Man VS. Wild

i was LMFAO at the horse taming episode


and the rabbit hunt with a stick

and the raft he went white water rafting on, made of grapevines and driftwood

and the 70 ft dive into unknown riverwater, instead of walking around

and the bow and arrow he made
 
anyone see the show where he crushes up rocks (quartz?) and smears it up and down a stick and then proceeds to sharpen his knife with the thing. I didn't know you could strop a blade on gravel...
 
comoha said:
anyone see the show where he crushes up rocks (quartz?) and smears it up and down a stick and then proceeds to sharpen his knife with the thing. I didn't know you could strop a blade on gravel...
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Yeah, I wondered if fine sand wouldn't have been more suitable?
He was in a stream bed, there had to be some flat rocks somewhere around?

I do think it is right to be looked at as entertainment, and also as "You are WAY Screwed, whatcha gonna do?"

The Production crews are mostly to blame for both SurvivorMan and MvW.
What could be 100% great informative shows, are both turned into "top hat and cane dance numbers with some Vaudeville Schtick thrown in".

Then, the 2nd largest problem (I have been saying this since the first SurvivorMan show) , you can't take 5 days worth of stuff, and effectively cram it into 1 hour, it's dumb. I think we would rather see more explanation, more technique, more sturggling, and have each adventure be done in [5] 1 hour shows.

Of course, TV Land believes that most viewers have the attention span of a gnat, therfor, they try to pack a lot fo climbing ,running, jumping, near death hijinks, and pee-drinking into every minutes worth. :eek:
Each show has that one single YUCK/Shock moment, it's scripted!
If you think about it, you can identify each one, from each episode:
Squeezing Elephant Poo for the moisture, eating a live snake, and this most recent Pee-drinking stunt.

All that said, I never miss an episode. Great scenery, and not a situation goes by where I am trying to think around them, and sometimes come up with another safer and/or more expediant way to accomplish the task.
For me, half the fun is figuring out what I would do.

It should be called WildMan vs. Wild. :D
 
When you cook the fish in mud if you don't put any leaves around it the skin will peal off with the mud.
 
SkunkWerX said:
It should be called WildMan vs. Wild. :D
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Naw, just the page entitled, "100 Things You Should NEVER Do," in "The Idiot's Guide to Outoor Survival" .

I did see some credits roll by with a survival expert listed, but I didn't catch the name and I couldn't find it in the crew credits listed on the Web.
 
We have been discussing Bear and his show for a season and a half now. Like many people, I have been frustrated by the dangerous actions he advocates.

Many here have said "Hey, it's only a TV show. It's just good entertainment. Nobody will take it seriously." Sadly that is not true. Take a look at this thread on the ArcheryTalk Bowhunting forum. Many people take Bears dumass antics as gospel, and pillary anybody who would suggest to the contrary. Here is my response, which pretty much sums up what I think of the show.

-- FLIX
 
I think the show is entertaining and, in its own way, educational as well. When we are watching the show I will occasionally look over at my wife and say something like, &#8220;Honey, if you are every stuck in <insert wild location here> by yourself with just a bottle full of urine, a knife and a flint, don&#8217;t ever do what he is doing right now.&#8221;

I just hope she is listening to me.

I sort of doubt it. =)
 
The show actually performs a great service to people like us. Some people will see it and get on google to research what they know sounds like BS and thus learn quality information from sites like this. Some idiots will take it as gospel and maybe put it to the test and die. Either way the collective gene pool is strengthened a little. :D
 
I work a graveyard shift and enjoy watching this show at work. I've picked up a few useful things from the couple of shows I've seen but can also see the unnecessary things he does, especially with his insistence on eating things raw which puts him at risk of getting worms or other types of parasites when a few minutes boiling would eliminate this risk.

Also, you should never drink your own urine under any circumstances. You can boil it and syphon off the steam into another container and then drink the purified water though.

Just joined this forum and am finding loads of useful information on here. I've finally decided what knife I'm going to get for my regular jaunts into the wilderness.
 
DarkenRahl said:
I work a graveyard shift and enjoy watching this show at work. I've picked up a few useful things from the couple of shows I've seen but can also see the unnecessary things he does, especially with his insistence on eating things raw which puts him at risk of getting worms or other types of parasites when a few minutes boiling would eliminate this risk.

Also, you should never drink your own urine under any circumstances. You can boil it and syphon off the steam into another container and then drink the purified water though.

Just joined this forum and am finding loads of useful information on here. I've finally decided what knife I'm going to get for my regular jaunts into the wilderness.
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Welcome to the forum! As you have probably read, we'll all want to know what knife(s) you settled on, and expect pictures!!!

-- FLIX
 
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