How to Survive the Unsurvivable: Debunking Survival Myths!
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- Debunking Common Survival Myths: The Truth Behind Sucking Venom and Tying Knives to Spears
In the wild, misinformation can be as dangerous as any predator. Join us as we debunk two common survival myths that could mean the difference between life and death.
First up, the age-old notion of sucking venom out of a snake bite. Does this actually work, or is it just Hollywood hype? We'll explore the science behind snake venom and why this myth might do more harm than good.
Next, we'll tackle the idea of tying a knife to the end of a spear for hunting or defense. While it sounds like something out of a survival novel, does it hold up in reality? We'll break down the practicality and effectiveness of this technique, revealing whether it's a genuine survival strategy or just a myth.
Join us for an eye-opening journey into the truth behind these survival myths and arm yourself with knowledge for your next adventure in the great outdoors. Don't let misinformation be your downfall - subscribe now and stay informed!
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I use to believe that if I accidentally swallowed a watermelon seed then I would grow a watermelon in my belly. What's the most surprising myth you've heard that turned out to be false. Doesn't have to be based on Survival?
My brother told me that earwigs will crawl into your ears and burrow through to your brain.😂 I believed him for decades. Assh***😂
@@moyamontgomery1468 lol
I’m a 65 year old codger who, on a daily basis, is faced with the reality of grossly over-estimating my capacity to complete various tasks on time.
But, everyday I’m thankful for the good health, skills and abilities God has blessed me with.
Right there with you brother.
@@marklayton4709Me three.
I'm 62, I was 18 before I ever saw a deer. Was 22 before I had a chance to hunt one. I'm from sw mo. Dad was raised during depression, he told me even squirrels and opossums were rare to see before WW2 . So I can see where wildlife would disappear
That's ridiculous. Where'd you grow up, Los Angeles? I'd understand not seeing a deer in LA til one was 18, but anywhere else in the rest of the country? Man, they are so thick they're thinning out their own population by committing suey-side on our highways. They're as thick as grass in the midwest.
The problem is going to be GREED.
IF everyone shares their food, a'la the "communal pot" or "stone soup" of old, we can get by. The problem will be just as now, clowns killing deer just for the backstrap or liver or whatever. You can use every bit of game, just as the indigenous have for centuries.
EVERY BIT of it gets used. EVERY BIT of meat off the bones, then simmer the bones, make broth, get the marrow out, grind the bones for bonemeal for your gardens, eat every bit. What you won't eat of their organs, give your animals. What they won't eat, leave in your compost pile so the flies will lay their eggs, then you feed the maggots to your chickens or save 'em for fish bait.
If we CHIP IN we can survive.
Not just my idea. William FOrstchen writes of the communal pot in his seminal novel "One Second AFter," which is kind of the beginner prepper's bible now.
the secret to potatoes is ''light'' soil... you need soil that contains a percentage of sand in it... Clay and sand are the perfect mixture... black topsoil won't do... because it holds water, the potato needs fresh water, that runs through the ground... and sun, plenty of sand... that's we they grow nicely in standing sacks, filled with soil, as you water the top of the sack, the water drains downward, watering the roots, but it doesn't stay... and when you plant a potato, you don't need all potato... you can cut it into pieces, that have ''one eye'' [as we call it in Greece] that will produce one plant... every potato may give 3-8 ''eyes'' and every plant 6-8 kilos of potatoes...
Instead of potatoes I saw a sailboat that was growing sweet potatoes, not for the sweet potatoes but for the leaves. Sweet potato vines are fast growing, edible, use as a substitute for spinach or salads, even the stems & roots are edible, full of protein carbs & fiber plus full of vitamins and nutrients like calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium. No fat, so you should cook with bacon or oil.
ACCORDING TO the MAYO CLINIC...
a tourniquet can stay on 4 to 6 hours before it BEGINS to cause harm. It is NOT harm, it merely BEGINS to cause harm.
23:45 hunt fish with a SPLIT BRANCH made into a trident. Whittle Barbs into the tip.
Asians fought armies with Sharpened Bamboo
...and lost. Also aided by opium.
I do have one reason to tie my knife to the end of a stick....if there is a mushroom that I know 150% to be edible up a tree out of reach then tie the knife on a stick, cut the mushroom and take your knife off the stick. I personally don't do this however, I'm allergic to mushrooms. Great video!
Qualifier on the tourniquet application without further advanced medical treatment:
You should only be tourniqueting extremities. So, if you leave the tourniquet on far too long, it’s not like you’re going to kill any organs. Yes, you’ll start getting dead tissue if you leave a tourniquet on too long… but so be it in a crazy no-advanced medical situation. Plenty of people in the old days lost limbs for reasons we wouldn’t today, but they kept living. It sucks, but so does dying.
I've been watching your vids for awhile now but every time I see that "spider" on your cap I have a half a holy sheet moment.
Great video brother. Survival sucks in general. Real survival. Even small things like not showering. You go 3 to 5 days without a shower. Small creature comforts like that people take for granted.
In the middle ages, people very seldom bathed! Real survival DOES suck, big time! We live in a very spoiled time in human history!
How long did people live in the Middle Ages? Not very long....how about native Americans?
I don't hear folks talk about adding sand to your garden. It helped my garden when it was a hard soil but after 3 years of adding sand and manure it could grow anything. Yes I added some leaves and straw too.
“Bic lighters cease production…” 😂
if they do it will because some do-gooder cut off the butane supply.
I would say stock up on Bics, but they often leak over time. Matches in air/water-tight plastic containers are probably a better bet!
@@rogerjensen5277 Eagle torch lasts way better. Especially with a case of butane
Ferro rods and a shit ton of Bic lighters....
You know I wonder about the char cloth, considering alot of cloth/clothing being made of polyester and or nylon blends. Great video and thank You
In reality without access to higher medical care, putting a tourniquet on someone is just buying them time to write a goodbye letter. ✌🏼
Having horses in the Arkansas Ozarks really helped us with fertilizer! It was extremely difficult to just grow good grass in that rocky soil prior to livestock.
I grew up in NW Indiana and was used to gardening in finger digable black dirt. So the Ozarks were shocking. I also have a NC property and growing a garden is even different there. Ya gotta learn your spot and get seeds from plants that have been vetted in the area (have grown there for multiple seasons).
Yes, using fire to purify water, the fire would dry you out quicker than you could purify with an altoids tin.
Learn how to make a homemade charcoal filter.
It’s said that 90-95% of the population in the U.S. would die within the first year if we experienced total electrical power loss without external help.
There’s a reason why most towns are 15-20 miles apart from each other. Water .
Have a read through the SAS Survival guide and see what Lofty said about survival tins. It's not what a fair few people think. Fully concour on the pack weight thing, even a well thought out pack will become a burden after a long distance for regular hikers, twice a year Tom who hasn't even used his boots over long distance is not "rising to the occasion". I'm a regular hiker most of the year, I can do 20 miles a day if I'm lucky and I feel it the next day. Over several days you can get pretty mangy and I keep things light.
Eventually the shit you have to start easy fires will run out. You can still use the striker part of the lighter to put a spark in the char cloth. Same thing applies to the char cloth as anything else in situations. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. That includes a means to make. Just make sure you have cloth to char so you don't have to cut up your clothes.
Anything worthwhile is always hard. It's just life.
really enjoyed this.
Making charred punkwood is more practical for longterm than charcloth as ya won't want to cut up your clothes to make it. And foraging plants most folks don't know about is probably a better route than animals after things get really bad.
As far as snakes, I wear snakeboots on my rural property for cutting wood, foraging, etc during snake season. That may or may not be practical if there is WROL.
I appreciate your candor. These are the things I think about when alone or doing chores and so on.
I think our best bet us staying home in a rural situation where you have all your "stuff" and know the land and where to forage, hunt, plant food, etc!
Hey Jason, great video!! I have often thought about the tourniquet issue and while it's a valuable skill, the question is that it is predicated on the idea of there being a higher level of medical attention to follow said care. If that is not available, then what? You end up with the dying of the limb and a whole lot of other issues many don't have the experience to do. I think most of the issue is brought in from the military side of survival, in which there is almost always higher med care available. But in a true SHTF that most likely won't be the case.
Nice Realtalk. I realy enjoyed it.
Love you're thinking 👌
Really solid vid! Gotta say the ferro carriers who’ve NEVER used one 🤦♂️ Also, the a Rambo knife type when people have done serious survival classes with just an SAK. Practice and skill trump feelings and wants 100% of the time.
So true see ya on the next one
Not a lot of wolves in my area, coyotes yea, packs of wild dogs on the other hand? Or people? Bring a spear to a knife fight, yea. Pick up a kitchen knife at a yard sale or a second hand store and protocol turning that into a spear. It is a learning experience. A staff is easy, a spear is much harder. How many days do I have to walk forty miles?
30 miles in one day is impressive. Max I've managed is 15 miles, on 1 litre - feet started to get sore, burning sensation on the soles.
And I was a tad stiff the next morning!
Best thing is to always assume you are being overly optimistic on your abilities.
So 2.5 - 3miles per hour average walking speed, most you're likely to walk for at that speed is 5 hours - how many more hours you manage down to mental strength and determination I'd expect, as well as overall fitness.
Most I've managed is 90 miles over 6 days. Was shattered at the end of it.
Good stuff.
So I went hiking with 6 buddies one weekend. 5 miles first day, 3 miles the second day and 8 miles out the last day.
Tons of gear and it rained the WHOLE time!
Fit guys mind you! And we all bitc*** the whole time!
- lesson.
Just because it sounds easy doesn’t mean it is.
-Our feet were blistered
-our booti cheeks chapped
-dehydrated because we had to treat ALL of our water.
-the sandy hilly terrain kicked our butts
- tent leaked ( check your equipment before leaving ) !!!
So be humble and learn the lessons from your hard times so that the impossible times are more possible.
Jason speaking of a wood stove is it possible you may have a contact in Nc. That might do an install of a wood stove if so please advise me ty.
Metal containers like Altoids can also bend so the lid wont close completely and could be an issue
Also, aren't most metal tins/cans coated inside with a layer of plastic to keep the metal (steel) from rusting. They used to coat the insides of 'tins' with the element tin before plastics came along and it's much cheaper than 'tin'! If you use the Altoids to make char cloth, then you're going to burn off the plastic coating! Plus most 'tins' have a soldered seam that won't last long in a fire! Also, metal containers are seldom water-proof so the contents may get wet!
Myth: I can carry the enough bags of rice, beans, and jerky with my pack loadout of 50# for 3 weeks of travel. For the standard three weeks it takes 25 pounds of rice, 15 pounds of beans, and 20 pounds of jerky for the calories you need for carrying a 25 pound pack.
If you study history you find most people fleeing on foot from an area are using wheel barrels or some type of cart for all their gear.
Another myth I'd say is don't expect everyone to fall your level of technology and capabilities. Whether it be a black swan event or whatever. Others could have very well been more prepared than you. Such as fuel reserves, thermal, nods, some degree of solar power, cb radios. Those will be the dangerous one's who may just be the marauders out to loot and kill innocent people or not while you're over here playing naked and afraid trying to make a makeshift spear and playing with a ferro rod because you were completely unprepared. Count on it that your adversaries will be well prepared. If they have thermal, nods, some kind of medical personnel and most of all experience already in their circle and you don't then you will be at a severe disadvantage.
I love soil.
Fire starting. Well I have more then one way to do this. Lighter, matches, rod, vehicles batteries plus others. Learn multiple ways to do this. Use them.
Learn you wild edibles. What plants stop bleeding, fever, upset stomach.
I like to use resources in the field instead of my ready made kits. Solar if possible and charcloth if ready which if you plan ahead you should have an abundance of. Saving my other resources until I have an emergency staring at me. I’m not that well practiced at friction fire so it’s off the table for me.
Friction Fire is _THE HARDEST METHOD_ of fire starting.
It even takes an "expert" nearly 45 minutes to get a flame
You have been the best presenter. I love all of your content. Really speaks to me.
A mini bic, small ferro rod and some waterproof matches. Any more isn't really an emergency kit.
Unless you are already homesteading it pretty much a pipe dream that you survive long term without some sort of community. Starting from scratch after the fact is a nonsensical.
I plan on bringing fire and spices to the Sasquatch species and becoming their King. I am not looking forward to the snu-snu with the Queen. The heir's birth should be a breeze though.
My pet peeve! A continuation of #3! People that store up dryer lint and/or char cloth for their kits.
All the same complaints you mentioned (good skill for the long term, but inefficient and unreliable compared to modern firestarters.) plus the added benefit of dryer lint being toxic while you're practicing your field craft skills.
Planted 5 rows of potatoes then just got rain after 2 weeks. Don't know, but may have to replant.
The people who plan to bug out make packs and such, but have no plan as to where to go!
One of my survival pet peeves is that people think that they can watch a few YT videos, buy some (usually overpriced) gear and they're set! Of course, on the plus side for anyone really prepared it's a good opportunity to get some expensive gear for free! Practice, practice, practice, what you could do twenty years means nothing! Also, peoples obsessions with their electronic toys is ridiculous, the more complex gear is the more prone to damage it is and the less likely that Joe Average will be able to fix it! Stand in front of a store in a busy area and see how long it takes to count 100 people walking staring into their phones! I'll bet it's only about 5-10 minutes! Same with smokers, do they think that they will grow their own when SHTF! Not likely! Needs not wants!
But don't neglect THAT that gives US a tremendous barter opportunity. If the timing is right when SHTF, I'm going to run to my nearby convenience store and stock up on BOOZE and CIGARETTES, and I neither smoke nor drink. THey will be very VALUABLE to those with cravings. VERY valuable. Heck, in WWII a GI could get a lovely young woman for the night with just a Hershey bar. Yep.
40 miles in one shot! 😮 i could do 10 miles. Not 40 in one shot. I could use more training, i understand that.
So do you let them bleed out?
You know something like gum in your mouth will produce saliva in your mouth
SD, please correct me if Im wrong, but I heard the deer were almost wiped out by a disease right before the great depression.
Bro just righteously created 1,476 pounds of butt hurt😆❤️
Are you prepared for ticks and fleas. Common in Florida.
Or you lose your knife because you didn't bother to learn how to lash things properly and tie good knots.
On the other hand, you might actually find a use for that stupid gut-hook on your hunting knife.
Another thought: look at how many metal containers you see lying discarded around you each day. If you're desperate enough you'll find something to boil or carry water in. If you really want to be prepared just toss in one of those old-style can/bottle openers. You can make a hobo stove in 2 minutes with a simple can opener, remove the lid from another can to have a cooking vessel - without risking needing your tourniquet when you put your knife through your hand or foot.
Personally if TEOTWAWKI happens, I going to do my level best to get as close to the equator as possible, and on a coast., with a river emptying into it.
Why?
Because that's the best possible environment for long term survival.
There is a difference between survival and bushcraft. But there is some useful overlap 😊
my pocket kit is in plastic box
The O shit kit will it fit in a Stanley cup that we use it should and they could boil there water and have the kit I've been trying to get ahold of a O shit kit to find out but sold out is what I keep seeing
The first fire makes your charred material for you just grab a chunk of cooled off charcoal and use that
#1 thing to have is a big knife. I'd many times rather have a reflective tyvek bivy, I can bust-open some rocks to get a cutting edge. getting a water and wind-proof, very portable cover element, that hides me from thermal, aint possible in the wild.
If your on the run snd somewhere different every night don’t do a fire. That’s how you get caught.
You might want to check out stovless cooking
Awesome is one of the best meals you can ever eat that. Come out of the South sal, besides deer and Wild boar.
What can I say... it's all true.
Ah the faux humility reality check video ; ) these are always great watching. No offense nearly everyone does one at least twice a year
The novice who says I can do it easy
slap steel to it
the 300 lb warrior that hasent seen the woods but has all the gear
My thoughts on carrying a large pack is that I would rather dump stuff I don't need on the trip based on the circumstances (ie winter vs summer, than be without something I need.
You have obviously never done any serious backpacking.
Dump it at home, now, so you'll have it when you get back.
It's like having boxes of some unobtainium bullets you never use because they cost so much.
Get in the habit, now, today, of changing out your GHB with the seasons so you don't find yourself abandoning a good wool coat or blanket as you walk home in August, or find yourself without insulated gloves and good socks in January.
Personally, I plan to use a garden cart to carry my gear with my BOB and rifle on top of the other gear so if I have to abandon the cart, it's just a matter of unhooking two bungee cords! Why a cart? Because my lady can only walk a few miles on crutches and if necessary, she can rest on the cart and the cart allows me to move much more gear than I could possible carry on my back! Two sets of eyes are better than one! Of course, this is only if I'm forced to leave home/BOL and my truck is not an option! I have several small caches buried along probable routes and plan to bury more! I use 5-6 gallon plastic air-tight buckets with lids packed with mostly freeze-dried foods, a water filter, a small amount of my favorite calibers, lighter/matches, etc. The buckets are wrapped with bubble wrap before buried because the Earth moves and the buckets can get stuck (especially in mud), and the buckets can be used to carry other things as well, definitely a multi-use item!
@feoxorus I may not be hiking per se with my GHB. Might be in a car or on a bike and I know myself and know I won't take the time to rearrange my bag every 3 months. Everything I have in my bag is an extra (wife is a pack rat so keeps everything). I have jo problem discarding something on the way if things are that bad.
To feed a family of 4 survival mag says back in the 80s fam of 4 60 acres and a large pond that's your family how many more is out there
your my lost brother on humor...lol!!!!!
17:45 your "experiments" will end you
We trained snake bite your tongue and mouth will absoreb it
Now your getting to the public with real information and not go play Tarzan stuff. I know you have the knowledge and you can illustrate them. But remember that you guys are dealing with civilians and not military. You’re dealing apartment dwellers and city nuts. Not adventurers. Scared folks who believe whole heartedly what content you put out will save them. And not understanding the truth or the complexity’s that will transform in those scenarios. I really did enjoy this video that any of your other stuff. Strictly down to a truth level.
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Thanks so much!
Sorry bout the comments but thank you this is why I don't miss your vids 45 lb pack just aren't needed
Disagree. If you are bugging out in 25 degree temps you will wish you had a warm sleeping bag and thermals. In 90 degree weather you wouldn't. You are better off being able to ditch 15 lbs of a 45 lb pack then missing something you need to stay alive
@@MikeDeacon76 Agreed!
You are being very too much practical
NOBODY, but NOBODY, recommends boiling water in Altoids tins. NO. Where do you get off making up myths to debunk? You need to do better (channeling joey swole).
You might want to check out stovless cooking
You might want to check out stovless cooking
You might want to check out stovless cooking