another damm poll

how long would you last

  • days

    Votes: 11 16.9%

  • weeks

    Votes: 15 23.1%

  • months

    Votes: 16 24.6%

  • years

    Votes: 23 35.4%
  • Total voters
    65
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lets say your out hunting alone...you get lost...you have a gun,box of bullets,and what ever other supplies you carry out in the bush..
how long would you last out there ?if you had to spend days?weeks?months?years?in the bush..
if me i damm sure i would last as long as it takes:)
 
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Pretty open ended poll. How long a person would last would depend on so many factors (some with in your control but many outside your control). Physical condition, mental attitude and weather your injured or not are important. Outside your control would be the climate (obviously warm fall days are better than early freezing blizzards), availability of clean water and food ie (fish and game and some form of edible plants) and of course the technical knowhow and ability and tools to make a good shelter. Man can last weeks without food, days without water and depending on climate hours without shelter. So your priorities should be shelter, water and finally food. Suprising how many people think that the first thing you should do is "shoot a deer". You might find yourself wishing you could trade that fancy Sako and ammo for a 5 gallon bucket of rain water or a good saw or shovel. I think most experienced hunters with some survival supplies might last at least a couple of weeks. I carry enough that I hopefully should last several days but you never know. Interesting poll but I don't think you'll get too many honest answers. PSE
 
PSE said:
Pretty open ended poll. How long a person would last would depend on so many factors (some with in your control but many outside your control). Physical condition, mental attitude and weather your injured or not are important. Outside your control would be the climate (obviously warm fall days are better than early freezing blizzards), availability of clean water and food ie (fish and game and some form of edible plants) and of course the technical knowhow and ability and tools to make a good shelter. Man can last weeks without food, days without water and depending on climate hours without shelter. So your priorities should be shelter, water and finally food. Suprising how many people think that the first thing you should do is "shoot a deer". You might find yourself wishing you could trade that fancy Sako and ammo for a 5 gallon bucket of rain water or a good saw or shovel. I think most experienced hunters with some survival supplies might last at least a couple of weeks. I carry enough that I hopefully should last several days but you never know. Interesting poll but I don't think you'll get too many honest answers. PSE
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poll was meant for what ever health your in...no matter if your healthy or not..you went out for a day of hunting...you get lost...would you last for how long?
 
Hmmm?? Piece and quiet... Outdoors.

I am a survivor, no one knows what I have been through... and I don't care to share.. but I know now, I can survive !
 
Thats the nice thing about 99F's you can always put a couple books of matches and some other stuff in the butt as they were hollowed out more to make them lighter.

I always carry my pack with me though, even in deer season when I surrounded by roads on all four sides of me.:redface:
 
It really depends. I agree with PSE. I did the Air Crew Survival course at Round Lake, Saskatchewan when I was in Air Cadets. I spent one week in the bush, but of course we had an out, if needed. Lots of people may talk smack, but I bet very few here have had to spend two unexpected nights lost in the bush. All it takes is one slip into a creek and you could be dead before the next sunrise.
 
I've been out a couple times, in fact theres one member here who doesn't post alot who was with me. By the time I got back onto the trail he'd already had enough firewood for the night stock piled.

The other time it was pitch black and we got turned around, thank God for the GPS, walking in the pitch black and trusting that thing sure makes your heart feel good when your flashlight hits the tail light of the four wheelers.
 
A couple of days at the most, based on what I usually carry with me. Where I hunt, its pretty "civilized", walk a couple of miles max in any direction and you'll come to a road. I'm usually much closer to a road than that, and I make a note of the direction the road runs. Worst case, take a compass bearing that is 90 degrees to what the road runs and head that way (I do carry a compass and a GPS). If I was hunting somewhere more remote, I would pack accordingly.
 
Good thread... this topic should never be taken lightly... very few people here would last very long exposed to the elements with only a basic kit.
Many of us feel that with a firearm and matches we could survive in the bush indefintely. I would strongly disagree with that statement... any of the military people here or those that have taken a wilderness survival course will agree. It is brutal out there even if you are trained and prepared let there be no doubt.
 
:rolleyes: LOL - I knew that the years comment would be ticked off more than any other. Many people fancy themselves as Jermiah Johnson types even though their experience in the bush is limited and essentially they live year around in an urban enviornment. For those people all I say is take a serious bush survival course not a classroom one but one actually in the bush( I did) It might open your eyes to a few realities - It certainly opened mine. It's a lot harder to survive with minimal supplies than you think (especially for an extended length of time). I would bet there are less than 10 percent (probably closer to 5 percent) of readers that could survive for years with only what they carry on a hunting trip. Taking your RV dosen't count;. A more realistic time frame would be days maybe weeks depending on weather and luck. The good news is that that should be good enough - you should be picked up by search and rescue especially if you were astute enough to tell someone trustworthy were you were going and for how long. Sorry I offended the macho survivalist types but there's fantasy then there's reality:D .
 
The biggest concern for me, is that I'm usually dressed to lightly for a night out.
Thankfully, the places we hunt, have limited possibilities for getting that turned around. There are a few though, and people that are new to the bush can do some amazing things.
Last year, I had a fellow in out gang, young guy, never dogged before, in a small corner, where I figured he was safe. H cam wandering out to me, staring constantly at his compass, and i pointed him in the right direction. Before he was out of sight, he had completely reversed his original direction, and he came out, where he went in!
How he expected to see deer, when he stared at his compass is beyond me.
Back at camp, he refered to his compass, as a "piece of Junk".
Operator error....

I figure, even with light clothes, I could manage for quite some time, assuming my brain doesn't fart too often. I've come close a few times, but so far, I've stayed out of trouble.
 
I go pretty light at times , and would have a few bad days afield, but you gotta be pretty remote to add a challange to your few nights out. Now add a few injuries to the equation and it starts to get serous , which is not much fun.
Now I have been apart of survival training in whatever Canada had in store. close to the North pole ,and in remote areas of the rockies and Manitoba a field. killer at night terrain. Sea survival is a matter of luck , and don't miss a split second chance to make it.
If I were to say how I would feel , and act as someone with limited sleep overs in winter and summer, I would say fear , alert, to both the local terrain , and a quick feel for reserve energy, the drive to get back to the truck may put you deep in the muck. Keep cool and go over in your mind the obstacles on route , wait or go , if you go , go slow and know the general direction of travel :D
Frank
 
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