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Out of all the years of making bushcraft series, this, Aboriginal Britain, is my most cherished video. I can genuinely appreciate where Ray began his love for his country and homeland. God bless you Ray for your hard work and dedication to bringing to life your wonderful ancient Island. Love from Turtle Island, First Nations, Canada🏞
So epic, and he has a lovely way of turning a phrase. "And just a few thousand years later, our whole nation stood behind these pieces of yew." A simple sentiment that really hits hard.
Thanks so much for uploading this. I absolutely love Ray, he combines archaeology with bushcraft and the quality of his show is unparalleled. It's too bad we don't get him here in the states. I guess most Americans would rather watch Bear Grylls eat turds and maggots and rappel down slippery waterfalls with vines of unknown strength. If you did what Grylls does in real survival scenarios you'd end up seriously wounded or dead. He'll end up getting you killed. Mears is the man!
Primitive Pathways Ray did a great show on America, I forget the name but it’s on amazon and well worth a watch. Less skills and more info, I think it was separated into ‘Mountains, Praries and desert’.
I love Ray Mears, been a fan all my life. I'm 35 now and I used to love sitting next to the television watching all of Ray's shows and then eagerly trying out some of the techniques with my brothers and friends in the woods. This takes me back to a time when life was much simpler, I think the people nicer and when the BBC actually produced quality television, not the soulless propaganda they push now a days.
Well said! The 90s were the bomb!! Best toys ever too in those days compared to todays toys. Everything also was much simpler then as you said. Nowadays ppl have just become out of touch with life itself and theyr too far gone to even realise it.
People keep on calling ray fat, it just demonstrates he's the better survivalist. Bear grylls would still be eating entrails while Ray has establish a four course luxury meal.
really its 2023 the age of information and people still think we came from cave men evolution and believe in the ice age? wow amazing how stupid people are. with all our science and understanding of the universe people still believe these things wow. i guess ignorance is bliss
Bear Grills: Allright, to survive we have to jump off this waterfall, drink our own piss and sleep in a week old carcass! GO! Ray Mears: Oh dear, we're lost.. I think we'll have to carve a nice spoon to eat our sea-food starter with. Don't forget to thank the tree for the wood you use, and plant a few of it's nuts somewhere to return the favour. :) Ray Mears is the Bob Ross of survival.
Bear Grylls once knocked Ray out in a Nightclub in Weymouth Ray was pesting after these drunk girls and Bear tried to calm him down. Ray said "i just want to get these trollops back to my teepee to show them my peepee" Bear went crazy and said "Left Right Goodnight" and knocked him clean out. Ray wasnt allowed back to the hotel in the state he was in so he took a shit in the foyer.
Ray Mears: the only man who can still do a Ken Hom Chinese voice impression and a Rolf Harris impression in the same vid and it be completely socially acceptable 🤣🤣🤣
Great show. Regarding the broken bow: I wonder if they have considered the possibility that the bow was made by some sort of young apprentice. Apprentices are often given inferior materials on which to practice before being permitted to work on the harder to come by, knot and imperfection free, premium materials.
I teach Bushcraft, and have been for over 20 years. I hopefully will for another 20 years. I wanted to thank you for so much of what is in my courses. You have developed many of us.
In Australia where i live we practice high intensity farming of large introduced species - Cows, Sheep and Pigs. Pigs are now one of the great feral pest problems. Cows gobble up huge resources literally and in open range destroy natural grassland. Sheep the same. Being hard hoofed animals the delicate grasses in Australia are destroyed wherever these animals graze. And this in a country where we have the kangaroo - an animal that produces lean (not fatty) meat, breeds easily in arid conditions requiring no assistance, lives off native grassland and has thrived without human assistance for millions of years. We feed it to our dogs. It is delicious, nutritious, lean, and doesn't leave you feeling backed up for a week after you've eaten it. It's huge in amino acids and it's skins are prized. Inevitably we've pandered to taste and chauvinism over the native meat and created a massive industry around ecological destruction. Ironically we have to kill the kangaroos anyway - as a pest that competes with the cattle and even more so in mono-cropping areas, particularly wheat. There is nothing unique about Australian Beef - granted it's pretty clean compared to other producers in our region (Asia) so it sells at high prices in Chinese supermarkets. But so does Roo. I'd love these large macro/enviro issues to be intelligently dealt with by creating economically viable operations that don't knock off our environment. At the very least it would be great to educate kids into the true benefits of eating closer to nature both for your body, and for the environment.
Such wholesome content. Together with reading The Lord of the Rings 20 years ago, Ray inspired me to be more adventurous, brave and humble towards nature and life. Still walking in forests thinking of how Ray's ancestors might have looked at it, and doing bushcraft courses to learn new (or old if you will) techniques.
"...this wasn't a thing for recreation, or a toy, it was a thing to stop the hungry child from crying..." Instructions very clear; shot crying child with bow; confirmed efficacy; 10/10 would pass advice on to other parents.
Reading Ray Mear's autobiography at the moment. Really a great read and a good insight into how his fascination with bushcraft came about. An excellent ambassador for the subject and a very empathetic tv personality with a real interest in iindigenous peoples and their way of life.
Bear Grylls is an extreme survivalist, who demonstrates techniques that can be used in emergencies. Ray Mears is a bushcraft enthusiast, who has learned to live with the land from people around the world who live like that every day; building homes, raising kids etc. Bear Grylls' shows are all about finding civilisation when you're stuck in the wild. Ray Mears' shows are all about finding the wild when you're stuck in civilisation. They both do a great job at what they do :)
Fascinating stuff. I had the privilege of handling the Ashcott Heath some years back when I had an appointment to spend some time examining the Meare Heath bow and it was Chris Boyton who showed me how to make a proper laid-in bow string and taught me a lot about making self- bows.
I have grown up with ray mears, my dad and I both adore him and go to the wilderness as often as we can, although not as much as we would like. Thank you Ray, you are the best.
actually, hunters do give a shit whether or not an animal suffers. A suffering animal runs further, which means you risk losing the meat. It can also spoil the meat due to the fear toxins and the possibility of contaminants getting into the wound. Also, approaching an animal that's in pain, terrified, and suffering runs the risk of getting kicked or gored or otherwise injured. So from a purely utilitarian perspective, yes, hunters don't want their prey to suffer and want a quick, clean kill.
Yeah, I have seen those hunters running around with warm blankets and pain relief kits for the animals they shoot an arrow into and it lodges into a non "instant" kill area, and they are so thoughtful to the suffering of these dear animal souls. Their ONLY thoughts are "Oh no, I have wounded this dear beast! I must sooth it, so it does not run around scared off its head and contact some awful contageion that MIGHT infect me, the mighty hunter. I would hope not to spoil this neccessary meat that I will starve without! It is a long 5 minutes down the road to the butchers!" Yep you won my vote with that pathetic lame comment
spaaggetii :( I don't think you understood our position. Everytime I kill an animal, I cry. not a downpour but tears of gratitude. I cry and thank him for sacrificing his life so mine can continue a little longer. Do butchers do that? Do slaughterhouse's workers do that? Hunters respect animals, period.
TheMrWillje themocaw didn't say that. They just said "from a purely utilitarian perspective." not even touching on the ethical side. No person who doesn't feel a little pain or regret when they kill an animal should be responsible for doing so. Those who love animals make the best hunters, best for everyone's sake, that includes the large quantities of deer who would otherwise overpopulate and then either starve or gore each other constantly over territory.
Agreed! Keeping safe at all times in order to maintain your physical ability is the top priority of survival. The slightest injury can mean death in some cases. Taking unnecessary risks will only reduce your chances. Thanks for pointing out the difference...
Over the last few days I've watched all the Bushcraft videos uploaded here. I have to admit Ray Mears' has become my favorite wilderness instructor ever. It's amazing how each episode is easily a masterful work of art. What a pleasure to watch him take such pleasure in his work. Brilliant!
Unfortunately this lifestyle is impossible for Britain as a whole. It is possible for a far smaller population but we would need so much more space if we all became hunter gatherers, or even individual farmers, which just isn't possible in this day and age.
There may be enough food for farming if we're efficient but neolithic Britain's population was a fraction of what it is now. If 60 million people tried hunting and gathering there would be nothing alive by the end of the year. Neolithic living requires a high level of wild harvesting. The scarcity of food back then is the reason early man migrated. Britain's population in the Bronze Age (when farming was going on) was only around 100,000, and yet people had to keep on moving. Sixty million hunter gathering semi-nomads? Not going to happen. We'd need a population crash first.
Jeremy Hunter Just combine fishing hunting and vertical farming, slam on some solar panels and wind turbines and river turbines! Learn about healing herbs and meditate and shit
agreed, i was once imperiled by a ferocious charging rabbit! it was him or me! I'm sad to say, i lost the battle, and i lost my leg!!! Just kidding, I killed it and ate it!
I met Ray with his crew about 10 years ago. We were camping out fishing when he just appeared out of nowhere, in a landy and did a bit about the decline in the eel population in the Somerset levels. He said he had to kip in a hotel but said he wished he could stay. Top geezer all the same!
Ray mears is legend, for my opinion he's the pioneer of bushcraft expert and jungle surviva in video.. He's my idol since 2010.. I respect this man for what he's doing..
Great series. What I like about Ray is that he's not egocentric. He's a well versed survivalist who takes the time to educate his audience. Knowledge perseverance, patience are key to survival comparison. In contrast, Grylls takes chances no normal person would take in risking injury.
This man truly has so much to teach all and in his videos he does just that , Bless you Ray alot can be learned from this , and love the way you take from those to teach and give them so credit for there ways of life we would have never known,
The funny thing about all the social justice warriors who complain about hunting - do you even know that the neolithic hunters gave a toss about the ethics of eating animals? Probably not. They were efficient in that they killed quick and used as much as they could because it was the best way to survive, not because their heart strings were yanked by Fearnley-Whittingstall's latest rant on modern farming techniques. Basically, the fact we give a toss is because we have the time to consider it. They didn't have this time. Not all people were animists who worshiped animals.
Jeremy Hunter They respected the animals because the animal's death allowed them to live. That's seen all over the world in ancient cultures. But yeah, animal loving is kind of a product of having alot of free time and available resources. Also, hunting is necessary to keep populations in check.
Caring about animals is a luxury, though tell PETA that. Leave them on an island with edible carnivores long enough they won't be vegetarians or vegans for long.
The ethical management of a natural resource has to be encouraged as often as possible. I think its no more immoral to eat wild caught food than to go to the supermarket for it. The supermarkets only had someone kill it on your behalf.
Andy Oaken Lore Knives Judging on the conditions of many animals being farmed, I'd say it is in fact morally and ethically imperative to choose hunted over farmed, in most cases. If you know a small farm and the farmer who runs it who can sell to you over the gate then by all means do that but I can't remember the last time I bought supermarket meat. I think I bought a pot of pâté a while ago...
I have been a farmer in the past many moons ago but i gave it up as the money way so poor, literally hand to mouth. I do kill animals for food and can justify this as its humanly done and the animal has lead a natural life.
Just discovered this show. My brother and I love the out doors and were introduced to forests and fields by our grandfather in Germany who took us out fishing, and gathering, and taught us things he learned to help his family stave off starvation during WW2. Lots of stories about forest spirits, trolls, and gnomes ; ) This is a great show!
Ray your a legend if was an honour to see you in real life & hear for myself your passion for the world of bushcraft. You are a true professor of nature
Dun Hilda A well placed broad head will a powerful bow (50-60 pound draw) can easily punch through a deer's shoulder and into the heart and lungs. This is the only kind of shot ethical and skilled hunters will take. If perfectly done, the deer will be near dead by the time it hits the ground.
bobbymcswagster That's true, but I guess one needs to be extremely skilled in the art of bow hunting. With a hunting rifle I imagine it to be much more efficient and, let's say, easier to kill a deer with a shot to the heart (Blattschuss in German?) than with a bow.
Excellent work! Love your stuff! Ray we need people like you to remind us where we all came from. Regardless of where we as individuals come from (ethnic back grounds), our ancestors survived with these methods for thousands of years. Frankly, we need to get back to most of these practices! Ray... you rule!
Actually there is. Just because germanic tribes became the rulers and influenced the language and culture doesn't mean there was enough of them to outbreed the local genes.
Yes im sure. There is nothing in this day and age that i live for. I get it would be a very hard life. But honestly me sitting here typing this out to you is not my idea of living. Id gladly give up all to be born again 6000 years ago. The way man was intended to live. As one with the animals. Its only through alien technology that we have come as far as we have :/
Ummm, that's nonsense. the whole point of a collection is to compare and learn. You can learn a lot more from one item when you look at it in the context of a thousand other examples. If everyone who found a fragment of parchment kept it, nobody today would be able to read any languages that are not currently in use. The museum collection is not being hidden away. Those items are all kept there for anyone to view. Just because the shiny stuff is in cases for the public to look at, doesn't mean the rest of the stuff is off limits.
A. J. West I don't think he cares about the way the museum acquired items in the past. After all, he is advocating that everyone adopt the same approach, even today. It's kinda like burning people who suggest the earth goes around the sun, just because you are angry at some guys who did that 500 years ago. And, for some reason, want to show your anger at that behaviour by copying it. Very weird.
VaultOfFear Example 1.Peat digger on Islay uncovers Mammoth tusk, result, ends up in a cupboard in Kensington.Fortunately,two others remained on the Island. Ex 2 Forester on Arran finds broch,this time it's Edinburgh. Ex3 Stone axe,found by me,what can the clowns from Oxbridge tell me ? I'm all ears.
what can i say apart from you being the closest i can compare to Mors Kochanski i love the way you respect nature and the people that pass the knowledge on, you have partly inspired me to spend more time out there and as i am passionate about knowledge i have set up a youtube where people can follow my progress. i also have a few FB bushcraft and knowledge groups where we share information and experiences we have. brought up in Namibia i had the please in spending some time with the bushman and spend most of childhood walking the dry river beds and wilderness. it would be nice to get support and encouragement from fellow bush crafters and outdoorsman, comments on the youtube inspire me to do better. thank you Mr Mears you a true inspiration, as i say knowledge is lost if not shared
