Merged Les Stroud's bigfoot show?

Resume said:
If there even is such a thing.

There isn't, is there?
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Depends on the quality of your encyclopedia. I'm pretty good across a broad swath of eastern North America, in terms of ability to identify birds by diagnostic song and call, as well as a number of mammals, insects, and amphibians. I know people, however, who make me feel like a complete buffoon because they know so much more than I do, e.g., contact call notes of birds in migration overhead in addition to song identification. Where I might be able to identify 150 different sounds, they might know 300.

Nobody knows every sound every animal might make in a given situation, so the best "encyclopedia" in my analogy is something like Wikipedia 10 years ago.
 
LTC8K6 said:
A compact takedown .22 rifle would make hunting small game almost effortless, assuming game is in the area. There are good candidate rifles that pack very small.

You can signal for help with it, too. a 50 round box of .22LR is tiny.
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Yes and an M4 rifle with a basic load would be great as well. The scenario though is for the average person going about their travels and suddenly being thrust into a survival situation with little more than the clothes on their backs.

An analogy might be a medical survival course. Anyone can render aid with a full EMT bag. "Survivorman" would make a tourniquet with a dirty sock and stick.
 
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Robrob said:
Yes and an M4 rifle with a basic load would be great as well. The scenario though is for the average person going about their travels and suddenly being thrust into a survival situation with little more than the clothes on their backs.

An analogy might be a medical survival course. Anyone can render aid with a full EMT bag. "Survivorman" would make a tourniquet with a dirty sock and stick.
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I'm quite familiar with the show. I never missed an episode. Unfortunately, I doubt I'll watch him anymore if he props up the bigfoot myth.

My response was to a poster who was packing for the remote woods. It had nothing to do with any survivorman type scenario. If I were packing for the remote woods, I would certainly consider a small packable rifle of some sort such as a Marlin Papoose.
 
jaydeehess said:
A rifle is secondary. The reason for two packs was that if the plane was going down you grab the backpack and hug it to your chest. IF once down you have time you then also grab the sleeping bag.
Fact is that you expect to be rescued within days. So you construct shelter, start fire, obtain water( not a problem in the northern boreal forest) and s-t-a-y put.

Going off to hunt increases the chances of getting lost and not finding your campsite again. A snare can be set up a dozen feet from camp.

Stroud makes a habit of stumbling about in all manner of environments.
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The rifle means far less walking if game is nearby. You can cover a large area with the range of the rifle, without wandering very far.

It is of course, up to you what you pack and/or carry according to the situation. People who expect to be rescued in a few days, may not be.

Of course there is also no guarantee that you will have your packs available to you after the disaster...making your choices irrelevant. :)
 
dawgma said:
You cant rule out hypnagogia anymore than you can rule out that he was suffering any of dozens of different possibilities. We know him to be a credible and reliable person in what he does and being that he is not even really a Bigfoot believer, he comes forth as more credible than those who go out into the woods deliberately hunting it. That is the point of the article. A credible NON believer who knows how to track and survive in the wilderness, going out and seeing whats there. Being a skeptic, you would think you would want an unbiased person out there, instead of an idiot Boboo, who every tree knock is a Sasquatch
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Of course there is no bigfoot/sasquatch et cetera, the facts indicate that the US "wilderness" does not contain unknown hominids.

LTC8K6 said:
A compact takedown .22 rifle would make hunting small game almost effortless, assuming game is in the area. There are good candidate rifles that pack very small.

You can signal for help with it, too. a 50 round box of .22LR is tiny.
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Like the old military (or Soyuz) issue survival rifles, sufficient for a couple of days until rescue comes.
 
Robrob said:
1) Have you ever survived a week in environmental extremes for a week without food and only minimal water and shelter? Your posts seem to indicate it's not all that difficult.

2) I don't think anyone says it's impossible to survive (obviously), just that his program provides a very bare bones (man vs wild) documentary. It's him and his cameras.

3) I think you might be confusing his program with that of the significantly more scripted Bear Grylls.
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If it's on TV it's fake.

I doubt this fella believes in BF. Rather, he believes in ratings and self promotion.
 
catsmate1 said:
Of course there is no bigfoot/sasquatch et cetera, the facts indicate that the US "wilderness" does not contain unknown hominids.


Like the old military (or Soyuz) issue survival rifles, sufficient for a couple of days until rescue comes.
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Unfortunately, I haven't seen a box of .22LR in a store in quite a while... :)
 
I've watched a lot of the Survivorman shows, and I really enjoyed them. Because of this I will give Les the benefit of the doubt and will probably watch this special. I'm just hoping he doesn't go too woo, it would really lower my opinion of him.
 
clayflingythingy said:
If it's on TV it's fake.

I doubt this fella believes in BF. Rather, he believes in ratings and self promotion.
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Case in point, Jeremy Wade of River Monsters did a show on the Loch Ness monster. It was obvious that he found the idea distasteful, but you do what you have to to keep the ratings up, and then you can do your serious work.
 
On the Les Stroud official Facebook page, he posted this on September 29th

well thats just about it!! I will likely head off into the Ontario bush one more time in search of Bigfoot, Survivorman style. The experience out west was fantastic - pretty bizarre - but you will have to wait for the show to see what happened!!! In the mean time we have 8 brand new Survivorman shows to get edited for the air dates starting some time in December i believe - but until then we are still rolling out the Survivorman; Secrets of Survival shows!....L
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Resume said:
You should have. But I did it for you. I'm not playing this stupid game. I've been in many wild places and don't need to whip out a resume.

The point is many people have spent much time in the places Stroud "survives".
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And without a film crew and associated personnel.
 
Les goes way too far in the wilderness to ever be able to see a bigfoot. He should stick to the side of the road or stay in the suburbs and stock up on Zagnut bars.
 
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Maybe he should hang around the homeless tent area in San Antonio where Rick Dyer shot his bigfoot.
 
That's actually a good point. The unstated premise is that Stroud is some rare individual who goes where no people ever go and that puts him in position to encounter bigfoots. This notion flies in the face of the "facts" associated with probably 90% or more of bigfoot accounts.
 
The Shrike said:
Sounds like a predictable amount of shameless self-promotion.
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Ah, that's just because you can't stand the thought of a sincere and skilled person seriously studying bigfoot.

But oh, boy! You skeptics are about to clash with reality. Stroud's bigfoot show, Dyers's bigfoot body and its anatomy study by a board of top science guys, Sykes' DNA study and I bet Meldrum ad Munns have something else under their sleeves. These are exciting times for the Sasquatch investigators. There will be a shortage of crow in the market. Better buy yours soon so you all will have your cold soups ready.
 
Sounds like a ploy to cash in on the success of 'finding bigfoot'.
His ratings must be slipping.
 
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