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How long does it take to make an igloo in 2" of snow?
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Don't wish it were easier Wish you were better
Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that. Craig Douglas ECQC
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a day, half of that can be used upgathering the branches. If you've already got the pile of brush or boughs, the rest takes half a day. cover the wood with a tarp, kick snow onto chunks of tarp or your jacket, plaster it onto the tarp, starting at the bottom, going round, like laying courses of bricks. when you get the 4" layer on, sprinkle on some water, forming crust. Go gather more snow. Repeat. 2x, 12" thick walls. The dummy contestants take 1-4 weeks, to make shelters that wont shed rain and which require a fire inside of them. :-)
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the other two items should be a Cold steel shovel, modified to have 8" of real saw edge, and a highly modified Crunch multitool. when you know how to make EFFICIENT shelters, you dont need to cut, haul and process lots of wood, wasting all of that time and calories. These 2 tools very efficiently replace the belt knife, axe and saw that almost everyone "thinks" that they "need", saving one gear-pick. You dont need the ferrorod, cookpot, paracord, or gillnet, either. On vancouver Island, in patagonia, and in mongolia , they'd never have needed the sleeping bag, if they'd known anything. They left before it got to +10F. That's nothing, given all the clothing they get to take.
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i'ts amazing how ignorant people are about how many calories you need when you're living rough in the cold, and how few calories wild food has. Fish offer 650 calories to the lb, and only a bit more than half of a fish or animal's live weight is edible flesh. You need 3000 calories a day if you mostly hole up as a big man, if you dont want to lose any body weight. CAN you choke down 5 lbs of fish every day, for 100 days, even if you COULD catch that many? crabs are 3/4 inedible, and the meat, ready to eat, offers just 400 calories per lb. So you'd have to catch 30 lbs of crabs per day, every day, if that's all you have to eat. That's a 5 gallon bucket full or more.
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few clubs around you could catch more than thirty lbs of crabs.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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the people on that show can barely fill a pail of water, dude. They'd need the crew from biggest catch and the boat to catch 30 lbs of crabs a day.
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just make sure you have a can of raid, it kills crabs.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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you'd probably try to live by eating them. That's about your speed.
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Hey Looney......GET !
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Due to the increased price of ammo, don't expect a warning shot...
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A helicopter, a bar, the Dallas Cowboy cheerleading squad, a hot tub, a rifle, a grill, a house, and a few other sundries. Easy peasy.
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A helicopter, a bar, the Dallas Cowboy cheerleading squad, a hot tub, a rifle, a grill, a house, and a few other sundries. Easy peasy. just another lazy dip who can't be bothered to follow a link and find out what the gear options are, much less have a clue what to do with any of it. But just GOTTA post SOMETHING.
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A helicopter, a bar, the Dallas Cowboy cheerleading squad, a hot tub, a rifle, a grill, a house, and a few other sundries. Easy peasy. just another lazy dip who can't be bothered to follow a link and find out what the gear options are, much less have a clue what to do with any of it. But just GOTTA post SOMETHING. Nobody cares, Lonee.
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I won the initial preliminary season of the show. Spoiler- It's fake and gay
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the debarked Chihuahua is the best survival alarm you can have
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A Blond, a Brunet and a Redhead 25 to 26 years of age. I might not last long but I would leave happy and with a smile on my face
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A chair , a TV, and 8 TV dinners.
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typical bunch of ignorant losers here, lonee. You're wasting your time with this place.
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typical bunch of ignorant losers here, lonee. You're wasting your time with this place. You got back soon. Ah... the life of a troll.
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A .45 and 9 rounds in case certain troll or trolls are encountered. Mercy killings aint all bad.
Yeah, I could not resist.
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