Most of us first learn what we know about survival from what see on movies and TV
But in reality most of what you see on TV will end up getting you killed in the wild!
So today, I am busting the Top 10 Myths About Survival! Stay tuned!
Food is your top priority!
The movies often show the lone survivor struggling to find a source of food
but in reality, food is NOT your top priority!
Shelter, water, fire these are all higher priorities on your list than food
with out these you could die in days maybe even hours
however you can survive anywhere from 3 to 6 weeks with out food
Food is important, sure!
But make sure you take of your shelter, your fire and your water first
Dont forget the 3,3,3 rule. You can survive weeks without food, 3 days without water and 3 hours without shelter!
You should suck the venom out of a snake bite!
Today they teach that you SHOULD NOT suck the venom out of a snake bite.
It can cause serious life threatening damage to your wind pipe!
If you are bitten by a snake your best chance for survival to get to a hospital that is stocked with the anti-venom as soon as possible!
You can spark fire by friction if you are just persistent enough!
Often times in movies they will show the lone survivor trying to start a fire.
and he is not getting anything at first but he just keeps persisting and eventually
he has smoke and than a flame and he has fire
but in reality persistence is not enough.
You have to have the rite conditions and the materials have to be dry and you have to have the right technique!
Simply grinding two pieces of wood together for hours upon hours is not automatically going to create you fire.
Shelter means a roof over your head!
Actually you will loose more body heat to the cold ground below you than you will to the air above you.
It is more important to create a bed that will insulate you from the ground than it is to create a roof that will protect you from the wind.
If a bear attacks you, just play dead!
So this one is partly true!
This really only applies to grizzly bears.
Grizzly bears usually only attack you if you are some how invading there territories. So by playing dead they wont see you as a threat anymore.
Now if you are attacked by a black bear and you decide to play dead
well, the chances are they are just going to eat you!
It's not going to be very pretty.
If you get attacked by a black bear you have to fight back!
You cant just play dead.
You need to boil water for 10 minutes to disinfect it.
In reality as soon as the water hits that boiling point it is already to hot for any of that bacteria to survive.
Any further boiling past that point is really just a waist of fuel and a waist of water due to evaporation.
Moss only grows on the north side of tree's!
Well, no not really. Maybe in some specific spots you will see this
but it very common for moss to grow all the way around the tree especially in shaded areas or near water.
Running water is always to drink!
True running water might be safer to drink than still water
but you don't know where that water is coming fro, there might be a swamp just a quarter mile up the river feeding it.
Your best bet is to find a source of water that has been naturally filtered through the earths surface
such as coming out the side of a mountain or if you were to dig a hole in a sandy bank close to a stream and let the water filter through the soil
and filter it naturally. But play it safe, your best bet is to always boil your water!
You can drink salt water in small amounts!
NO, salt water will do nothing but dehydrate you quicker!
The only safe way to make salt water safe to drink is by boiling it
Than catching the steam as it rises up
in a container or a tarp
and as it forms into water droplets they will roll down into a seperate container
that is not contaminated with the salt water.
All cactus on drinking water inside.
So this myth has been perpetuated by the old western movies
But the truth is even after heavy rains cactuses have very little moisture inside of them.
Even the famous barrel cactus that is often seen in old cowboy movies is mostly empty.
And 4 out of 5 cactus barrel cactus species actually contain toxins in them that if you drink
they will give you diharia.
So there you have it there are 1the Top 10 most common survival myths.
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