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if you get a good hit thru the chest, with a truly sharp broadhead, and have brains enough to not pursue the critter for half an hour, they almost never go more than 200m before laying down to bleed out. Sometimes, they barely make it 50 ft, if the heart was sliced.

moos can be 800 lbs of meat, bro, so the potential is there for a moose kill to last a LOT longer than 2 months. in fact, it could and probably would get you thru the winter. but, it takes TWO people to extend the show, and the odds of two people both scoring big meese is about nil. I'd say that foot snaring a caribou to a drag log, or catching one that's swimming the lake is the best chance anyone will get for winning by means of taking a big animal. Netting fish and ducks is by far the most likely means of winning (instead of being fat and lucky, as it's always been done. Many people have taken a black bear with an arrow and Chief AJ has taken a moose and a grizzly with his. (no word of how BIG they were, tho).

I'd like to see some fat girl scouts, cause they'd do every bit as "well" as anyone so far

They now specify what arrowheads you can take, so the making fishhooks out of fishing arrowheads has been torpedoed. However, you can still take big hooks and make 2 out of each one. They specify barbless hooks, but you could heat them in a fire, flatten the ends with stones, and then file points and barbs on them with your Crunch multitool. If you know to make a raised wooden bed and pile debris upon it, and make a net and debris "quilt" to pull over you, you dont have to waste a pick on a sleeping bag. 2 things that are amazingly useful and which nobody takes are the 3 lb block of salt and the duct tape. If you're on a seashore, as 3 seasons have been, the salt makes no sense, so that pick can be used on a sleeping bag, or whatever else you deem to be useful.

I'd use netting box traps for small game, birds and crabs, and reserve the wire for the treble hooks set for predators or squirrels, and for braiding into cable, for hooking up deer, bear, caribou or moose to a drag log, by festooning a trail with forked sticks, holding up such snare loops, horizontally and vertically, on a well used trail, near a water source etc.using some of the salt as bait. Guts and heads of previous catches, even entire small fish, can bait a bear pretty well, if there's any in the area and if you can catch enough of such bait

bs, bs. carleigh lasted 86 days just by holing up and some of the guys had at least 70 lb on her. They are just weak minded, or are not allowed to do likewise. That's a possibility. The producers want the show to end by 3 months and preferably in 2 months. There's 7000 applicants per season folks, but so few women that any woman who applies gets on the show (most likely) Wonica let that slip. Once a woman gets into the top 20 and goes to boot camp, she knows that she'll be on the show. Ditto any minorities, gays, or trans people who apply, of course.

you just want a simple tarp shelter, takes longer to locate a proper spot for it than to set it up. The hammock offers cordage, a bed up off of the ground, lots of netting, once you unravel or cut/tear it into cordage (depending upon whether its a sheet hammock or a rope type. They dont seem to have to be dealing with rain, or as of yet, at least much wind. After a month, if you've fed yourself properly and have preserved at least 100 lbs of live weight food, ok, it's worth losing your day job to stay and to make a winter shelter. If you've not done that much, just go save your day job, cause you'll win only by being fat and lucky. i'd say it's between Ray (because of his fat) and Wonica (cause she's better prepped). having experimented with keto and fasting.

these people dont even know that you do NOT want your fire inside of your sleeping shelter? it's a CO hazard in there, as well as a fire hazard. The fire should be several paces away, with its own primitive shelter, kept dampened, of course. Each sleeve of your rainsuit jacket will hold a gallon of water. One sleeve can be your untreated water, while the other is the boiled or filtered water. If you use a covered, walled seep well and a 3 ft long filter tube of moss/grasses, gravel, sand and charcoal, you dont have to boil your water, most places. But I'd boil it if I had the time. make a raised wooden bed, covered with debris, and make a netting and debris "quilt" for covering you while sleeping, have hot rocks under your bed. Use a gravity fed (3 hole) Dakota fire pit for heating stones and you'll need only 1/4 as much firewood, folks. and less than half as much time to process it.

A hare is just 1.5 lbs of meat. you can easily eat 2 of them right away and keep the rest in the 5 qt skillet, stewing, and eat it all the next day. Wait, nobody had brains enough to take such a skillet, now did they? They also didn't know to take the 3 lbs of salt, Duh.

the shelter means nothing for at least the first month and the best, easiest shelter for the cold is a dugout full of dry debris, which can be made in 3 days, total, A day to dig the hole and creat the walls out of the excavated dirt. A day to gather the debris and dry it, if need be, a day to gather the wood needed and assemble the sod/debris/wood/tarp roof. and the door, which is made out of the backpack and the camera case, stuffed with debris, with loose earth and debris stuffing the holes around those 2 large items. Once the foraging time ends, you want to just lay there in the debris, conserving calories and controling your mind.

actually, a big man needs 2000 calories per day, holed up in his sleeping bag. Out int he cold all day, that need can double. Only half of a fish's live weight is edible flesh and it offers only 650 calories per lb, ready to eat. So the active guy needs to eat 5 lbs of fish per day, which means he has to CATCH 10 lbs of live weight fish, every day, or hel'll be losing weight. So those fish have to average 7 lbs of live weight, each, if 1-2 per day is going to suffice. 🙂 google it, you'll see that I'm correct.

rabbit offers only 500 calories per lb, ready to eat.. it has almost no fat and yes, you can die while still eating lots of rabbit meat. The problem is a lack of vitamin k, which is stored only in fat. Just to overcome the calorie needs, you'd have to eat at least 4 rabbits per day, if you're getting them by hunting with a bow or slingshot. You're out there in the cold all day, stalking 1 mph, which is 8 miles, burning 100 calories per mile. and losing more to the cold. as vs just holing up in your sleeping bag, like Carleigh knew to do in season 3, and she made it 86 days that way.

no, it's not Fowlers' got a yt vid about the IRS, state taxes and SS taking half of the check. you can also google that info. If you know how to properly invest 200k, it can retire you, after about 3 years of active involvement. What you do is use some vet's VA home loans (no money down required) to buy big old houses, convert them into 8-12 small rooms and rent them out by the week, for $100$300 per week, depending upon where you are. OK has such houses for sale for 50k. So you can get set up in the first one for 20k or so. After you've lived there in ran it for a year, and know what's what, get another, in 6 months, another, repeat. You can be clearing 100k per year in 3 years.

A raibbit offers you just 750 calories. You need 2000 calories to just lay around a day in your sleeping bag. out in the cold, damp wind, walking many miles per day, that requirement can easily double. So, if you dont get 3 rabbits per day, every day, you're losing the game. by hunting. Use snares and netting wrapped sapling framed box traps (easily baited/moved) instead of the hunting. sure, keep the slingbow, arrows and baked clay balls with you at all times, but specifically hunting all day? no.