Thread: Alone Australia 2

I'm sure you saw my thread on the first season: https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....v-show-100802/

Is it more of the same? Not sure I could bear it!

To be fair their was less that fuck all to eat on the last Aussie one

Bit of entertainment for sure!

ps guys watch it on TVNZ on demard. avoids the adds.

having watched the first 2 my throughts are that most have underestimated the need for shelter. (Compaired to the last US one i watched bits of recentlly. )
They may be under trees but damp rain mist will blow in and make life awfull for them if they don't get some sides and walls constructed.
Plus I don't see those tarps lasting out a southern gale.
Was good to see that some of them have taken some time to study what edable plant are avaliable in NZ bush.
But they did underestimate how hard it is to get around.
Given deer tracks on the beach someone must get a deer if they just sit still and let one come to them.
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I'm an Aussie import, never hunted in fiordland but I've visited milford, been blessed with plentiful rains and also spent wet weeks hunting in Haast.
Gotta say even in on a rainy day back home most aussies with a bit of experience should be able to figure out a fire, we're pretty spoilt in that regard. But getting one going and keeping it going in the west coast bush when everything has been wet for days can be a real struggle even when cheating with modern technology. I reckon the first several days straight of rain making everything constantly wet being an instant tap out for most of the contestants, even the aboriginal Sheila complained within the first episode. The bearded ex SAS fella was pretty sharp finding a dry hollow tree to stash tinder inside with a hot stone, but it doesn't really look like anyone has made much of an effort to sort out firewood and keeping it dry yet, in my limited experience that should have been step one.

All pitched the tarp as an A frame, great for ventilation on a warm day to dry things out but useless for sideways rain and wind... Nobody has gone for a storm proof tarp pitch? Odd. Lets the sand flies come and go freely though! Poor bastards didn't know what they were in for there hahaha.

Looks like most of them are wearing those neoprene topped bumboots. Once those get wet they'll never dry out, I'd rather hunt barefoot with cold feet!

Bit of talk of getting a pig for food, wouldn't have thought that would be very likely though?

Don't mind the Alone US seasons where they put contestants where there are actual food sources. Otherwise it's "Starvation" for however many episodes... which isn't pleasant. Tends to favour larger bodied, higher fat body mass types. The one in Mongolia where the kid outlasted everyone with his body fat strategy points to this. Did I just say that out loud? Cancel me. Or send me to Fiordland. I'd last 2 days before I started robbing the film crew's stash nightly.

I note one of the lads admitted to bulking an extra 15kg before going to have some reserves to live of for a while, maybe not such a bad idea.

Me I carry no reserves and graze pretty much constantly which is why even multi day tramps can be a problem.

They still all in there?

Originally Posted by Sideshow

They still all in there?

Yep

I don’t see much chance of a pig, unless a trap is made with deer guts as a lure..

They definitely have underestimated how horrible it’s going to get in a storm, flooding, ripped tarps I bet this is yet to come! I agree Firewood is key they should have stashed plenty. I’d Wear tramping boots but not old ones I’d had resoled

Food will really become an issue soon, possums is what I’d be targeting, pretty easy to find at night.

Routine is key, there’s some hearty people there it’s going to be interesting who makes it, the ones having doubts in there minds they are already gone.

Be fun to be part of it, especially in the roar!

What would be the go to tactic for procuring possums without foothold traps and flour etc? Can't shoot them at night with bow either.

Originally Posted by MtnMan

What would be the go to tactic for procuring possums without foothold traps and flour etc? Can't shoot them at night with bow either.

Good head torch at night and a short hefty stick, whittled and shaped shaped to your liking.
Great way to have fun after legal shooting light on the river flats during a roar trip, they come out and nibble on the grass seeds and whatever else is tasty. Keep the torch on their eyes and they sit still, sneak in without spooking them and then run em down. Got 26 that way in the Okuru river last year was the young fellas idea, 11 year old lad on his first roar bored with all the rain started carving up a possum whispering stick by the fire. We all chuckled and left him to it until his old man took him out with the torch and he nailed 3 in 20 minutes on the first attempt, then everyone wanted to have a crack!

Originally Posted by MtnMan

What would be the go to tactic for procuring possums without foothold traps and flour etc? Can't shoot them at night with bow either.

actually you can.....shooting bow by instinct may be a nearly forgotton art but a close range possum wouldnt be all that hard....as others have said...whackem on head with stick,creep up n grab tail...some of us have caught many that way...used to get em out of bedding holes reasonably easy too.

Just grab it bro.

https://youtu.be/FcookmLvbII?si=vEFuk6Pm5h_Orh7s

From about 4:30 onwards.

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