Survivorman returns!

From my understanding Les is the one that decided to end the series. I forget if he was sick of it, bored or a combination of the two or something entirely different. I would like for the new episodes to be two hours if they are going to do it for 10 days. Would kinda sick to have each day last around four minutes of tv time.
 
ssblood said:
From my understanding Les is the one that decided to end the series. I forget if he was sick of it, bored or a combination of the two or something entirely different. I would like for the new episodes to be two hours if they are going to do it for 10 days. Would kinda sick to have each day last around four minutes of tv time.
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I would like to see longer shows too. Heck I'd be down for 3 or 4 hours per show. Think of how much film ends on the editing floor.
 
sweetness, that's great news! every few months i actually go back and watch the series again and i never do that in any kind of show/movie (except star wars and the matrix).

mgysgthath said:
Wow thanks for posting this, I'm glad to see Les back at it. The word "specials" bothers me, as it implies it isn't the return of the series.. just a couple episodes. Hopefully it's a trial period like a second pilot.. and will end up in a return of the series. I like ALL the survival shows out, for very different reasons.. but Les is the most genuine (the only genuine) one of them all.
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yup, same here i like all the survival shows...just gotta use the common sense filter more on some shows than the others but they all have useful info.
 
YES, BEST SHOW EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

for those who can't see it currently, full episodes can be found in pieces on youtube search survivorman s1e1 and you'll get it[
 
He just started marketing his signature knife through Helle, which makes me think this will be more than just a few individual episodes. If he's putting his name behind something to market it, especially through a company like Helle that is out of the mainstream Cabela's Black Friday Catalog, it makes me think we'll be seeing plenty of airtime with Les using that new beautiful fulltang scandi blade.
 
ssblood said:
From my understanding Les is the one that decided to end the series. I forget if he was sick of it, bored or a combination of the two or something entirely different. I would like for the new episodes to be two hours if they are going to do it for 10 days. Would kinda sick to have each day last around four minutes of tv time.
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I either read this or saw an interview about Les as to why he cancelled the show. He said that he was doing 8-10 shows a year where, in many episodes, he was going foodless for 3 to 4 days at a time. That was over 40 days a year without food - and high physical output. He said it was really killing his body physically.

TF
 
I wish someone would do an in depth how-to series. Ray Mears demonstrates alot of stuff much more in depth than the others but it would be great to see these guys do a step-by-step on some of the things they are good at.
 
Stroud is also debuting a "survival" knife with an unknown manufacturer. He considers the Helle a "Bushcraft" knife and that the survival knife is very different So far, no pic of the new knife or other details about it have surfaced.
 
Les is the boss here in the US, and other than him Ray Mears is damn good to. I liked Man Vs. Wild back in '07/8 when I got into survival and stuff but I always thought to myself that it don't matter how many big a$$ slugs you eat, all that running ,jumping and climbing will expend way too much energy that you don't have and probably can't replenish. And you hardly ever see him settle in for the night or even pretend to for that matter:jerkit:
I remember the first episode of Survivorman I saw where Les was in Nunavut(?) in the Arctic Circle w/ his busted snow machine and he had to get his 'leaving the scene' shot and had to walk all the way back to get the camera-thats some real sh!t.:thumbup:
How do you all fell about Dual and Man, Woman?? I like Cody and Hawke since they're both the real McCoys. Ruth is cool for who she is and Dave is good at his craft for sure but he's gotta stop whining about only eating meat and how EVERY plant/bug/fruit Cody gives him he hates it, kinda like my 5 yr old at dinner. :)
 
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Hope he ditches the harmonica and car battery and brings along a water bottle and firesteel.:D

I guess we'll watch him starve for 10 days instead of 7 now. It would be great if he could do more of a how-to bushcraft series for us guys instead of 'what-to-do when your caught in the wilderness unprepared' for the mass audience.

For sure, there's great nuggets of info in his show(like all the "survival entertainment" shows), but sometimes his presentation wears on me. Not enough to make me not watch though.

This thread has made me dig out my Survivorman DVD's and make my wife watch them with me.:thumbup:
 
Varg that's what I was trying to get at with my 'how to' suggestion. I don't see how 10 days is going to be any more extreme than 7, he definitely has the 'cold wet and miserable' thing down, and I truly admire him for that. Something new like a how to bushcraft and survival series would be fantastic. I'd also like to see an Indigenous Survival series where someone tours the world and demonstrates survival methods and tools utilized by different peoples in their various environments. When in Rome, do as Romans do. People have been surviving on primitive methods for thousands of years, so it must work, and alot of their methods and tools get shoved under the rug only to be redeveloped again the hard way.
 
I agree Ben. That would be great.

Just got done re-watching some episodes of Survivorman. I'd noticed this before but it almost seems like Les has an aversion to showing knifework in his shows. We'd see a shot of his knife and then 'bang' cut away to another shot before we'd get a chance to see it being used. That's one thing I really like about Man vs Wild, Dual Survival and Man,Woman, Wild is that they show and use their knives often.



I guess being a nife knut that's one thing I always look for in these type of shows.
 
I really appreciate that he avoided inflating the price drastically from what a normal Helle would cost-in fact for a triple carbon laminated blade with a full tang and those fantastic scales, it seems a bit on the low side. Ray Mears is the man but everything he markets is crazy expensive, as with Dave Canterbury and Mr. Grylls.
 
I know what you mean Payette, I'm dying to get a Pathfinder from BHK but $275 is a killer. Though a lot of BHK's stuff is a bit pricey for what it is. I've yet to really look into the knife that Mears' endorses.
PayetteRucker said:
I really appreciate that he avoided inflating the price drastically from what a normal Helle would cost-in fact for a triple carbon laminated blade with a full tang and those fantastic scales, it seems a bit on the low side. Ray Mears is the man but everything he markets is crazy expensive, as with Dave Canterbury and Mr. Grylls.
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