Bear Gryll's Survival Series - Collabo with Gerber

[Raze]

Hey guys..what are your thoughts on the Bear Gryll's Survival Series?

Check out GearBuyersGuide's YouTube channel for the fixed blade, folders, and the MT of this series.

[stressmaster5000]

I kind of like watching his shows sometimes but you will find most here on this forum are not fans of the Grylls.

[jzmtl]

As far as I can tell they just slapped an orange label on suspension, vise, LST, and some other knife gerber already make and ask for more money.

[Raze]

Yeah, I prefer the Les myself - the real Survivorman  Sincerest apologies if I've offended anyone here

Gerber plans to ship these re-branded stuff to them big box retailers..wal-mart maybe?

[J-sews]

Yeah, I prefer the Les myself - the real Survivorman  Sincerest apologies if I've offended anyone here

Gerber plans to ship these re-branded stuff to them big box retailers..wal-mart maybe?

No offense at all Raze, thanks for the heads up

[J-sews]

Hey guys..what are your thoughts on the Bear Gryll's Survival Series?

Check out GearBuyersGuide's YouTube channel for the fixed blade, folders, and the MT of this series.

I like how when the salesperson speaking refers to that Suspension-clone multi as a "fantastic burly workhorse of a piece"   

[asupernothing]

Well I guess we can safely say that now both Gerber and Grylls have traded substance for style...
 

[BIG-TARGET]

How ironic!.  Last night, I watched"mission Everest"(whiched starred Bear).  His partner, the one who actually built the high altitude paramotor, was using a Leatherman Wave

[VicX]

We've been discussing about the knife here > http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,23644.0.html

As many of you already know, I'm not a big fan of Bear Grylls. I like Ray Mears, but that doesn't mean anything. What I don't like is MT's or knives with a guy's name on. Even CK underwear makes me feel uncomfortable. And don't get me wrong: even if it had a female name on I'd still dislike it. As BIG-TARGET just pointed out, those guys don't even use their branded tools in real life. So why should we?

[Chako]

Who am I kidding, I will buy both MTs in a heartbeat. 

[jekostas]

Who am I kidding, I will buy both MTs in a heartbeat. 

Couldn't you just paint some little orange squares on your current stuff?  Seems to be about the same.

[AHB]

What I don't like is MT's or knives with a guy's name on. Even CK underwear makes me feel uncomfortable.

Bear Grylls underwear would certainly make me feel uncomfortable.    But I see no point in getting any of the above mentioned really..

[VicX]

What I don't like is MT's or knives with a guy's name on. Even CK underwear makes me feel uncomfortable.

Bear Grylls underwear would certainly make me feel uncomfortable.     But I see no point in getting any of the above mentioned really..

Bear Grylls uses no underwear. He wears camels. Literally.

Perhaps it is just me, but I don't trust tools (knives, MT's) with a guy's name on if I don't actually see that guy using them. Advertising (this is just my opinion) is like cancer: it spreads all over and it does no good. If I were a well known survival expert and I had the opportunity to choose a knife or a MT to put my name on, I'd choose a tool that it's actually my favorite, the best, the one I actually can rely on. As far as I know, it doesn't happen often.

[Swiss Man]

Bear Grylls uses no underwear. He wears camels. Literally.   

What actually are CAMELS (besides the animals that walk thru the desert)

[Nikos]

Heh... What it means when you say literally...

[VicX]

 

[asupernothing]

Wow there is just so much wrong with that.

1. Did he really think that eating raw camel fat freshly cut from its belly was going to be a good idea? Even raw bacon tastes pretty bad and bacon is delicious.

2. They either edited the dressing or he tainted all that meat with camel excrement.

3. I don't think that dead camels provide the best shelter from surprise sandstorms. (Wampums however do provide excellent shelter from the freezing nights on Hoth)

If it truly is Man vs Wild, in a real survival situation I think Bear Grylls would be really screwed. His show is just another reality tv stunt and he is a hack.

[valvestem125]

Quite sickening.  I do not watch the show, as it is borderline fake.  It is TV, nothing is believable.

[Dtrain]

My Oldest likes Bear Gryllis...but he seem pretty realistic about what Bear portrays every week. He saw somethingon the Internet about Gerber's Bear Grylls Knife. However, he is happy with the Buckmaster,Tiburon,Special, a Bunch of SAK's, and Leathermans I have already given him.

[Grant Lamontagne]

(Wampums however do provide excellent shelter from the freezing nights on Hoth)

I really don't want to be the guy that has to point this out, but I have a fear that if I don't, no one else will.  That's what's truly sad about what I'm about to do....

Wampum is what Native Americans used to use as a form of currency.  You are thinking Wampa, which was the snow monster on Hoth that knocked Luke from his mount, and dragged him back to the cave.  The creature they lived in overnight was a Tauntaun, not a Wampa.

And this explains why I spend so much time online and not out in the real world....

Def

[asupernothing]

(Wampums however do provide excellent shelter from the freezing nights on Hoth)

I really don't want to be the guy that has to point this out, but I have a fear that if I don't, no one else will.  That's what's truly sad about what I'm about to do....

Wampum is what Native Americans used to use as a form of currency.  You are thinking Wampa, which was the snow monster on Hoth that knocked Luke from his mount, and dragged him back to the cave.  The creature they lived in overnight was a Tauntaun, not a Wampa.

And this explains why I spend so much time online and not out in the real world....

Def

I bow to the master. I knew I was butchering the reference but I did not realize how badly I had done it.
 

[Grant Lamontagne]

Don't worry about it- the only people that would know things like that are not important anyway.... that's why they (we) know these things to begin with! 

Def

[asupernothing]

I think as penance I will have to watch all the movies consecutively over the next few days.

[Sazabi]

I think as penance I will have to watch all the movies consecutively over the next few days.

Well that would be an uber penance; just watch episodes four through six, though it'd be even better to watch the original theatrical versions.

[scrappy]

tim leatherman puts his last name on tools and knives all the time.   

[asupernothing]

Yes, but I believe he also stands behind the quality of his tools and uses them himself.

Which is more than we can say for Bear.

[Dtrain]

Well I bet as long as Gerber pays Bear enough he Would LOL

[cerbera147]

There appears to a few threads on this so I chose this one to tag on to

I know there is little love for Mr. Grylls here. I have to say I do enjoy his show  Sometimes I do laugh at the sillyness of though. It's a bit like WWE wrestling; you know it's not real but still very entertaining Of course Bear Grylls isn't going to do a back flip into an unknown pool of water  I wouldn't fancy being responsible for health & safety on that show though 

Anyhoo, back to topic. Forget the Bear Grylls logo and the hype, is this a decent knife? It does look the part and Gerber are an established knifemaker. Included within the sheath is a firesteel, sharpener and a whistle.

I haven't seen any episodes of him using this Gerber yet though. The previous Bayley knife looked pretty great but waaay out of my price range 

[jzmtl]

There's a guy on bladeforum tested one, the hammer butt cap flew off while he was batoning. Apparently it was held on by two plastic nubs.

[genevabuck]

I don't know about the knife, but if you watch this clip, the firestarter falls apart as the guy is demonstrating it at the expo.  Watch the very end where the O-Ring seal comes off: