{"id":19822,"date":"2014-05-27T10:14:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=19822"},"modified":"2024-08-03T20:05:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T01:05:56","slug":"casting-call-long-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/casting-call-long-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Your Pack Gun? &#8211;  How Long Could You Survive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By David Higginbotham<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.surviveinthewildcasting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"casting-call-long-survive\" title=\"What's Your Pack Gun? -  How Long Could You Survive?\" class=\"clickTracking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.surviveinthewildcasting.com\/<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Leftfield Entertainment, creators of Paw Stars and other edutainment type programs for The History Channel, Discovery, A&amp;E and National Geographic, is looking for outdoors survival experts. &#8220;No Gimmicks.\u00a0 No Film Crews.\u00a0 No Games.&#8221;\u00a0 The goal is simple: survive with only what you can carry on your back.\u00a0 With that in mind, what gun(s) would you take?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re currently developing an exciting new series with a major cable network that is going to ask the strongest self-reliance experts and enthusiasts in the world a very simple question &#8211; how long could you survive alone in the wild?&#8221; said Molly Tom, a casting associate with Leftfield Entertainment. &#8220;We&#8217;re looking for folks who want to prove that they have the skills, determination, willpower and mental strength to take part in the ultimate survival experience.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I remember back in the mid-90&#8217;s, hearing about the original overseas version of Survivor. I thought it was a fascinating philosophical concept.\u00a0 That was before Hollywood ruined the entire concept by engineering conflict and airlifting in trunks full of Doritos for the team that could produce the best teaser-trailer material. It seemed to me to be a practical exercise in observational science, sort of a\u00a0<a title=\"The Cat is both Alive and Dead\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"casting-call-long-survive\" title=\"What's Your Pack Gun? -  How Long Could You Survive?\" class=\"clickTracking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat<\/a> type of conundrum, with a made-for-TV twist. Can they survive? That&#8217;s what I wanted to know, but they died inside the moment the games began.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19823\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/McCandless.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"casting-call-long-survive\" title=\"What's Your Pack Gun? -  How Long Could You Survive?\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19823\" title=\"What's Your Pack Gun? -  How Long Could You Survive?\" class=\"wp-image-19823 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/McCandless-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"McCandless went into the Alaskan bush with a .22LR.  He didn't come out.  \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/McCandless-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/McCandless-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/McCandless.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">McCandless went into the Alaskan bush with a .22LR. He didn&#8217;t come out.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I digress. This has much more potential.\u00a0The survivors will go in, alone, with only what they can carry on their backs.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll document the journey themselves.\u00a0How long can they survive? Where will they go?\u00a0What will they take?\u00a0 The options seem endless.\u00a0And, in the end, when they return (if they return?), their journeys will be packaged, edited and disseminated for the rest of us, the ones who sit around and wish we could go.<\/p>\n<p>So the question is this: what gun would you take?\u00a0Or is it guns?\u00a0Speaking of Survivor and the 1990s, <a title=\"Chris McCandless\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christophermccandless.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"casting-call-long-survive\" title=\"What's Your Pack Gun? -  How Long Could You Survive?\" class=\"clickTracking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris McCandless<\/a>, a rather tragic case of what-not-to-do, disapeared into the Alaskan wilderness with only a Remington .22LR (with which he took down a moose).<\/p>\n<p>If you think you have the skills to survive, consider the casting call.\u00a0If, like me, you have to wait for the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it to come to you, get cracking in the comments section below. What would you carry and why?\u00a0How much ammo?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftfield Entertainment, creators of Paw Stars and other edutainment type programs for The History Channel, Discovery, A&amp;E and National Geographic, is looking for outdoors survival experts.  &#8220;No Gimmicks.  No Film Crews.  No Games.&#8221;  The goal is simple: survive with only what you can carry on your back.  With that in mind, what gun(s) would you take?<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;re currently developing an exciting new series with a major cable network that is going to ask the strongest self-reliance experts and enthusiasts in the world a very simple question &#8211; how long could you survive alone in the wild?&#8221; said Molly Tom, a casting associate with Leftfield Entertainment, &#8220;We&#8217;re looking for folks who want to prove that they have the skills, determination, willpower and mental strength to take part in the ultimate survival experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":19824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1220,92,1222,18,1217,992],"tags":[132,120],"featured":[],"hunt365":[4089],"class_list":{"0":"post-19822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-huntgear","8":"category-david-higginbotham","9":"category-firearms","10":"category-hunting","11":"category-hunt365","12":"category-specialty-publications","13":"tag-buzz","14":"tag-prepping","15":"hunt365-hunting"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What&#039;s Your Pack Gun? - How Long Could You Survive?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What&#039;s Your Pack Gun? - How Long Could You Survive? -\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/casting-call-long-survive\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What&#039;s Your Pack Gun? - How Long Could You Survive?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Leftfield Entertainment, creators of Paw Stars and other edutainment type programs for The History Channel, Discovery, A&amp;E and National Geographic, is looking for outdoors survival experts. &quot;No Gimmicks. 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