Ray Mears vs Bear Grylls

Who is a better survivalist? plus knife input

  • Bear Grylls

    Votes: 1 100.0%

  • Ray Mears

    Votes: 0 0.0%
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verisharp

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Who has more knowledge regarding nature? Who is the better survivalist? Who would you trust more in a survival situation? Which of the two men have a better knife design; ray mears woodlore vs bear grylls knife?
 
Don´t know both personaly, but i like Ray´s attidude to live withe nature much more than Bear´s battling against nature. But i think they know both much more about nature an survival than me :D.

Happy new year from germany,

Andre
 
Ray Mears is someone who has spent decades in the wild, researching primitive survival methods and making real educational programs and writings to teach people these skills. He is a widely-regarded expert on all sorts of proven bushcrafting techniques taken from cultures that have been surviving in the bush for millennia.

Bear Grylls is a celebrity making money. I'm sure he knows a bit about it all because of his background, but he doesn't hold a candle to Ray Mears. And his show is heavily scripted for a suspenseful TV experience. It is well-known and admitted by himself that he sleeps in hotels between shoots.

That about sums it up.
 
Horses for courses but with different animals . If it goes tits up I'd be happy to team up with either . And why do we keep comparing ? Anyway the s4 is a tank ,a bomb proof tank .
 
I take it you mean the Rob Bayley Bear Grylls knife right? not the Gerber one?

They both look great but I like the look of the Bayley a bit more myself.

It is a dodgy poll as I like Mears as a person better but I like the Bear Grylls knife more.
 
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bear grylls seems to have gone through crazy survival things like that foreign legion show he did, but ray mears seems to cook stuff better =]
 
ssblood said:
Psht, if I had to have someone with me I'll take Les Stroud...
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I was thinking the same thing.

Bear probably deserves more respect than he gets from survivalists and outdoors-men who know a thing or two. It has been mentioned before that Bear has a job as an entertainer, and he does it sensationally. Love him or hate him...you probably have an opinion...and that means his work is successful.

The truth is, most of these guys (Cody, Cave, Les, Bear, Ray, etc.) are great, but probably mostly great in the environments they are familiar with. Comparing them, is a bit like comparing a Bowie, a SAK, a hard use military survival knife, and a scandi grind bushcraft knife....all good, just different...and all potentially sensationalized beyond their actual utility to the point of over-hyped fan fair.

Bear drinking poop juice looks pretty suspicious...just as Cody walking bearfoot in snow looks silly to some...or Dave expending crazy amounts of energy chasing game with a club has me scratching my head. WHo am I to question them..I am sitting in a heated home with a laptop in front of me. Suffice to say, those guys have seen success with their techniques...and I do not even have any techniques.
 
"plus knife input" doesn't change "Who is a better survivalist?" into a General Knife question. :) Moved to W&SS.
 
But if you needed someone to needlessly put you in a foolish and dangerous situation for tv ratings then Bear is your man.
 
I'd have the Bailey knife sooner than a Woodlore. I'd sooner spend a night in a tent with Grylls than “there's no bore like a knife bore” Mears. I think he'd make me smile more. Mears seems to have a great lexicon of wild food knowledge, especially when he has Gordon Hillman with him, but there's a lot about how to process grains through various stages of processing in the manner of our ancestors that whilst interesting isn't especially useful if it takes three days and thousands of calories to make a dog cookie. I'm sure Grylls can cope. Actually, as far as foraging for food goes I'd be just as happy to swap inspirations with Hugh Fearnley Whittingstal and his mate John Wright.
 
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