Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days
Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard
Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics. They'll get you closer
Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.
Speaker 1: This is cutting the distance. Welcome back and congratulations. If
Speaker 1: you're listening to this podcast right now, that means that
Speaker 1: you've survived another week of pandemic two thumbs up, which
Speaker 1: is great because this week we're talking all things survival.
Speaker 1: So what are we going to cover? Biting the head
Speaker 1: off rattlesnakes, drinking your own urine. Not necessarily, but you
Speaker 1: should know how to survive, or at least have the
Speaker 1: skills and confidence to get out of a hairy situation,
Speaker 1: or at the very least weight a night out if
Speaker 1: need be. Honestly, hunting can take you to some remote country,
Speaker 1: a long way from roads and civilization, but that's why
Speaker 1: we love it. However, there are some inherent dangers involved
Speaker 1: in the pursuit doing this for a living. I've found
Speaker 1: that most people are under prepared in the bush skills department,
Speaker 1: not just for survival, but also comfort and peace of mind.
Speaker 1: I have a philosophy that there's no such thing as
Speaker 1: an unprepared night out. With the right skills and know
Speaker 1: how you can be prepared for anything. So this week's
Speaker 1: podcast is going to help give you the information needed
Speaker 1: to feel the same way. But first I want to
Speaker 1: share the story of a trip alone in the African bush.
Speaker 1: It's a story of giant thorns, eating succulents, and pursuing
Speaker 1: wild meat. I personally really believe that hunting and just
Speaker 1: general outdoor skills go hand in hand. I think one
Speaker 1: of the best complements I ever got from someone was
Speaker 1: just we're out out and about on a hunting trip,
Speaker 1: and the guy said to me, he'd actually been on
Speaker 1: a lot of trips with a lot of people, and
Speaker 1: he said, you know, there's just something about you. He said,
Speaker 1: one thing that strikes me is you're very I don't
Speaker 1: know how to say it, bushy, just having and I
Speaker 1: knew exactly what he meant. He meant that I have
Speaker 1: a lot of just general outdoor skills where no matter
Speaker 1: the situation, no matter what we got in, he felt safe.
Speaker 1: And I feel a lot of that comes from the
Speaker 1: way that I interact with the outdoors, but also just
Speaker 1: kind of pushing my skills and testing my abilities all
Speaker 1: the time. This particular story takes place in South Africa.
Speaker 1: I was over there, uh for a few months doing
Speaker 1: some work and visiting some friends, doing some filming and
Speaker 1: just hunting around. And while one of my friends had
Speaker 1: some guiding work, I decided I was going to go
Speaker 1: out on this big piece of property that he owned
Speaker 1: and just kind of do my own thing, do some
Speaker 1: solo hunting. But what I really wanted to do is
Speaker 1: just kind of live off the land in a place
Speaker 1: that I'm not familiar with. I didn't really have a
Speaker 1: cell phone. Um, I just kind of wanted to go out.
Speaker 1: I had my tent in my basic camping hunting gear,
Speaker 1: but nothing real crazy and just kind of live off
Speaker 1: the land. So before I went out, I met up
Speaker 1: with some local guys, some indigenous people of the area,
Speaker 1: and kind of just helped me understand some of the
Speaker 1: plants and survival tactics of the area, things that I
Speaker 1: could survive on and use while I was out there.
Speaker 1: I really wanted to be self sufficient. I wanted to
Speaker 1: hunt for my food, forage for my food, and then
Speaker 1: you know, just enjoy the African savannah or chaparral. I
Speaker 1: guess it would be. I'm kind of a mix between
Speaker 1: desert and forest, very similar terrain to something you might
Speaker 1: find on like the inland areas of California or something
Speaker 1: like that, very similar to that. But I I thought, okay,
Speaker 1: so I went out. I learned a few different plants.
Speaker 1: Some of the natives used to survive on a lot
Speaker 1: of succulents. When you actually see in stores a lot
Speaker 1: they call it elephant brush or um. You know, just
Speaker 1: so many different kinds of plants and other things. So
Speaker 1: I got set up. I picked this good spot, and
Speaker 1: you know, my buddy just went off to work. I
Speaker 1: think I can't remember. He had a ten day hunt
Speaker 1: that he was guiding, and so I kind of had
Speaker 1: the run of the place, walking around for as long
Speaker 1: as I needed. I actually had a four wheeler there
Speaker 1: if I wanted to rip around or get out of there,
Speaker 1: but it broke down the first day anyways, so I
Speaker 1: was just pretty much on foot from there, which suited
Speaker 1: me just fine. So the whole plan of the hunt
Speaker 1: was there was some kudo in the area. There was
Speaker 1: What I was really interested is maybe kind of figuring
Speaker 1: out some mort hogs or some bush pigs. At night,
Speaker 1: just whatever I really found. Bush bucks were pretty fun
Speaker 1: to chase some planes game, but really I just kind
Speaker 1: of was like camping, hanging out, living off the land,
Speaker 1: eating whatever I could find, and you know, interested in
Speaker 1: some of the plant life, some of the animal life,
Speaker 1: doing some hunting as well. And I was actually filming
Speaker 1: for Solo Hunter as well, So I figured, okay, myself
Speaker 1: filmed this. You know, it doesn't have to be a
Speaker 1: full on survival whatever, naked and fraid style, but that's
Speaker 1: not the point. It's just to go out to enjoy
Speaker 1: myself and kind of test to whatever skills I have.
Speaker 1: So one of the days I was actually out and
Speaker 1: I had my bow and my rifle with me. How
Speaker 1: did it go? I was? I was actually looking for
Speaker 1: this kudoo came out in this little opening way across
Speaker 1: the valley and if you don't know, kudos like an
Speaker 1: elk sized animal, big spiral horns, really cool animals, and
Speaker 1: for me, I was just kind of thought, cool, cool,
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of sneaking around the African bush with
Speaker 1: my bow and um, you know, get over there and
Speaker 1: end up not really making anything happen. But as it
Speaker 1: panned out, I was thought, okay, well, I'm gonna work
Speaker 1: my way back toward camp and try to get to
Speaker 1: camp right around Dart, still familiarizing myself with the area.
Speaker 1: I didn't really have any GPS or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but you know, there's enough landmarks and everything I could
Speaker 1: easily find my way back. So I get back kind
Speaker 1: of toward camp, and I decided, oh, man, I come
Speaker 1: across the this is down. I guess it was probably
Speaker 1: like an acacia type tree, real thorny tree, and had
Speaker 1: it was down and dead, and I thought, oh, perfect,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need to build a fire tonight. There wasn't
Speaker 1: a lot of good wood where I was at, and
Speaker 1: so this, this dead tree is going to be perfect.
Speaker 1: So I'm breaking branches down from this tree. And I
Speaker 1: grabbed this one big branch just like the tree to fallen,
Speaker 1: and this branch is up a little bit higher, and
Speaker 1: so I grabbed this branch and I'm pulling on it
Speaker 1: to snap it because I'm just gonna get a big
Speaker 1: old armful of firewood. And as it breaks, the force
Speaker 1: of it swung that stick. It's like a pretty good
Speaker 1: sized stick baseball bat style swing straight into my leg. Well,
Speaker 1: if you know about these acacia trees. They've got massive
Speaker 1: I would say, like three four inch type thorns on them.
Speaker 1: And of course that thing hit my leg and just
Speaker 1: buried that thorn right into my leg and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh crap, I'm out here by myself. I've got no phone.
Speaker 1: You know, it's dark now, and I just like it
Speaker 1: was a stinger for sure. So I'm thinking, all right, cool,
Speaker 1: uh maybe you saw this solo episode it's the older episode.
Speaker 1: But grabbed my gerber multitool just like, sweet, I'll just
Speaker 1: pull this thorn out of my leg. So I got
Speaker 1: to start pulling it out and like it is not budging,
Speaker 1: and that thing hits so hard it buried itself into
Speaker 1: the bone. And then with the way that it buried,
Speaker 1: it kind of created this suction. So I'm pulling as
Speaker 1: hard as I can and now this thing is not
Speaker 1: coming out. Finally I got it, kind of worked it
Speaker 1: out of the bone, but I was afraid of breaking
Speaker 1: it off. I get it pulled out, actually filming the
Speaker 1: thing and like underwear shot pliers dark alone in Africa style,
Speaker 1: pull this thorn out. I'm like, all right, sweet, Now
Speaker 1: I got a little ways back to camp carry whatever
Speaker 1: fire would I have get my fire started and I
Speaker 1: had Luckily I had my first aid kid. I put
Speaker 1: some antiseptic stuff on it. It's pretty sore and ten
Speaker 1: her for a while, so I took a few like
Speaker 1: advill or whatever have you, and then went to bed.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it was the thorn in my
Speaker 1: leg or the who knows what, maybe too much I
Speaker 1: took some kind of it was actually was an advil.
Speaker 1: It was something that I bought there. But I remember
Speaker 1: just having like a strange hallucination and night about some
Speaker 1: strange I don't even know what it was, just and
Speaker 1: then I finally fell asleep hearing the baboons screaming outside
Speaker 1: the tent, going after each other. I think there was
Speaker 1: a bean pod tree that I happened to be camped
Speaker 1: right underneath that night, which I didn't realize. The monkeys
Speaker 1: were coming in and eating these like bean pods, and
Speaker 1: I didn't even notice it when I set up my tent,
Speaker 1: and sure enough, it's like that's where they wanted to be,
Speaker 1: and it was I kind of realized there wasn't many
Speaker 1: other trees similar to this tree, and I just happened
Speaker 1: at my tent right underneath it. So middle of the night.
Speaker 1: I mean, I wake up and it's just like chaos
Speaker 1: out there, like baboons making crazy noises. Little vervet monkey,
Speaker 1: he's making crazy noises, all kind of congregating at these trees,
Speaker 1: fighting over these little bean pods that are all around
Speaker 1: my tent. I'm trying to scare everything away. I've got
Speaker 1: my gun right there, Like, what's going on? Man, I
Speaker 1: don't want one of these baboons ripping through my tent,
Speaker 1: which I actually ended up moving a little bit later on,
Speaker 1: finding a little bit more suitable camping spot. So after
Speaker 1: that happened, I was like, all right, you know, just
Speaker 1: take it easy. You know, you're out here for a while.
Speaker 1: Don't do anything too stupid. But at this point, I
Speaker 1: just really haven't had any meat yet. So I'm eating this, uh,
Speaker 1: the succulents, different little bushes, plants and that. Also I
Speaker 1: watched the monkeys actually eat those bean pods and I thought, yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: those that might be okay. So I tried one. It's
Speaker 1: pretty bitter, but I figured out it's probably safe if
Speaker 1: the primates can eat it. But I decided to actually
Speaker 1: just boil them, and those were not bad. They're fairly good.
Speaker 1: I also also found some like prickly pears. I didn't
Speaker 1: even realize that there were prickly pears there. I cut
Speaker 1: into ap bull prickly pairs and it had like this
Speaker 1: white sap, which I thought non white sap and cactus
Speaker 1: is generally kind of stay away. The prickly pair that
Speaker 1: we have in the Southwest that we eat has clear sap.
Speaker 1: But there was another prickly pair there that looked a
Speaker 1: little bit different, and I cut into that one, and
Speaker 1: I had, like, the clear sap is very familiar to
Speaker 1: what I had seen around southwest US, Arizona and everything
Speaker 1: like that. So I cut some of that up, would
Speaker 1: cook some of that. It's pretty good. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like a bell pepper type flavor. Stalking along this little road.
Speaker 1: Then you know, I'm like, all right, I'm living off
Speaker 1: these plants, which is fine. I was doing pretty good,
Speaker 1: but I thought, man, it would be great to have
Speaker 1: some steak. And then sure enough, this little dyker comes
Speaker 1: out and it's just this tiny little antelope. I'd say
Speaker 1: it's like the size of like a super large jack rabbit. Um,
Speaker 1: this one was pretty small. You know. At this point,
Speaker 1: it's getting starting to get dark. It's pretty close I
Speaker 1: draw my bow back, and he caught the movement and
Speaker 1: turned towards me. I'm like, all right, this is kind
Speaker 1: of it's not necessarily survival mode. I had food that
Speaker 1: I was eating, just wild plants. Uh oh yeah, it's
Speaker 1: called spec boom or elephant plant. It's just like this.
Speaker 1: It's a succulent that you'd see at a store. I
Speaker 1: actually had one in my house after this trip that
Speaker 1: I kind of kept there just as a reminder of
Speaker 1: eating so much spec boom. But it's got the sour
Speaker 1: apple taste. You could probably find it like a succulent
Speaker 1: shop or whatever. But it's got this sour apple taste,
Speaker 1: like a pretty good texture. It's not bad. But when
Speaker 1: I saw that diker, I thought, oh, fresh meat, that's
Speaker 1: what I want. So I draw back. Thing turns kind
Speaker 1: of towards me. I released the arrow and they're so
Speaker 1: fast that it actually spun around and I hit it perfect,
Speaker 1: quartering away ran into the bush, but I didn't. It
Speaker 1: kind of looked like maybe I hit it back just
Speaker 1: the way I saw the arrow, and I started to
Speaker 1: look and couldn't find it, so I pulled out of there.
Speaker 1: I went to camp, thought, man, what are the odds
Speaker 1: that it's, you know, not gonna get eaten by something else.
Speaker 1: Luckily enough, when I went back the next morning, I
Speaker 1: found it. They're not very far from where I left,
Speaker 1: but there's just no moon. My light battery was kind
Speaker 1: of pretty dim and going out, and I just thought, well,
Speaker 1: let's just go back in the morning, and sure enough
Speaker 1: it turned out it was a cold night as wintertime
Speaker 1: cooked up the meat. There's just like nothing better. On
Speaker 1: those days where you've just been eating random plants, you
Speaker 1: find to have some fresh camp meat. And that's to
Speaker 1: me just kind of getting back to the basics. It's
Speaker 1: it's not looking for the biggest animal. It's not anything
Speaker 1: other than just kind of honing and testing my outdoor skills,
Speaker 1: finding some plants I can feed on, being comfortable in
Speaker 1: the wild, doing something alone in a new and unfamiliar area,
Speaker 1: you know, getting into a little bit of danger with
Speaker 1: the breaking the branch and in a small kind of
Speaker 1: injury that could have been a lot worse, especially if
Speaker 1: it hits somewhere different. It's not necessarily a survival story,
Speaker 1: but it's just a story of building outdoor skills that
Speaker 1: if needed or I was in another spot, would come
Speaker 1: in very useful in a different scenario, a little bit
Speaker 1: of history on I would say my survival skills or abilities.
Speaker 1: I think that, just like anything, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: things that need to practice. Now. I've been a part
Speaker 1: of search and rescue missions that have been successful. I
Speaker 1: actually found my wife in a search and rescue scenario.
Speaker 1: I ended up saving her life. And I probably should
Speaker 1: have told that story, but I've told that story on
Speaker 1: a couple of other podcasts you can find it, and
Speaker 1: and I just didn't. Really It's one of those stories
Speaker 1: that takes a lot of it's very emotional, it takes
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of telling, and I just
Speaker 1: didn't have the energy, honestly to tell it right now.
Speaker 1: But um, I also didn't want to tell a search
Speaker 1: and rescue story because I wanted to tell a story
Speaker 1: of those times where I go out and hone my
Speaker 1: skills for the instances when you might need them the most.
Speaker 1: And I've done that throughout my life, whether it's making shelters,
Speaker 1: practicing different types of bushcraft skills. Things that I liked
Speaker 1: to do in the summer growing up as a kid
Speaker 1: was create different hunting tools, create different cooking methods like
Speaker 1: starting fire honing skills that I might need one day,
Speaker 1: because the last thing you want in an actual survival
Speaker 1: or emergency is it to be the first time you're
Speaker 1: doing something. It's probably not going to go as well
Speaker 1: as you think. You can think about it in your
Speaker 1: head all the time. And I'm not saying you have
Speaker 1: to go out and starve yourself or whatever, but it's
Speaker 1: a good idea to go out and test your skills
Speaker 1: a little bit, to learn some skills, to practice these things.
Speaker 1: And that's just where I'm coming from. So that's why
Speaker 1: I wanted to tell a story about just being out
Speaker 1: in the wild with the bare minimums, living off the
Speaker 1: land and honing my skills. Now, you may not have
Speaker 1: to go that extreme, but I'm gonna give you some
Speaker 1: survival tips. We're gonna talk about survival, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: talk about the things that I think you need to
Speaker 1: know and the things that I you need to do
Speaker 1: or practice with and even have fun with. So when
Speaker 1: I think about survival growing up, I actually learned about
Speaker 1: desert survival at a fairly young age. We've taken classes
Speaker 1: on desert survival and even through actually our elementary school
Speaker 1: where I grew up, we had to do a desert
Speaker 1: survival course, and I think that that is probably one
Speaker 1: of they. I don't know if they still do that
Speaker 1: in school's probably not. It's probably something that was lost
Speaker 1: in everything that goes on now, but it's something that
Speaker 1: is extremely beneficial to understand and know and get some
Speaker 1: like guidance and practice to start out. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be that guide for you today. But when I think
Speaker 1: about survival, there's this adage in I mean, there's so
Speaker 1: much stuff you can look up now on the subject.
Speaker 1: When I was growing up, this was just there was
Speaker 1: one book. It was like an encyclopedia on survival, and
Speaker 1: I had that thing, and I would flip through that
Speaker 1: book and literally try everything in it. And I think,
Speaker 1: over the course of my life, I have done everything
Speaker 1: in that book, look at least once, probably multiple times.
Speaker 1: But if we're just talking about survival, we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about the rule of three. So it's something where
Speaker 1: they say the things you can't live without with So
Speaker 1: they go three minutes without air, three hours without shelter
Speaker 1: that could be in like harsh conditions, three days without water,
Speaker 1: and then three weeks without food. So if you think
Speaker 1: about okay, the basic tenants of survival. The thing as
Speaker 1: hunters especially we think of. I was like, Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go get some food, because it seems to me
Speaker 1: like hunger is that thing that kind of drives you
Speaker 1: that you're always thinking about daily. You know, you drink water,
Speaker 1: but you don't really think about, yeah, I'm hungry or
Speaker 1: I'm thirsty. It seems like hunger is like one of
Speaker 1: the main things, but you can actually survive the longest
Speaker 1: without it. Water is extremely important, but then you come
Speaker 1: down to depending on the elements shelter protecting your body,
Speaker 1: so staying warm or cool depending on the temperature is
Speaker 1: out there. Now, I would add on one thing to
Speaker 1: that rule of threes, and in my opinion, it would
Speaker 1: be probably the most important to be like three seconds.
Speaker 1: You can't survive three seconds with bad judgment, because sometimes
Speaker 1: decisions just come down to a thought or a decision
Speaker 1: that you can make that could actually put you in
Speaker 1: a worse position. So when I think about survival or
Speaker 1: the idea of survival, it really comes down to slowing down,
Speaker 1: calming down, thinking it out. That's your first step in
Speaker 1: any situation. And if you look at search and rescue
Speaker 1: things that I've been involved with personally as well as
Speaker 1: stories that I've read. Most people have what they need
Speaker 1: to survive on them or with them, but they just
Speaker 1: either panic, they don't really analyze and know their gear
Speaker 1: and the many uses of it, or they do something
Speaker 1: extremely what you would call stupid. And so by understanding
Speaker 1: your gear, understanding a few and knowing having a few skills,
Speaker 1: you're gonna probably survive any situation that comes your way,
Speaker 1: you know, as a guide or whatever. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people that I interact with don't have the
Speaker 1: skills that I think, like I would deem necessary or
Speaker 1: things that I think are pretty basic. A lot of
Speaker 1: people may not know. And I really believe that it's
Speaker 1: because a lot of people put their faith in technology
Speaker 1: now and so many of these skills are lost. You know.
Speaker 1: I'm sure generations before even me, when we didn't have
Speaker 1: phones or GPS is to rely on. We had paper
Speaker 1: maps and a compass, or we had I mean, when
Speaker 1: I first started hunting alone, I would say, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: going out, how long are you going for? Two weeks? Okay,
Speaker 1: good luck, have fun. If something happened in those two weeks,
Speaker 1: everything was on me to get back to civilization. To
Speaker 1: get back to where I was going to be safe.
Speaker 1: You know, I tell people where I go. We'd set
Speaker 1: up this kind of thing. But if something happened on
Speaker 1: day one, you know, two weeks is a long time
Speaker 1: before someone comes and looks for you. And now with
Speaker 1: gps is, cell phones, satellite messengers, I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people just put all their faith in that basket.
Speaker 1: And I necessarily don't think that that's a good idea
Speaker 1: because I think first, if we're gonna talk about survival,
Speaker 1: we gotta say, well, well, what is survival And most
Speaker 1: people think, well, it's getting lost and then surviving. Well,
Speaker 1: it's not always that. Survival is just a lack of
Speaker 1: things you need. So I mean, as we talk the
Speaker 1: rule of threes, well you need shelter or you know,
Speaker 1: a proper protection from the elements. You need water, you
Speaker 1: need food. So it could just be it might not
Speaker 1: be getting lost, it might just be a lack of
Speaker 1: those things. That could be too hot out. If you're
Speaker 1: out hiking and it's a hundred degrees and you're in
Speaker 1: the sun and then you're exerting yourself and you get
Speaker 1: heat stroke, that could be a survival situation. If you're
Speaker 1: out and you're crossing a stream and it gets deeper
Speaker 1: and you get plunged into the water and come out
Speaker 1: and it's below zero and get too cold. That's a
Speaker 1: survival situation. You could just be hiking up day, hiking
Speaker 1: up a canyon, or you drop your pack, you go
Speaker 1: after an elk up the ridge and now you're out
Speaker 1: of water. These are all survival situations. So what we
Speaker 1: need to talk about is having the skills and knowledge
Speaker 1: to probably avoid those situations. But if you get into
Speaker 1: those situations, what you can do and what you have
Speaker 1: on you and knowing how to use and do those
Speaker 1: things to get out of whatever situation. So if you
Speaker 1: ask me, hey, remy, have you been in a survival situation? Yes,
Speaker 1: I've been in many what I would consider survival situations.
Speaker 1: There's times where I've been severely dehydrated and not had
Speaker 1: the proper water or been able to find water. There's
Speaker 1: times where I've one time, in particulars crossing a river
Speaker 1: in New Zealand, got swept down the river, freezing cold,
Speaker 1: got out, had to go find shelter, make a fire,
Speaker 1: dry out, storm came in and that's a survival situation. Now,
Speaker 1: was I scared or oh this is It wasn't like
Speaker 1: being lost or anything like that. It was just saying,
Speaker 1: here's a potential threat, and I just have the skills
Speaker 1: to get through it. So it was just for me,
Speaker 1: I just considered it another day. Like I said, there's
Speaker 1: no such thing as an unprepared night. You know, you
Speaker 1: hear a lot of guys like that. You go out
Speaker 1: and plan on coming back, but you lose your way
Speaker 1: on the way back to the truck. That's what we
Speaker 1: refer to as an unprepared night out. You weren't preparing
Speaker 1: or planning on spending the night out, but yet you're
Speaker 1: lost temporarily or whatever, and you've got to spend the
Speaker 1: night out with the right skills. It doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: an unprepared night if you know what you're doing. You
Speaker 1: could just say there's so many times where I'm hunting,
Speaker 1: and the style that I hunt would be like big whacking,
Speaker 1: where I'm just going out. I might just sleep that night,
Speaker 1: get up and continue on. That's just part of what
Speaker 1: I might be doing, so it wouldn't necessarily be an
Speaker 1: unprepared night. So we're gonna talk about let's break down
Speaker 1: the things that you need to know to survive the
Speaker 1: situation sations that you're probably going to encounter at some point,
Speaker 1: big or small. I would say the first is going
Speaker 1: to be in that rule of three is one of
Speaker 1: the most important. I mean, are we can just check
Speaker 1: off the list because if you're underwater, swim to the surface.
Speaker 1: You know, we all we all realize we can't can't breathe,
Speaker 1: you can't live. But thinking about that staying warm or
Speaker 1: staying cool and having that shelter. So number one would
Speaker 1: be building a shelter and building a fire, fire in
Speaker 1: combination with shelter. Most of the time hunters, we're hunting
Speaker 1: in the fall through early winter. That's probably one of
Speaker 1: the things that you're going to encounter at some point.
Speaker 1: Being cooled. You could get caught in rainstorm and then
Speaker 1: the temperatures could drop. You could be hiking through a
Speaker 1: lot of deadfall, your clothes get soaked, it gets dark,
Speaker 1: now it's cold. What do you do. Knowing how to
Speaker 1: make and having a fire, it's probably one of the
Speaker 1: most important outdoor skills that everybody needs to know. I'm
Speaker 1: always surprised that how many people have trouble starting fires
Speaker 1: in inclement weather, wet weather. It's a skill that I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people take for granted. It's because
Speaker 1: they think, well, when you're at home, if you've got
Speaker 1: a fireplace, you start a fire, but you have all
Speaker 1: the things there. So I think the key to knowing
Speaker 1: and understanding how to build a fire is to first
Speaker 1: understand the materials that burn well in the areas that
Speaker 1: you're at, and then starting small too big, and having
Speaker 1: all and gathering all the materials and fuel ahead of time.
Speaker 1: Some of the biggest mistakes when starting a fire would be,
Speaker 1: you know, starting it with the wrong stuff, trying to
Speaker 1: light the wrong thing, wasting energy getting it going and
Speaker 1: they're not having enough stuff to feed it, or just
Speaker 1: trying to start too big and not being able to
Speaker 1: get it going because you have nothing to build on.
Speaker 1: When I go to a new area, I take my lighter,
Speaker 1: I find different materials that are similar to things that
Speaker 1: I have where I'm at. So if I'm hunting in
Speaker 1: the pine forest, some of the best fires started would
Speaker 1: be pine pitch, stuff that burns for a long time,
Speaker 1: real hot to start get it going. Pine needles they
Speaker 1: burn hot and fast burns like kerosene. But then there's
Speaker 1: other ways in places that you can find dry materials.
Speaker 1: Some of the mosses burn really well. Um, just stuff
Speaker 1: to to start the fire. Now, if I go into
Speaker 1: a new area, say the Pacific Northwest, where it's really
Speaker 1: wet and you know, like different types of trees and plants, well,
Speaker 1: kind of try different things while I'm out there before
Speaker 1: I have to make a fire to see, Okay, what
Speaker 1: burns well? Well, okay, the inside of this bark burns
Speaker 1: really good. If I'll remember that, Oh, this moss on
Speaker 1: this particular type of tree grows really well. Oh these
Speaker 1: dead leaves on this tree. Maybe I'm in an oak
Speaker 1: type forest, you know, maybe there's certain hardwoods that the
Speaker 1: leaves burn really well and long. So what I like
Speaker 1: to do is I just kind of find the materials
Speaker 1: ahead of time when I don't need to build the fire.
Speaker 1: Just examining what's around my scenarios. When I'm in a
Speaker 1: new area and the places that you hunt a lot,
Speaker 1: you should know the materials that burn fire is really well,
Speaker 1: Like what's the best fuel to build a quick fire?
Speaker 1: And then know how to keep that and look out
Speaker 1: for it. On late season hunts. When I'm elk hunting,
Speaker 1: I'm building fires like every freaking time, I sit down.
Speaker 1: To be honest, you know, if I'm gonna sit down
Speaker 1: and glass for a few minutes, I'm just gonna build
Speaker 1: a quick fire. And by doing that, I've got you know,
Speaker 1: there's probably snow on the ground and there's not a
Speaker 1: lot of fire danger of its spreading. Build a small fire,
Speaker 1: glass warm my hands up, put it out, walk on.
Speaker 1: And I've done that so many times that you get
Speaker 1: good at building fires and building those skills and knowing
Speaker 1: what to look for. So, like I said, these are
Speaker 1: just little skills that you need to practice along the way.
Speaker 1: So if you come into some kind of quote unquote
Speaker 1: air quotes survival situation, you already have the skills needed
Speaker 1: to do what you need to do. Now. The second
Speaker 1: part of that would be building a shelter. A shelter
Speaker 1: is just anything that can kind of protect you from
Speaker 1: the elements. It could be something that keeps you dry,
Speaker 1: keeps you warm, keeps the wind off of you, allows
Speaker 1: you to maybe sleep, or even just weather out a storm.
Speaker 1: There's been times where I've been big wack hunting storms
Speaker 1: rolling in I found a little rock overhang that I
Speaker 1: crawled up underneath and made my camp in there. Um
Speaker 1: I didn't have a waterproof anything, but you know, the
Speaker 1: storm comes through, I mean my little baby underneath the
Speaker 1: rock and then continue hunting or doing whatever. But also
Speaker 1: just knowing, Okay, what do I have on me in
Speaker 1: my pack that I can use to build a shelter
Speaker 1: or just maybe we'll call a shelter something that helps
Speaker 1: you keep you warm. So what clothes do you have
Speaker 1: with you? You know your clothes can help be a
Speaker 1: shelter from the elements. What maybe do you have this
Speaker 1: waterproof do you have like a garbage bag in your pack?
Speaker 1: What happens if you put your rein gear on and
Speaker 1: then like used your pack as some form of shelter.
Speaker 1: Maybe you lean some sticks up against the rock and
Speaker 1: then cover that with pine boughs and bark. That's another
Speaker 1: extreme form of a shelter, like building an almost tent
Speaker 1: style shelter. There's so many different things like at that
Speaker 1: while you're out there summertime, like now is a great
Speaker 1: time you're gonna go out camping. Maybe you've got kids,
Speaker 1: maybe you don't. You're never too old to go build
Speaker 1: a shelter while you're out camping or just hanging out
Speaker 1: in the outdoors doing these kind of things of saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: in this area, what am I looking for. I've been
Speaker 1: out in the Nevada Desert and built some just real cool,
Speaker 1: almost like tent style structures out of different kinds of
Speaker 1: pine boughs, sagebrush, piled it up, rocks, whatever, you know.
Speaker 1: When I'm out hunting, if I'm getting into an area
Speaker 1: that's a long ways away or it's starting to get dark,
Speaker 1: I'm going, Man, this is new. I don't have to
Speaker 1: say I don't have a GPS. These are skills that
Speaker 1: I've just kind of done over the years. I thought, okay,
Speaker 1: what do I have in my bag? And while it's daylight,
Speaker 1: looking around, saying, oh, hey, there's some rock rims over there.
Speaker 1: I bet you there's a probably a pretty good spot
Speaker 1: to shelter in because the wind's coming this way. Like,
Speaker 1: as I'm hiking and walking through I'm always making mental
Speaker 1: notes of places that would make good shelters. Play to
Speaker 1: be quick and easy over oute where I'm at. If
Speaker 1: worst case scenario, I can't get back to where I
Speaker 1: need to go, I need to stop and spend the night.
Speaker 1: Most people get themselves in trouble because they go too far,
Speaker 1: They wander, they get lost when they really could just
Speaker 1: hang tight, wait a little bit and easily find their
Speaker 1: way back in daylight. So I would say probably most
Speaker 1: of those unprepared nights are just people going, Okay, maybe
Speaker 1: they went too far, they don't have their their flashlight
Speaker 1: dies there. Whatever, they're walking around, they're going, I thought
Speaker 1: the truck was here, We should be back at the truck,
Speaker 1: and they're back of the truck. You've lost your way
Speaker 1: of navigating, You've lost your visual way points. Okay, maybe
Speaker 1: now is just the time sit down, waited out and
Speaker 1: find or create some form of shelter, spend the night,
Speaker 1: and continue on in the morning. The thing about spending
Speaker 1: a night outside, it's probably gonna be miserable, but it's
Speaker 1: just a night. Hopefully it's just a night, you know,
Speaker 1: Hopefully you don't unders so far off that you get
Speaker 1: too far out of track it it becomes multiple nights.
Speaker 1: One thing is is it's uncomfortable to sleep with if
Speaker 1: you're napping in the daytime, it's super easy at night.
Speaker 1: The grounds hard, the grounds cold, so shelter might even
Speaker 1: be including making something to sleep on to insulate your body,
Speaker 1: and you know, just protecting yourself against the almost staying warm,
Speaker 1: moving around. It might be something where you get up
Speaker 1: your cold, you've got a fire going, you keep that
Speaker 1: fire going, stay warm, walking around building the fire. Who
Speaker 1: knows even just keep walking around, get your blood flowing,
Speaker 1: just so you don't get too chilled on those cold nights.
Speaker 1: Let's jump into the next thing. I would say it'd
Speaker 1: be finding water. A few podcasts back, I guess it's
Speaker 1: probably two months now, we talked about purification, filtration, etcetera.
Speaker 1: One thing you've got to think about in a quote
Speaker 1: unquote survival situation. That might just be a situation where
Speaker 1: you're out hunting. You brought one bottle of water, You've
Speaker 1: gone fifteen ridges now and your plum out of water.
Speaker 1: What do you do? Well, you can find water, but
Speaker 1: is that water going to be safe and potible. I
Speaker 1: like to carry some things with me, like iodine or
Speaker 1: potible aqua or maybe even just you know, not every
Speaker 1: hunt you have water filtration with you. You know, if
Speaker 1: you're backpack hunting, backcountry hunting, maybe left at it can't
Speaker 1: Maybe you know, on a day hunt, why would you
Speaker 1: bring your water filter? You just carry the water you're
Speaker 1: gonna use for the day. But you got in over
Speaker 1: your head and now you're out of water. Lately, I've
Speaker 1: actually been carrying my sterry pen kind of thing, but
Speaker 1: I always have a little bit of iodine in my
Speaker 1: first aid kit or some pottible aqua tablets just for that,
Speaker 1: just in case. Now, if you do run out of
Speaker 1: that and you find some water that you aren't necessarily
Speaker 1: certain that is going to be clean, there's there's ways
Speaker 1: that you can look for water and clean water. What
Speaker 1: I like to do is like little seeps um. I
Speaker 1: think about it like this. If like water runs through
Speaker 1: about three inches of some kind of soil, it's it's
Speaker 1: pretty much like some form of filtration, maybe not purification,
Speaker 1: you know. So if you find like a seep where
Speaker 1: the water is running out of the ground, where the
Speaker 1: water is running under the ground and then back out,
Speaker 1: that's probably a fairly safe source of water. If it's
Speaker 1: something where you can dig down a little bit that
Speaker 1: water fills up, you probably aren't going to have gardia
Speaker 1: and other things in that like you would in a
Speaker 1: stagnant pond and maybe a big stream that has beavers
Speaker 1: stuff like that. There's a lot of water sources that
Speaker 1: I've drank out of over the years, with no ill effects.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying, yeah, go for it, and then
Speaker 1: you get sick and you blame me. You got to
Speaker 1: use your judgment. But there's ways to find water that
Speaker 1: may not necessarily need filtered, and I drink those a lot.
Speaker 1: But if I'm worried about it, then I'll always go
Speaker 1: the filtration route or purification route. Iodine or some kind
Speaker 1: of drops works good. If you don't have that, maybe
Speaker 1: you're who knows like something went wrong, you're in the
Speaker 1: back country, you've got a water source, you need to
Speaker 1: filter your water. I've made filters before many times. Charcoal
Speaker 1: filter is a good one. Like most your pump filters
Speaker 1: actually filter water through charcoal. So what I would do
Speaker 1: is take like you need two bottles, like a water
Speaker 1: bottle and another bottle or whatever, and sometimes just like
Speaker 1: a disposable like you know, plastic water bottle works good
Speaker 1: for this. Sometimes I'll throw one of those in my pack.
Speaker 1: Is like an emergency water, so I got the main water.
Speaker 1: That one's like hidden somewhere in case they need it.
Speaker 1: But it's also good to mix drink mixes and uses
Speaker 1: a filter. So you'll use some kind of cloth and
Speaker 1: then start out pouring water over the filter into your
Speaker 1: cup with like cloth was say, like rocks or stones,
Speaker 1: and it's something that's clean, not dirt like gravel. Something
Speaker 1: that would be like the first step. The second step
Speaker 1: would be being breaking it down a little bit more
Speaker 1: like some sand. You know, the dirt's kind of been
Speaker 1: taken out of it, but washed out sand, pouring that
Speaker 1: over so it drips through, say like a T shirt
Speaker 1: or something, into the other water bottle. And then the
Speaker 1: last step you take that out and then just using
Speaker 1: like from your fire the charcoal pieces chot, like breaking
Speaker 1: up the charcoal into a lot of pieces and compacting
Speaker 1: it into your shirt and then pouring water over that
Speaker 1: and let it drip through into your other water container. Now,
Speaker 1: the first couple of times you do it will actually
Speaker 1: be like pretty sooty, pretty dark, but you can keep
Speaker 1: doing it a couple of times, clear off a little
Speaker 1: bit of that, get some of the ash off the charcoal,
Speaker 1: and it will filter it at least and be better
Speaker 1: to drink than just stagnant or untreated water worst case scenario.
Speaker 1: But also knowing like the type of environment you're in
Speaker 1: and ways to find water in emergency situations is great
Speaker 1: in the desert here. I've done things where we've put
Speaker 1: like bags over leaves and stuff at night. You know,
Speaker 1: with high and low temperatures high desert, you kind of
Speaker 1: get some condensation in that and it can build up
Speaker 1: some water. Honestly, it's not a lot water over plants,
Speaker 1: like trapping condensation kind of sucks. That's like a worst
Speaker 1: case scenario. I mean, if you're high king and hunting,
Speaker 1: it's probably not going to be your your best option.
Speaker 1: But if you're out of water and you've got no
Speaker 1: other options, it's It's something to think about and at
Speaker 1: least understanding those tactics a key skill to have to
Speaker 1: get yourself out of a situation. Maybe it is one
Speaker 1: of those situations where you went in somewhere your who
Speaker 1: knows your GPS, your phone dies, you got turned around,
Speaker 1: you know, how do you find your way out? Well,
Speaker 1: knowing your directions to safety before you go somewhere is
Speaker 1: a huge thing to keep in the back of your mind.
Speaker 1: So before I go into a new area, what I
Speaker 1: like to do is say, Okay, which direction am I
Speaker 1: going in? Like look at a big overview map and
Speaker 1: understand the way that the mountains go and where am
Speaker 1: I going. Then also, no, okay, well, the waterways that
Speaker 1: are in this area, are they flowing to a main
Speaker 1: waterway that's flowing to a way out? What happens if
Speaker 1: I go over the ridge? Where's that waterway flowing? And
Speaker 1: understanding that at least you have in your mind, okay,
Speaker 1: all the waterways go to this main waterway. So, um,
Speaker 1: following water is a great way to get out of places.
Speaker 1: It's not necessarily always the best way. Like if you
Speaker 1: are in an area where you go up over a
Speaker 1: ridge and now it's kind of more of a divide
Speaker 1: where everything on the other side flows to some other
Speaker 1: waterway that's way away from where you're at, But does
Speaker 1: that get you out? Just knowing that going in of
Speaker 1: like hey, worst case scenario, I can follow the water
Speaker 1: to safety, or knowing, okay, the way the mountains are,
Speaker 1: the way the canyons run if I get over on
Speaker 1: the other side, like just understanding the big picture of
Speaker 1: where you're going. My dad, it's the story he tells
Speaker 1: a lot, but is before I was born, got into
Speaker 1: a situation where if he pretty much got lost, um,
Speaker 1: not pretty much got lost, he got lost, and the
Speaker 1: only way he found his way out was just following
Speaker 1: the water out finally led him to a road, and
Speaker 1: on that road he actually his dad. It was an
Speaker 1: outfit for my grandpa, who was an outfit at the time,
Speaker 1: was just running up and down the roads at night,
Speaker 1: like pretty much all day, just looking for him, and
Speaker 1: happened to be My dad sees this light, waves it
Speaker 1: down and it's my grandpa's. You know, following water can
Speaker 1: be a way to get you out, can also be
Speaker 1: a way to get you into a worse situation. But
Speaker 1: if you have that knowledge of the area, you're going
Speaker 1: into the big picture of it, what happens. You have
Speaker 1: those worst case scenarios like if you get lost, like
Speaker 1: you can't find your way back to the truck, how
Speaker 1: can you find your way back to somewhere where you
Speaker 1: can find your way back, And knowing that is a
Speaker 1: great thing before you even get into the area. Survival.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's been overused the term a lot.
Speaker 1: There's so many shows about it, there's so many quote
Speaker 1: unquote experts about it, like people barking at other people.
Speaker 1: That's not how you do that. This is how you
Speaker 1: do that. I mean, it's just here's what you should do.
Speaker 1: You should have some kind of bush skills, so you're
Speaker 1: confident that if something happened, you can get out of
Speaker 1: whatever situation you're in. And that's what you need to know,
Speaker 1: and that's what you need to have, and those skills, honestly,
Speaker 1: the best way to get them is there just while
Speaker 1: you're out doing activities, while you're out hunting whatever. Use
Speaker 1: those skills in times when you don't absolutely need it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it can be really fun. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that I like to do. I mean, I'll
Speaker 1: go I'll build shelters. I love making like clay bank
Speaker 1: ovens where I can you know, smoke um. Actually, like
Speaker 1: one time in Alaska, man I made this awesome oven
Speaker 1: out of the tundra and smoked a bunch of arm
Speaker 1: again that I got with my bow while out there,
Speaker 1: and even some sheep meat. So it's like there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things you can do while you're out and
Speaker 1: maybe after the hunt that's fun. It's like kind of
Speaker 1: builds to the experience. There's been times where I've just
Speaker 1: gone out in the summer and caught fish with no tools,
Speaker 1: just my shoelaces, taking the para cord apart using that
Speaker 1: making a stick hook and catching some bait and catching
Speaker 1: a fish, building fires, and then I'd say I skill
Speaker 1: build a fire, build a fire, build a fire. Like
Speaker 1: practice makes perfect. So just practicing those little skills and
Speaker 1: have fun with it, it can be something that's extremely
Speaker 1: fun to do. I've made caught animals with bulos, I've
Speaker 1: hunted with homemade bows and spears and other things. Now
Speaker 1: that's just something because I'm like into it. But I
Speaker 1: think that everybody in some way should just practice some
Speaker 1: of these basic skills in case they get themselves into
Speaker 1: some bad situations. With the right knowledge and a few
Speaker 1: of the right items, you can pretty much get through
Speaker 1: whatever situation you need to. So I'm going to close
Speaker 1: this podcast out with the top ten items that I
Speaker 1: always have. So I think I get I get asked
Speaker 1: all the time like do I need to take a
Speaker 1: should I take a survival kit? What do you take
Speaker 1: in case of an emergency? I mean, you need to
Speaker 1: take what you need to feel comfortable and confident. I
Speaker 1: personally don't carry a survival kit. I have in the past,
Speaker 1: but they just becomes one of those things that just
Speaker 1: ends up in your pack and it's bulky and heavy
Speaker 1: and not a lot of stuff that you use that often.
Speaker 1: But think about the things that you would use and
Speaker 1: maybe those are something that have multiple uses and you
Speaker 1: can have those in your pack. So I'm going to
Speaker 1: run through top ten items that should probably always be
Speaker 1: in your pack list fire making. So it's gonna be
Speaker 1: some kind of firestarter, a lighter, and maybe even a
Speaker 1: secondary source if you want as well. Or I like
Speaker 1: to keep up lighter in my pocket and I have
Speaker 1: one in my pack, or I always keep one in
Speaker 1: my first aid kit. Well, actually it's a first aid
Speaker 1: kit number two. I always have my first aid kit
Speaker 1: and there's a couple of other things that I put
Speaker 1: in there. I know the contents that are in it,
Speaker 1: and a lot of them have other purposes. I've got
Speaker 1: medical taper, um, I've got i a dyne in there
Speaker 1: I will throw um. I actually sometimes have like a
Speaker 1: little small compass and I just do a first like
Speaker 1: they make these like lightweight backpacking first aid kits, and
Speaker 1: then I add some of my other stuff in there,
Speaker 1: a little bit of other medicines that I might need
Speaker 1: that small compass, like a little baggy of potible aqua
Speaker 1: and a lighter. Having those items in there is just
Speaker 1: it's like cool. If something happens, I could pull that
Speaker 1: kid out and I know that I've got things in.
Speaker 1: There is a little bit of thread and needle. I
Speaker 1: mean I can even use that needle to make a
Speaker 1: fishing hook and other things. So that little first aid
Speaker 1: kit has some of the things that I like. Now
Speaker 1: out of that first aid kit, some of the I
Speaker 1: guess Number three would be those potable aqua or water
Speaker 1: purification tablets. Number four a knife or multi tool. You
Speaker 1: need it for hunting, but man, that thing has so
Speaker 1: many uses for survival or just comfort situations. It's that
Speaker 1: must have Number five cordage or like pecord or mule
Speaker 1: tape something like that. You can use it for so
Speaker 1: many different uses. I mean it's not just for survival type,
Speaker 1: because I mean I use it to hang corders. I
Speaker 1: use it to hold down my tents. I use it
Speaker 1: just like when you're packing out, to tighten things whatever.
Speaker 1: Number six garbage bags now I use like big thick
Speaker 1: contractor bags. It's probably the most underrated piece of gear
Speaker 1: in your equipment. I use it to line my pack
Speaker 1: when I'm packing out. But honestly, I mean I've used
Speaker 1: them to cross rivers as waiters I've stuffed them with
Speaker 1: pine boughs and used it as like a sleeping pad
Speaker 1: when my broke to keep me warm. M I've used
Speaker 1: them just even like throw my pack in when it's
Speaker 1: raining outside so I have more room in my tent,
Speaker 1: And they're just like or just you know, if you're
Speaker 1: really cold. I've had these like hunts where the temperature
Speaker 1: drops and the wind just feels like it's ripping through
Speaker 1: your sleeping bag. Early you know, maybe it's an early
Speaker 1: season hunting temperature drops. Stuffing your sleeping bag in that
Speaker 1: garbage sack just like helps block the wind. You know,
Speaker 1: Sleeping in this big black garbage bag inside your sleeping
Speaker 1: bag blocks the wind, warms your body up. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: Duct tape. Here's another one. I mean what I do
Speaker 1: is I wrapped my duct tape around the next item
Speaker 1: on the list, a water bottle. Yeah, you're probably always
Speaker 1: always gonna have a water bottle. Some people use bladders.
Speaker 1: I prefer the bottles. I use it for other things
Speaker 1: while I'm out hunting. But I wrapped my duct tape
Speaker 1: around that water bottle. And it's nice to have a
Speaker 1: bottle that I can, you know, if I needed to
Speaker 1: pour water from or filter whatever. You can do it
Speaker 1: with bladders as well. One thing that I do like
Speaker 1: to take I guess this would be like number now
Speaker 1: mind late season or back country, I like a metal
Speaker 1: camp cup if possible. If I'm going back country, I'll
Speaker 1: make my camp cup like a little metal one because
Speaker 1: I can boil water in it whereast case scenario, I
Speaker 1: can also melt snow with it. And then I have
Speaker 1: like another thing if I need to transport water or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's just good to have. And then I would say
Speaker 1: the last thing is I always keep like a reserve
Speaker 1: of food. So it might just be like an energy
Speaker 1: bar that I put in a strange pocket. That's like,
Speaker 1: all right, that's only if I really need it. I
Speaker 1: never actually, like if I'm going out, even on a
Speaker 1: day hunt, like I'll never eat all the food that
Speaker 1: I have. I always leave like a good portion of
Speaker 1: high calorie like a high calorie bar, and maybe it's
Speaker 1: a cliff bar or whatever. I'll leave that for those
Speaker 1: it's taken me all night to get out kind of scenarios.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh man, I might need some extra energy
Speaker 1: to get out, Like having that reserve is always good.
Speaker 1: And then this this bonus item. Something that I used
Speaker 1: to take a lot was like a a small it's
Speaker 1: like a tarp that had a reflective site on it.
Speaker 1: Not the survival like the chintzy survival tarps, but like
Speaker 1: an actual utility tarp, but like a small one, like
Speaker 1: a six ft by five foot size. I'd use that
Speaker 1: for actually like skinning out animals, putting meat on if
Speaker 1: there's nowhere to hang it, like I've been in a
Speaker 1: real flat area and don't want it to get in
Speaker 1: the dirt. Now I use carry game bags and everything,
Speaker 1: but that was something that I used back in the
Speaker 1: day a lot. But it also gave me great peace
Speaker 1: of mind for having something for signaling as well as
Speaker 1: you know, wrapping around me or building a shelter. So
Speaker 1: anything that you think you might need to be comfortable,
Speaker 1: go ahead and take, but understand what's in your pack,
Speaker 1: what you've got, and how to use those things. Then
Speaker 1: do some practicing and put what you have into practical applications,
Speaker 1: and that way you'll never have a night, whether you
Speaker 1: planned on it or not, that is unprepared. I hope
Speaker 1: that helps you guys, maybe gives you something to do
Speaker 1: this summer or while you're in quarantine, go do a
Speaker 1: little bit of fun survival thing. If you do something,
Speaker 1: tag me in it. I'd love to see it. Be
Speaker 1: cool to share some of that stuff with everyone else,
Speaker 1: So appreciate all the interaction I get with everyone. That's
Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing what everybody comes up with.
Speaker 1: Be kind of cool to to check that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff out. I think next week, maybe let's talk about
Speaker 1: some essential gear gears like honestly the number one thing
Speaker 1: I get asked about. So I was thinking about doing
Speaker 1: a like a day hunt pack dump like and then
Speaker 1: maybe like a multi day, five day kind of pack
Speaker 1: dump and comparing the two what I've got, the essentials
Speaker 1: that I have. So yeah, I think that that would
Speaker 1: be good. Yeah, if you guys, if you think about
Speaker 1: it and you don't subscribe, you know, I've said it
Speaker 1: a couple of times before, but it helps us out,
Speaker 1: so do it. That'd be sweet. I don't like telling
Speaker 1: people what to do. Don't do it if you don't
Speaker 1: want to do it, but if you want to, that's
Speaker 1: cool too. So until next week, everybody, stay safe and survive.
Speaker 1: Get you later. Und