what are your 10 picks for alone? very few understand that it's about fat aquisition.

[heresthedeal]

I wrote THOSE ENVIRONMENTS (Vancouver Island and Patagonia), where ranged weapons have proven to be totally useless.

Well when you put your answer in capital letters it must be right, bows don't work in. rain forests and woodlands, check.

 

[Larcivs Lepidvs]

Well when you put your answer in capital letters it must be right, bows don't work in. rain forests and woodlands, check.

We're talking about Alone... probably you didn't watch the series.

 

[heresthedeal]

We're talking about Alone... probably you didn't watch the series.

I know what we are talking about.
I watched the first season, and all but a few episodes of the second. The third season, I watched about half, and think the people they picked were better prepared than the first two seasons, mostly because they had a better idea of what was coming.

As for "ranged" weapons not working, I think that's ridiculous. The bow didn't work for the people on the show, not because of the bow, but because of the people.

Same as the traps, some worked but not well, why, (Here goes, this is just my opinion) because, they weren't trappers, or hunters.
Trappers in the modern world, commercial trappers, don't use spring snares and para cord, they use modern traps and cable snares, same idea just not the same practice. Hunting with a bow in your spare time and a few weekends a month doesn't mean you are going to be able to do it consistently in an area that you've never been before.

Playing with traps in the woods around your house, and slinging arrows in the yard doesn't make you a trapper or hunter. Here in the states we cant even trap rabbits and squirrels, (I think in all states) so you have a lot of info but no practice, I know how to set wire snares for squirrels but have only done it in my back yard, and only got it to work one time out of dozens, and I think that was an accident. Rabbits with a snare is easier but haven't done that since I was a kid, so no actual experience in 35 + years.
For instance, I know how to set a trap for beaver, just never done it,(wasn't enough beaver in my area when I was trapping thirty + years ago) I can understand how it works, why it works and when it will work, doesn't make me a beaver trapper.
I have a friend that does it a lot, traps nuisance beaver for people, has a license for it and everything, he is a trapper, he didn't learn it from youtube and practice in his yard, he went out in the world and over time learned how it actually works. My point is, just knowing doesn't mean you can do it, just because someone on a show couldn't make it work, doesn't mean it wont work for someone who has actually done it, not once or twice but consistently.

I'm not trying to take anything away from the people that were on the show, or the winner, what they did was pretty cool, and I ain't signing up for it anytime soon, or ever, but the idea that because something didn't work for them then it wont work, is kinda silly. JMO.

Cool show though.

 

[Danke42]

There was a guy on the show who's day job was trapper. He was fourth to tap out.

 

[heresthedeal]

There was a guy on the show who's day job was trapper. He was fourth to tap out.

Bet money he didn't make a living or money doing it with primitive traps, like para cord and deadfalls.

he used modern traps, modern techniques, but sure lets go with that, traps don't work, neither do bows.

just stated my opinion, and the reason for it, and didn't ask anybody to agree with it.

as far as primitive traps, there was a guy on naked and afraid, ate rat like it was on the menu at McDonalds, took him a day or two to get it right, but once he did, worked like a charm. So they can work, just have to be perfected and tweaked a bit to do it.

It's just a show, not a how too.

 

[Danke42]

You get that one of the real points of the show is to put "regular off the street" folks into the woods with limited gear.

If they had modern traps, and fishing gear along with firearms they'd be living like kings. The point of the show is to make it more difficult.

Since the discussion here directly hinges around the show any comment is tacitly about the show and not the world at large.

Yes primitive hunters can feed themselves with projectile weapons. Yes modern trappers use traps that are better than wire loop snares.

None of those primitive hunters are going to get a call back and none of those modern trappers are going to get bring their gear in.

The producers of the show scout locations that are scarce in resources like food. You don't find rats just chilling in the woods; they need a food source too. The ones on Naked and Afraid were probably attracted by all the food that the film and support crews will have.

 

[bore]

I think the last location had the best food source. They had pigs, trout and ducks. The lady from Alaska lived off plants. I don't know enough about plants. There were deer but I think they were off limits. The area looked good for food

 

[heresthedeal]

You get that one of the real points of the show is to put "regular off the street" folks into the woods with limited gear.

If they had modern traps, and fishing gear along with firearms they'd be living like kings. The point of the show is to make it more difficult.

Since the discussion here directly hinges around the show any comment is tacitly about the show and not the world at large.

Yes primitive hunters can feed themselves with projectile weapons. Yes modern trappers use traps that are better than wire loop snares.

None of those primitive hunters are going to get a call back and none of those modern trappers are going to get bring their gear in.

The producers of the show scout locations that are scarce in resources like food. You don't find rats just chilling in the woods; they need a food source too. The ones on Naked and Afraid were probably attracted by all the food that the film and support crews will have.

Reading comprehension not something that is a problem for me, so yes, i know the point of the show and what we have been talking/typing about.
Never said people could or should take modern traps.
And as far as regular people off the street, haven't been paying attention have you, half the people on there are YouTube experts, don't consider themselves regular people, they have bios that read like experts.
Now, what I posted was my opinion, I understand what the show is about, so, read what I posted and think about it before you start typing next time, because obviously you didn't read what I wrote or just didn't understand what I wrote.