season 5 is set in Mongolia, it's on HIstory channel, 8 pm, thursdays, in central time zone. So far, not one of 54 entrants has had sense enough to take the stuff needed to weave a lot of netting, so all have done nothing more than starve. This time, they let them start in what looks like late spring, lots of green grass, and they appear to be sited on a river. They are all worried about the winter, but they'll all starve out before winter hits, like they always have before.
None have known to take the Signal Multitool, with its built in ferrorod and sharpener. Replace the bit driver with a file blade. Take a Cold Steel shovel, with one edge modified into an 8" saw edge. Dont bother with belt knife, big saw or axe. you wont need them, so dont waste picks on them. Take the optional 12x12 tarp, a ration of salt, one of Chief Aj's slingbows, 2 bodkin broadheads, one regular broadhead (can be hafted for use as a hoku knife, if need be). Take the other 6 arrows as 4-tined fishing heads. Each tine can be swiftly converted into being 2 fishhooks. Save 2 for bowfishing, and have slipon rubber fletching on all arrows. have "flu flu' fletching on the fishing arrows. After removal of the tines, you'll have 4 blunts for use on large birds or small game.
Take a big roll of heavy duty duct tape, the 5 qt skillet with lid The a ration of salt is taken because you wont be on an ocean, you're starting in summertime, need a preservative. Take a 2 person hammock made of 11 strand paracord, as well as the 80 m hank of such cord, and the snare wire.\
You have over a months warning that you're in the 20 who go to boot camp, and then another month before you actually go. You can put on 40 lbs of blubber in 2 months if you try! Put yourself into ketosis before you go. Get used to burning your fat. Dont bother to cook or eat until you have a reliable source of 3000 calories per day. Until then, use whatever you catch as bait. You can easily make 200 sq ft of 4" mesh netting per day out of the parcord hammock, It and the hank of paracord will total 2000 sq ft. Use it as seines and a net/weir. Put out each day's production as a gillnet, of course. If you catch nothing with 4" mesh, double it and tie it, forming 2" mesh. If you have use for more than 1000 sq ft of 2" mesh, then use splits of local vines, roots, reeds, etc, to weave into the 4" mesh.
Everyone who's taken a gillnet has caught fish, Until this season, nobody hit a thing with an arrow. Now Dave's hit a grouse. big deal, 1000 calories tops. A couple of mice and one bird has been trapped. Larry got a chipmunk with a throwing stick. whoopee, 400 calories!
You need to be catching 20 lbs of fish per day, as well as peeling that much cambium, to get ready for the winter, and only netting can hope to do that for you. they are limited to a 5 mile radius, so there's little chance of hunting meaning anything, and not much for snarring. Have to braid the snare wire to make it strong enough to hold a goat, sheep, hog, deer, wolf, or bear and hook it to a drag log of about 100 lbs weight, to make the snare line worth creating/servicing. Keep all of the snares within 100m of your camp, in a circle, so that you dont waste much time or calories on it.
None have known to take the Signal Multitool, with its built in ferrorod and sharpener. Replace the bit driver with a file blade. Take a Cold Steel shovel, with one edge modified into an 8" saw edge. Dont bother with belt knife, big saw or axe. you wont need them, so dont waste picks on them. Take the optional 12x12 tarp, a ration of salt, one of Chief Aj's slingbows, 2 bodkin broadheads, one regular broadhead (can be hafted for use as a hoku knife, if need be). Take the other 6 arrows as 4-tined fishing heads. Each tine can be swiftly converted into being 2 fishhooks. Save 2 for bowfishing, and have slipon rubber fletching on all arrows. have "flu flu' fletching on the fishing arrows. After removal of the tines, you'll have 4 blunts for use on large birds or small game.
Take a big roll of heavy duty duct tape, the 5 qt skillet with lid The a ration of salt is taken because you wont be on an ocean, you're starting in summertime, need a preservative. Take a 2 person hammock made of 11 strand paracord, as well as the 80 m hank of such cord, and the snare wire.\
You have over a months warning that you're in the 20 who go to boot camp, and then another month before you actually go. You can put on 40 lbs of blubber in 2 months if you try! Put yourself into ketosis before you go. Get used to burning your fat. Dont bother to cook or eat until you have a reliable source of 3000 calories per day. Until then, use whatever you catch as bait. You can easily make 200 sq ft of 4" mesh netting per day out of the parcord hammock, It and the hank of paracord will total 2000 sq ft. Use it as seines and a net/weir. Put out each day's production as a gillnet, of course. If you catch nothing with 4" mesh, double it and tie it, forming 2" mesh. If you have use for more than 1000 sq ft of 2" mesh, then use splits of local vines, roots, reeds, etc, to weave into the 4" mesh.
Everyone who's taken a gillnet has caught fish, Until this season, nobody hit a thing with an arrow. Now Dave's hit a grouse. big deal, 1000 calories tops. A couple of mice and one bird has been trapped. Larry got a chipmunk with a throwing stick. whoopee, 400 calories!
You need to be catching 20 lbs of fish per day, as well as peeling that much cambium, to get ready for the winter, and only netting can hope to do that for you. they are limited to a 5 mile radius, so there's little chance of hunting meaning anything, and not much for snarring. Have to braid the snare wire to make it strong enough to hold a goat, sheep, hog, deer, wolf, or bear and hook it to a drag log of about 100 lbs weight, to make the snare line worth creating/servicing. Keep all of the snares within 100m of your camp, in a circle, so that you dont waste much time or calories on it.
