HATCHET ONLY - SOLO SURVIVAL - No other items (Catch & Cook, Shelters etc)

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  @TheBearEssentials · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  <b>MORE INFO + COMMENTS ANSWERED:</b><br><br>1) <b>Can you still get giardia from the raw cattails? / How safe are the Cattails to eat?&quot;</b><br>Yes, technically, you can get giardia from eating those raw shoots. I haven&apos;t heard of anyone getting it that way, but these plants are filters, and one should always wash them off first, but even then, I&apos;m guessing the parasite can technically be in the shoot. I eat them raw because they are way more delicious that way to be honest! But yes - safer method is cook them (at a minimum, wash the new shoots off well with clean water)<br><br>Also, don&apos;t wat cattails from any roadside location simply because they are filter plants and any roadside toxins or pesticide runoff will accumulate in these plants. If you&apos;re in a survival or wild setting, there&apos;s no risk there - but in general, avoid grabbing them from the roadside!<br><br>2) <b>Why didn&apos;t you use your bag to boil the water in?</b> <br>I just wanted to ONLY use the hatchet - I found some human trash at times, too; there was a can and piece of glass and a small frayed rope, but I didn&apos;t want to use any of these so I could focus on showing what to do with just nature.<br><br>3) <b>Is the Chaga Friction fire reliable?</b> <br>I would say no. I think I got lucky and worked very hard for this fire. In the future, I would stick to the bow drill. If the Chaga is moist (which it is in pretty much all warm months, and very likely in the winter too then it won&apos;t work.)

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  @dalcassian9098 · 1 year ago

  The lack of ego here makes this content very appealing

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  @ek-nz · 2 years ago

  I feel a lot of kindred spirits here. We all grew up with Hatchet (I think I liked Brian’s Winter even better) and we are all still interested in survival and living with nature, despite many of us being somewhat stuck in the urban grind. Thanks for this video DJ, we appreciate it.

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  @user-vw6ej7ib5c · 2 years ago

  Old saying &quot; the more you know the less you need&quot; holds true

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  @rock_machine01 · 2 years ago

  I’ve never seen anybody be able to turn green vegetation into a fishing line. I’d love to see this work.

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  @ZukoB-Lit · 1 year ago

  2 fish from a stick and some self made twine is insane to me. That&apos;s awesome.

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  @TheBearEssentials · 2 years ago

  One of my most fun videos to shoot!! Hope you all enjoy it!!!<br>-Your friend,<br>DJ

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  @Hobbithooksets · 2 years ago

  The &quot;Hatchet&quot; was arguably THE book that got me interested in camping, Bushcraft and Survival. &nbsp; Love this style of video. &nbsp;Great change up from the knot tutorials (which I also love). Keep these coming! 🤜

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  @LieutenantSheezy · 2 years ago

  Love how he talks into my left AirPod for all the selfie shots

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  @foreveragamer7560 · 2 years ago

  Love that you explain the stuff you do as well

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  @XanderBudnick · 2 years ago

  learned alot on this one DJ! Great video brother! ive always wanted to try the chaga fire plow! u da man!

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  @PKAdventures · 2 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCDQP79volY&amp;t=2530">42:10</a> -part of the reason i have a long beard is because if i can&apos;t find any bait and none of my lures are working, then i can run my fingers through my beard and come up with a couple loose hairs, then trim off around the bottom inch of my beard. then i put the trimmed off portion around my hook, and use the loose hairs i found to wrap around the tuft of hair and hook, tie it off, and boom, i have a fly.<br>the cool thing is i have a bunch of different colors in my beard, and the more time i spend in the sun the more those colors come out, and the more the browns turn to reds and oranges, which seem to work really well.<br>so if i do get stranded, by the time i need to make a fly from a small portion of my beard, it should be getting a lot of that red and orange color.<br><br>also, if somehow you have no other options, you can make pretty good cordage for fishing line from beard hair.<br><br>and hair is actually pretty good in a tinder bundle. but you want to mix it with other things because it has a bunch of natural oils and burns really fast.<br><br><br>so ya, 1 of my most important and useful survival tools = my Beard<br><br><br><br>oh, and great video, you got my sub!

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