Allan "Bow" Beauchamp
Safecastle Advisory-Board Member
This is Bow during winter night training at 3am and 40 degrees below zero.
Allan "Bow" Beauchamp is a renowned survival and primitive skills instructor and consultant. He has been the consultant for Les Stroud on TV's "Survivorman" series. He also supported Les Stroud on his new book entitled "Survive."
Bow taught a survival program for many
years at a local university, taught primitive skills courses at local Native reserves, and Bow was featured
on the television series "The Great Outdoorsman". Bow has also hosted training over the years for law
enforcement agencies as well as many local groups.
Some of Bow's recognized expertise include: search and rescue,
rope rescue, teaching survival and primitive skills programs (to many government
agencies), bushcraft, N.O.T.S. man-tracking(developed by Bow), psychology of survival, flint-knapping, bow-making, nature awareness, spirituality, edible plants, bush medicines, traditional fire-starting, and natural
navigation. He is continually researching and improving his extreme survival skills. Bow is a Métis person from Canada, stemming from his native heritage.
Note: Bow's many years of research in extreme conditions have resulted in his unique personal survival kit, "Bow's Bush Box." These small kits will be available in limited quantities exclusively at Safecastle Royal in the Spring of 2010.
Bow's Recommended Products:
Bow recently took a variety of Mountain House foods into the Canadian bush. His comments follow:
I have been using my Mountain House foods
during my winter adventures, research and training. I
think it is a great staple for the bush. I especially, like the chicken
teriyaki.
I've used the food as directed and
prepared the varieties in the bush, just adding boiled water. I have had no issues at all with the cans or
the food value. I found the portions that they suggested to be a good amount for one person for one
meal. Being that I'm 6'1" and 223 lbs. and it filled the hold in my stomach in the bush,
its a good portion!!
Some other meal products that I have tried in the past I've found their suggested servings to be a little
on the small portion side to say the
least and the taste and quality of the other foods
I found poor.
These cans had good clear instructions on them. They suggested that once opened to use them within the week. I tried an experiment with one can and, after
opening it, left it. I used it 3 weeks lateer and the results were excellent--no problems--no loss of flavor or food value.
My conclusion--Mountain House cans make a
good bush staple. I think they make a great product.