Alone: Bonus - Dave's 10 Items (Season 5) | History

[@grosebud4554]

I really loved his attitude. His hippy turned bushman vibe I really liked. He didn’t fight with nature like some survivors. He made the right choice in season 5 as he is a 50 year old man and starving himself twice is no bueno.

[@shieldmaiden000]

Out of all the contestants, Dave is the only one that I respected for needing to go home. He didn't go out there seeking some spiritual healing or anything like that. He wasn't always whining over missing his family or friends. He went knowing he will be alone and he knew he might have to starve again, but he quit when he was almost to his last ounce of fat and knew it better to quit now than when it was too late. When your teeth are loose in your gums, than you know the body is taking a beating. Dave, sorry you stressed so much about killing animals for consumption, but I understand it is your kind nature. But you knew you would have to kill to survive. With that said, you finished giving it your all. Good for you.

[@kylef1777]

My number 1 favorite from any of the Alone seasons.

[@jittoyt716]

I can agree he did really great out there

[@CeeDee_Snutts]

Real inspiration to me, love your view on life and respect you a lot!!!!

[@keithwilliams8696]

He's hunting well but starting get too sappy about killing to eat. Mentally psycing himself out

[@BowChickaHonkHonk1]

Hoping Dave will teach me how to smoke a fish this time. He seemed to be the best at food preservation, out of any contestant I remember.

[@RickTOutdoorAdventure1969]

Not watched it yet, but Dave comes accross like a cool dude 👍

[@Nikali90]

You are amazing with the bow and building shelters. Def one of my favorites, wish you would have stayed and won season 5 cause you could’ve done it!

[@DiedLiu]

Glad to see Dave back.

[@tedzilla5826]

good brand knife pick.

[@iCompletionFactory]

This time eat enough Man.

[@infinitemonkey917]

Bill is the expert here. Let's see you survive 73 days in Patagonia.

[@MuskratJim]

Congrats on surviving 73 days! Awesome!

[@mikelloyd106]

Gill net is a good idea. Learning how to set it up before you go out is even better.

[@davidpritchett5974]

Rule one.. Got to know where the fish are traveling.. Get on a high bank and look down into the river.

[@samueljlarson]

@@davidpritchett5974 Or better yet, get in the water and swim with them.

[@Johnny53kgb-nsa]

I like Dave. Boy, did he take a beating the last time! I hope it's either Dave or Sam, but I also like Nichole, lol. All 3 of these were really tough as nails in their previous attempt. All three are very resourceful and very knowledgeable. I really like this show, but the only way I'm camping outside with wild animals is if I can build a huge circle of fire around my tent!

[@funonvancouverisland]

Never be caught in the woods without a saw... good luck brother!!

[@johnloraditch9562]

Go Dave,,, I believe you will win it all and it will be less than 73 days

[@bizzarko]

Anyone know the brand of his bow

[@sgtgrantham]

Gotta love the Morakniv

[@therrienvictor8474]

Morakniv are amazing 😉

[@AncientCreature-i2o]

They're alright. Use mine as a backup. They're great for detailed work and skinning. Not great for large game processing or heavier jobs. Cant beat the price though.

[@jordanl7459]

His sleeping bag is not good enough

[@grosebud4554]

Bill Randall lol a KZbin survivalist. Dude it dropped wel below freezing in season 5. They needed a sleeping bag tough guy. Gotta love armchair survivalists.

[@karen81986]

He’s so handsome

[@dukefanshawe6815]

Haha bro he looks like a human squirrel.

[@mtenorio32]

@@dukefanshawe6815 🤣😂

[@Specialized61]

Nice Mora knife

[@davidpritchett5974]

Mora is THE best.. Great steel and blade shape.. Will hold an edge forever..

[@amarvedwal3821]

How to participate in alone season... I am interested.. Pls reply me.......✍

[@shieldmaiden000]

Go to the History website and you will find a link taking you to their participation forms and contact information.

[@randalflagg9086]

No saw he's going to expend a lot of energy/calories with just a Scandinavian forest axe to process firewood!

[@IIDASHII]

Bill Randall, it is MUCH easier to cut ground wood to manageable length with a saw than to chop it with an axe. It is also FAR safer. One slip with an axe and you are done.

[@jlogan2228]

Bill Randall the have to be prepared to stay up to a year Just never gets close to that

[@gibbacool2009]

Good luck Dave,please make sure you don’t keep away most of you food this time ! Eat well in the beginning as you’re gonna be burning more calories! Good luck Man I’ll be watching here in Japan

[@patrickgermond2750]

He'll do well at river fishing

[@davidpritchett5974]

Till it freezes over-----

[@picknroll929]

Was he the one who was sent home by doctors because he lost a lot of weight? The one with lots of smoked fish in stash?

[@duffbeer989]

Pick N Roll yes

[@williamlowry8809]

lol, why wasn't he eating it?

[@picknroll929]

Cracoucass - bfheroes he was rationing it. He was only eating half fish every 2 days but he had like 30 smoke fish it was such a waste.. I was rooting for him that season he was a good fisher.

[@Well_I_am_just_saying]

Bill Randall Actually, he had 33 fillets at the end. I just re-watched the episode. It was probably only about as many calories as he would burn in 3 days. He should have immediately stored those fish on his body by eating them as soon as he caught them. Rationing his fish at 100 calories per day did not make any sense considering that he burns approximately 2000 calories per day simply resting.

[@infinitemonkey917]

This show should be called Starvation, not Alone. After the weaker people and freak incidents are out, it comes down to who can avoid starvation and suffer the longest.

[@jlogan2228]

Deemantos that's part of survival though. Dave for example had a decent food haorde that could've been far better used insted of eating one fillet every other day. As soon as he was too weak to string his bow that should've clued him in to eat more. Since he didn't he had to be medically forfoeghted

[@infinitemonkey917]

That is true but he chose not to eat enough of it and was pulled out do to starvation. It's probably because he was starving, thus mental deterioration, that he made the wrong choice to horde rather than eat his fish. Anyway, he is a good candidate to win this season.

[@johnloraditch9562]

Looks like Sam brought 5 times as much 20 gauge wire than Dave

[@williamlowry8809]

Grizzly bears and black bears? In Mongolia? I see the guy knows his stuff.

[@infinitemonkey917]

Mongolia does have a Black bear and the endangered Gobi bear which is a subspecies of Brown Bear aka Grizzly.

[@gantugstsogtbaatar1932]

yes, In Mongolia. This place is not a far from the city. It means they weren't living nature. Most of the animal didn't live in a human area. They were lucky (not winter season).

[@infinitemonkey917]

This place is in Mongolia. There are bears and wolves.

[@dillyncox4962]

are compound bows allowed in this challenge?

[@shieldmaiden000]

No

[@lonknight3197]

How about a crossbow? There is a russian guy ( i think russian) who makes automatic firing crossbows that take clips of arrows/ bolts.

[@bradleylarson2986]

Why the mora? They aren’t bad knives but I need a full tang

[@dougjohnsonbushcraftandbjj5561]

What kind of question is "why the Mora"?? They are amazing wood working tools, that's why. There is no reason for them to be full tang really, they are already so durable.

[@bradleylarson2986]

I mean I have a couple of them but I like the cold steel srk the best. But the mora is awesome.

[@gravitypronepart2201]

He's the only one who brought a gill net. Interesting. I noticed noone brought a tarp this time. Looking forward to the season.

[@FellsApprentice]

gravityprone part 2 they are given two large tarps extra in the name of protecting the camera equipment

[@charlespaul91]

Brook brought a gill net as well

[@thomasferris3750]

Suprized nobody is looking to the winner for an example as to what to bring

[@tim7527]

I think that gill net will pay off for him

[@IIDASHII]

Did I just see an experienced Alone contestant pull out a Morakniv Companion? I'm not knocking the Companion. It is an amazing knife for the money (I have two), but it seems foolish to bring a budget knife onto a survival show, and I know I'd never do it.

[@amo757]

They are very tough knives, the rubber handle is more comfortable than harder scale materials like G10, and they sharpen easily. Wise choice in my opinion.

[@jlogan2228]

Budget knives can be just as tough as more expensive ones. Most knives budget or not will perform about the same and there's no sense in spending $200 or more on a bush knife that a cheaper knife will do the same job

[@leopowers8241]

I always use the mora companion, the best medium-small knife out there, in my opinion. Super strong, stays sharp a long time, solid and comfortable grip, good for batoning, excellent for whittling... Lots of reasons to love it. :) it would be my choice if i was on this show...

[@AncientCreature-i2o]

I agree. 100%.

[@pawel_tips911]

Peanuts are very weak food rations, like for poor people. I think you should choose different kind of nuts, Brazil Nuts are much more nutrition! Gill-net it's so hard to try to use it before tv show?

[@sw0mpy]

What, no saw? An axe is primarily used for wood splitting. For woodcutting a good Silky saw is at least 50% more efficient than any axe. Unless you have a stove that can only fit a particular size wood, there is really no need to split huge amounts of wood out there. Why is everybody bringing an axe?

[@bushcraftcountryskills552]

I guess anaxe is more exiting than a saw... And more versetile. You could survive with no knife and saw as long as you have an axe. But I agree he should have traded one of his other items for a saw.

[@funonvancouverisland]

sw0mpy couldn't agree with you more my friend. Something about an axe that inhearantly speaks to us, but at the end of the day it's all about the saw.

[@bushcraftcountryskills552]

Yep the guy in season 3 who was running around in the wet dirt and stuck his axe in his arm...

[@sw0mpy]

I see you are trying to be ironic here. We all know it was a knife. But still, for splitting wood in survival situation it is way safer to baton it with a large knife that to use an axe. I like the cutting tools that Nicole brought. She had a large knife, large saw and a modified Leatherman. With those tools there isn't much you can't do. In theory you should bring with you the things that are the hardest to make or find in nature.

[@thisisnotaarealname]

Bill Randall So right!

[@ericheine2414]

A blow dryer, escargot tongs, nail clipper, bikini underwear, stripper, a large bottle of Probe, handcuffs, cognac, Cuban cigar, Bic lighter. You can always eat the stripper. Iron American Dream on KZbin.

[@liceous]

dilf

[@Xsurvival-savageX]

I can survive Alone

[@shieldmaiden000]

So can I. I am a 62-year-old woman and living alone and away from people is my choice. I am perfectly happy with me.

[@lukejackson4929]

bro other people have -40 and -60 bags and he has a negative 20 and he only brought a 1.5 quart pot when he could take a 2 quart j

[@Friedrich-Wilhelm-1980]

too bad they could not take a rifle a ruger .22 would have been far better than a bow and 1000 rounds are extremely light

[@jlogan2228]

VK7001.P yea I get that they want to make the show more realistic of long term survival but it's actually bc an interesting test of how much a firearm would or wouldnt help and what happens when it malfunctions ammo runs out etc

[@6foot8jesuspilledpureblood82]

With a 22. This wouldn't even be a challenge.. you could literally sit there and wait for small game to pop every day and likely stay pretty fed. The show would go on for 200 plus days so it simply wouldn't be viable for the producers to allow.

[@leolldankology]

Gill net is a waste. Everyone that brought one on previous seasons dis not get much use out of them.

[@bushcraftcountryskills552]

Yeah especially in a river...

[@jlogan2228]

Plus if you bring 550 cord you can just MAKE one

[@lonknight3197]

Make a gill net. Really how many days work would that take and how much of your paracord would you end up wasting to do it. If your going to want to bring one it would be best to buy a good quality net. If they send you to a place with good fishing maybe bow-fishing might be better, less likely to get tangled on some junk in the water and lose the entire net.

[@macmikeyoutubization]

No tarp is the only thing i was suprised on...And a better knife seems realistic but crush on bro

[@jlogan2228]

Deep Forest Living Skills they get two tarps already to protect the cameras

[@tinsoldier5621]

If hes so great why did he only last 73 days

[@jittoyt716]

If that’s such little days out in the wild then you do it

[@longyoa2070]

This show is becoming more stupider by the season. Why bring so call survival expertise back when they have already failed. There all plenty of other that would love the opportunity like me. Brad was on it once and lasted a day, now he lasts a week. All knew what is coming and he quit of hunger. Carleigh quit cause fish hook got caught on her hand, and Nicole quite cause of MS attack. This is just beyond stupid and boring now. Why bother being a participant if you knew you have some sort of health issue knowing that it might be the cause of you quitting. I hate it when they know what it is about and all they talk about is oh my family this family that blah blah blah. I'm not an expert but dam well I will outlast any one of these contestants.

[@jlogan2228]

Long Yoa if you applied and weren't chosen obviously they didn't think you could do it

[@longyoa2070]

J Logan not hard to survive with 10 items..these contestant are not what the show claim them to be. The show (History) touts the participants as "elite survivalists picked from 35,000 applicants...the best of the best", then you see this guy toss 4 big fish in a puddle for "overnite storage" as he calls it. So clueless not to think predators would scoop them up. There also wasn't enough oxygen in that puddle anyway. Smoke the extra fish." It seem the producers only want the weak and the inept, with some sort of hook for the audience, pretty boy or lady, kids at home, transgender, fat, etc.. It costs them a million $ a month to keep their rescue teams afield. They want this show to end in 2 months.

[@jlogan2228]

Long Yoa so did you apply for the show? If it's so easy then go do it on your own. You'll be the next survivorman I'm sure

[@longyoa2070]

J Logan with the prize pool 500k, I'm in..

[@leopowers8241]

i think all the folks on the internet who think they could outlast everyone on the show don't really understand that being on the show and making real choices is way harder than just telling everyone how successful you would be, and everything you would do. To actually understand them, you'd honestly probably have to go out to Mongolia and do exactly what they have to do. It's easy for us to claim we have superior skills when we can test them easily in our much more controlled, safe environments, because the fact is, most of the folks on here are really skilled. They are smart and have practiced all this stuff loads of times, but actually being out on the show, surviving out in the woods, it's a completely different thing. You also have to take into account the fact that each on of them gets maybe 30 mins of their whole experience on the full season. even if they only last only 3 weeks, it's maybe 1/600th of the time they spent filming, and 1/2000th of their actual time there. Just saying, but we only see their most TV worthy moments, when they do something exciting or funny, or a lot of time, stupid. So don't judge them from the tiny fraction of their experience you got to see. And you should apply to be on the show if you do think you would be that much better than any of them. :)

[@Janon48]

Anyone know the brand of his knife

[@AncientCreature-i2o]

It is a Morakniv Companion.