Bear Grylls uses Cold Steel

I really was suprised to see him using low/mid grade knives... but I guess it is something that the average dude will have with him. I guess that most guys don't pack around Busse Game Wardens as an EDC. WHAT?!? I know that I'd never be out in the woods w/out a good knife though.
 
I really discourage the notion that he is teaching usable survival techniques. He places himself in unessecary danger all the time and would hope he knows that the average person stranded would be foolish to try these things. This ranges from stunts to save small amounts of time that could easily land anyone not in his hard earned condition with a broken ankle or leg to exposing himself to disease to show how far he can go to find food. Niether is smart or the first things you should be showing people as advice before you verse them in all the safe and sound ways to do such things. A borken leg in the wild or capsizing on the rocks floating down unkown rapids are not practical advice. So if the show is not about pracital usable survival, what is it about?
EATING DUNG!!
This is a show that hopes to shock and awe people both with what he eats and the chances he takes. I dont have a problem with that except from the 3 or so I have seen he only does one half of that. I found the reshot scenes to take away from any sense of realism and that is what the show whould be potraying IMO. I found it boring and even had to laugh at some of the scenes. It was ammusing at times but dull and not full of much usefull info. Like another thread pointed out why sharpen a knife though a complex series of tasks when you could just rub it on a stone. I was poking fun at the show but if you enjoy it you should watch it. I just think a show where a guy blindly freeclimbs down a face and rafts down rapids on a stick raft should have either action or not try and reshoot the action. To me it ends up looking like an unsolved mysteries episode.

As far as his training goes it doesnt help the show in my mind. I respect him and his level of training. I grew up in the harsh wilderness of Alaska with no running water and outhouses at 60 below. Summiting peaks across the state and portable biving multipitch mixed rock and ice has taught me a thing or two about survival. He knows alot about a diversity of environments, I know a few very well. I am shure if we were both dropped in the middle of the sahara he would have a higher survival rate than me. I still didnt think the show came together into a fun to watch experience. My Wife was laughing at the guy, i dont think thats the image the show wants considering what the man has acomplished. On the other hand if they are touting the show as advice on how to survive they had better get ready for some lawsuits and pissed off S&R people. It just seems to fall in between ideas and has no real point as far as I can see.

There was another survival show where the guy took his own equipment alone into the wilderness and filmed himself doing his thing. It was boring but had a sense of truth and was full of practical advise that wouldnt get you hurt. I forget the name atm.
 
you might be talkin about survivor man. another good show. i always find things to learn from. ya never stop learning, no matter how corny the medium is. never. if i came away, from the whole series, with just learning one single thing, im satisfied. im a very curious person, and hes quite amusing to me. true, he does show some things, that to an average hiker, may put him in danger. like the PLF he showed one day, while climbing down that cliff. (parachute landing fall) how to do the typical foot, calf, thigh, ass, lat muscle drop. (more like foot, ass, back lol). I wouldnt recommend that to a standard hiker. I agree. but still, thats all up the viewer, to know his/her physical limitations, and to keep what he needs, and throw out what he dont. Ya cant please everyone lol.
 
Ahhhhhhhahahahahahahahahahahaha!! The 4 year old thread that's back from the dead.
 
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Brownmajik said:
Ahhhhhhhahahahahahahahahahahaha!! Er...sniffle, I mean, congrats on the "good knife" score. Now you can be just like Bear.
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It's a good thing you didn't just bump a thread from 2006 to take a dump on someone who has long since forgotten the existence of the comment they made. You might have looked pretty stupid.
 
I don't even understand how people find these old threads to post in them. Wouldn't you look at the date??? And why if you only have a few posts are you going to insult someone else you've never met? Don't be a jerk.
 
JediKnight86 said:
It looks like I've identified the folder Bear uses in his show Man vs Wild as a combo edge Cold Steel Voyager. My first reaction was "Someone needs to get this guy a better knife before he dies out there!" but the knife handled whatever he threw at it, including bashing the spine with a rock to chop wood.

Anyone ever had one of these? I'm thinking about picking one up just to play with and test.

Either way I think we should vote on the survival knife he needs to have on the show and send him one.
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I'm sorry if I was wrong, but I think that's a Gerber gator...
It has a clip point blade, black plastic handle with back locking mechanism. The handle, blade shape looks a lot like the CS voyager old version
you can see it here :) http://bearsknife.blogspot.com/
If it is the Iceland Glaciers Episode you were watching, then it must be the Gerber gator...
Now he's using a custom knife that I believe costs $700...anyone has any information about BG's new knife?
 
i saw an episode where he used the "bear grylls ultimate knife" from gerber. It was pretty obvious, what with the bright orange and all. He made sure to use the firesteel from the sheath to start a fire, and later on he lashed the knife to a branch and walked behind a bush, returning with a dead pig.
 
I do nothing without a reason. And see? Now we're talking about Gerbers. BTW, has anybody used the BG Gerbers yet? How are they? I don't watch the show often and dont i tend to copycat Bear, but I'm curious if he uses his namesake knives in newer episodes. I was surprised to come back stateside after 740 days abroad and see his gerbers in wally world. Lotta things have changed since i left. My first knife purchase was a gerber gator. Still got it along with my grandpas buck 110 and the sak scout i got as a weblo!

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Which episode was tbat b yond? I'll try to find it...
 
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