged, enough to make me hit delete and move on to something else. Very unfortunate given the potential of the content to make for great viewing.
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I find the same thing when viewing survivorman secrets of survival, it jumps all over the place.
 
Not sure why they do it, but I am considering to drop my Dishnetwork subscription, and go back to free local channels and books. Its not worth paying for this kind of video trash, and I find that because of this I am watching less reality based shows, in favor of old movies, and older TV series. Netflix is a good alternative if one has a good internet connection, providing more control overTV content.
 
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Pretty good show. They have a lot of equipment and I wonder how they ever paid for it considering they are mostly "living off the land". They seem to use an incredible amount of fuel also and fuel is not cheap.
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That's. Exactly what I was asking myself,
Money $$$ where is it coming from ???
If you live out there, you need money. $$$
Sawmill, Atv, Snowmobile, Backhoe, dozer, tractor, chainsaws,gators, rifles, barn, tires, steel, trailers....$$$
I'm serious, they are not the only peoples out there, People are living from what $$$
 
Meh... it's TV; what do you expect?

I will give the producers credit for not pandering to the back-stabbing ways most "reality" shows encourage between the "stars". The Kilchers seem like genuinely nice people. At the very least, their insistence on recommending respect for Nature, and not really "enjoying" killing is admirable.

My wife is hooked on the show. I find it... amusing. I've never known anyone who hunts or lives on a farm waste as much ammunition as those boys do, blasting away at anything that moves, and never even mention sighting-in or firearms maintenance. One episode, the two cousins burnt up about 20 rounds of 22LR to kill a couple squirrels. One-shot, dead-drop kills at a deer running through heavy cover? Mmmmmmm-hmm. :rolleyes: My Grampa would thump me upside the head if I tried that.

I also notice they love to freak out about running out of food and ammo, but everyone seems to have a different, complete set of spotless winter clothing in nearly every episode... for Pete's sake, Ang and I live in the 'burbs with a decent working-class income, and we don't have anywhere near the wardrobe those folks do. ;)

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I find the same thing when viewing survivorman secrets of survival, it jumps all over the place.
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I suspect they edit that way to keep people engaged, so folks can't bear to tear themselves away for fear of missing what happened. Like you guys said, it has the exact opposite effect on me. If you record it and skip through the commercials and recaps of the scene you just saw before the commercial, a half-hour show takes about 11 minutes to watch.

Homerak said:
Oh, and if you want to see a real show about surviving in Alaska watch "Dick Proennekes into the wilderness".
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That's better by far, but when you do a little digging you'll find he was hardly "surviving alone". His financial background is unclear to me, but not too many people can afford to take off work and fly back and forth to AK a couple times just to cut wood for next year... Regardless, the parts of him building his cabin (right down to the hinges) is worth watching for certain.

SubaruSTi said:
Winters coming...
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Drink! :D
 
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james terrio said:
I suspect they edit that way to keep people engaged, so folks can't bear to tear themselves away for fear of missing what happened. Like you guys said, it has the exact opposite effect on me. If you record it and skip through the commercials and recaps of the scene you just saw before the commercial, a half-hour show takes about 11 minutes to watch.





Drink! :D
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This style of editing has had me hit delete on many shows. It gets annoying to the point that when the show jumps around between the farm and the hunt, I simply fast forward to catch up to where the editor/butchers last chopped off. I have deleted entire timers of reality shows that are butchered in this manner, these include Naked and afraid and most other Discovery contrived trash too painful to watch that would otherwise be very interesting. I find that I am watching less TV as a result, and recently downsized my subscription with Dish network.
 
Bufford said:
I find that I am watching less TV as a result, and recently downsized my subscription with Dish network.
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I completely understand. With football season being over, we're having the same discussions in our house. I have to have internet regardless, and everything we could want is available online, so...
 
james terrio said:
That's better by far, but when you do a little digging you'll find he was hardly "surviving alone". His financial background is unclear to me, but not too many people can afford to take off work and fly back and forth to AK a couple times just to cut wood for next year... Regardless, the parts of him building his cabin (right down to the hinges) is worth watching for certain.
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His journals are worth reading IMO. He wasn't out there in just a "survivalist" sense. He was a carpenter in WW2 and later worked as a diesel mechanic in Alaska. When he went to Twin Lakes, he was retiring. He lived frugaly and did odd jobs. He took lots of pictures and film and sold it to various government wildlife agencies (and probably some non-government) for additional funds. He had fairly regular plane deliveries with food and other items he couldn't have procured otherwise. He likely had some royalties from the film and books as well.

He didn't go out there to be a survivalist, he just went out there to live as he wanted and enjoy nature.
 
I feel that the lucky folks are the ones that can make a living and still be close to the outdoors. Are some of these shows a little contrived ?, ya probably. But seeing that I am now on the bald prairies, I can still live vicariously through some of these shows. When I see the ''Last Frontier'' folks romping around that beautiful country, knocking down a duck or goose, etc. It brings back warm memories for me. Yes I can enjoy these shows for what they are. Or, at least I choose to.
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james terrio said:
Right on. The "hype" comes not from his footage or journals, but mostly from internet forums :D
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I really enjoyed reading about him. He had an interesting life. Lots of good stuff in there..... He gave up a lot of comforts to live the life he did. What he did is inspring, it's just not exactly what some may think it is.
 
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