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Young Men, the Wild Places Are for You
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Then it’s just kit your rifle out with a good sling, a sling that assists your shooting accuracy. You owe it to your animal when hunting to take a steady shot. Wounded animals isn’t cool.
And a stock pouch.
Carry a pull through, patches, rag, solvent and oil, dry lube, sawn off toothbrush. Bolt stirrup to take your bolt apart, spare firing pin, spare extractors. Allen keys, compact screw driver, lense wipes, blue locktite.
And a stock pouch.
Carry a pull through, patches, rag, solvent and oil, dry lube, sawn off toothbrush. Bolt stirrup to take your bolt apart, spare firing pin, spare extractors. Allen keys, compact screw driver, lense wipes, blue locktite.
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Looks kinda like an M14
An M14 is more military, the civilian versions are semi autos.
I try keep my setups simple going bush. A good light bolt gun or double barrel shotgun, not much can go wrong.
Semi autos are more for knocking down herds of something, pigs and camels etc. Pest control.
But if you are going bush to live awhile and contemplate God, all you need is a compact bolt gun to stock your meat stores, defend yourself against animal attacks.
You still have to be prudent, prepare properly, to take care of people with you.
If you going out in ministry it’s a different story. You are on official business.
You can be as minimalist as you like, you can go out with nothing and be totally cared for by Divine providence.
The best preparation for ministry is prayer and fasting and people praying for you while you are out there.
The M14 is for deer, elk and protection from brown bear (grizz) my Ithaca 12 G is for hunting birds and rabbits …it’s a lightweight shotgun with generally a 5 load of shells.. I used to use a 16 G double barrel that I liked for simplicity but try to find them today. Then we can discuss handguns which is a whole different subject. What are they used for and what’s the purpose? I was trained on a Baretta automatic however it’s impractical for my needs. I prefer revolvers loaded with 38 Special or 357 Mag…generally for stopping people and not hunting. 22 caliber is easier to carry and provides more rounds for day to day usage….providing you don’t live in Communist New Jersey that is. This particular demands that you have the shooting proficiency of a member of the police force inorder to carry. That would require Me to practice at the gun range almost daily…which I-can due now that I’m retired.
The field knife you are showing looks like my Marine KA-Bar. Great knife but don’t I generally carry that into the field…rather I use an old deer knife my dad gifted me for my 10th birthday and a pen knife. I also put on my belt a Leatherman for the tools it provided…good for tying fish lures for bass fish. I’ve always wanted to salmon fish in Alaska so will have to purchase equipment for that.
I have been using buck knives a lot, it’s an American brand, before they went way up in price I bought a stack. Really excellent steel treatment, turns simple 420 into an amazing knife blade. Knife performance to me is ease of sharpening and I just strop the blade on the thousand grit water stone a couple of times occasionally then strop it on my jeans thigh.
The Kabar snapped at the hilt, I found out they weren’t full tang, but have a rat tail steel shaft for a handle.
What you want is the full width full tang with three pins on the scales for your main knife.
I drill out the small pins and make the holes larger for heavy brass pins and re epoxy the scales on solid, like the machetes.
The buck lite I’ll use to unzip the animal, skin or cape, and gut. Shave in the morning, I cannot believe razor plus edge I can get on this blade. I think it’s cryogenic quench steel treatment or something.
The Buck 110 folder to do the pluck, heart, liver, lungs. Actually you can do the whole job with just this knife, like the Case or the Sharp finger.
I’ll still take my green river Dadley knives for the do all iconic trade blade, it’s the ultimate meat processing knife and pioneer knife. The dadley and the sharp finger are the knives I have used most in the field that aren’t choppers or machetes.
Mate, all you need for all your fish processing is the Dexter extreme dual edge. I love it.
The beauty is you can reverse the blade and use the serrated clip point to cut through the rib bones without blunting your main edge. It was game changer for me, and I used the Japanese Deba for years to process fish.
Grab the flexible blade and stiff blade versions of sufficient length for the species you are dealing with. The 8 inch covers many species especially for skinning.
Don’t worry about it. The police can’t shoot, honestly, they are the worst shots I’ve ever seen. I shared the range with them for years, even as a civilian I beat them easily, let alone after joining Protective Services.
I used to qual first cycle every time so they stopped sending me, and 80% of the police re-quals used to take 3 cycles, it was a joke.
And they are dangerous, I saw very crazy things happen at the range.
The last person you want to give a gun to is a police officer.
Get your 357 mag and run your target 38spl loads out of it, practice your loading. I used 38 150grn wad cutters on pigs and they went snout down first shot. Well, sometimes you get a particularly large hog, but then you just give them second shot.
Wadcutters are actually quite nasty hunting rounds, people don’t realise.
Could you get a Ruger Mk IV tactical pistol there? For range use only, not going for concealed carry. Then when you go to Alaska, you pack it in general luggage for use when you are in the bush.
And a 10/22 takedown?
.22s are most important tool when you go bush. So much food can be got with them.
I really do want to go concealed carry because there are too many nuts in this area. Now they want you to shoot at targets in multiple positions, not just standing. Sitting then quickly getting up. I can’t physically do that anymore. Can’t even drive because of neuropathy and edema and back problems, while in Florida, is noted known as the gun shine state, my son was loaded up for war. His collection includes many automatic & semi automatic weapons as well as shotguns (don’t know why he needs them cause he doesn’t hunt/ maybe tactical. My 38 is all I need…that and the Ithaca pump shotgun. In the day, the farm boys only carried single shot shotguns…and they managed to hit birds and rabbits. I enjoyed hunting with them with a beagle or a cocker spaniel. My Irish setter was a wonderful bird dog also. I prefer setters ( spaniels) to German hunting dogs. Labs and Chessies for ducks … weighing in on the Chesapeake Bay Retrievers on extremely cold days….wonderful dogs!
Fishing and hunting is very good in Florida by all accounts, I’d probably live there if I lived in the States.
Do you see yourself leaving Jersey at some stage?
Does Florida have a particular crime problem, or is he expecting the Japanese to invade? They’ve done before.
Chesapeake Bay Retrievers laugh at the cold and work all day, amazing dogs.
Can you slam fire that Ithaca, is it one of them models?
Some guys opted for the wheel gun back up in 38 with the shrouded hammer, but I and most others went with a second G26.
You couldn’t really double duty it for hunting though. Longer barrel models you sure can.
The way it’s going, not if my wife survives we will need extra medical help and Memorial Sloan KETTERLING would look to keep us here. My son & family are now in Oregon and they prefer that to Florida.
I’m praying for you both mate.
Thanks mate, I watched the whole video through. That’s amazing, incredible opportunities there.