welcome to hunters handbook TV I'm your host mark Borkowski survival than
packing a flashlight deciding what equipment to include in your survival
pack is equally as important as knowing how to use that equipment remember
you're not trying to live out there for a year just long enough to be found who
better to teach us survival then the man that teaches survival for the most elite
warriors in our country the Navy SEALs will also be joined by our good friends
from the National Shooting Sports Foundation to find out what they're
doing to protect our shooting sports heritage let's join this week's exciting
guests Chris just want to thank you again for coming down helping me with
this as a member of our adventure race team and more importantly as a member of
America's elite fighting force US Navy SEALs you're an expert in survival I
brought my gear that I have here to go out and hunt that I wouldn't planning or
going out in the fall so survival gear question for you if you had one item to
take with you what would you take well there's really not one item that I would
think about bringing but the good part is that you're thinking about planning
about what you're going to bring out there so what I'd like to do is go
through the gear that you brought and this this is your actual gear that
you're planning on bringing out and just kind of talk about some different things
you might want to think about prior to going out because that's really the most
important step you know in the in the SEAL Teams before we go out and do any
operation we plan and rehearse and rehearse over and over again and that's
what makes us so good it's our training in our preparation before we go out and
and do any operation that you know makes us successful in the field so that's
what hunters such as yourself really need to do is plan before they go out so
different things you want to plan for is you need to plan for food you need to
plan for water shelter fire and also any medical needs that you might have so I'd
like to just go through and see what you brought for each one of those things
sounds good to me all right so let's start off with food
you brought some energy bars here and it really doesn't matter what you
bring it's really personal choice of yours but you want to think about things
that are really going to sustain your energy more compact foods with more
calorie dense type items that you can bring you also want to think about
sustaining your food if you're out there for more than a day or a couple days you
want to be able to acquire food on your own so you might want to think about
some line and some fish hooks or something like that to find a way to
bring in another food source also having knives available to be able to clean
your your items if you happen to catch any next would be water and when I'm
talking about these to the order of importance that these things come in all
depend on the environment you're in if you're in the desert water is going to
be your number one thing that you need to concentrate on doing first if you're
up in the mountains if it's a cold environment shelter is going to become
your primary thing that you need to target on working on first so don't take
the order on going in you know you're going to have to look at that in the
situation you're presented with okay I have a question on water there are
different schools of thought I've heard over the years it D if you have your
little bit of water with you do you ration it or do you just drink it just
so you get the most benefit from it well it's a great question and your body is
is a great thing and it's designed to ration water for you've got your kidneys
that that filter the water through and get it to your cells as needed so don't
don't you don't want to do that you don't want to ration the water yourself
drink what you have use the energy that that gives you to go and find more water
which you know we'll look at what you brought here one thing that's important
with water is being able to clean it and I don't see that you have anything
available to clean water you do have way of starting fire which is good you can
boil your water but you need a vessel to do that in so you might need to carve a
vessel or if you have maybe a can of soup that you had brought with you you
can use that can to boil your water to clean it if you don't have that then you
want to collect the cleanest water available so you want to use a running
source of water to do that you never want to use a stagnant source if at all
possible and then what you want to do is try and filter the water out if you
don't have any filter with you which is another great item to bring
they have a lot of filters and hand pumps out now you can use but you could
take your reservoir here take off maybe your sock or part of your shirt put it
over the opening of the reservoir and use that to filter anything out of the
water that you don't want in there you know you're getting it's it's not a
perfect situation but you're doing whatever you can to make the most out of
what you have available because when your body starts shutting down what are
some of the things you see are symptoms of this it's going to be central nervous
system things you're going to obviously you're going to have thirst you're going
to have a dry mouth when you have that that's already a sign that you're
dehydrated but different things are going to start happening you're going to
get tired you're going to get pop you know any of these signs you see you want
to realize you want to slow down what you're doing try and get out of the heat
and find any way you can to get water in your system stay tuned to hunter's
handbook for more information
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okay mark so we were talking about water and you know obviously you want to get
the cleanest water available but you always also need to be able to collect
the water and what you have here is you have your emergency space blanket which
is something you should always have with you it's a multi-purpose item and what
you can do with this is create a funnel hang it up from a tree and create a
funnel that funnels the water into your reservoir or you can also you know as
you sleep hang it upside down so it's a little bowl shaped and you can collect
condensation you know put a little rock in the middle cut a hole in the bottom
you can sleep under it you can also collect water at the same time and then
of course as a shelter which is another one of our priority items that you need
to think about you know you have your emergency blanket available so depending
on where you are if I'm going to be you know this my trip up coming is going to
be in the mountains then you know shelters will be a higher priority
because that temperature is going to plummet once the Sun Goes Down or starts
to go down even it starts dropping right yeah depending on your environment again
your priorities are going to change if you're in the mountains like you said
shelters number one if you move to the desert or a desert environment something
where you need water right away you know it's it's all going to depend on your
environment and knowing and planning before you go out there is really going
to become paramount something I want you to take a look here is I put together a
little first-aid kit an innovator I have some anesthetic wipes blood clotting
material and some more no wipes you know in case you know of a bad cut or
something like that or a sting or something what are you anything you
might want to add to a first-aid kit well the most important thing I think is
not what you bring with you because you know anyone can tell you different
things to bring and you can bring a small kit or a larger kit but the
important thing is knowing what to do in an emergency situation so it goes into
training it goes into planning and you know if somebody's bleeding what you
have to do is stop the bleeding you know a lot of people see somebody bleeding
and they'll be digging through their medical kit trying to find just the
right thing to stop the bleeding when all they really need to do is grab them
and stop the pressure with their hand you know in in our situation you know
you always want to you know we think about tourniquets a lot of people think
you know tourniquets are bad which they can be if you don't know how to use them
so you need to learn how to use these items but we always say life over limb
you know if they're going to bleed to death because of a cut in their arm you
know shouldn't die because of that you know
do whatever you can to stop the bleeding intellect it's back to planning
preparation training right right it is you know you've got your mapping compass
here which is great but like you said you've got a train with it you know in
the SEAL Teams we do map and compass work all the time
you know it's one of the things I taught when I was an instructor was mapping
compass and we'd go over and work over you know repeatedly repeatedly and
that's how we become so good is we just constantly train and we constantly plan
you know so you want to do that you want to have your compass but you always you
know we always say two is one and one is none you know I always have two
compasses so you've got your compass you're going to use all the time and
then you've got your backup compass always have my watch has a digital
compass that I always use that's on there and then it's also important to
trust your gear you know if you want to go on a certain bearing stick to that
bearing you know a lot of times the trail is going to change the features
are going to change and you're going to want to turn with that but stick to your
compass and you'll do that if you're confident in your training and your
abilities and again training and planning is what it comes down to and
leaving leave a word back home where you're going in case you do get lost
right that's it that's a great point you know telling your wife or your family
exactly where you're going what you know what you're going to be doing how long
you're going to be out and what you're going to do in an emergency situation
are you going to find your way back you know if you have the ability and the
skill to do that that's great but if you're in any doubt at all the best
thing to do is always stay where you're at and let people come find you well
then that way they're not looking for you in Puget Sound when you're up on
Mount Baker or somewhere like that all
right it's a good point Chris I would like to
thank you you know on behalf of Gerber legendary blades and hunters handle TV
and citizens the people of America for your dedication yours the US Navy SEALs
and our armed forces to defending our freedoms and allowing us to enjoy the
principles that this country stands for an ability to be able to go out and hunt
well thanks for having me and if anybody wants more information on becoming a
Navy SEAL they can go to our website which is WWF
No or they can call us at 888 us MC Chris thanks thank you much