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Hunt Talk Radio

EP 141: Backcountry Triage with Tyr Symank

Hunt Talk Radio

Randy Newberg

Sports, Education, Wilderness, How To

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

In this Episode (141) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy shares the mic with Tyr Symank, a Green Beret Special Operations Combat Medic who specialized in triage field medicine for special forces. Topics covered include amputation in a mud hut, chronic dehydration, altitude sickness, blood carries oxygen, stop the bleeding, med kits, basic live saving tips, airways, allergic reactions, bone breaks, internal injury, disease, puncture wounds, tourniquets, one is none and two is one, and other tangents from the unique world of a medic charged with keeping people alive.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Randy Nibberg here with another episode of Loop Old Hunt Talk Radio.

0:06.0

I have a really cool guest with me today.

0:09.6

I met him a week ago up in Montana at the Total Archery Challenge and now he's here in Utah at the Total Archery Challenge.

0:19.5

And we keep talking to each other, visiting.

0:24.0

And he's got a background.

0:27.4

I'll tell you what his current position is or I'll let him tell you.

0:31.4

I think the technical term is he's a program manager at the Black Rifle Coffee Company.

0:37.4

But what I want to talk to him about is how much knowledge he has about backcountry triage first aid, a million things that probably at one time or another go through the head of a hunter.

0:55.4

Okay, I'm paled myself, I cut myself, I have a puncture wound, I fell out of a tree stand, I, whatever.

1:03.4

Well, when you hear the background of Tier Simack and what his prior career was before Black Rifle Coffee Company, I hope I'm not going to do him speak poorly of him when I say that he's in the Army.

1:23.4

He's a sergeant major.

1:27.4

He'll tell you what all of his rank and experiences are.

1:31.4

But suffice to say it's quite impressive.

1:35.4

And great guy has a personality.

1:38.4

He should own his own podcast is really what he should do.

1:41.4

Well, instantly when I met him, I'm like, this guy needs a podcast.

1:45.4

He is just, he is full of it.

1:49.4

But what I want him to talk about today are the things that go through my mind very often go through a lot of your minds about backcountry first aid, backcountry triage like major problems that we as hunters expose ourselves to or at least take the risk that we're exposing ourselves to them.

2:15.4

Now, this is a completely different idea than trying to do, let's say some sort of first aid class.

2:25.4

This is all about understanding the basics, the principles, hearing it from somebody who in his 20 some years as a medic in the special ops and not just an average medic, but like he'll explain what level he was at.

2:42.4

It's crazy.

2:45.4

The things he's seen, how he's made things work, his principles of how he approaches stuff.

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