Any of you guys carry these hunting?

[birddog]

Damn, it takes one hard man to walk out of the woods with his heart and liver in a plastic grocery bag.

Once again, the co-workers in the next office HAVE to be wondering why I burst out laughing.

 

[WayneConrad]

The desert is unforgiving. This is a long list, but all the dry stuff weighs only 4 or 5 pounds. Most of my pack weight is water... as much as a gallon and a half of it (bringing the pack up to around 20 pounds). Water is hard to come by out here, and the terrain is rough enough, and I am enough out of shape, that on even a cool day I can sweat a fair amount of it.

In my pack:

Knife Sharpener
Wire Saw
Portal Aqua
Flashlight & extra batteries for it
Backup flashlight & extra batteries for it
Lighter
Tinder
Sharpie
Emergency Blanket (orange on one side, silver on other)
Adventure Medical Pocket Survival Pak (includes whistle, signal
mirror, spark & tinder)
Poncho
Assorted baggies & plastic sacks
Sun Screen
Chapstick
OTC drugs (pain, inflamation, allergy, diarrhea)
Roll of orange, 1" trail marking tape
Ace Bandage
Disposable Towels
Nitrile Gloves
Roll of paracord
Lanyard
Compass
Topo map
Protractor
Pencil
Ammo for shotgun or rifle
Game bag
Jacket
Extra Socks
Water
Energy bar
Eye glasses
2-way radios
Wipes or TP
Hearing Protection

On my person:

Sidearm & extra magazine
Multi-tool
Folding knife (RSK Mk2)
Cel phone
Hat

 

[Vern Humphrey]

real good list there. and im not laughing about the women's sanitary pads, they work great and are cheap, if you got a wife/GF you can liberate some from...

As a crusty old medical sergeant once told me, they're plenty strong, "They keep the Reds in, the Poles out and the Frenchmen hungry."

 

[~z]

birddog, sorry. When I first read it, I couldnt help it.
~z

 

[birddog]

Apology accepted, and I'm still laughing.

 

[Art Eatman]

Over the last forty or so years, I've found that tools for minor car repairs and fixing flats or keeping air in the tires get more use than anything else. Never have had any real people-problems, although I have a first aid kit. Gun cleaning stuff, and knife/axe sharpening stuff. Motor oil, transmission fluid.

I asked a doctor one time if I could get a prescription for Darvon and Valium. "Why?" he asked. I sez, "Well, if I take you quail hunting and you fall and break a leg, I don't want to have to listen to you scream for the two hours it takes to get to the pavement.

I never saw a guy write so fast, before.

With me when hunting? A box of shells, 4" hunting knife and 3" pocket knife, some rope and a good bit of toilet paper to mark the bushes where Bambi is, so I can come back and find him with "hauling help". If I'm gonna be out all day, maybe some munchies.

The problem in a dang desert is that it can be below freezing at daylight, when it's sitting time. Then, a half-hour or so after sunup when it's time to start walking, it's time to start peeling off clothes. Midday, a teeshirt and shorts is plenty. So, a day-pack to stuff the "warmies" into.

My main deal to to water-up before I leave camp.

My hunting country is on the east side of the Solitario formation, seen here:

http://corry.ws/CorryBook-9.htm

Concentric rings of hills, with a bowl in the central portion. The north-to-south distance is some ten miles.

I mostly work the eastern foothills and the eastern rim. Fun country, if you don't mind cactus, cat-claw, dagger plants and suchlike...

, Art

 

[Thin Black Line]

Hmmm, condoms in the first aid kit. And all these times I saw used
condoms in the parking spots near public hunting land I thought they
were the leftovers of promiscuous teens from the night before.....

 

[loadedround]

carried equipment

Do the Bears really allow you to wear a condom? ROFLMAO