hi everyone will Nia Tebow here with Buckskin Revolution talking about my 10 items that I
brought on alone season six so al we talked about my first four items my Ferro rod my multi-tool my
knife and my saw on part one so this is part two and I'm going to talk about the paracord fishing
line and the most important thing in my world out there my pemmican so I want to start by talking
about my fishing line now this is one of the only items that I never considered not bringing
Great Slave Lake known as kun fa or tuna they in DNA is a world-renowned fishing location so
I never questioned that fishing line and hooks was absolutely essential turns out of course I would
have been far better off with snare wire but you know necessity and it's the mother of invention
and I ended up learning how to snare well with fishing line not as well as had I had snare
wire but given the circumstances I did pretty well with it so I took a variety of different sizes and
different colors and circle and standard shaped fishing hooks so I also turned a lot of those into
lures using bright colors from my paracord using wool from my sweater and using a Pepsi can that
I found so I had fishing line and Lord so we were allowed a total of three hundred yards of fishing
line and it had to be monofilament we were not allowed braided Kevlar or any other type of line
and it could only be as strong as 20-pound tests so rather than just buying whatever I could get
my hands on I did some research and particularly talked to a fisherman friend of mine who has done
some strength trials because it turns out not all 20-pound tests is equivalent right some 20 pound
test breaks at 20 pounds of tension some breaks at 15 some breaks at 30 so I was recommended at
this brand pline extra strong and this is 20 pound test but actually functionally it's much stronger
about 30 pounds of tension it can hold so this is what I went with and I brought moss-green because
I was in a lake and I brought 250 yards of this so I also wanted to bring a less strong thinner
line because I wanted to make sure that I had the ability for my line to break if it got snagged so
that I wouldn't lose the entire line so I used 12 pound test as the leader so that was attached
to the end of my line so that if I got snagged that part could break and I could pull in my long
length of my 20 pound test also I brought about 20 yards of a hard bite leader so originally I was
thinking that I would use snare wire for a bite leader because those fish and that Lake are huge
with really sharp teeth so they can bite through especially something like 20 pound test so you
want to have a harder bite leader on it where the fish's teeth are going to be so because I
didn't end up bringing snare wire I brought a monofilament hard non-flexible bite leader so
that was my fishing rig the bite leader and then the 12 pound test and then the 20 pound test and
then I had weights attached to the 20 pound test to keep my bait down and then I developed floats
to keep it up so that it wouldn't go so far down where my hooks would get snagged and I would have
to break the line so that was my fishing setup all of it was pline brand besides the monofilament and
I honestly don't remember the brand and I don't have that anymore I never ended up getting any
fish so that monofilament didn't help me and I didn't use the twelve pound line for very much
besides some crafting activities like when I made a squirrel trap and I put nooses on that
to catch the squirrels hands and I talked about that in my crafting on a lone video so that is
about the only time that I used the twelve pound test but the 20 pound test was key for my snaring
so my original plan had been to bring snare wire but at the last minute I changed my mind and I
brought paracord instead and that was a choice made based on the shelter and the gill nets I was
picturing all of the things I felt like I could do with paracord and the winds were so intense that
I knew that trying to use snare wire as cordage particularly for my shelter snare wire it flexes
view times and then it breaks so that's why I made this choice and there's no way for me to know how
much better off I would have been with snare wire instead of paracord and fishing line for my snares
I suspect I would have done much better and had a lot more game and been able to stay out there
a lot longer which would have been amazing that said you know I have no regrets I had an amazing
time out there I learned so much I was really successful given my spot and given my materials
with snaring so what more could I ask for maybe had I taken something different something else
would have happened and I would have regretted that you know so hindsight is 20/20 and I feel
like I made the best choices I could have given the information I had going in so that said I
brought paracord and I believe we got to have 80 meters of paracord and I brought a variety
of different colors of it so I brought some straight black and some army green for paracord
that would blend into the background for trapping and snaring purposes and then for places where I
wanted visibility or where it didn't matter I brought a flame design so it was oranges reds
and yellows so I wanted something that was going to be one very easy for me to see so I wouldn't
lose it and then something that was attractive to me I was going to be staring at it and awful
lot so flame colored and then I also brought a long strand maybe 20 feet of hot pink again for
visibility and I used this to mark my traps so I had you know as many as 30 snares out so sometimes
I would hang a piece of that bright pink so that they were easy to see from a distance and easy
to see whether they had been wrong I also brought the pink specifically to represent my friend Kate
who was with us in the selection process and who I met boot camp and didn't end up getting
selected for the show so that hot pink paracord was for practical purposes and also for Kate so
the way I used my paracord out there was for some purposes where I needed a lot of strength I would
sometimes use the entire width of the paracord but mostly I was doing what I called skinning
the paracord where I was pulling the inner strands out from the outer sheath now each inner strand is
a 35-pound test they're quite slender but quite strong and when I tied all of those together and
wound them around a spool and then I had a lot of lengths of paracord and then the outer sheath is
about 250 pound tests so it's very strong so for some trapping purposes like pulling down
really strong spring pulls I would use that outer sheath or for other shelter prep purposes I often
use that outer sheath and then I had the inner sheath for all of the other things all kinds of
lashing a lot of work on my shelter was done using those inner sheets and a lot of my trapping with
inner sheets so super useful and by separating those I had eight times more cordage than just
the 80 meters so it was super super useful and as much as I sometimes wished I had snare wire
man it was wonderful having the paracord really really useful stuff so that is that item which
brings us to the little bit of gold that is in this jar so it's a hard choice right because
if you take a food ration then you're not taking some other tool that could potentially bring you
more food than that ration that said pemmican is like magic out there we were given a list of
all of these different food rations that we could choose from as one of our 10 items and they were
biltong or jerky which is going to be a dried lean meat or Gorp raisins peanuts and chocolate
or straight-up chocolate 2 pounds of chocolate or hard which is a cracker or legumes so dried beans
or a mix of flour sugar and salt or pemmican to my mind the only one of those that makes any sense to
bring is the pemmican jerky lean meat is mostly what you're gonna have out there so why bring as
your one food item the one thing that you're most likely to encounter out there both the hardtack
or the chocolate or the beans are going to have a lot of hard carbohydrates which is going to keep
you from going into ketosis which is the most efficient metabolic state so it's definitely
what you want to be in and you don't want to do anything to delay your going into ketosis
so the Gorp is gonna have a little bit of fat but not compared to the pemmican so pemmican is
a mixture of fat and dried meat and dried berries so it has vitamins from the berries protein from
the meat and a lot of fat which means in those two pounds you're getting way more calories than any
of the other rations plus fat is everything out there so I really think that the reason why I did
so well on just rabbits and squirrels which are incredibly lean was because of the pemmican so if
you are up on survival and nutrition you'll know there's a thing called rabbit starvation which is
basically you are poisoning your system with too much protein without any fat to process it so your
body needs fat to process proteins and you can die of starvation with all of the squirrels or rabbits
in the world so having brought another tool which would help me get more game wouldn't have been as
useful to me as this pemmican because it gave me fat so I was able to render some fat out of the
pemmican to cook my game in so that every time I was eating that squirrel or that rabbit I was
getting a little bit of fat and that was critical for helping my body process and digest and get the
most out of that game so yes it was only 2 pounds of food looked about like that going out but it
was like gold out there I made those two pounds last my entire 73 days so I would start and early
on I ate a little bit more of my rations then I had later because I knew my body was adjusting
and my plan was to focus a lot on shelter so I brought the pemmican thinking that it was gonna
help me get through those times of building the shelter before I started really hunting in earnest
well it turns out big game or fish were not an option in my spot right so all I had was small
game so the pemmican I would have just a little bit of every few days and I would use a little
bit of the fat when I would cook my game so it was absolutely key and the very last morning
I had my last little ration of pemmican before they came and picked me up so I made that stuff
last and it was not just the food value and the nutrition and helping me process the rabbit also
the moral support of knowing that I had some food was huge it was absolutely huge it was
one of the ways that I marked special days like every time I got to a 10 marker you know day 50
day 60 day 70 I would let myself have a little bit of pemmican I would mix it with berries to
make the berries more palatable I would have it when nothing else was coming in it was just
a little something to give my system to keep the cold from being as difficult and just to have me
feeling like I wasn't starving it was something to look forward to and my world hinged on that
pemmican it was the most amazing thing I've ever eaten in my life when I left to come back home
they sent me with a little container of the very same pemmican I had had out there and I still have
it one little nibble of this pemmican brings me back to my Peninsula like nothing else does
and I remember what every little mouthful every little morsel meant to me out there I intend have
pemmican on hand for everything I do from now on in my life I now know that it is one of the most
important things in the world so yes it is hard to choose your 10 items but future alone participants
or anyone going into a survival situation or wild foods adventure or even just camping or
backpacking may I recommend you learn to make amazing pemmican and take it with you everywhere
because it is absolutely the best stuff on earth so I'll get down off of my soapbox but little plug
for pemmican as the best thing going and about the other items that I brought out with me on a lone
season 6 thanks so much for watching and check out my other videos on my youtube channel about
both my alone experience and all of the other cool stuff that I do and then there's more information
about that and some of my books and the tools that I offer in classes that I teach on my website
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