How long?

Adam · 08-27-2010, 04:58 PM

If you took every bit of survival gear with you right now, how long could you realistically survive in the wild? 1 day, 1 month, or 1 year?

northernbushape · 08-27-2010, 06:19 PM

Tough question.

With the gear I have I would have to say a couple months. Adequate and balanced nutrition would be the biggest challenge. Once the body uses up reserves, the imbalance of the diet would be the fatal flaw. I have enough knowledge to easily survive a few weeks or even a month, but as I say, proper nutrition would be a major hurdle to overcome.

I do carry multi-vitamins and minerals in my gear, but they will only carry you so far.

Wilderness nutrition is an area I am currently spending a fair amount of time learning about/

deb60 · 08-27-2010, 08:33 PM

About 2 days! That is all, I don't really have a lot of stuff saved up for survival. I love Survivor on the TV but I know I couldn't do it. I should look more into a survival class.

Alliegator · 08-27-2010, 09:48 PM

I could probably make do until the frost killed all of the plants. Then wild plants and veggies get rather scarce. As far as the meat, I could live for quite some time, trapping small critters and using them for meals. But the lack of vegetables would really put a crimp into my nutritional requirements unless I had time to put some by in the way of dried or stored veggies.

hydethebeef · 08-28-2010, 01:29 PM

I could probably go a couple of months as well. I am guessing that is about how long it will take for me to be eaten by a bear or a pack of wolves.

lbean · 08-28-2010, 04:15 PM

I would last a couple hours. Even though I have some tool I do not really know how to survive on my own in nature very well. I would love to learn how to though.

Stoker · 09-09-2010, 09:08 AM

I'm guessing 3 months.Until I get totally used to the environment, I would pace the eating of the food. I would use my reading material also to help identify the edible plants.

Michael · 09-09-2010, 09:41 AM

I'm good on shelter and water purification. I'd basically be limited by how much food I could carry with me.

I don't really know how to hunt properly. I only know a couple of edible plants. I'm not great at identifying edible mushrooms. I don't have any fishing gear, and if I did I'm not really experienced at fishing.

So I'd be pretty much stuck with waiting until I got hungry enough to eat grubs, then ripping apart rotten stumps.

It takes a couple of weeks to starve. So I could survive a couple of weeks, plus whatever time the food I brought with me lasted, plus however long I could extend that by eating grubs and lucking into catching small animals to eat. Call it a month maybe.

northernbushape · 09-09-2010, 03:24 PM

Toss a couple of rat traps into your back country gear. They are a great alternative to snares and very effective for a variety of small critters. Easily baited too and they store nice and flat

HikingGuy · 09-09-2010, 08:02 PM

I do not own a lot of survival gear nor do I really know how to use it, it is something I would like to brush up on. I could currently maybe survive a few days, that would be about it.