Just some thoughts on some different hunting/camping venues/continents & different experiences/tools.....
One of the reasons for me to get to know a bunch of swell guys like you, is like somebody mentioned--you can know your own little surroundings quit well and even become an expert there,but once SHTF and you are unexpectedly taken out of your own little comfort zone--then real survival will start and you have to learn new skills.
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I am currently in a different country now far away from home,out of my known usual hunting & survival skills comfort zone and had to deal with this totally new possibly deadly Corona emergency....
I'm an old and very experienced registered rifle,handgun and bow hunter, but to 'spice' it up I've laid down those tools and has taken up solo spear-hunting and primitive Gems buck horn bow hunting for warthog etc in the African bush for the 'what if...' scenario , but in general just to test my own hunting skills for myself !.
In line with some of the many good prepping/survival books that I've read where you go off-grit [rough camping] and if the bullets are finished etc. I wanted to see for myself if an average guy in the totally different African environment context could also survive under so much different circumstances than the current mainstream tv and books described. [Here it's hot,dry, with more dangerous animals,snakes,poachers etc. to deal with]--
Its not easy, I can assure you!
For example' the popular and typical smaller bladed bushcraft primary knives that Ray Mears and Bear Grylls etc used with such good effect in Northern hemisphere 'soft' wood and wet forests conditions will probably not be your first choice for a blade over here [with our mainly very hard and dry wood etc]. A 'panga' [machete] and small saw with an ax and Okapi pocket knife will probably be more appropriate mostly?
I do own smaller blades and love them all, but over here it sometimes has maybe more limitations,depending on the survival / primitive situation ..
But that is the nice thing of being between friends--we can see and understand things from a different perspective & experience and in the process learn from each other....