Is Your Gear Enough? Survival Under Pressure
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In this thought-provoking video, JJ teams up with Mike Simmons to explore the concept of adequacy in survival gear and training. Is a military poncho enough to keep you sheltered? Can your gear handle real-world stress, or does it fall short under hard use? JJ and Mike discuss the importance of having a buffer of adequacy in your tools and skills, and how survival is ultimately a calorie game. They also dive into the relationship between skill level and gear quality, strategies for staying prepared on a budget, and why experience and training always trump reliance on high-priced items. Don’t miss this critical conversation about being ready when it matters most!
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Great video. I take what I think I may need if something goes wrong. My wife ask me why do I take the things I take. I tell her you never know and I like to be prepared if I need to be.
Thank you and you’re right- emergency waits for no man! Keep on keeping on and thanks for watching 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
I humbly submit that the brain is the best tool and humility is the best skill. There is no graduation from life and reality. Having to do something is fate; choosing to do something is responsibility. Overconfidence is biggest killer and humbler that I know of. And when it comes to the weather, the South is one of the most brutal places I know of-when it’s below freezing with 100% humidity, I heard it said that there’s not enough wool in a whole herd of sheep to keep you warm and that’s true. It goes right to the bone and stays there.
I couldn’t agree more with what you’ve said and I certainly appreciate it! Good vibes all around 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Having skills is great, but trying to quickly build a shelter due to an incoming storm is better with gear. Great perspective to consider and ponder. Thank you and God bless.
That’s right! It’s all about being tactically efficient when it matters most 👊🏻
I got a poncho. Tried it on. Gave it to my younger son. Went and bought an "Adult Size" HD poncho. Now i have something that fits and works.
Right on 👊🏻
If you are brutally honest with yourself, many of your problems in the outdoors including with gear is down to yours truly. I didn't do my homework on where I was going, didn't check and repair/maintain my tried and true gear, didn't test the new stuff before I left. Threw everything in my backpack ten minutes before I left. Didn't properly adjust the gear for the season, didn't check the weather forecast (I don't use smartphones). Blah, ect. This is why the outdoors is a great teacher because the consequences of your folly soon come to visit. Maybe it's no bad idea to work your way up to the more challenging environments? Get those initial mistakes out of the way closer to home.
Yep, nature is the most level playing field you will ever see. There’s no favoritism, and there’s very few mulligans ✌🏼
Couldn’t say it better myself 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
This is why I now carry a 64 oz stainless water bottle instead of a 40. If you’re focusing on hunting, you’re not about to waste time resupplying your water unless you absolutely have to. I was literally too dry to be pissed, but it burned my ass.
@chriskourliourod1651 Exactly, hard won experience. I went with 2 solid 40oz and I now have a few different sizes of collapsible Platypus bottles to get me through places with no resupply but I'm not sure Platypus bottles would be right for hunting.
A lot of folks new to the idea of field craft/survival craft fall into the trap of relying on gear instead of skill, and trying to run before they can crawl. If you have absolutely NO idea of what it's like out in the bush, going out with only minimal "survival type" kit and limited resources so you can emulate what you watch on TV or YT is a recipe for disaster. I've been involved in outdoor activities (fishing, camping, hunting, bushcrafting, back country canoeing and camping) for almost a half century. Started as a child at my father's hip learning, then with Scouting and cadets learning, through military service and survival training, even yet, more learning, then finally through decades of being out there. I STILL learn something new on every trip out there. The learning NEVER truly stops.
Those new to this, should start with learning basic tent and camping skills while making sure they have some sort of bail out available (Cottage, car, etc.). Learn the basics, then up your game through time and experience. Take a course or two, if that's the best entry level activity available to you. Then, from a grounded position, you can start upping your game and learning minimalist "survival" field craft. The more you learn, the lighter your pack will become as you replace gear with knowledge and skill, and develop the ability to craft what you no longer carry.
Get out there. Get dirty. Get down right grubby. Then do it all again.
I couldn’t agree more.. Good advice right here 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
What an outstanding comment! Sincerely, thank you. When I first ventured into this thing Bushcraft, so much of what I saw online was contradictory, even completely backwards, to what I learned as a young man and my military experience.
13:01 I tell people don’t be afraid to test your gear in your backyard… If you can resist going inside when it’s 100’ away then you have achieved an adequate level of preparation 👍
Also keep track of what makes you consider going inside, comfort, food, tools, toilet 💩👍 You will need to solve these things before you find yourself in the wild 🏕️
That’s good advice for sure.. I try to push that on this channel for the very same reason 👊🏻
Fully agree, but with a cautionary note. Learning in your backyard is a great way to start, but can also lend to a false sense of security. I've taken people out "rough camping" and one thing many experience is trying to get that damn ferro to raise a fire when the tinder is not perfect, the wind is up, and the light is dying. The one thing they have all said was "but It worked in my backyard". ;-)
@@croakingtoad4472Sooooooooooo True 😁👍 There is no greater stress test than Mother Nature 🌬️ 👍 When ever I’m working with a new camper I strongly recommend making their first few trips away from home with a car and near a 24hr Walmart 😂👍
You guys said it all at the last...Why make it any harder than you have to
Some people derive value from suffering while others derive value from mitigating the suffering..
-Mike Simmons
A tarp is a shelter, a poncho is rain gear...a poncho is a shelter only when you have really messed up in my opinion. I also don't use my tarp as my ground sheet like some configurations do, it's overhead only. I don't want anything to compromise my roof, we get torrential rain. If you want to use your poncho as your shelter, then simple...carry two ponchos!
Well said. I carry a dedicated ground sheet. In the Army we used our poncho as a ground sheet but only because we could exchange it for a new one if it became unserviceable
I think this is a solid way of thinking 👊🏻
Good topic & discussion. Thank you for the advice guys. I cannot wait to order the grayman knife..Im super impressed with the design.
Thank you! The preorder has already come and gone but I think they will be in production later. Thanks for watching 👊🏻
👊🏼🔥👊🏼 Actually applauded when I heard, "shade versus shadow". Thank you! Such unacknowged factors. Great points made here. I've made the same journey the hard way, annd still do sometimes 😂
You are not alone 😂
Interesting discussion guys 👍. I loved the "be the multitool" philosophy. Obewan Kanobi Jedi Knight style advice there🤔. I need to reexamine my choices on several items...you guys enjoy your week. Take care.🇺🇲🌲🔥🔪
I see a t-shirt in our future 😂 Thanks for your continued support 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Thanks so much for the comment! Safe travels
What you said is 100% true
Thank you for watching! 👊🏻
26:46 Had to jump back in here for a second comment after watching the whole video. An important historical takeaway, the Great American Pioneers used to say the American West is where you go to starve and these men are the men we all strive to be… “Have a Resupply plan” is an incredibly underrated piece of advice 👍👍👍
You can say that again! Very wise response 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Hahahaha That was Great....Love these Chats....Thanks
Thank you- we love doing them! 🔥
✨⌚ *TIMESTAMP* ⌚ ✨
Hi _Mike_ *"Smart"* _Simmons_ & *Jay Jay.* 👋😎👍
I found this subject , very interesting, today.
I am not the ambassador of Survival..
however, I like to think of myself as a Learner, Prepper & Helper.
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0:45..item #1 (Poncho & Adequacy)
2:12..item #2 (Weight Size = Tarp)
3:05..Adequacies
5:00..Steps & survival tips of gear usage
5:38..Survival layers
6:21..Time in Survival
6:55..Survival Course items & Do's & Don'ts in a survival situation
9:09..💯 True !! *"Human beings are the only species on this planet,that cannot survive,*
*in their own natural environment without clothings /tools."*
10:20.. *The Nature of an Emergency*
_Gear fails, Conditions Change & Situations Devolve_*
11:25... Historical Training, Research, Experience with Survival.
13:02.. Adequacy with Environment, Training & Gear.
14:24..Question : People with a variety of
experience , Gear and Kit list...is all this _budgeting preparations_
adequate, to their environment, age, health ?
17:19...(MORA KNIVES) Gear, Skill, Budget Limitations.
19:41...Survival Calorie Chat & endurance
20:07...Extreme Survival Situation / Heirloom Survival items
vs Fantasy, Reality SHTF.
21:22...Poverty mentality vs Reality resupply & Finite resources
22:36..Adequacy in Water filter purification tools & Containers
*REDUNDENCY* = _a situation in which something is unnecessary_
_because it is more than is needed._
24:37...build in a level of Adequacy with Questions
ex : *"if I lost 30% of the capability of this survival item.*
*Would it still satisfy my core (survival) needs ?*
25:23...Multi-functional Survival items
VS Dedicated Survival items
*"BE THE MULTI-TOOL"*
26:37...Minimalistic approach (Migrants) *vs* Adequately Geared Survivalists. (Settlers)
*Being able to endure, is a Skill*
29:54...Closing Comments
Thanks for watching the video and taking time to outline the video- good job 👏🏻
Great video brother
Thanks brother 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Hi there SD,
What I deal with mine is I wear leg gaiters and boots with my poncho😊 and it definitely works and keeps me dry
Roger that.. Do you use it as a shelter you can lay in or under?
GREAT video guys thanks 👊🔥👊
Thanks brother 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Great video, so much wisdom here.
Thank you so much 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
i made a 1/2 lb "envelope" for my 2GoSystems reflective tyvek bivy the XL size, NOT the regular size, "trifecta". $95, 1.5 lbs. I made the envelope out of 2 of SOL's 5x8 ft "heat sheets". I taped together one side and taped in a couple of sleeping bag zippers. I wear a 1/2 lb tyvek coverall inside of the bivy, and have the bivy inside of the envelope. i pull a 1 lb net hammock and a ridgeline thru the bivy. I pull another ridgeline thru the envelope. with loops up to another ridgeline that runs over the hammock. This way, I have 3 layers of trapped air around me and I can sleep ok at 35F, in just my cammies. shemagh, gloves, balaclava, 3 sets of sock liners, unlaced shoes,
I also carry a couple of 1/4 lb each amazon bugnet "suits" and a couple of their 1/2 lb each camo nets. I wear the netting as longjohns and it lets me sleep ok at 20F, inside of the other stuff mentioned above. I use a 1 lb fannypack and a 1.5 lb daypack. I empty-out thepacks, stuff them with debris and use them as sleeping pads, normally up in the hammock. I had to add a much wider, stiffer belt to the fannypack I carry a UCO lanter n and 2 beeswax candles for it. as well as a pair of chemical handwarmers.
i can also add debris between the tyvek coverall and the bivy, between the bivy and the envelope, and between the bugnet suits and the wraps of the camo net (now outside of my cammies. If It's cold enough to merit it (ie, 0F or less) I can pack more debris around my cammies, holding it in place with wraps of the hammock. All of the sleep-shelter gear can be worn as clothing, too. None of this gear is affecte by its getting wet and its all useful in summertime heat. Naturally the bugnet suits and camo nets serve two purposes (or more) .
When it's cold, I hang the hammock just a few inches off of the ground and kick debris under it, to stop airflow. I camo painted the white tyvek coverall and the florescent orange "envelope". If I want to attract attention, I can always just turn the reflective envelope inside-out. :-)
Sounds like a genius solution with some DIY ingenuity! Modular to adapt to changing conditions 👍🏼
Sounds like a good plan overall and that you have quite a bit of experience using it after creating it over time.. Good job 👊🏻
WHAT’s UP HOMEPA?!?!? Very good to see you! Your wisdom is always appreciated ❤
Honey, what is that you have your Grayl in? A new sling?👀
Mike is the 💣.. The new gear is a “Transport Sling” by Grayl- perfect for a GeoPress 👍🏻
Hey Mama V! Thank you so much!
@@MikeSimmons923Vada has tried to ❤️ this comment but has been blocked somehow
Great conversation
Thank you!
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I agree that a tarp of some kind separate from your rain gear is very good idea. I've done the minimalist thing not buy choice but due to disorganization and non functional memory. Turns out packing for an extended trip working in a Wilderness area for the Forest Service while hung over is a bad idea.... It was the '70s.
Foraging for food with limited knowledge is great weight loss program. One thing you ought to mention sometime is it's a good idea to have some anti-diarrea medicine for when you get into bad water or misidentified plants. Not fun. Live and learn.
Thanks for sharing the life lesson story. Yep, those missteps sure stand out in a person’s memory
Great information and knowledge !!!
Thank you, Gentlemen !!!
It is truly appreciated !!!
What is that water bottle sling bag that you were carrying, and where can I find it ???
It might be a good fit for my walks to/from the gym.
Thank you in advance for any reply.
Keep up the great work !!!
Thank you for the support and encouragement!
You are most welcome and thanks for watching! The Grayl GeoPress is carried in the “Transport Sling” made by Grayl. It can be purchased on the Grayl website 👍🏻
grayl.com/products/transport-bottle-sling
It depends on your environment your training. Don't take one persons You're expective. It can change from Area.
Or what you're you gotta figure that out for yourself? Yes, we can give you hints/guidance. It's changes from ever Region throughout the world.
I agree there’s no one size fits all approach. Determining what is adequate for ourselves begins with an honest self assessment of our abilities and what environment we might find ourselves.
I agree with your assessment.. Know thyself!
Nice chat. Awesome backyard mate.
Thanks- it’s the new Proving Grounds for FTF thanks to Mike! 🔥
Thanks 👊🏻 👍🏻 Appreciate you 🙏🏻 God Bless
Thank you for the support and encouragement! 👊🏻
We appreciate you and thanks for watching!Blessings all around 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
I use 1980s cold era stuff it's good for if you live in the Appalachian mountains
Agreed. Military surplus and vintage camping gear is a great option. Served me well for a long time.
Grew up using that stuff and it definitely got me by for many years 👊🏻
@@FueltheFires my father is a Cold War era vet he show me and bothers how to use this
@@Eringobragh1861 I am a cold war vet. I take the TH-cam teachers very casually. We had to do some hardcore stuff without the fancy items. Liked your comment.
Hi there FTF, Yes as long as there is not a downpour it is definitely doable doable but preferably for a short-term it's ok to backup but definitely prefer t a r p above me😊
Right on 👊🏻
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What does Jason say about the poncho. Did you break his heart!??
Jason loves his poncho and I would never take it away from him lol
I've seen pulling sosomethings from nature that has saved a life because that what we had same outb of a pack that has done the same there is no Guarantees sometimes you gotta make your own
Yep. I encourage everyone making things. Mostly because if I lose it or it breaks I would have the knowledge/skill to either fix it or make another one.
Been modifying and making gear for many years and highly encourage it.. Gives a lot of experience and teaches you to be resourceful and take care of your gear!
I always say that I'd rather have the knowledge and skill to make a thing than the money to buy ten.
@@OldNavajoTricks💯 I'm the same
Where is your school?
The new Proving Grounds are in Gadsden Alabama.. We will be holding classes there very soon.. We filmed this on the property 👍🏻
Suggest a reasonable price tarp for someone 6'4 220lbs
I would recommend no smaller than a 10x10 (3m x 3m). For the past 5 yrs I’ve alternated between a DD tarp and a Onewind tarp. The standard DD is between $75 and $90 and weighs about 2 lbs, the DD super light is about $110 and weighs around 1 lb. The Onewind is a 10 x 12 (3m x 4m), costs about $90, and weighs about 2lbs.
The DD Hammocks 3m x3m Ultralight Tarp 👍🏻
Your weight doesn't really play. Your not using it as a hammock. Its to cover you or your gear
@@MikeSimmons923 tks
@@FueltheFires tks!
Truthfully most need to lose most of their gear one weight two you can adapt and over come with fewer
I understand for sure. Because we’re planners and problem solvers It’s so easy to overload ourselves with gear to handle things that might happen. Part of the way I keep myself from carrying the kitchen sink is to limit the size of my pack to 25L for summer and 35L for winter.
I just make sure I keep all of my survival priorities in mind when putting a kit together. Then I limit myself with my pack size (like Mike) to ensure I make critical decisions with what I carry. Light, fast and mobile while being tactically efficient is the goal..
I’m at the age now in which I don’t want to overload myself, but I also need to consider some enhancements for survival, because “hacking it” could become as dangerous as being unprepared. For example the bush pot that slips over my water bottle is well worth the weight.
Funny when you're an old guy looking back.
Yep, I think that’s why it’s important we share what we’ve learned. It builds camaraderie between those of us with similar experiences, and perhaps we can fast track those who haven’t yet faced similar challenges
@@MikeSimmons923Yes! Always help out the young guy so they can be better and more prepared than us old guys.
Anybody know of good 1022 25rd mag pouches that work well and that possibly aren’t just some amazon special smg pouches
Sorry I wouldn’t be able to recommend one. I’ve never had a 1022
You're not going to be able to carry enough to get by for very long. You carry what you need to get by and you carry the tools to build a real structure of some sort and ways to get food.. Any tarp is going to shit in no time along with any other gear that isn't a real tool
And if you're going to buton just carry a hatchet head or wedge if you don't want to carry a whole hatchet. Knives are for cutting and smaller ones do everything else better. If you have one tool you're screwed if you're out for any length of time
Yep. Gotta immediately start looking for something more substantial cause field life day after day is hard on gear.
This is nothing but common sense use your head !
Both of you Get EFING shave
we’re both way outta regs 😂😂
I shave where it matters 👍🏻
I believe where I’m at it is part of
My base layer and badly needed
@@chrishall9208😂😂