Are you a "Survival Expert?"

[Wildthang]

Well, see, it's been slow lately on fruitcakes to toss.....ya gotta just toss them just a little bit, or they break......

Well I really miss hearing the stories about the " Green Anaconda................Green anaconda ", I guess we should watch that green anaconda youtube movie again

[hunter63]

Noooooooo,..... not the Green Anaconda.....ANYTHING but the Green Anaconda!

[Artzi]

Does it count if you wanna be one!? ... Survival expert just sounds so super cool!

[Winter]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expert

According to webster, most of us are.

[Sarge47]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expert

According to webster, most of us are.

Wow! And you don't even need a "blog" or a "big-azz knife" for slicing tires! ......

[Wildthang]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expert

According to webster, most of us are.

Holy cow, we know it all now Look out Blade

[old2531]

the survivor experts i wanna talk to are the 100 yr olds so i can learn from them ,i used to know a guy that was a bombadeer in ww1(yes ww1) bombers goodness he had lots of stories

[Mischief]

The only true survival expert we have had on here was Blade, heck he was boasting of challenging all of those guys on TV

He is a expert BS'r ,I belive

[1stimestar]

Wow! And you don't even need a "blog" or a "big-azz knife" for slicing tires! ......

But..but...then what the heck am I going to do with this blog!? Well crapweasel.

[Sarge47]

The only true survival expert we have had on here was Blade, heck he was boasting of challenging all of those guys on TV

Given the way some of those TV types are, Blade might have been right to a certain extent. They just need to be careful where they park their vehicles......

[kyratshooter]

the survivor experts i wanna talk to are the 100 yr olds so i can learn from them ,i used to know a guy that was a bombadeer in ww1(yes ww1) bombers goodness he had lots of stories

My GG-father was born in 1865 and lived until 1967. He was clear minded right up till the end of his days and able to walk around the yard and sit and talk. I realized he was a treasure and I had the chace to talk to him and learn from him until I was 17. It was one of the few wise moves I have made in my life.

Lincoln was president when he was born.

He read about Custer's massacre in the newspaper.

He was 35 when Teddy Rosevelt was presidemt.

He was too old to go to WW1

He had retired by the time WW2 occurred.

He lived to see men go into space.

I remember him plowing his garden with a mule when he was 90. They still hauled water from a spring and heated their house with chunk coal in open fireplaces. GGM was still cooking on a wood cookstove too. They had caved in and gotten electricity around 1960, but just used it for lights and a fridge. They considered the fridge a miricle device.

I did not just get to hear about it, I got to see them still living much as they had lived before our modern convinience oriented society developed.

[crashdive123]

I'll bet he was a real treasure to be around. Glad you had the chance.

[Sarge47]

Survival Kit...$20.

Survival book...$15.

Kyrat's GGF.....Priceless!....

[endurance]

the survivor experts i wanna talk to are the 100 yr olds so i can learn from them ,i used to know a guy that was a bombadeer in ww1(yes ww1) bombers goodness he had lots of stories

You might be a bit late. They'd be about 112 or 113 now if they were 18 in 1918.

My step-father was in Patton's army in during the North African campaign. Infantry. He'll talk your ear off about the great depression, tell you all about boot camp, and tell you all about coming home and making a family once he was back on US shores, but he won't talk about anything he did over there. He's said some things like "I had two men assigned to me to hand me loaded rifles because I was such a good shot," and "I saw things that I just can't talk about," but that's about the most I've ever gotten out of him. I didn't grow up with him, he married my mom about a decade ago. Now he's 92 and probably in his last year or two of life. I'm just damn grateful folks like him existed back then and continue to step forward today. He's the reason I seldom listen to blowhards and braggards on their conquests of war. The folks who've actually lived it rarely want to share it. ...or at least that's been my experience.

[hunter63]

Hve to agree with that...MF didn't have much to say as well.....WWII Army Air Corps

[kyratshooter]

I'll bet he was a real treasure to be around. Glad you had the chance.

The most influnce it had on me was the effect it had on my Mom!

She had grown up spending her summers with GGM and GGD. They worked the garden, cooked, dried foods, canned, worked the tobacco fields, milking cows....

The result was a mother, in the 1950s/1960s, that had no hesitation in allowing her 4 year old to use a pocket knife, under supervision, and felt that an 8 year old should have one in his possession 24/7. A 10 year old should have his own Daisey Red Ryder and a shotgun was just another tool in the outdoor kit. When I was 16, and started driving, the announcement of a weekend camping trip or hunting excursion was greeted with "Have fun!" (How many 16 year olds get turned lose for a weekend alone in the woods w/car and rifle? I think they arrest you for that today!)

She also was not hesitant to pack us up and send us kids to the farm for about a month each summer. Of course by then it was to her Dad's farm and not GGD. Same effect, different generation!

Of course my Grandad was born in 1898, and had learned a thing or two from his father. I was 30 when he passed away. At 70 he was still working an acre of garden, milking a cow, raising goats and doing general farm work.

He was the one that took me on my first hunting trip, age 4! We went on our last walk, gun in hand, in 1976.

[birdman6660]

survival kit...$20.

Survival book...$15.

Kyrat's ggf.....priceless!....

agreed !!!

[old2531]

to endurance i met him 40 yrs ago my dad was in merchant marines in ww2 and one of my uncles was in korea they wouldnt talk about it either my oldest brother told me not to trust the arvn's in nam if it was4:30 pm firefight or not theyd go home for dinner ,i missed nam by a month i had 3 days left in bootcamp when the marines pulled out of nam

[Alaskan Survivalist]

Honestly I think people know more than they think if they would apply it with some common sense. Some folks are going to have to forget much of the "survival skills" they think they have to survive. Wilderness survival info is driven more by what people want to learn that know nothing than what they need to learn and too many "experts" willing to tap that market. Nobody wants to hear warm clothes eliminates a lot of need to build shelter or 12 ways to build a fire with some kind of gimmick. Where's the skill or prestege in that?

[Sarge47]

Honestly I think people know more than they think if they would apply it with some common sense. Some folks are going to have to forget much of the "survival skills" they think they have to survive. Wilderness survival info is driven more by what people want to learn that know nothing than what they need to learn and too many "experts" willing to tap that market. Nobody wants to hear warm clothes eliminates a lot of need to build shelter or 12 ways to build a fire with some kind of gimmick. Where's the skill or prestege in that?

"prestege?" Who pays attention to prestige?...... Who's judging us and by what measure? Why wasn't I told about this sooner? Truth is I could give a fat rat's hind end about doing all of the primitive stuff that expands needed energy. This is why we have all the cool things today I still use matches or a Bar-B-Cue lighter to start a fire with...dang, that just cost me some "prestige" points, didn't it?....