For 20 million, would you live in an empty cabin for a year

[Vogz]

That was my point. If something you think should be common sense, but clearly the results show it isn't, maybe it's not, and you shouldn't use it as your argument.

Why is it you think only experienced survivalists could survive this scenario? I agree, it's a huge plus. But I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility for a non-experienced person to survive this. Humans do what they need to live.

I wouldn't normally respond to someone who refers to something that's a statistical possibility as magical, but if it'll appease your curiosity and shut all the naysayers up, I'll give it a try.

Dozens of times I've gone on hunting/camping trips in Wisconsin. Usually 2-5 days long. I can skin/cook/preserve animals I kill. I can start fire a couple of different ways. I know how to purify drinking water. I can tell direction. I have made my own shelter in the woods before. And I've chopped wood.

No. I've never spent more than a week in the wilderness. Nor have I been anywhere so cold.

(didn't you make a separate thread for this stuff Vogz?)

I clearly gave the general public too much credit. I won't make that mistake again.

Why do I think only experienced survivalists could survive? Because established communities of people have trouble surviving in Northern Alaska in the winter when they lose power or their food source for any length of time. Not to mention the suicide rate is insane up there when it's dark ALL DAY and doesn't rise above zero for months at a time.

You clearly don't realize just how cold it gets up there. How scarce food is and the mental toll something like that would take even if somehow you were able to stay warm without proper winter gear and stay fed without a guaranteed food source.

I did make a separate thread, and the people voting mostly turned it into a joke.

 

[Spivitz]

People might want to reconsider their yes vote after this recent cold spell.... Fuck doing a $20million year long northern Alaska tour. No amount of coin could provoke me....

 

[Eagle]

I don't even want to spend one night under 20*. I did that one on a camping trip... And it was miserable. Got down to about 15*. Only a tent and a sleeping bag. Froze my ass off.

 

[Squidbilly]

As the situation stands now, there's no fucking way that I would attempt it.

I think there should be more options, like:
1. Trade your gun for another person, that knows nothing about survival (Scott from the kardashians?), and you must start in the middle of summer (less time to prepare for winter)

2. No wood burning stove, but you get a sleeping bag.

3. No gun, but you get a mini torch or a lighter

4. No pots, pans, or utensils, but you get a bed.

5. ...what you got?

 

[Yaj Yak]

being in wyoming... 2-3 weeks ago... some places pretty far from "civilization" made me think of this thread.


i guaran.fucking.tee. most on here would be dead, myself included, and dead quickly.

 

[Yaj Yak]

one of the biggest things would be how high in elevation you were, as well as how far you could "venture" to try to get "out"... [MENTION=5]Mook[/MENTION] said on the first page that if you ventured to a town or cabin or whatever that'd be allowed.

 

[Eagle]

That's one flash back of a thread revival for sure!

 

[Yaj Yak]

That's one flash back of a thread revival for sure!

im re-reading now

 

[Mook]

Jesus, this was from 2013?

My comment still stands. Dead within a week

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Do we get the $20 million before or after?

If Before, buy GPS transmitter/satellite phone combo, trade tools for them.

Day of pickup, call emergency services, tell them to locate your ass and send rescue in 24hrs.

Enjoy remainder of $20,000,000.

 

[Yaj Yak]

what's teh rule for firewood?

get 10 times more than you think you will need?

i mean you "get" a "month's" worth of firewood at the start of this adventure... is your cabin big enough to keep all of that dry- or will it be outside? i didn't see a tarp being offered. additionally... alaska is dark like always in the winter right? how in the fuck are you going to go bounce around the woods looking for things to eat in 10 feet of snow in pitch black darkness once that handy dandy flashlight gives up.

i think you save the gun and a bullet to off yourself when you starve to death and realize that's a better quicker way to go than shivering to death from hypothermia and lack of food

 

[Yaj Yak]

Do we get the $20 million before or after?

If Before, buy GPS transmitter/satellite phone combo, trade tools for them.

Day of pickup, call emergency services, tell them to locate your ass and send rescue in 24hrs.

Enjoy remainder of $20,000,000.

 

[Mook]

Do we get the $20 million before or after?

If Before, buy GPS transmitter/satellite phone combo, trade tools for them.

Day of pickup, call emergency services, tell them to locate your ass and send rescue in 24hrs.

Enjoy remainder of $20,000,000.

You get the money after you dont die.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Still stand by my original post. I'm a bit fatter now too so I've got an extra couple days of starvation I can use.

But seriously. Unless that rifle is a fucking Henry 45-70 from 19fuckingwhatever or some weird ass caliber that only THAT gun used, my reloading gear can fit into a briefcase so I can at least continually hunt. 7 days to "prep" my seabags full of survival gear, most of which I already have.

Will TCG sponsors be fronting the 20 mill or does Mook need to take out a life insurance policy and "die"?

 

[Mook]

Still stand by my original post. I'm a bit fatter now too so I've got an extra couple days of starvation I can use.

But seriously. Unless that rifle is a fucking Henry 45-70 from 19fuckingwhatever or some weird ass caliber that only THAT gun used, my reloading gear can fit into a briefcase so I can at least continually hunt. 7 days to "prep" my seabags full of survival gear, most of which I already have.

Will TCG sponsors be fronting the 20 mill or does Mook need to take out a life insurance policy and "die"?

I will empty my entire bank account if you can do this. Its almost 20 million, but not quite. TCG has been slower this year.

 

[Yaj Yak]

"alaska or the yukon or something cold"

fuck.

i was in wyoming after memorial day and it was not above 40* some days in the middle of the day in sunshine and still snowing.... most trees are soaked and can't be burnt all too well.... and you aren't going to just stumble on awesome firewood that's good to be burnt anytime soon.

 

[Mr_Roboto]

I will empty my entire bank account if you can do this. Its almost 20 million, but not quite. TCG has been slower this year.

Make sure you get him to sign the life insurance policies before he goes. You can kinda consider it like an investment.

 

[Mook]

All it would take is for a cut to get infected and all you guys would be dead Especially if the infection gets into your blood stream. BYE FELICIA

I guess you could chop the infected limb off though.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

All it would take is for a cut to get infected and all you guys would be dead Especially if the infection gets into your blood stream. BYE FELICIA

I guess you could chop the infected limb off though.

A cut? More like a MAJOR laceration. You're making that out to be like you're an AIDS patient with no immune system. I've lacerated my forehead, shin, hands, never went to the doctors, and been just fine. A little ounce tubing of bacetracine ointment fits in nicely with my gauze wrappings and bandages.

 

[Mook]

You ever have an infection in the blood stream? I have. 3 times in the past year. Shit is absolutely no joke, at all. Untreated, you will legit die. I keep getting it in my arm. You can watch it travel up your arm and if you see it go past the arm pit, its code red. Well, its sepsis. I know you know what that is.

Obviously a cut or some shit aint gonna be the end of days.

 

[FESTER665]

what's teh rule for firewood?

get 10 times more than you think you will need?

i mean you "get" a "month's" worth of firewood at the start of this adventure... is your cabin big enough to keep all of that dry- or will it be outside? i didn't see a tarp being offered. additionally... alaska is dark like always in the winter right? how in the fuck are you going to go bounce around the woods looking for things to eat in 10 feet of snow in pitch black darkness once that handy dandy flashlight gives up.

i think you save the gun and a bullet to off yourself when you starve to death and realize that's a better quicker way to go than shivering to death from hypothermia and lack of food

It's dark a lot but not the entire time... Like Fairbanks (middle'ish of Alaska) gets like 3-4 hours of sun on the shortest day of the year.

I say if you're starting in spring and can stockpile and get ready for the winter it could be done... For $20 million I'd give it a shot.

 

[Yaj Yak]

like i said, the type of terrain you get put at would really really affect this... are you in a mountain range somewhere where everything around you is 6k feet or higher? or are you at sea level?

 

[Chester Copperpot]

You ever have an infection in the blood stream? I have. 3 times in the past year. Shit is absolutely no joke, at all. Untreated, you will legit die. I keep getting it in my arm. You can watch it travel up your arm and if you see it go past the arm pit, its code red. Well, its sepsis. I know you know what that is.

Obviously a cut or some shit aint gonna be the end of days.

While I don't disagree with you, you seem to underestimate how strong of an immune system I, and I'm sure many others, have. I'm serious. Shredded my foot from glass in the FOx, had sticks stab the fuck out of me, etc.

I was installing a light bar on my truck a couple weeks ago and smashed my forehead on the hook for the hood and cut my head open pretty good. 1/2"-3/4" gash almost down to the bone. It's completely healed up and fine now. Only a bandaid and bacitracin on it. When I was a kid, I was one of those guys with the pedals on his BMX that had huge steel studs to grip your feet in mud. I jumped over something, lost my footing, and proceeded to rip a 3" gash in my shin down to the bone. Never got it sewed up and just kept it covered with a wrap and anti-biotics and it healed up, barring the giant scar I have.

Honestly if I were going to die, it would either be from pneumonia or an animal attack. Which both are extremely likely.

 

[Yaj Yak]

you type a lot about antibiotics here in a situation where you have none.

 

[Mook]

I'm not saying it WOULD happen, but all of your mountain men just saying it aint no thing, it would take the smallest issue to end it all. My only point.