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by BigBend66 on May 16, 2008
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that is just my point. He is not lost nor starving,he is making a show and killing animals in their sacred supposed safe zone. there is to be no reason a man should have to kill an animal in a nat' park unless he is truy in trouble, not for profits......he sickens me, plus he is a fraud....
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by timberrattlesnake89 on May 16, 2008
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The only one to me that I truely like and that seems truely authentic is that one survivorman. The reason I feel its real is the fact he is truely alone out in the wilderness without a camera crew with him.
Phillip
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by Chris_Harper on May 16, 2008
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Okay, this might throw a few people off here, but I'm a realist. I'm part naturalist and part conservationist, but I am also a survivalist. I have been into primitive skills for over 20 years, including flint knapping arrowheads, primitive cordage from plant fibers etc. If you are lost and you want to survive, you'd better be prepared to eat most anything, and you'd better have an idea of how to go about preparing most anything. I haven't done it with any reptiles, but I'm sure I could prepare just about any animal for consumption if the need arose. I have a co-worker that eats snapping turtles, and the thought of eating a 50 year old animal is sickening, but if you were going to die otherwise, why wouldn't you? In a survival situation, your best chance of survival is eating animals. My problem with Grylls is how he launches himself into extremely dangerous situations, something that a lost person should never do. Oh yeah, and what's with eating all the live animals, including their intestines? Hasn't he ever heard of coccidia and a myriad of other gut borne parasites? Survivorman is okay, except that it's a little overkill when he apologizes for eating crickets. If you are teaching survival, kill and eat. Seriously, am I the ony one eating meat here? Why not try some DOR Surprise next time you're herping? At least you know what it would taste like.
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by Chris_Harper on May 16, 2008
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Oh yeah, I like the concept of Survivorman being out there all by himself, except that eventually....he may end up filming his own death.
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by Cro on May 17, 2008
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"Why not try some DOR Surprise next time you're herping?" Good point Chris !
I have retrieved just hit, still squirming, not quite DOR, Eastern Diamondbacked Rattlesnakes and Snapping Turtles from the roadways, and turned them into meals.
Rattlesnake meat will cook up like jerky over a fire, as will turtle. They will be edible, however just not at their best. They really need to be cooked in boiling water if at all possible, until tender. Salt and wild onions or garlic will help. A bit of white wood ash will ad a bit of salt like flavor to the boil.
For a real primative treat, take that DOR rattlesnake or turtle, cut it into 1 to 2 inch pieces. Then take some nice gooey mud and make a pattie of the mud about the size of a dinner plate. Then cover the top of the mud pie with large leaves from sweet gum or popular or other non conifer trees. Then put the snake meat on the leaves, along with some wild onions if you can find them, and cover it all with another layer of leaves, then cover that with another layer of mud. Press the mud together to seal the whole thing around the sides. Then take the whole mud "football" and put it on top of a layer of coals in the fire, then layer hot coals over it and around the sides. In about an hour, take it out of the fire and crack it open with a stick, and you will find a very tender, very delicious rattlesnake, turtle, or just about any other critter, steamed in it's own juices.
The best turkey that I ever had was a wild one with suicidal tendancies that ran out in front of my truck. I just followed the feathers down the roadside ditch and found it, chunked it into a cooler, took it home, cleaned it, and put it in the smoker. Deprived the vultures from a meal, and ate the evidence, LOL !
Best Regards JohnZ
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by SiUk on May 19, 2008
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its done for the shock factor, he isnt in a real survival situation at all, if you look on youtube theres loads of bear is a phoney videos, where it shows him up.
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by Chris_Harper on May 19, 2008
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I am aware of the "show" factor in TV shows. I have worked behind the scenes of quite a few TV shows. Never-the-less, the Grylls show is not useless, although this eating live animals thing is ridiculous.
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