Man-Woman-Wild.......CRAP!

[Jeff S1]

No one should mistake these programs for a true survival course.

Amen Brother, someone gets it!!!!!

 

[amon]

Sorry crap is crap, I love fishing but there are a lot of crappy fishing shows out there I will not watch. just cuz something is about an interest of mine doesn't mean I can or will watch it.

You are right. Don't watch it, no one will care if you do or do not. :jerkit:

 

[swamp]

Sorry crap is crap, I love fishing but there are a lot of crappy fishing shows out there I will not watch. just cuz something is about an interest of mine doesn't mean I can or will watch it.

There are a ton of valid points in this thread. I can relate to your analogy by the fact that I can't watch people displaying and selling knives on the Home Shopping Networks. Even though I love knives. It's just too crappy

 

[TheGame]

Try not to dwell on the bad parts of the show, otherwise, it will disappoint you. Look for the good of the show. If you don't see it, there is a remote that changes the channel

 

[crom]

Watched a couple of episodes and was left wondering how these two find food everywhere while poor Les Stroud can't even find half an eaten grasshopper in most episodes. Dig the use of the CS khukri machete!

 

[KuRUpTD]

Watched a couple of episodes and was left wondering how these two find food everywhere while poor Les Stroud can't even find half an eaten grasshopper in most episodes.

This show, I believe, also presents certain situations to demonstrate how they are done where Survivorman was out there alone trying to film his show as well as survive. I would think that it's easier for 2 people to survive as one could set out hunting while the other took care of shelter and fire chores.

 

[teacher]

~~~ I can relate to your analogy by the fact that I can't watch people displaying and selling knives on the Home Shopping Networks. Even though I love knives. It's just too crappy

I find it hard to watch also... but it is times like the video below that makes it all worthwhile.....

[youtube]1dHwukEtNZw[/youtube]

 

[Paul 883215]

No, which is my point.

They keep watching these shows, and hopefully, when they go for their safari in the local wilderness they'll have the gears in their head squeaking and smoking saying "Hey! I want a knife like [XXX] has when I go out!"

It may be Cody's Mora, Dave's Pathfinder, Les's Buck 119, Bear's Bear Grylls knife, Ray Mears' Woodlore, or one of the many CS offerings from Myke Hawke's show. All of which are superior to a slipjoint for survival woodworking.

OK, but if we are teaching basics to beginers then we can't assume they know anything about the tools. These shows is pretty simple: take expert A and put him somewhere remote with limited tools and see how he survives. What better way to show them the shortcomings of a folder than have an expert explain it.
Paul

 

[swamp]

I find it hard to watch also... but it is times like the video below that makes it all worthwhile.....

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Yeah it's one of my favorites. I think the guy quit after that and a girl started trying to push these high end blades!

 

[hayseed1]

I don't plan on going anywhere they've been and I wouldn't consider myself schooled in African,swamp or jungle (any)survival skills in the least by the show but I just can't get enough "Baby" during the week so I tune in for the entertainment.It sure isn't the worst show on Tv and it's a whole lot closer "me" then 3 1/2 men or another csi.
If a city slicker who had no previous intrest or experience in the outdoors were to watch it I bet it would be a real eye opener for them.I'm sure they try to appeal to as large an audiance as they can which is probably why someone "into" wildernes/bushcraft would find some of it "corny".I give em credit for making it and to Discovery for airing a show that doesn't pull to many punches.Like how to get a opossum over a fire.It aint pretty or enjoyable but it is reality,Unlike any PC show or movie with the usual agenda.

 

[teacher]

Yeah it's one of my favorites. I think the guy quit after that and a girl started trying to push these high end blades!

It's one of mine too, I just love it!!!
"High End Blades"... ... I don't blame him, it would be time to quit. :thumbup:

 

[jw2n]

New rule to self

Do not read CplPunishment's post when drinking beer.

"I think I just threw up in my mouth" caught me with a mouth full of beer which nearly went on the computer. I've got tears running down my cheeks from laughing so hard.

 

[hushnel]

It's entertainment, the only thing I saw I hadn't seen before was the thumb strings attached to the spindle for a friction fire. Better than that survivor series where the only guy who knew how to strike a wood match was the first one "VOTED" off the island.

It's coming around to Survivor Time with Tim Allen, and I'll watch that

 

[mmyron1]

I like this show even though some of the things they do would be ill advised if not down right stupid. I did like in the first episode how he said that you should really just carry a lighter when he was talking about making a fire.

First of all there isn't one experienced outdoorsman anywhere that would go out someplace without taking along some sort of PSK or daypack with lots of goodies in it. I also remember how at the beginning of ALL these shows now it says that they are "presented with a situation" in order to show you how to deal with it. Most of the dumb ass things all these people do are probably "presented to them" for ratings reasons. I have watched several video clips of Myke Hawk and he says he ALWAYS carries a lighter so just seeing him do it without was for educational purposes in my eyes.

As far as carrying big honking knives... to each his/her own. I am sure there are even people on this forum who go out for day hikes carrying larger than necessary blades. I go fishing with someone who often has a Cold Steel machete strapped to his pack "just in case."

 

[teacher]

IMO this whole discussion is comical.... This is TV folks, not a hardcore survival school. I am far from a "survival expert", although I can take care of myself if and when the situation arises... so far anyway. . The point being, I have learned a few things watching; as well as seen some better ways than mine to do a few others.

So what if Cody goes barefoot, and Dave thinks he's a "hippie"and they have crappy knives or good ones. Or the man and his wife have exactly the knife they need strapped to their leg..... it is TV. Not a survival course....

And as far as hanging the meat 4 feet off the ground..... sure that was dumb, but maybe that was planned for the show. Which senerio do you think the uneducated viewer is more likely to remember??

1. They hang the meat 15 feet off the ground and it is still there the next morning.

2, They hang the meat 4 feet off the ground and it is gone the next morning.

IMO, the uneducated viewer will have a greater impression made on them by senerio #2.. the meat being gone. That will probably be burned in their memory banks.

And as far as knives go.... who give a rip what they use. The better point may be that some who know nothing about knives and have no interest in them at all, just may come to realize that a knife is a tool. They may even develop an interest and go out and buy one. Who knows, some might even become "knife knuts" like many of us are.

And as far as the guy in the jungle taking forever to get fire in that humid setting... so what if that is how it was. People got to see it like it can be sometimes. Heck, it is TV; if they had wanted to fake people off they could have just gone to a commercial break and gave him a Bic lighter and the viewers could have come back to a bonfire.

So instead of bashing these shows, it might be good to at least think that some positive might come of them.... cause it may very well.

Even if some people only see that knives are not some evil creation meant only to harm someone, they are tools and very handy tools at that.... that my friends is a positive.

That is just that many more people that will not be against knives in the future. That many more people that will not support some crazy off the wall knife legislation that some sheeple politician dreams up to limit our freedom to have or carry knives.

To me..... that is a positive in itself. :thumbup: YMMV

But remember.... "United We Stand, Divided We Fall".

The End...........

 

[Fiddleback]

I love watching this show. The only time so far I was irritated was when he cought that gator, for nothing, then let it go. Just dumb.

But, why complain. Its so much more intertaining than watching Bear drink piss. I wish he had two wives, and they were both hot, but brow beat him all day. Screw learning survival from a TV show. I want hot chicks all grossed out and working ole Myke to death.

 

[cuphead]

Do you really think that the average guy even knows what a Mora or an
ESEE3 is, much less carry one? I don't think a single one of my friends even have a fixed blade knife that isnt a kitchen knife.

Paul

Same, They'll get by in the woods just fine too..

 

[kgd]

I agree with Cpl. Pun. here. People's expectations are too high. You want to know what happens when you get a bunch of tv asshats with somebody who knows what they are doing? Here watch this segment which I'm sure Cody Lundin probably refers to as the biggest waste of time in his life:

[youtube]6gBNI06cQFs&feature=related[/youtube]

 

[GingivitisKahn]

Fun to watch. I'll watch every episode of it I can but then again, I wasn't expecting a documentary or a tv survival class or anything.

Heh - oh and to the complaints about fixed blades vs. slip joints and stuff... here I am in my basement with a SAK Huntsman in my pocket and a BK-2 on my belt. Why? No reason - I like 'em.

 

[Gadgetaholic]

As far as carrying big honking knives... to each his/her own. I am sure there are even people on this forum who go out for day hikes carrying larger than necessary blades. I go fishing with someone who often has a Cold Steel machete strapped to his pack "just in case."

I'm sure a lot of guys on this forum would approve of that. In fact I do think that if hiking or camping were to turn into a survival situation then the machete would be a comforting tool to have. Machetes are a versatile tool to have in a survival situation.