Benefits of Sub-Zero Camping Skills

Series Summary

Many consider hunting a sport, others ritualized murder. The debate has waged for centuries, really, and no end is in sight. It seems it is up to each individual to decide whether hunting should be an accepted and celebrated part of American masculinity, or whether we should question an adult with the desire to kill another animal in the name of “fun” or “sport.” Many will argue that hunting helps modern people relive our primal ancestry and connect to nature. Others will say that nurturing a desire to kill might push our culture further from the ancient days of hunting for survival and communing as an active member of the environment. The world may never know. In this free hunting video, professional huntsman and camp guide Rich McNutt will teach you how to survive and thrive camping or hunting in sub zero temperatures. Rich covers all the layers of clothing you need, including hosiery, silk, wool, and outer gear. He will also teach you what to avoid and how to carry items in your pocket without freezing your body. Hypothermia is a killer, and Rich will help you handle dangerous situations with hypothermia threats. Everything is here, from choosing hunting stand and camping locations to changing the gear you use.

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Rick McNutt. I'm the author of the book "Hunter's Choices". And what we're going to talk about here is sub zero hunting and sub zero camping. Personally, I started guiding in the Rocky Mountains back in the early eighties. And I take campers up into the mountains to do some camping. The coldest night I've spent on the ground on a hunt was thirty-two below zero. And like I said, my name is McNutt, so I was born a nut. The rest of you people, you're going to have to work at it. But the coldest hunt I was on was about thirty degrees on a bow hunt. It was thirty degrees below zero, with a fifteen mile an hour winds, so we have to figure in wind chill. So in actual temperature, it was probably around fifty below zero. There's a lot of tricks you can do with clothing and with different types of gear and diet, and that's what we're going to talk about this series. If you booked your hunt a year in advance, weather is unpredictable. The weather guessers have a hard time telling us what the weather's going to be a week from now, say a year from now. So a lot of times if you can't hunt in this sub zero weather temperatures, you'll end up canceling a hunt which can cost you several grand. So what we'll cover here in these next couple clips is how to dress, your diet and how to take care of yourself in this kind of temperatures."