Life Below Zero on Nat Geo

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Watched a few episodes last week, the show follows people who live in the remote areas of Alaska, trying to survive in the below-zero conditions,
demonstrating their everyday struggles as they hunt and depend only on themselves and survive using the resources they have

Dad and his 15 yr old daughter hunting for a caribou. She can shoot but first time hunting with dad.
He had not shot his rifle in five years, he was in prison for that long, got off probation and was allowed to hunt.
He had a Mosin, hex model, he hit steel at 15 paces first three shots.
His daughter tried and did the same. Next was his SKS, she nailed it too.
He got a nice caribou, shot it just at the spine. She tried earlier but missed, too high.

Another guy took a huge caribou, he processed it in his shop, noting was wasted, his eight sled dogs
enjoyed the bones. Caribou sausage time. He shared some meat with neighbors in town.
 
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I used to watch this show quite a bit; have a certain fascination with Alaska, I guess.
Some of the characters are ok, a couple of them are constant doom & gloom, OMG I'm gonna die if I don't do this (pretty clear right from the start who they are).
Another show I like a lot is The Last Alaskans, which focused on a small group of families (4) that live in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It's a good bit less of a reality show.
https://go.discovery.com/tv-shows/the-last-alaskans/
 
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Button Pusher said:
Watched a few episodes last week, the show follows people who live in the remote areas of Alaska, trying to survive in the below-zero conditions,
demonstrating their everyday struggles as they hunt and depend only on themselves and survive using the resources they have

Dad and his 15 yr old daughter hunting for a caribou. She can shoot but first time hunting with dad.
He had not shot his rifle in five years, he was in prison for that long, got off probation and was allowed to hunt.
He had a Mosin, hex model, he hit steel at 15 paces first three shots.
His daughter tried and did the same. Next was his SKS, she nailed it too.
He got a nice caribou, shot it just at the spine. She tried earlier but missed, too high.

Another guy took a huge caribou, he processed it in his shop, noting was wasted, his eight sled dogs
enjoyed the bones. Caribou sausage time. He shared some meat with neighbors in town.
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I have a buddy that lives in Alaska and said the stars for one of those Alaska shows that makes you think they are roughing it lives 5 minutes from him outside of town.
 
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I have a buddy that lives in Alaska and said the stars for one of those Alaska shows that makes you think they are roughing it lives 5 minutes from him outside of town.
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Dang near everything about Alaska you see on TV is dramatized and/or massively edited of the 60 hours of dead time it took for something to happen. I love the place, I mostly hate the shows, is cool to see the occasional familiar face or place.
 
I believe he is a member on gunboards forum and posts there from time to time under the screen name Caribou.
 
I like the lady that runs the Airstrip in the middle of nowhere. I would love to live like her.
 
You take from those shows what you want to and ignore the drama. Same with survival/prepper fiction books. I've learned a hell of a lot watching all those types of shows, hell even Alaska Bush People as faulty as it is has some interesting stuff. My favorite is still Life Below Zero. Who would ever have know that you can preserve eggs with seal oil o_O? I've got to have me one of them ulu knives...............
 
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That place is rough, you talk about undeveloped, pure, you are the bottom of the food pyramid.

Few weeks ago a couple Air Force pararescuemen had to parachute and to perform life-saving measures on a man who is attacked by a bear, do something like 150 miles from a town with roads. The hunter had to go in by aircraft. There is no place in the continental United States where you are more than 150 from a town or a road, even in the desert.
 
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You take from those shows what you want to and ignore the drama. Same with survival/prepper fiction books. I've learned a hell of a lot watching all those types of shows, hell even Alaska Bush People as faulty as it is has some interesting stuff. My favorite is still Life Below Zero. Who would ever have know that you can preserve eggs with seal oil o_O? I've got to have me one of them ulu knives...............
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I've got one.. Nothing fancy but it sure is a neat blade and useful. Best thing I've found for cutting frozen meat.
 
Joe Rogan recently did a podcast with one of the original people from that show. It was very interesting, guy seemed legit.


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