I can see where people are coming from when Les goes out "unprepared." You can bet that I will be carrying a lot more gear than Les does the next time I'm out.

I think what he's doing is trying to show survival situations that the average person might find him/herself in. He's showing how to improvise. Some of his scenarios are pretty real world: plane crash, dumped while canoeing, and mechanical breakdown. In some scenarios, one wouldn't necessarily have time to gather all of one's gear and would probably wind up with only whatever they had on their person (a good argument for a pocket PSK). To me, Les' mistakes only add to the realism. Remember the epsisode where he tries to light a fire with rifle cartridges. What a klutz, lol. But neither did he edit the scenes out. I think his non-edit policy actually teaches a couple of really important things. All will not go according to plan, so 1) Expect and be prepared for failure 2) Improvise, improvise, improvise.

And, oh yeah, you wouldn't be catching me wading out into the sea with no shoes on a night to hunt. Not good, Les. Of course, being from relatively benign California, I'm sure I'm going to forget something obvious like shaking out my boots since I really don't need to do it here.