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@Aus-Prep Wow, this guys off tap.
Who throws their own mum under a bus.
This guy don't even use the proper finger grip on a bow, One over one under ummmmm three fingers fool.
Starts shooting arrows in the direction of his cat....
Makes a flimsy ### halberd, from a broomstick and two machetes, Classy..... Lucky this guy didn't get a invite to the manhattan project, his weapon making skills are pretty questionable.
Says he's a security guard, I find that hard to believe, i'm a security guard, this bloke doesn't seem mentally stable enough to be a security guard. Consumer and Business Service must have been hanging to go home on the day he walked in.

Your right though this bloke is why us Aussies have such a hard time prepping.
 
This guy is the very reason why we Aussie preppers are labeled the way we are.



LOL, wow. People like this are the primary reason why I in no way shape or form consider myself a prepper. This is why labels and generalizations are dangerous.

There are even a couple members of this forum whom clearly could be considered mentally disturbed. I don't want to be lumped into the same category as people like this.

Just because I take interest in something does not mean it defines who I am as a person.
 
He has spent 10K in 3 years on prepping while living with his mom. She should give him the boot..after all, that's what he says he would do to her if the SHTF. Looks like it is all weapons type of stuff too. He doesn't seem very balanced.... does he? Kind of sad that he thinks this way and he is only 20 years old.
 
He has spent 10K in 3 years on prepping while living with his mom. She should give him the boot..after all, that's what he says he would do to her if the SHTF. Looks like it is all weapons type of stuff too. He doesn't seem very balanced.... does he? Kind of sad that he thinks this way and he is only 20 years old.
I think he has spent to much time watching TV,,,,,,,,you can't let the idea that if the SHTF that it will be a constant battle of self defense,,,,,your biggest enemy's will be being alone,food water and shelter
 
Some of the best and original bushcraft books come from Australia, when I was a youngster some of my favorite authors were Richard Graves (bushcraft series) and H A Lindsay (bushman) I really don't understand the younger generation, than again I'm sure they don't understand me :(

My teaching tools were one on one hands on learning and by books from the folks that lived it such as the ones listed above not from this make believe world of T.V./youtube/internet, maybe I am a dinosaur :-/
 
Some of the best and original bushcraft books come from Australia, when I was a youngster some of my favorite authors were Richard Graves (bushcraft series) and H A Lindsay (bushman) I really don't understand the younger generation, than again I'm sure they don't understand me :(

My teaching tools were one on one hands on learning and by books from the folks that lived it such as the ones listed above not from this make believe world of T.V./youtube/internet, maybe I am a dinosaur :-/

Greatest ever sheep moles....... erm Aussie expert has to be the brilliant Maj (ret) Les Hiddins better known as the Bush tucker man... So good he is respected by the SAS as one of the best.

Bear Grylls and Ray Mears rate him among the very best.
 
Greatest ever sheep moles....... erm Aussie expert has to be the brilliant Maj (ret) Les Hiddins better known as the Bush tucker man... So good he is respected by the SAS as one of the best.

Bear Grylls and Ray Mears rate him among the very best.

That could be, I have read his books though his writings came way after my youth, Graves and Lindsay were very influential with me along with Kephart and Beard.
 
That could be, I have read his books though his writings came way after my youth, Graves and Lindsay were very influential with me along with Kephart and Beard.

What I reckon Major Hiddins GREATEST contribution to survival was insanely simple. British and Commonwealth maps are printed on high quality paper in a grid system what Maj Hiddens realised that the maps were only printed on one side. So what he did was the identify and record in images and text everything edible flora and fauna and useful in the area covered by each map and printed it on the back. So if you were in XXXX County all of the edible, medicinal and other useful items native to that area were shown on the back of the map. Map and survival guide in one.
 
What I reckon Major Hiddins GREATEST contribution to survival was insanely simple. British and Commonwealth maps are printed on high quality paper in a grid system what Maj Hiddens realised that the maps were only printed on one side. So what he did was the identify and record in images and text everything edible flora and fauna and useful in the area covered by each map and printed it on the back. So if you were in XXXX County all of the edible, medicinal and other useful items native to that area were shown on the back of the map. Map and survival guide in one.

And that is brilliant! though even today cartographers don't put that kind of information on maps even many survival maps won't have that information. I've seen many foraging maps that tell you what in the area but offers no detail. I wish map makers offered that kind of detail info.
 
After watching and reading all the responses a little devil's advocate... IF something bad happened close to you and you had 15 minutes to leave, what would you look like and what would you take ? Is it not entirely possible you would look similar ? Is he the only over weight prepper ? is he the only young and dumb prepper ? In the event of a nuke being used in your area, would you take Mom or Dad who could not go far ? Would they even want to ? Would you leave them if they did not want to go ? or would you stay and die also ? videos like this may be totally bogus, he may be making fun of all preppers ? If I ever made a video about prepping it would be so bad you would think how do I live when things are normal....not that this was his intentions, but I have seen worse videos....
 
He lacks a mentor. I feel pity for him, and some compassion. It used to be that a man passed on his skills, and his knowledge, to his children or even an apprentice if the man was in a skilled trade.

I know the old guys at the Steel Mill were not kind to me, but I ended up making a lot of money travelling around the country welding, because they were harsh and wouldn't let me get away with poor quality work.

Useful skills used to be passed from generation to generation, man to man, woman to woman. I don't see that so much anymore, my generation, X, dropped the ball somehow. One of my sons wants to know how to do things, he is easy to teach because he cares to learn. The other son, not so much, and it is difficult to get him interested, its a real challenge.

Where is the grown man to smack that kid upside his head, and tell him he looks a fool? Maybe this stuff happens because as a society we aren't allowed to be "cruel" anymore. No one able or willing to say "Hey asshole, put down the limb saw spear and have a beer and listen to what I'm telling you. It's simple, and it could save your life and maybe your Mom's." Or maybe someone is trying to do that, and the kid isn't listening.

My Dad had no patience, None Whatsoever, and I learned nothing from him. To this day I don't even know if he had anything to teach! Maybe I should ask him before its too late? I don't know.

My friends Dad taught a bunch of us kids everything, how to farm, how to garden, how to make maple syrup and shoot guns and drive tractors and work on cars. He would watch you make mistakes and break stuff and he never got mad, or TOOK TOOLS OUT OF OUR HANDS. If you got hurt, well suck it up, you will know better next time. He has passed recently, and he is sorely missed. He openly spoke to us, even as kids, that it was naturally his job to teach us, but it was never arrogant. He drank a lot, lol, and had a bit of a criminal history, but good or bad I learned a lot from him.

This kid in the first video lacks that in his life. It's a shame, really. He obviously wants to be something.
 
videos like this may be totally bogus, he may be making fun of all preppers ? If I ever made a video about prepping it would be so bad you would think how do I live when things are normal....not that this was his intentions, but I have seen worse videos....

Im hoping it’s just a pun video but given the current crop of kids out their in this o’l world I’m not sure it’s all that different from the mentality we see today. As far kicking the elderly parents to the curb or even very sick child or wife that’s going to be a choice some people are going to make and live with. Let’s just hope to God we never have to face that decision. I’ll just end my thinking with this; on the battlefield it was never an option to leave a brother on the field even at our own demise.
 

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