He even has a brilliant solution to the Survivalist's riddle of frozen water bottles.

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While the transition from survivalist to capable hunter might have been a bit jarring at first.

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These hacker outdoorsmen, he says, remind him of the ham radio heads of his youth, who would hold survivalist exercises in the New Jersey woods.

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In a fascinating post on combat and warfare, writer James Shea discusses what he describes as the two types of warfare: Survivalist and Ritualistic.

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After his two losers, Jack (Peter Beard) and Leo (Martin Greenbaum), spend seven years courting the same woman, Vera (each has his own version of her, played by different actresses), she runs off with a third man, and her jilted suitors head for the wilderness in raucous despair to live out a survivalist fantasy that joins Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway to Charlie Chaplin, W. C.

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But the elite American pro bike racer Christian Vande Velde is an Outdoor Sports Survivalist.

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Be you a survivalist, an environmentalist or a cheapskate-ist, you can join the growing movement of Americans embracing off-grid living.

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