I know usually terrain, weather, wildlife and other people are what pose the biggest threat. I know some people usually carry some kind of weapon. I've never carried more than my pocket knife.
I'm now considering a hatchet/carpenter's axe for campfires. It could also double as a weapon in a pinch. I'm not really sure if a 7" knife or hatchet would be a better choice. I think the hatchet would be a more useful tool.
I offen have a hatchet but if not I have a folding shovel and a crowbar, one of which I'll have with me.
I have some knives and things as well which are always with me. OH and sometimes burrspray
Yo are you talking a cats paw or a real crowbar? Just wondering how you'd justify the weight.
when I'm hiking I just have a knife and sometime burrsrpay depending where I am. if I'm just 4WDing out to some creek to carcamp I have a crowbar neabry. lotta psychos in the Australian bush and I am never close to people or phone reception
Similar to this
Serves as a good walking stick too.
Luckily I've only had to kill a snake with it
Oops forgot pic
Actually pretty based idea for snake country. I think. Am i wrong? Live in heavy snake country.
I'd opt for this or it's predecessor the simple wooden spear.
kek based, I used one for a while too. gives a nice prehistoric larp feel but is unironically the best weapon in case of animal. short of a gun of course.
It's not really a weapon if you can easily access it. Have a pocket knife and haven't been in any situations were I felt like anything would go wrong. It's a tool.
I was told the other day that my dinky little swiss army knife is a considered a weapon and wasn't allowed to bring it inside a building. The US is so fricked
The same is normalcy in Romanian
sounds like you're in a cucked state, rest of us in the u.s. have no worries about shit like that
>t. reg carries fixed blades fricking everywhere
A gun, like any other human with a brain.
>thread posted at EU hours
Oh, uh, just die I guess.
Powerful enough to reach the brain stem of any creature in the US, five times. Weighs nothing. Peak of simplicity and reliability.
Gr8 b8 m8 I r8 8/8, no h8, appreci8
> Catch the bear cheating at cards.
Wish someone would make something like this in 327 federal
my kind of autism. I have a .327 LCR and it actually is just enough for almost anything you'd reasonably encounter in north america, other than I guess a polar bear
I'd much prefer a more ergonomic gun though
>Cougar charges anon
>"Oh, uh, hold still, I gotta cap you in the back of the head."
>Cougar graciously accepts the free meal
>hold still i need to reach your brain stem
picrel
Oh no the gun isn't for bears. Bears you can just kill with your pocket knife.
The gun is for larger creatures.
>I'm totally not a serial killer, bro
Anon, I don't even think this would kill a person if shot from a >10ft range to the head. I seriously think it would bounce off of the skull.
virtually no sights and a 1 inch barrel, good luck hitting anything >5 yards away accurately
The stuff I carry on my person changes very little while PrepHole
But I'm thinking of switching to open carry for hiking. Because drawing a pistol from the waistline with the backpack belt on is difficult
>The stuff I carry on my person changes very little while PrepHole
>But I'm thinking of switching to open carry for hiking. Because drawing a pistol from the waistline with the backpack belt on is difficult
i wouldn't worry about it.
its not like you go hiking anyways, titty boy LOLO.
Speak English, juh'mackson.
is "edc" a gay thing?
Looks like more of a schizo hoarder thing.
why do they bring all this gear to camp less than 1 mile from the trail head? you can see an amtrak go by in this guy's videos.
Anyone who makes a 32 minute video about an overnight camping trip is an idiot in the first place.
I could argue this, but quickly skipping through the video I'm gonna say you're right.
What the frick is wrong with people. If a guy thinks he needs a fricking drawknife on a hike he's just plain moronic.
>cougar paws types this
Google what a draw knife is
>why do they bring all this gear to camp less than 1 mile from the trail head?
They're practicing being homeless for when their youtube channel demonetizes
a lot of the camping/bushcrafting vloggers are doing it for aesthetics/"the process" vs practicality or pragmatism.
Its all a show to teach you techniques / shill gear, how did you not know this
he said it was on his own property. pretty hard to walk more than a mile on your own property...
It's extremely feminized behavior dressed up as manly. Look at this pic
it's like a woman's pic of her purse's contents but the items happen to be "manly" items. I say this as someone who carries a bunch of shit in his pack every day and would definitely take a gun along for self-defense. Especially the "community" is rife with this weird attention whoring act.
>it's like a woman's pic of her purse's contents but the items happen to be "manly" items.
He has
>a gun
This is a thread about weapons.
>a spare magazine
No reason to have an auto loader without a spare mag over a revolver
>a knife
This is PrepHole
>car key
Do you really think that is a needless item?
>a wallet
Again, is that so unreasonable?
>a lighter.
PrepHole approved
The only silly thing is the hotsauce. And he probably put it there as a gag.
>No reason to have an auto loader without a spare mag over a revolver
Number 1 frick up with semi autos is mag related.
That's why you carry a spare.
Stupid and gay logic trying to shame a man usually brought on by feelings of inadequacy or jealousy. Edc posting is extremely helpful and helps you vet your carry and explain your logic and can bring you back down to earth. This guy instead of staging a new photo as a woman would just used an old pic of his edc for a what weapon do you carry out thread. Makes sense.
Depends. If you're just collecting tacticool shit thats cumbersome and you wont ever use then its gey.
If you're just optimizing the stuff you use daily abd carry anyway and relegating it to stuff that is high quality, then it's not gey.
Unless it's your wallet, keys and phone, yup.
>veggie straws in an ashtray
He's saying you don't go hiking because trying to draw with hip pads on is pretty difficult thing to do. Why most ppl go with either chest rigs, or drop leg holster to avoid the pads.
arrogant bastard is the gayest name
I'm from southern Appalachia, but I generally only carry firearms into the woods if it's muzzleloader or rifle season and I'll be within reasonable distance of a road, just in case a whitetail steps over a ridgeline. It happens. I've never seen any point in carrying a pistol, because the odds of needing to shoot a human being are lower than winning the Mega Millions (and everyone assumes everyone else is armed, anyway); the only realistic probability of an animal attacking a grown man in these parts is the classic stumbling between a black bear and its cubs scenario. Climbing into my car to drive to the nearest town is at least 100x riskier than going into the woods unstrapped. If we start to develop a noticeable feral hog problem or something along those lines, I might change my mind.
I do keep at least a pistol in my vehicle and sometimes on my person whenever I'm traveling to a city with >100,000k population, because that's where you're far more likely to run into dangerous animals. It ain't the woods, that's for sure.
As for improvised weapons that are actually tools and not proper weapons (despite what Airstrip One citizens seem to believe), I always carry a folding knife, optionally a skinning knife or boning knife, and I may carry the very same Estwing hatchet (which is top-tier) shown in the OP's pic when hiking/camping.
>estwing hatchet
i like mine. picked up a fiskars full size axe cheap at an estate sale, why not? try it out, it's great, may get small ax to replace estwing, lighter weight too.
>I'm now considering a hatchet/carpenter's axe for campfires. It could also double as a weapon in a pinch.
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAhahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahkgdfhjfg holy shit lmao
Dub-dubs checked, nice meme,
>mfw there are no large predators to begin with where he thinks he'll be playing Jean Rambeaux with a tool for splitting branches
>mfw he has to show ID to buy one and gets arrested for having it on the train ride to the "woods" anyway
the last time there was a similar thread to this one about bears i posted a pdf of the most highly regarded practical literature on bear attacks in the world. the thread almost bump limited and the download count went up by like +2.
I don't need to read a PDF to know that bear attacks on humans are exceptionally rare and that if you're ever in hand-to-hand combat with one, you'd better hope it's a black one and that you're tougher than you thought you were.
Meme would have been better if it was man-bun lefties in bright colored patagonia crap
You frickin madlads you kek
>I'm not really sure if a 7" knife or hatchet would be a better choice. I think the hatchet would be a more useful tool.
holy fricking loooooooooooooooooooool
i don't know what's funnier bringing a 7 inch knife camping or thinking a hatchet is a self defense tool bwahahahahaaaa
Why are you guys downplaying the effectiveness of hitting an animal in the head with a hammer when it tries to come close to you…? I’d rather have it than not have it? Is this just one of those gate keeper “you’re a noob because you triggered the meme word” things?
Any tool greatly increases your killing ability in a fight…
>I’d rather have it than not have it?
don't end statements with question marks. It makes you sound like a whiny teenage girl.
With that said, hitting an animal with a hammer is better than hitting it with nothing, in a strict sense. But that shouldn't be your plan, because if you try to fight a bear or a cougar with a hammer, you're going to fricking die.
If you have five minutes and ten dollars, there's no reason not to buy some pepper spray online right now. It will work. A hammer will not work.
>If you have five minutes and ten dollars, there's no reason not to buy some pepper spray online right now. It will work. A hammer will not work
A legitimate solution. Works on animals and people. Just we wary of the wind.
Pepper spray sucks.
t. Person who gets sprayed several times of month during training.
you sound like a moron, consider pepper spraying yourself with a real weapon next time
>assblasted troony telling others they sound like a little girl when he's having a literal meltdown over a hatchet
kys you moron
moron, ive seen bears take birdshot to the face and keep coming. If the bear is repelled by spray, it could have been repelled by just yelling at it. Youve never left the fricking suburbs you indoor lardshit. If you fight an angry bear with a knife or a hatchet, you will get absolutely fricked up but at least youll have a chance. With the spray you may as well be standing there with your limp dick.
NEVER trust the spray.
by that same metric just have a gun.
>lighter and more effective
>has range
That's the same guy. It's funny when fat armchair outists (like me) mallcop about taking on a grizzly with a hatchet.
>thinks he's better for not using a knife
>thinks he wouldn't rather have a hatchet than a rock if attacked by an animal
Not using a knife is signs of an ultralight tryhard gay, or day-hiking only. Thinking you'll never need to defend against wild animals is delusional.
>Thinking you'll never need to defend against wild animals is delusional.
yeah, so why not bring a self-defense weapon that will actually work? You're not going to win a knife fight against a cougar or a bear.
But if you do it'll be worth it
Whats wrong with either of those statements? A hatchet is useful for splitting wood, and wacking anything short of a bear in the side with one will be devestating.
As for the knife, a big knife can act as a hatchet if you can into batoning, and you can stab a knife much faster than you can swing a hatchet. Literally what is the issue?
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What a lame person
I don't carry weapons. Just tools. I am the weapon.
Pistol and a fixed blade utility knife or a pocket knife. No permits needed as I don't live in a nanny cuckstate.
I have my belt knife and either an axe or a shovel. All the bugs are terrified of my trench warfare skills.
Only closet homosexuals and severely mentally handicapped morons carry weapons
Lies. I’m not in the closet.
You did not denied being severely moronic Black person homosexual
Pretty sure that was his point, moron.
Whoooosh
ngmi
>goodest goy reporting! I shitposted where's my shekels!
Smith & Wesson 642 Airweight + Sabre Red pepper spray
>pepper spray fits snugly in the sunglasses loop on most backpacks
tools and knives are not weapons and they cannot be meaningfully used for self defense
> t. femanon
Unless it's a case of a chick being tricked into buying an airweight snubby for the meme, I mainly see old fricks carry stuff like that
I can see why they like it for carry, it being slim and light, but it honestly has more felt recoil than a subcompact .40 and usually only has those dogshit fixed sights that aren't good for any further than 5 yards
>520 bucks plus tip for a hammerless revolver
ngmi
let me guess: you own a taurus and it's "just as good"
You besmirch my honor, sir. I implied that hammerless revolvers were pleb-tier. My S&W has a hammer as god intended.
post it so I can make fun of your trigger lock
Cum
Hammerless snub has a massive advantage over one with an external hammer for concealed carry. Enjoy snagging on your fricking pants at the critical moment, moron.
man you're not even quoting the right person
>snagging on pants because I don't use a holster like a normal person
If you prefer pocket carry to a holster then you deserve to have a nice day in the leg. If you're scared of hammers just buy a semi-auto.
$520?
Where do you shop, silly goose?
Holy delayed post, batman. Did you not look at the picture?
>tools and knives are not weapons and they cannot be meaningfully used for self defense
Adult Detected. Nice snub!
>and other people are what pose the biggest threat
I can't tell how much some of you guys are plagued by paranoia or how much of the US is infested with sociopaths and you're right to be worried or somewhere in between
You are way to trusting if you don't think the world is jam packed full of literal npc lunatics. It only takes one short circuit.
______ ______, _____ _____.
if you ever see anyone dancing and singing the original hamster dance song, run
You dont have a border with a third world shithole that floods the parks with drug and human traffickers. You dont get to talk.
This. The fact that SCI is holding a seminar at their convention this year on how to recognize signs of cartel activity shows how much of a problem this is.
>isn't the third world shithole
shiggy shiggy
I'm a former psychology dropout. The brain is just a big meat computer. If you put violence in young it expects violence forever, especially if you add drugs in. There is a minority of the population that exist across all countries, even whatever "nice" country you live in, that will stab you to death with a butter knife for your shoes.
While this population shrinks somewhat as wealth goes up, it is never zero. There will always be someone out of a hundred of a few hundred who is willing to kill you over virtually nothing given the right situation or confidence they will escape consequences.
The spooky thing is that it is not out of malice. They simply do not consider your input on the matter worthwhile. It is strict 100% cost/benefit analysis. If they want your stuff and they have to kill you for it, that's your problem, not theirs.
Oh no it's almost as if the USA is actually a shithole who would have thought
A lot of people with schizophrenia or other severe mental illnesses move away from densely populated areas so they can live in isolation in remote areas. This isn't an American phenomena. This is what mentally ill people do all over the world.
Not all of them are dangerous, but many of them suffer from paranoid delusions and if you run into one of these nutjobs then you could be in danger if he suddenly thinks you're some government agent who's there to steal his thoughts with 5G technology or whatever the frick
Cant tell if silver spoon gay, or naive in a high trust area.
What difference does it make? I grew up in a middle class suburb next to rich and poor. What knowledge makes you so quick to distrust people? Are there still mountain bandits your way?
Escaped convicts on ocasion, flee to the woods, and solo hikers with nice equipment make excelent victims. Ive met people in the city who would kill you over the most comfortable place to sleep in the alley loading dock, so you best believe the crazies in the woods will shiv you for your water bottle.
just had my first encounter with a nut job on a trail. dude claimed to just be hiking randomly on his own and came upon the trail. but looked very clean given what would be a rough time not sticking to the trail. said he was looking for human skulls to take home.
Same as my usual EDC, p365 or an LCR. Bear spray if I think they're likely.
Gun. The big knife is a better weapon than the hatchet though.
I always carry my little foldable knife, I figure if I ever met anyone that tried to do me wrong if I really needed it thats all Id really need. Unless they have a gun or a knife, then I'd want a gun.
I want one to cut babybels and cherry tomatoes.
Why is that a keychain? Sounds like an awful idea.
>Why is that a keychain? Sounds like an awful idea
are you a dumb dumb, are you a slow little baby boy? didn't do too good in school? got rejected for army conscription? cant tell a flathead from a Philips? think a choke is something fatherless E-girls wear?
meet me in the parking lot and we can impotently slap eachother around until you admit i am right
Why is it a bad idea? I have a baby opinel myself, and it'd make a decent keychain knife IMO. It may not lock, but they've got enough friction to keep it from opening in your pocket
i think anything over the model 7 locks? specifically why the "Trekking" model exists
The no. 6 is the smallest one that locks
I Like the weird funky ones
Mushroom knifes are better than weapons
technically its a pruning knife and a grape harvesting knife, mushroom knives have brushes
Ah yes. In case you have to open a letter while /ou/
a billhook?
Are you expecting to get charged by a band of mounted knights while hiking?
no but if it works against them it could work against any random moron on foot or animals yes?
Get a polaxe to hiking stick length and id say it would be effective at most critters
i already have the billhook
i will usually carry a pistol for self-defense, when hunting i'll also have a rifle or shotgun depending on what i'm hunting
>Weapon
Only the ignorant carry weapons into the woods. They won't help you. I carry garlic cloves, Palo Santo , my pipe always alight with tobacco. A pocket Bible. I recite Psalm 23 every night and morning. I keep an even steady loud pace and take care to snap tiwgs and branches. I whistle or song a song or recite poetry.
I carry a compact or full size handgun in 9mm. It's for other people, not wildlife. I'm sure it would do fine for overly confident yotes in a pinch as well.
I'm pretty sure a pistol is ideal for methheads and theiving homeless junkies.
>no bag of rice or marbles for vampires and wolfsbane for werewolves
ngmi
is that the first picture of nu-/out/?
Aside from the shoes I would unironically go out like this, shit looks comfy. Maybe not long sleeves tho
Yes you would.
Thought I was looking at a girl for a second
It depends on the scenario. If I'm out hunting, I will have my rifle, some knives (usually a Havalon Piranta, a Buck 105 and a Buck 103) and a hatchet. If I'm not hunting, it varies. I always have some knife with me when I'm PrepHole, usually my Buck 105 Pathfinder.
I have an exact replica of the top knife. Does yours say Pakistan on the blade too?
I need to re-edge and polish 'er before I snap a pic
Nope, it's made in the USA.
None. I have an average/large penis.
Why does your mind just go to wiener?
>just frick the deer into submission
>>>/k/
a knife is only really a weapon if you're trying to ambush somebody. it's almost worthless for self-defense. it's a tool.
>its worthless for self defense
>mean while there is hundreds of videos of ppl getting one shot destroyed with knives
Yeah.
Those are people getting robbed or murdered. That's not self defense.
Spooked a huge (250lb?) black bear once going down a mountain cross country and it just stood up and looked at me 15ft away. He wasn't scared at all and just stared as I clumsily walked down past him. He backed off maybe an inch when I growled as low as I could which gave me enough courage to move on. Only "weapon" I could muster was a rock
same, but for me the mountain was a bridge downtown and the bear was a 7-foot tall african refugee on heroin who really wanted to have a conversation about god
I hope you had a better rock than I did
>>>/k/
brehs imma be real with everyone, I don't even bring a knife on most of my multiday hikes if I don't plan on fishing.
Depends on my mood but i like to hike with my FAL.
MI UP?
bingo
Ruger LCP unless I'm naked
Canik TP9 for most hikes
I usually trade my duty weapon (9mm glock) for a 10mm glock when I go out. While unlikely I do live in bear country.
This is the correct answer.
I just wish they had larger mags. 8 is revolver territory.
The plus is always an option, it's literally the same size just slightly thicker due to the double stack mag
https://magguts.com/product/smith-wesson-shield-9mm-2-magguts/
I got these for my 8 round magazine, adding 1/4inch to the magazine, but giving it a capacity of 10. Would recommend.
There are smaller and higher capacity options out there, but I'm a Caligay so the Sheild works for me.
Get a hellcat for 11+1 in the same subcompact size
Weird tourniquet, man. Probably just shell out for a CAT or a SOF-T
>Paracord sling - so small it just fits right in your pocket when you fold it up, you wouldn't even know it was there if you didn't remember
>Mora knife
>For short hikes I'll bring throwing sticks for recreation. I only do short hikes. Throwing the sticks at trees and stuff is fun and good practice. These ones are made from a tree I cut down on public land without permission. I would have made straighter ones for no-spin but I had to cut a tree they wouldn't notice missing.
>Throwing the sticks at trees and stuff is fun and good practice
What did he mean by this
I think he (I) throw the sticks at trees and stuff for fun, and when I do it it's also good practice.
i don't even know what to think
Throwing sticks are based, indians used to bean rabbits with those things all day. For small game a throwing stick can be better than a bow - no risk of losing arrows or breaking arrows, the stick is wide and long so even if the rabbit or squirrel is running you've got a wider surface to hit them with.
I'm not good enough to actually hit animals with it yet but I'm getting there. I'm sure if I needed to throw the sticks at something dangerous I'd do okay and once you can throw a stick you can throw a rock, ball, anything really.
I've got a model 27 and an okc knife. When im hunting, i use my 12ga.
A stick, and for long hike, slightly bigger stick, it also doubles as helicopter blades when ik imagine real hard when spinning it
None, because I'm not a coward.
No, just a moron.
Actually the frickratds are the molluscs that won't go outside without their metal penis. Oven stuffing the lot of them
did the InferKit bot have a stroke?
Can you go five minutes without thinking about wiener?
You're just mad you can't rob indiscriminately anymore lmao
homies will go PrepHole and think " I'm going to be away from ZOGdom, I'll need to defend myself!" but will live in a downtown apartment among thousands of people and feel perfectly safe.
Did it ever occur to you that the forest is perfectly safe, nobody you encounter is going to harm you. There is no need to carry a weapon around like a moron. If anyone found out you took a weapon on a hiking trip they would think you were mentally unwell.
Bear spray if applicable, maybe a pocket knife. You'll be just fine.
You definetly don't live in Romania
there is grizzly bears in my forests
i have seen videos of "bear spray" doing exactly nothing to deter a grizzly
I have to worry about mountain lions, not people
Mountain Lions typically only attack children, since they resemble small prey. Sometimes they will attack trail runners because the running triggers their predator instinct but it's not as common. Basically if you are a fully grown man they will leave you alone.
>Mountain Lions typically only attack children, since they resemble small prey.
Every report I ever read, the lion attacks an adult. We had one here in WA that two adults got attacked, one got away and the other was killed. Mountain lion typically attack deer, which is not small game. L you really don't know what you're talking about.
A lot of the bullshit spread about mountain lions is an attempt to decrease fear. Thats one of them, yeah they are far more likely to flee from adult humans but that doesnt mean they never attack, and most of the people that have been attacked are adults. I get why they want to decrease fear, its a rare occurrence (there's a little more than 1 attack per year in the last 100 years on average. Trending up in recent years though)
Fortunately we have a one size fits all solution for these rare occurrences (bears, mtn lions, other people, etc). Its called a gun.
>t. bubba the countryside rapist
If you're gonna go PrepHole you may as well treat it as SHTF training and carry a rifle.
hasn't failed me yet
>Hoyts
patrician
4lb axe head on a 28 inch handle
I do this unironically
I thought it would make a good innawoods axe. kinda heavy but this thing chops
I personally either carry a handgun or a rifle but I live in an area where bears are a genuine threat.
So are meth heads but it's more socially acceptable to say it's for bears.
edged weapons are cool but knife fights are awful and if at all possible I would recommend a pistol
Knives are good
An axe
Whats the best weapon for cutting and defending
Probably a long fixed blade knife with a strong blade. Something like a mora
i like moras but usually mora knives are stick tangs, full tang is preferable, i dunno if they make any w full tangs though
Stick tangs are fine for most uses. And are fine for all self defense purposes really. I mean practically every sword ever used in history has essentially a stick tang.
hey that's cool kid i just prefer not to leave evidence broken off in the body
Garberg is a Mora model that is full tang. I don't have it because it's way pricier, but I heard good things.
I'm on my second Garberg, first one got broke cause my friend thought it would be a good throwing knife, it sucked at that, but other than that it was a pretty solid knife. You can find them on sale from time to time for sub 70 burger bucks. Got the Carbon one about two weeks ago.
Nice. Thanks for the recommendation. I'll pay more attention to sales.
But did it broke just because your friend tried throwing it? Did your friend at least hit the target correctly? I don't see a reason why it should break so easily, imo.
My friend was throwing it at a tree, missed and hit a rock, which took a big chunk out of the edge. He's a tard, so I forgave him.
This is how you know PrepHole is a slow board
Why is PrepHole such a slow board? I with there was more activity on here
There's no reception innawoods
>Ahem
SKS
Specifically the kind with a blade bayonet. A spiker SKS is terrible for cutting.
>aluminum trekking pole
>bear spray
>naa pug
A hatchet is not a weapon. Neither is knife of any type. If you are serious about your personal safety and willing to take responsibly for carrying a weapon get a firearm and train in its use and maintenance. Anything else is a larp.
Illegal in Romania
A huge amount of gun ownership is just larping. Knowledge is the best weapon, you can avoid a dangerous confrontation with just a knife or bear spray and you'd be doing better than the frickwads that claim they would just shoot at whatever scares them
>you can avoid a dangerous confrontation with a knife
Explain, please
I have a penis and ladies allow me to pit it inside them. I'm not a soldier, a hunter or a police officer, so I've nonibyerest in firearms.
This anon is so cool, swings his dick at bears and they run in fear.
Firearm is not a weapon, it's a tool.
>having a hatchet is a larp, but bringing a gun isn't
TMW you spend so long on PrepHole that you come full circle
(you) are moronic
pic rel
you don’t need anything more or you’re a scaredy gay
can’t delet post for some reason. you don’t need anything more than trekking poles unless you live somewhere with dangerous wildlife, which is pretty rare
(i wish)
I carry a 357 mag, rounds loaded with lead hardcast 180 grain flat nose from Buffalo bore. Has the same energy output of standard 44mag.
This. I have 357 with a 6 inch barrel and use those same loads. I'll be honest though, it's too damn heavy. I'm gonna get a 10mm eventually and carry hot hardcast loads in that. I usually go with someone who has spray so we have both options.
>lives in griz and wolves country
>a handgun is too heavy
Maybe your wife's boyfriend will carry it for you if you ask him nicely.
Pocket Fentynol
Fentanyl *
Pink Morakniv on the hip
if I'm in bear country, some bear spray as well
mostly scared of mountain lions and I think it helps people stay clear of me
Knife and 9mm pistol. I own them might as well bring them.
wienerroach spray and lighter.
If it's good enough to kill one of those bastards is good enough to frick up your eyes.
Lighter is just for extra fun.
Nice, but orange spray paint is also effective, and has an extra benefit.
COP: "Does the man who assaulted you have any identifying marks?"
(YOU): "Yeah. His face is orange, now."
I carry a boot to the head.
2-4 guns, 1-3 bows, 3-6 axes, 2 knives, various fightin' gloves, a spear, staff, bat, whip, and a full bottle of Aunt Jemima.
Just in case
Call me a fudd or a boomer, but I really like outdated equipment. Would it be moronic of me to start carrying a buck 110 or a similar knife while PrepHole? I know that they are unwieldy and really outdated, but I just really like the look of them. Especially if I can find one with stag scales.
I currently use a vintage old timer woodsman that I inherited from my grandfather when I am hunting. When I am just out on the property doing chores, I carry an old timer senior. Its nostalgic and reminds me of the guy who taught me to love the outdoors.
Nah classic wood and mechanisms go hard. And against 99% of what you're likely to run into (even weird people and pissed off bears) it'll do the job just fine. At least 1 piece of your gear should be outdated in some way because you like it and prefer it.
If you’re planning on using it as more of a camp tool than self-defense why not, it makes sense. But for defensive purpose, even the boomerfudd oldtimers will employ a handgun like their “two world wars” 1911 (RIA is what I would recommend there)
Gun is defensive/signaling tool, simple as. It simply depends on risk analysis of whether weight is worth versus risk of attack or not. A knife/hatchet/etc is more of a camp tool than defensive, employment of such in their effective range will likely result in you being in your attacker’s effective range. Gun ignores all this.
Nature be frickin scary I wouldn't trust my life with anything smaller than 5.56 against a pissed off mountain lion let alone bear. At least we don't have crocodiles or acid spitting lizards in the Southwest. We do got skinwalkers, chupacabras and anal probing aliens tho.
When I was about 12 I made spears and bows when I was out. Very soon after that I realised it was cringe and stopped.
billhook, most multipurpose tool
>billhook, most multipurpose tool
In what way are they multi-purpose? I prefer my machete unless I'm clearing a lot of thick stuff
Not that guy but I prefer them over machetes generally because they're a little heftier and it's easier to take down a tree or rip through annoying alder growth. Mind you its also easier to overmatch even thick brush and send the fricker straight into your own leg which was a lesson I learned the hard way but they're still pretty nice.
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Yeah the hook will take you by surprise. How bad was it? Put a hole in the bone? I've not maimed myself with the billhook yet. Accidentally'd myself in the thigh with a mora companion tho.
It was one of those cheap 19" fiskar brush hooks. I was pad cutting in a bog, got frustrated at some alders, changed footing for more leverage and got exactly what I wanted. Since fiskar uses polymer handles and my hands were wet the thing slipped out and put a deep 2" laceration into my lower leg. It wasn't really that bad, bled like a b***h and I only noticed that I had cut myself because I felt the impact on my bone and noticed the red through the new hole in my pants.
I waited six and a half hours in the hospital for six stitches with what should have been a 15 minute job because lmao newfoundland. Don't get hurt in that part of the world if you ever want to see a doctor in emergency for non life threatening injuries. X-ray brought up nothing at least.
Mora's are great, I remember when they were ten bucks flat, still great knives for the price. Thigh wounds are spooky, the femoral artery is easier to nick than most guys think.
When I'm out surveying utilities I carry a machete / saw combo for clearing brush, pocket knife, leatherman, and mace for bears and mean roaming dogs.
Lots of bears here and I've been charged before out of the fricking blue while going fishing.
I know you probably cannot, but if you can, just bring a firearm. That or learn how to use a shepherd's sling.
I normally carry a handgun for day hikes, but multi-day hikes ill take a shotgun or an m1 carbine. We have issues with feral hog in the area.
I have only carried a weapon when hunting. Are you gays really that scared of being outside lol like what's gonna happen? You all grow up in city or something? Pathetic.
I carry a 9mm handgun hiking or backpacking. Most often a glock 19. In addition I pack bear spray. I also take a fixed blade knife usually in the 5 to 6 inch range. The multitool has a secondary blade. I've considered a small axe but I can't really justify the weight backpacking. In the past I've tried folding saws a few times but didn't find them very useful.
If I'm car camping I take a full sized axe and proper long gun.
SKS, 1944 Ithaca M1911A1
Soul Edge
Scottish Dirk, not for any particularly practical reason, I just like the way it looks.