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As an individual your chances would be pretty slim. As a group of people with one person being unquestioned, and there's the difficult bit, as a leader than probably "yes".
I believe that there have been similar posts on other forums about this very subject and the conclusion was that a well motivated group would survive. The individual would perish because there were not enough hours in the day to gather food, fuel, water etc
Yes smoke signals would give away your position, but it was tongue in cheek.
But yes there are cretins out there that think they are owed a living now, so same type would assume that if you had it it must be ok for them to take.
Again with the skills and knowledge I don't think they would last long or find US.
As for our ancestors having bears etc to hunt, what do you think would happen to all the exotic animals in parks?
We could end up with more choice :)
During the siege of Paris large,and small, zoo animals were eaten. But, take note, the best cuts went to the expensive restaurants. The rich were well aware, as usual, of the fact "that we are all in it together"
I think I'd stick with Ray.Quote:
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More meat on the bones...
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I think, Martin, Jakob, Raven & still water touched on a lot of my views nicely on this one.
I would certainly recommend the book I'm going coming to the end of, he lives of wild food for a year, although he lives on a small farm he doesn't allow himself to cultivate or use agriculture, just hunting and foraging. It's a great account of what it's like to live from the land showing the ups and the downs.
Hi from me and I think it would be possible :)
Hmmm seems to me the original question was just about food but we quickly got onto living in the wild -
Accepting 2 things from Martin - his very first statement at comment number 4 and his statement that posts have been deleted and I'm to play nicely........ OK
I have 1 "qualified" view, cloud cuckoo land - why?
lets run a poll of the entire membership of this site with one question:
what is the longest consecutive run of time we have spent living outdoors supporting ourselves alone? I'm happy to answer this one, I lived homeless for three months -impressed I hear you thinking but the longest consecutive run I managed alone and in the Welsh wilderness was 17 days with a 80 litre pack and as many trappings as I could carry. It's pretty difficult to exist even on the edge of society once you start to look like a tramp and smell like an armpit. It's pretty difficult to keep "having a brew" when you have to weigh up teabags against warm clothing. It's pretty difficult to keep dipping in your rucksack for more socks because you're wearing them out with all the foraging you're doing. It's pretty difficult to make a new pair of boots because the ones you have are falling apart with all the work you're doing. It's pretty difficult to forage in 3 straight days of rain especially if you've given yourself a dose of the aztec twostep because you didn't watch the mussels/prawn/rabbit/fungus/fish/wild edibles you were cooking over your fire last night as you were exhausted from just "surviving" and reaching in your rucksack for medication does have it's limitations. It's pretty difficult when there's no methylated spirit or gas cans and so on and so forth. "Tramps" live by their wits in towns and cities - I know I've shared body heat with them and they are not generally found out in the woodland and along the coastline where people who choose to be homeless exist (again on the edge of society.
I can keep going on all night - I wish you the best of British if you choose to attempt living like a nomadic ancient in a modern world but I strongly urge you to consider that gleaning your entire knowledge from websites with memberships (and I include myself in this statement) that consist of people who have an enthusiastic interest in learning the skills which form their occasional weekend and vacation time "hobby" is perhaps not the sum total of the research you need to carry out before placing your future in the hands of one emergency service or another to get you out of the very dark place you'll quickly find yourself in.
regards Jack
Totally agree with everything Jack says. Why would you want to give up the comforts of home if you don't have to?
Martin
Oh who needs comforts give me a hammock and I'm happy unless it rains :)
Never having been out that long I have to hand it to Jack Russell for a very open point of view. I would love to try but as usual work and family life are ever present.
I love honing my limited skills and still try and increase my knowledge and skills, just nice to do it from the warmth of my house :D
One day I may have no choice, then all my time honing skills hopefully will pay benefits.