When I was a kid in the early 60s, we played in the woods all the time. We played army, learned how to track animals, learned how deer attracted females in Rutt season, how they used little trees to remove the felt on antlers. Learned how to walk quietly through the leaves, not stepping on branches. Leaned bird calls. We were outside from morning to supper time. Sometimes a couple would be walking on the paths, up to Mary knoll. They never saw us, Sometimes we'd snap a small branch and watch them jump. It spooked them. Lit fires, chopped dead trees down. Man I miss those days. 🙋♂️🙏🇺🇲🇨🇱
I guess I'm a little younger than you but I feel the same. 70s 80s ran like wild animals through the woods never carried anything more than a knife and a shotgun or rifle. Somehow we survived!😂😂😂
Me too! Spent most wknds. in the woods building leantos, huts, building campfires, carving, skinnin cats, playin in the creek, drinkin wine or whiskey we got aholt of. smokin, talkin about girls, huntin squirrels, etc... In the heat of summer, it was a lot cooler in the woods. Hated it when school started back. If you opened a portal back to 1972, I'd walk right through it.
Excellent advice. Understand what a "choke point" is and you'll know how to identify the likely locations of checkpoints. If they are checkpoints they will A.) be manned by professionals (people that have professional knowledge/experience) so consider those a potential lethal encounter B.) amateurs C.) amateurs who learned the value of those places through experience, so consider those checkpoints potentially lethal as well - maybe more so. So, manned checkpoints _at choke points_ must be considered at least a 66% HIGH LETHALITY rate. The best you can hope for is the people manning it are good, sane, law abiding people who are either law enforcement or acting in that capacity (e.g. protecting a neighborhood). Understand, things can go bad, really fast regardless. If you don't know of there's a checkpoint on your route ahead and you can't avoid it, best to try to look for indications (e.g. traffic backed up, flashing lights bouncing off trees/buildings) or - best - RECON/SURVEIL the area. Use a drone* or the old fashioned way - get out on foot - be stealthy, stay as far away as needed, use optics (like a monocular). Find out. Get out. Go through or retreat. * Understand your drone's audio/visual profile from various distances. Be stealthy with that also. You need just enough info. to confirm. Alerting the checkpoint goons is just going to entice them to look for you.
Good content! And thanks for the inspiration. I may actually go brave the wooded area next to my property. I’m not outdoorsy, not by a long shot! But I’ll try🫣
I too switched to a G43 from a 19. You said loss of round count, but with the 43x and the shield mags, the g43x is still 15 and 1, just much thinner and easier to carry. I'm super glad I switched as well. I use a T-Rex sidecar, but it's very similar to the Tier 1.
I'm a big fan of a small assault pack for these little jaunts. 20 litres pack size or less, just enough for some snacks, a canteen of water and the nesting cup to boil it in, a shemagh, a small belt knife and ferro rod, a poncho tarp and foam sit pad, and a battery bank to recharge my phone if it dies. Attached to the pack I have a foldable dump pouch to collect tinder, wild edibles, etc.. The whole thing only weighs a few pounds, and if I get stuck I can easily spend the night. The important thing is making sure you're dressed for the conditions.
Another item that you can carry in your main pack and use to go on a trek away from your main camp is a small game hunting vest. You have plenty of pockets, inside and out, a game carrying pouch across the lower back for storing items like small twigs or bark. If you get one a size larger than your outer coat,that way you can wear it over top.
I have a G19, G43X, and a G26. For a lighter discreet carry, I prefer the G26 over my G43X because of my ape like hands. I can get a much more comfortable grip on the thicker G26 grips. About the only time I carry my G19 is when I'm hunting, foraging for mushrooms, nuts, or berries.
I love my S&W Shield plus, 13 plus one, sub compact, carries really well. I use Tulster Holsters as my choice, trying to find a company, that will make a Holsters, that will accept a Olight Baldr series light laster combo, and a mini red dot, they make a picitinny rail adapter, that clam shells on to the firearm, to add a light source.
Cool we use some of the same gear and think similar about it. FYI you can feed dogs canned pumpkin (it’s fiber consistency) helps them move things along in their digestive system and out. I have a beagle that stays inside and he swallows my wife’s long hair that get on the floor while he does dog stuff eating, licking,smelling etc lol. It helps him pass them when one is sticking out lol
I stand behind the Gerber LMF2 knife. I used it my whole enlistment in the marines and still use it to this day... it's over 14 years old and still running strong. It's my everything knife
I always stayed in the woods, what we had around the city, in SW Ohio, not much from my home state of Michigan, when I lived in the city, but in Ohio, we had walkie talkies, and we would save up our money, and hit the local surplus, and buy camo clothing and such, and we started a group, that played war games of hiding, and tracking one another, in the late 70's thru the 80's.
27:14 always point your water reservoir downstream to get less particulates as you collect and always search a couple hundred yards upstream for carcass
You raise a really great/important point here Jason. How well do we know are immediate surroundings?! Let’s face whatever happens it’ll be so useful to know multiple routes between home, work, friends, family etc. Even if it’s just so we can get home when’s there’s roadworks, public transport delays non SHTF stuff. I’ve lived in my town all my life (almost). It’s a largish town in south east England and I don’t know it as well as I should. Something I definitely need to work on. It’s quite dense so it’s actually not very hard to get lost in the residential areas- a lot of it looks the same too. Finding alternative routes will break up the boredom of walking the same way between my regular destinations too haha! Thanks for raising this point. 👍🏻
Aegis and axis both and the fit and finish are top notch. I switched from the 19 to the 43x and I love it with the 15 round after market mags. I was Skeptical that it would jam or not feed correctly but I have almost a 1000 rounds with no problem so I trust them now
If the road is blocked for some reason there is a large power line that cuts cross country and would be considerably shorter than taking the road. If vehicles were disabled I would likely use that rout as well
Same temp here but 9 inches of rain in the past 24 hours and currently 60 mph winds lol. I just came in from moving newts to the pond (and checking the power lines through the forest)
Glad you switched over to the Glock 43X.... but you do not have to be limited in round count. Shield Arms makes an after market 15rd mag that is the same size as the stock mag. Minus the plastic covering. You do also have to swap out the mag release for a metal one... or the metal mags will eat away at the plastic mag release.
Checking the website… the Yukon is for sale but not shipping quite yet… also appears to come wirh black micarta scales instead of wood. Also comes with kydex sheath.. 52100 steel.. I have to say, being a self diagnosed steel/ knife snob.. that’s a perfect combo for old school style with modern hard use materials! I’ll be having one..Just an fyi for anyone interested.
I reckon those bikes were stolen for joyriding then left in the woods so as not to be caught with stolen property. Let me tell you a story about a buddy of mine who was moose hunting in northern Ontario. He was paddling his canoe upstream (yes, stereotypically Canadian) and dipping his cup into the water for sips. Imagine his shock when he rounded the next bend and there in the middle of the channel was a moose carcasse in a state of advanced decomposition.😮
That river looked like some Good floating! Been to Tennessee couple times,went rafting on the little pigeon river.put in at North Carolina line,below some power generating dam,even though there wasn’t a lake . In Arkansas, we don’t have those type of power supplies, we have dams with a body of water held back from dam. Tennessee looked like a good place to bug out if shtf. Great video, thanks for sharing!
Having grown up in WNC/NE Ga, I used to build forts in the laurel thickets as a kid. Great video!! I totally agree with the scouting of your AO ahead of time.
Another great chat show. We love it, better than doing a deserts in a man cave. We love the woods, hinterlands & semi arid deserts. There must be lots of bugs in the summer time. What about winter.? Any leeches or ticks.? Cheers Mr. Salyer.
I love to do just exactly what you are doing, a woods walk and exploring, and yes now thru the early spring is my favorite time. In the summer I’m in the river. Here in Southern WV we have lots or rivers , springs and creeks that flow from the highlands. Quit using large backpack a few years a go , realized finally that I didn’t need all that gear. So now I’m doing very similar to what you are doing , carrying a snug pak dry bag with the essentials in a small lightweight rucksack that hardly weighs anything, going light really makes the day more enjoyable and a feeling of freedom. I don’t always carry a firearm, depending where I am but when I do it’s a 380, I do carry one of those orange 12ga signal flare guns, they are very light. Most of the time on my belt is my Bark River Brovo 1 and my SAN. Also my pockets have a small fire kit , bank line etc, really enjoyed this video, thanks Jason
@11:35 Sqatch in them woods...other cryptids too. They have been known to place things to either impede access to their areas or use them as markers. 😉
Good dog is great exploring, walking a dog in woods is less suspicious then weirdo going around woods today! Simple is reality rather then overpacked or heavy and never utilized! Thx
Before I broke my neck a few years back I used to explore different areas on a regular basis.The thing I started noticing even back then was homeless camps poping up everywhere especially out in wooded areas.I walked up on a couple and didnt even notice until I was basically on top of them, the people in the camp was very nasty about me being there,I was just glad I had the old trusty MP and my BK9 on me .I didnt mean to cause those people any problems but they aren't to friendly to outsiders so I could just imagine how they would react if it was a grid down situation.The homeless camps around my area have gotten worse in the last few years, they will move into an area and just destroy it so land owners are quick to make them be on their way before they have to bring in dumpsters to remove all of the trash they leave behind.The most unfriendly camps are the ones who are out there cooking meth , usually The chemicals can be smelled from a distance so its best to go in the opposite direction and leave them to the law to handle . Those meth zombies can and usually get very nasty to the point of you come up missing and they will dig a hole for you to eternal nap in.Just stay safe and be aware of your surrounding out there ,bad shit is happening everywhere these days.
Great video brother. Ive been fortunate to have lived in the same place all my life. So i know alot of the area with in a 20 mile radios of where i live. Just because ive explored the area as a kid and young adult. But i can see being in a new area would be a little concerning. I could find my way for but it would take a little thinking for sure. Once again great info.
Also I agree with you on water. I've drank well water all my life. And I've drank ditch water on several occasions and never got sick. Maybe it's drinking well water that has strengthened my immune system to not so clean water. The pipes from well water has to have some things not so good in it. I would imagine.
If you whant an other tourniquet who is a bit smaller than the one you have; there is the SICH . It is the same efficient, and less bulky. You shall bring back home this two bicycles.
"Rhododendron" 🤣 It's called Laurel in PA. And protected, and thick, and in an acre of it, you could easily break an ankle... Once lost my tripod chair while doing a razorback walk in some. Aggravating stuff. Even when you have your bearings.
Rhododendron is not called laurel in pa. Its two different things. Laurel leaves curve up and rhododendron leaves curl down. Similar but different. They are like cousins. Close but not the same.
Unfortunately, I’m in a large metropolitan area. No wooded area nearby. No wooded area near the house in rural Louisiana, either, but at least it’s rural.
It is why one should have the local book of Wildlife Management Areas. Things my get home bag include this book and I carry at least 3 different compasses among the other necessaries. I carry enough food for 5 days.
Just found your channel. I like it so far one thing I would carry also cause I’m a CB radio freak I carry a radio to be a ham, radio or GMRS radio cause some of those radios got weather channel on it too just a thought, but I do like that awesome
Jason, may I suggest you move the ranger band on your lighter up toward the top a little ways, then add some gorilla tape on to the lighter. It would be a help in starting your fire.
I would advise against setting up camp where you suggested near the white pine. That thing looks like it’s ready to fall any minute. Too much standing dead in my opinion. It would need some clearing first. At least for me to feel safe enough that I’m not gonna worry about a tree falling on me in my sleep.
Bikes are probably stolen, and whoever took them ditched them in the woods. Happens all the time where I live. Nothing to really gain from it, some people just think it's fun to take other people's things and destroy them. Have to chain up things like that if you want to keep them bc some people are just rotten.
RATS TQ’s are more compact. I do not use them, and I don’t recommend them, but I have some and if it was all that was available it would work. I carry CAT and SOF-T TQ’s. I also prefer LAS Concealment AIWB holsters over T1’s but to each their own. I appreciate you putting out content about knowing the area surrounding your home base as well as alternative routes in/out. It is definitely important.
It sounds like your just down the road from me..... I grew up in Morristown, then after the Military I came to Seymour to start my HVAC Co. with my wife.... Are you near the Dam in Jeff Co? It's a small world.... My wife's dad was an aerial map maker for the TVA and they live up their by the dam.
Well speaking of terrorist attacks and such... I was watching another youtubers channel a few days ago talking about the border being opened down close to Eagles Pass and there apparently was a well-known terrorist that was in prison in US, then released, then was coming back over the border with other people that was saying if we didn't know who he was, that we will be knowing who he is very soon. So yeah, I think it would be in the best interest of everyone to get prepared, get ready for things to get much worse in this country. And I live in Kentucky and I always carry a handgun everywhere I go with extra loaded mag and extra ammo in my truck in an air-tight food container. With 2 loaded extra mags with an ammo box loaded with extra .45 ammo. I do my best to be prepared, try to teach others to be prepared and to get them to get bug out bags ready and such. I think that is at the very least a great idea, to be very prepared for everything... And if you want to make bigger water filters using buckets, if you were to make birch wood in to charred material, crush it up into powder form, then it is actually activated charcoal. There's not many types of wood that is able to be burned and crushed down that's considered as activated charcoal... for those that don't know... I keep a solar charger in my truck with a battery bank, and 2 rechargeable headlamps, one in my backpack in backseat, along with one in my driver-side door. I keep survival books in Ziploc bags under my backpack. Because my short term memory is terrible. Have the SAShandbook, one one wild edibles, and the herbalist bible, and another book on plants as well. Can't have too many books for trying to survive. And a 5th book which is just my pocket KJV bible. Small enough for a cargo pocket stuffer...
The STAT tourniquet takes up a lot less room than the windless type touniquets and are alot easier to put on your own arm with one hand. Some say that they are more apt to cause tissue damage, I don't know that to be true or not, looking at it, I can see where that could be the case because it is narrow & really bites into tissue but it beats bleeding to death. I carry a STAT & a SOF-T Wide. I can put the SOF-T on my own leg quick using two hands but I'm slower (Probably slow enough to be consequential) on my arm using one hand. Better, I reason in such a case, to just slap a STAT on the arm. Everything has pros & cons & most things are a compromise but thats what I do.
What brand hat is that you’re wearing? But good content as always, I saw others mentioning being outside growing up and I didn’t the same building survival shelters and stuff and I’m lucky my son is the same he’ll stay out all day if I let him.
"Handrailing" is a sound navigation technique. Understand that technique will be used against you in the nightmare event that you're being hunted by professionals. E&E is definitely a different series of videos. In such scenarios, the pursued will need to be doing the "opposite" of what is normal. The odds are against the evader/escaper, but the best you can do, in addition to the "opposite" technique, is to transit on routes that make it difficult for your hunters/kidnappers to get AHEAD of you using their vehicles/bikes/horses/etc/. So, avoid routes that take you near roads/paths where pursuers could get there first. Look at the map and think about it carefully. Think like Pac-Man. Obviously, if your pursuers have aerial assets, you've got an even bigger challenge. Phone tracking is easily countered (go airplane mode, bag it in the right material if you're paranoid) but that also means your adversaries have resources and high motivation.
Aren't those bikes someone's cache? I mean, they look like they've been sprayed to kinda be camouflaged up? 🤔 Weird find tho, but something tells me that's someone's cache lol
I used to explore every woodland and trail within 5 miles. We have really good large scale maps. This was way before mobile phones. I used to carry a pocket knife, rain jacket, map and compass but as a teenager not even water. I later carried a bottle as I ranged further. Defining landmark trees and logs is an essential trick. In urban or rural areas, local route knowledge is essential.
When I was a kid in the early 60s, we played in the woods all the time. We played army, learned how to track animals, learned how deer attracted females in Rutt season, how they used little trees to remove the felt on antlers. Learned how to walk quietly through the leaves, not stepping on branches. Leaned bird calls. We were outside from morning to supper time. Sometimes a couple would be walking on the paths, up to Mary knoll. They never saw us, Sometimes we'd snap a small branch and watch them jump. It spooked them. Lit fires, chopped dead trees down. Man I miss those days. 🙋♂️🙏🇺🇲🇨🇱
I guess I'm a little younger than you but I feel the same. 70s 80s ran like wild animals through the woods never carried anything more than a knife and a shotgun or rifle. Somehow we survived!😂😂😂
Me and my brothers picked pecans sold for pop an candy money..build fires cook. hot dogs..all day.cold winter.skiatook Oklahoma..best days..
Me too! Spent most wknds. in the woods building leantos, huts, building campfires, carving, skinnin cats, playin in the creek, drinkin wine or whiskey we got aholt of. smokin, talkin about girls, huntin squirrels, etc... In the heat of summer, it was a lot cooler in the woods. Hated it when school started back. If you opened a portal back to 1972, I'd walk right through it.
@@markgordon8146 and we didn't run home to mommy, we were tuff kids.
@@robertbates6057 I'd be right behind you. We didn't have this electronic crap. We had a great childhood. 🙋♂️🇺🇲🇨🇱🙏
I love how you just take us on your trips with you and we learn along the way. thank you!
Thanks!! These are my favorite videos to make.
You always wish a pistol was a lot smaller when you carry it, and A LOT bigger when you have to use it! -- Clint Smith
Excellent advice.
Understand what a "choke point" is and you'll know how to identify the likely locations of checkpoints. If they are checkpoints they will A.) be manned by professionals (people that have professional knowledge/experience) so consider those a potential lethal encounter B.) amateurs C.) amateurs who learned the value of those places through experience, so consider those checkpoints potentially lethal as well - maybe more so.
So, manned checkpoints _at choke points_ must be considered at least a 66% HIGH LETHALITY rate. The best you can hope for is the people manning it are good, sane, law abiding people who are either law enforcement or acting in that capacity (e.g. protecting a neighborhood). Understand, things can go bad, really fast regardless.
If you don't know of there's a checkpoint on your route ahead and you can't avoid it, best to try to look for indications (e.g. traffic backed up, flashing lights bouncing off trees/buildings) or - best - RECON/SURVEIL the area. Use a drone* or the old fashioned way - get out on foot - be stealthy, stay as far away as needed, use optics (like a monocular). Find out. Get out. Go through or retreat.
* Understand your drone's audio/visual profile from various distances. Be stealthy with that also. You need just enough info. to confirm. Alerting the checkpoint goons is just going to entice them to look for you.
Good content! And thanks for the inspiration. I may actually go brave the wooded area next to my property. I’m not outdoorsy, not by a long shot! But I’ll try🫣
Dogs love pumpkin and it’s good for them in small quantities. Almost all animals love pumpkin 🎃!
That sure sounds like my childhood. I lived in the woods more than I lived at the house
Kind of eerie about the bicycles. Might want to call the PoPo. You never know when you come across something that relates to a cold case.
I too switched to a G43 from a 19. You said loss of round count, but with the 43x and the shield mags, the g43x is still 15 and 1, just much thinner and easier to carry. I'm super glad I switched as well.
I use a T-Rex sidecar, but it's very similar to the Tier 1.
Plus the 20 round shield arm’s extended mags. The only stick out about an inch more.
I'm a big fan of a small assault pack for these little jaunts. 20 litres pack size or less, just enough for some snacks, a canteen of water and the nesting cup to boil it in, a shemagh, a small belt knife and ferro rod, a poncho tarp and foam sit pad, and a battery bank to recharge my phone if it dies. Attached to the pack I have a foldable dump pouch to collect tinder, wild edibles, etc.. The whole thing only weighs a few pounds, and if I get stuck I can easily spend the night. The important thing is making sure you're dressed for the conditions.
Another item that you can
carry in your main pack and use to go on a trek away from your main camp is a small game hunting vest. You have plenty of pockets, inside and out, a game carrying pouch across the lower back for storing items like small twigs or bark. If you get one a size larger than your outer coat,that way you can wear it over top.
There's a dope grow near by and the growers were using them to bring water to the grow.
I have a G19, G43X, and a G26. For a lighter discreet carry, I prefer the G26 over my G43X because of my ape like hands. I can get a much more comfortable grip on the thicker G26 grips. About the only time I carry my G19 is when I'm hunting, foraging for mushrooms, nuts, or berries.
Same reason why I don't like the super slim grips on sub compacts these days that are all the rave.
I love my S&W Shield plus, 13 plus one, sub compact, carries really well. I use Tulster Holsters as my choice, trying to find a company, that will make a Holsters, that will accept a Olight Baldr series light laster combo, and a mini red dot, they make a picitinny rail adapter, that clam shells on to the firearm, to add a light source.
Cool we use some of the same gear and think similar about it. FYI you can feed dogs canned pumpkin (it’s fiber consistency) helps them move things along in their digestive system and out. I have a beagle that stays inside and he swallows my wife’s long hair that get on the floor while he does dog stuff eating, licking,smelling etc lol. It helps him pass them when one is sticking out lol
I stand behind the Gerber LMF2 knife. I used it my whole enlistment in the marines and still use it to this day... it's over 14 years old and still running strong. It's my everything knife
I always stayed in the woods, what we had around the city, in SW Ohio, not much from my home state of Michigan, when I lived in the city, but in Ohio, we had walkie talkies, and we would save up our money, and hit the local surplus, and buy camo clothing and such, and we started a group, that played war games of hiding, and tracking one another, in the late 70's thru the 80's.
27:14 always point your water reservoir downstream to get less particulates as you collect and always search a couple hundred yards upstream for carcass
We moved to a new state, different climate last year so we have a lot of scouting to do!!! We moved away from the big city to a much smaller town.
Learn to draw a map and then you can map your area. I did, years ago and now the map is in my head.
This was interesting , provocative and entertaing . Thank you .
You raise a really great/important point here Jason. How well do we know are immediate surroundings?!
Let’s face whatever happens it’ll be so useful to know multiple routes between home, work, friends, family etc.
Even if it’s just so we can get home when’s there’s roadworks, public transport delays non SHTF stuff.
I’ve lived in my town all my life (almost). It’s a largish town in south east England and I don’t know it as well as I should. Something I definitely need to work on.
It’s quite dense so it’s actually not very hard to get lost in the residential areas- a lot of it looks the same too.
Finding alternative routes will break up the boredom of walking the same way between my regular destinations too haha!
Thanks for raising this point. 👍🏻
11:36 Vietcong booby trap marker....or something entirely different.
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Backroads, walking, paths " the ice age trail" 😉 is my way home during the Fall.
16:15 especially when you got those camo nets that you can see through oh yeah those tickets are the best hunters blind
Aegis and axis both and the fit and finish are top notch. I switched from the 19 to the 43x and I love it with the 15 round after market mags. I was Skeptical that it would jam or not feed correctly but I have almost a 1000 rounds with no problem so I trust them now
Nice video. Prior planning prevents piss poor performance..
If the road is blocked for some reason there is a large power line that cuts cross country and would be considerably shorter than taking the road. If vehicles were disabled I would likely use that rout as well
They'd most likely be waiting in Ambush there as well unfortunately.... Things to Consider 💯... Id Also Avoid Railroad Tracks 😉
Great video. Thank you
That brotha had a piece of pumpkin pie in his back pocket😂
You don’t?
Same temp here but 9 inches of rain in the past 24 hours and currently 60 mph winds lol. I just came in from moving newts to the pond (and checking the power lines through the forest)
Just ordered a Yukon myself. Pretty stoked for it. Wanted it since I first seen it on this channel
Glad you switched over to the Glock 43X.... but you do not have to be limited in round count. Shield Arms makes an after market 15rd mag that is the same size as the stock mag. Minus the plastic covering. You do also have to swap out the mag release for a metal one... or the metal mags will eat away at the plastic mag release.
Checking the website… the Yukon is for sale but not shipping quite yet… also appears to come wirh black micarta scales instead of wood. Also comes with kydex sheath.. 52100 steel.. I have to say, being a self diagnosed steel/ knife snob.. that’s a perfect combo for old school style with modern hard use materials! I’ll be having one..Just an fyi for anyone interested.
I just watch to share time with Queen Maggie!
Ha!! You have made a friend for life.
I reckon those bikes were stolen for joyriding then left in the woods so as not to be caught with stolen property.
Let me tell you a story about a buddy of mine who was moose hunting in northern Ontario. He was paddling his canoe upstream (yes, stereotypically Canadian) and dipping his cup into the water for sips. Imagine his shock when he rounded the next bend and there in the middle of the channel was a moose carcasse in a state of advanced decomposition.😮
This why every drop needs to be properly filtered/treated/chemically treated to ensure the water is safe to drink!
What can you scavenge/remove from those bikes to use in a survival situation?
Gia gps is cool! It eats up the battery pretty quick…but it’s cool. Battery backup…
That patch off woods could use some hack and squirt to thicken it up some. Looks like a barren desert now.
That river looked like some Good floating! Been to Tennessee couple times,went rafting on the little pigeon river.put in at North Carolina line,below some power generating dam,even though there wasn’t a lake . In Arkansas, we don’t have those type of power supplies, we have dams with a body of water held back from dam. Tennessee looked like a good place to bug out if shtf. Great video, thanks for sharing!
Having grown up in WNC/NE Ga, I used to build forts in the laurel thickets as a kid. Great video!! I totally agree with the scouting of your AO ahead of time.
Good Maggie ! TAKE CARE..
Snake Staff Medical makes a very minimalist TQ called the ETQ. It’s awesome for edc
Test your gear , great idea ,essential .Just do it !!!!!!!
Another great chat show. We love it, better than doing a deserts in a man cave. We love the woods, hinterlands & semi arid deserts. There must be lots of bugs in the summer time. What about winter.? Any leeches or ticks.? Cheers Mr. Salyer.
Mosquitoes, ticks, chiggars for sure around here in spring, summer, fall but not in the winter. No leaches thankfully.
@@SurvivalDispatch Chiggars..???
Excellent woodsmanship, brother. Not that I expected anything less. Nice walk and observation build w the pup as wingman. Slainte.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love to do just exactly what you are doing, a woods walk and exploring, and yes now thru the early spring is my favorite time. In the summer I’m in the river. Here in Southern WV we have lots or rivers , springs and creeks that flow from the highlands. Quit using large backpack a few years a go , realized finally that I didn’t need all that gear. So now I’m doing very similar to what you are doing , carrying a snug pak dry bag with the essentials in a small lightweight rucksack that hardly weighs anything, going light really makes the day more enjoyable and a feeling of freedom. I don’t always carry a firearm, depending where I am but when I do it’s a 380, I do carry one of those orange 12ga signal flare guns, they are very light. Most of the time on my belt is my Bark River Brovo 1 and my SAN. Also my pockets have a small fire kit , bank line etc, really enjoyed this video, thanks Jason
Good for you! Continue to enjoy life and improving your skills! You're welcome.
Great video...thanks! 🙌
Glad you liked it!
GAIA sounds Awesome. I will try that. I hope to get some time to myself soon.
Thanks for the video! Appreciate you!
I really like the pocket sized ulu. Great idea!!! At first I thought you had a slim set of brass knuckles.
Lol. I love the ulu
Really instructive video, dude.
@11:35 Sqatch in them woods...other cryptids too. They have been known to place things to either impede access to their areas or use them as markers. 😉
I have a bridge I'd like to sell to you.
Good dog is great exploring, walking a dog in woods is less suspicious then weirdo going around woods today! Simple is reality rather then overpacked or heavy and never utilized! Thx
I call the Timmy hat my romantic hat...if you look at the mesh back, it looks like X's and O's. Great video.
Before I broke my neck a few years back I used to explore different areas on a regular basis.The thing I started noticing even back then was homeless camps poping up everywhere especially out in wooded areas.I walked up on a couple and didnt even notice until I was basically on top of them, the people in the camp was very nasty about me being there,I was just glad I had the old trusty MP and my BK9 on me .I didnt mean to cause those people any problems but they aren't to friendly to outsiders so I could just imagine how they would react if it was a grid down situation.The homeless camps around my area have gotten worse in the last few years, they will move into an area and just destroy it so land owners are quick to make them be on their way before they have to bring in dumpsters to remove all of the trash they leave behind.The most unfriendly camps are the ones who are out there cooking meth , usually The chemicals can be smelled from a distance so its best to go in the opposite direction and leave them to the law to handle . Those meth zombies can and usually get very nasty to the point of you come up missing and they will dig a hole for you to eternal nap in.Just stay safe and be aware of your surrounding out there ,bad shit is happening everywhere these days.
Excellent adventure thanks for sharing see ya on the next one
Thanks 🙏
Great video brother. Ive been fortunate to have lived in the same place all my life. So i know alot of the area with in a 20 mile radios of where i live. Just because ive explored the area as a kid and young adult. But i can see being in a new area would be a little concerning. I could find my way for but it would take a little thinking for sure. Once again great info.
Also I agree with you on water. I've drank well water all my life. And I've drank ditch water on several occasions and never got sick. Maybe it's drinking well water that has strengthened my immune system to not so clean water. The pipes from well water has to have some things not so good in it. I would imagine.
If you whant an other tourniquet who is a bit smaller than the one you have; there is the SICH . It is the same efficient, and less bulky.
You shall bring back home this two bicycles.
I wish you spoke more on the illegal roadblocks
"Rhododendron" 🤣
It's called Laurel in PA. And protected, and thick, and in an acre of it, you could easily break an ankle...
Once lost my tripod chair while doing a razorback walk in some. Aggravating stuff. Even when you have your bearings.
We have laurel and rhododendron. It is pretty similar.
Rhododendron is not called laurel in pa. Its two different things. Laurel leaves curve up and rhododendron leaves curl down. Similar but different. They are like cousins. Close but not the same.
Unfortunately, I’m in a large metropolitan area. No wooded area nearby. No wooded area near the house in rural Louisiana, either, but at least it’s rural.
It is why one should have the local book of Wildlife Management Areas. Things my get home bag include this book and I carry at least 3 different compasses among the other necessaries. I carry enough food for 5 days.
You didn't find "bikes," you found a crime scene.
Make a video on that...
Some politicians assaulting kids...
What I was thinking. Need to find out if kids are missing.
dont forget in a war GPS might be down!
Thanks Jason for the video.
Just found your channel. I like it so far one thing I would carry also cause I’m a CB radio freak I carry a radio to be a ham, radio or GMRS radio cause some of those radios got weather channel on it too just a thought, but I do like that awesome
Welcome aboard!
Snakestaff tactical etq tourniquet. They have 2 a 1 inch and a 1.5 almost half the size of a normal tourniquet.
Jason, may I suggest you move the ranger band on your lighter up toward the top a little ways, then add some gorilla tape on to the lighter. It would be a help in starting your fire.
Thanks!
I would advise against setting up camp where you suggested near the white pine. That thing looks like it’s ready to fall any minute. Too much standing dead in my opinion. It would need some clearing first. At least for me to feel safe enough that I’m not gonna worry about a tree falling on me in my sleep.
Bikes are probably stolen, and whoever took them ditched them in the woods. Happens all the time where I live. Nothing to really gain from it, some people just think it's fun to take other people's things and destroy them. Have to chain up things like that if you want to keep them bc some people are just rotten.
RATS TQ’s are more compact. I do not use them, and I don’t recommend them, but I have some and if it was all that was available it would work. I carry CAT and SOF-T TQ’s. I also prefer LAS Concealment AIWB holsters over T1’s but to each their own. I appreciate you putting out content about knowing the area surrounding your home base as well as alternative routes in/out. It is definitely important.
It sounds like your just down the road from me..... I grew up in Morristown, then after the Military I came to Seymour to start my HVAC Co. with my wife.... Are you near the Dam in Jeff Co? It's a small world.... My wife's dad was an aerial map maker for the TVA and they live up their by the dam.
You’re not weird bro.. I build my immune system and explore like that on the regular too 👍🏻
33:09 pumpkin pie biscotti
we all know the time to use all the survival skills it is near....
Well speaking of terrorist attacks and such... I was watching another youtubers channel a few days ago talking about the border being opened down close to Eagles Pass and there apparently was a well-known terrorist that was in prison in US, then released, then was coming back over the border with other people that was saying if we didn't know who he was, that we will be knowing who he is very soon. So yeah, I think it would be in the best interest of everyone to get prepared, get ready for things to get much worse in this country.
And I live in Kentucky and I always carry a handgun everywhere I go with extra loaded mag and extra ammo in my truck in an air-tight food container. With 2 loaded extra mags with an ammo box loaded with extra .45 ammo. I do my best to be prepared, try to teach others to be prepared and to get them to get bug out bags ready and such. I think that is at the very least a great idea, to be very prepared for everything...
And if you want to make bigger water filters using buckets, if you were to make birch wood in to charred material, crush it up into powder form, then it is actually activated charcoal. There's not many types of wood that is able to be burned and crushed down that's considered as activated charcoal... for those that don't know...
I keep a solar charger in my truck with a battery bank, and 2 rechargeable headlamps, one in my backpack in backseat, along with one in my driver-side door. I keep survival books in Ziploc bags under my backpack. Because my short term memory is terrible. Have the SAShandbook, one one wild edibles, and the herbalist bible, and another book on plants as well. Can't have too many books for trying to survive. And a 5th book which is just my pocket KJV bible. Small enough for a cargo pocket stuffer...
Yeah that’s pretty cool about out there in the woods like that but if you hear banjo you better run I’m laughing I’m laughing I’m laughing
The STAT tourniquet takes up a lot less room than the windless type touniquets and are alot easier to put on your own arm with one hand. Some say that they are more apt to cause tissue damage, I don't know that to be true or not, looking at it, I can see where that could be the case because it is narrow & really bites into tissue but it beats bleeding to death. I carry a STAT & a SOF-T Wide. I can put the SOF-T on my own leg quick using two hands but I'm slower (Probably slow enough to be consequential) on my arm using one hand. Better, I reason in such a case, to just slap a STAT on the arm. Everything has pros & cons & most things are a compromise but thats what I do.
When you said you were on TVA land I know we live in the same state.
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Maggie is adorable
Hugs and kisses for the Maggie.
I’ll relay the message 😁
I live in a mostly broken down motorhome in someones driveway. I'm screwed.
I'm homeless and living in a tent,,
so U ain't got it 2 bad 😉
Have you looked into the life staw vs a sawyer mini has a carbon filter and nano straws to filter chemicals
I have used both. Both are good but I prefer the sawyer.
As a motorbike rider in countryside of England I know all the forests and fields in my area, hence why wire cutters r part of my edc 🤠😎🌱🌲🇬🇧
must be near lake fontana
Personally I hop between the sig p320 and the p365 depending on what i want to carry that day. Not much of a glock fan.
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They'd cry he's an Eric Frein!
very cool
What brand hat is that you’re wearing? But good content as always, I saw others mentioning being outside growing up and I didn’t the same building survival shelters and stuff and I’m lucky my son is the same he’ll stay out all day if I let him.
Nevermind I’m slow lol😂 I rewatched and saw you mentioned it.
Hey dude. Theres a spider on your hat😃
36-minute video titled ILLEGAL ROADBLOCKS, and you only talked about it 45 seconds.
"Handrailing" is a sound navigation technique. Understand that technique will be used against you in the nightmare event that you're being hunted by professionals.
E&E is definitely a different series of videos.
In such scenarios, the pursued will need to be doing the "opposite" of what is normal. The odds are against the evader/escaper, but the best you can do, in addition to the "opposite" technique, is to transit on routes that make it difficult for your hunters/kidnappers to get AHEAD of you using their vehicles/bikes/horses/etc/. So, avoid routes that take you near roads/paths where pursuers could get there first. Look at the map and think about it carefully. Think like Pac-Man.
Obviously, if your pursuers have aerial assets, you've got an even bigger challenge. Phone tracking is easily countered (go airplane mode, bag it in the right material if you're paranoid) but that also means your adversaries have resources and high motivation.
Remember now Land Between the Lakes the dogman is in there
Is Maggie part Basset Hound?
No idea. She is a little bit of everything I would imagine.
Aren't those bikes someone's cache? I mean, they look like they've been sprayed to kinda be camouflaged up? 🤔 Weird find tho, but something tells me that's someone's cache lol
Always always always have duct tape wrapped thick around a bic lighter. Tear off a small piece and boom. Best kindling on the planet
Well, there is a possibility that the bike layin' in the creek was stolen and whoever took it left it there.
Pumpkin is ok for dogs but avoid the crust.
Me and mum could walk against oncoming traffic to anywhere in the area because it would add police trouble to hassle us ps travel.
I used to explore every woodland and trail within 5 miles. We have really good large scale maps. This was way before mobile phones.
I used to carry a pocket knife, rain jacket, map and compass but as a teenager not even water. I later carried a bottle as I ranged further.
Defining landmark trees and logs is an essential trick.
In urban or rural areas, local route knowledge is essential.
Watch out for the Gay Dogman out there.
Damn I better check his sight. No notifications lately.
Risky got banned from YT. He's on R u m b l e now.