Timestepper

I try to shoot all of my guns as though I only have one shot. It's made me a better hunter. ('Course now that I think about it, other than the lever action .22 and the 1858 Remington Buffalo revolver, all of my guns are single shot.)

Oddly enough, I've always rendered mine into candle wax or used it as a natural lube for my muzzle loaders. Personally, I prefer to mix in hog fat or lard with my ground venison - seems to age a little better than using beef fat.

Frontiersmen had a saying: "Fur and feathers, never together." Even back then they were safety conscious and the 18th & 19th century version of blaze orange was a fur hat or cap with feathers in it. That said, at the very least the shooter should be charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment. Entirely preventable and unnecessarily tragic. My prayers go out to the family and friends of the Reservist.

Me too what he said. Plus I still use the little bolt action .410 that I got my first pheasant with on the plains of Kansas 40 years ago. (Ok, that sucks - I just reminded myself how freakin' old I am.)

Well... I was going to post a couple of pics to show why canoeing the Clinch was a GREAT idea (not of game killed, but of trophy fish taken - this is a hunting and fishing forum), but it says I'm not allowed to post attachments. Shucks!

Couldn't have said it better myself.

How about "I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop!" And then give well reasoned and well thought out information on the necessity of responsible gun ownership in America. Keep it light, but informative and impassioned and maintain your integrity at all times. You may not convince anybody, but then again, you might! Luck!

Congrats! I've asked Santa for a class sometime between Christmas and the end of January (my birthday). Just have to come up with a decent handgun to use since the only one I own now is an 1851 Remington Buffalo in .44 cal with a 14 inch barrel. (Shoots like an ever-loving dream, but they probably wouldn't want me fowling up the clean air in their indoor range.)

Long & wonderful day canoeing on the Clinch River (4 nice 'bows & 1 nearly trophy Brown) leads to a somewhat fubar'd lower back which insists on being medicated with Sierra Mist & Burnett's Spiced Rum. MMMMMmmmmm.... aaaaaah!

Yep, feels like deer hunting time... wonder why the hell my buddy and I are canoeing the Clinch after trout today instead?

That's why I didn't post it in the other thread, too. Kinda' surprised that no one has reminded me that this is a gun forum, not a car forum.

Kinda' envy you tech savvy guys - I thought Tapatalk was tech lingo for Morse code. (Sent from camp using smoke signals.)

Stands to reason that backhauls would be allowed, otherwise it wouldn't be economically feasible for Mexican trucks to come more than a couple hundred miles into the U.S. And you're right, it will hit us hard. I gave up the long-haul stuff a few years back (along with a good portion of my income) in order to stay within a days' drive of Knoxville simply for the extra time at home. There are drivers who don't have that option and they're going to suffer for it for a number of reasons, not the least of which is less freight to haul and the resulting drop in freight prices.

Doesn't matter when, where or how many times you've read it - the point is still valid. And I simply choose to operate my vehicles with the same attention to safety that I exercise when using my guns. (Kinda' wish more people would take that approach, it'd make my job a whole lot easier.) :-\

Different thread, same answer: I'm going to keep this very simple (knowing that I'll probably go down in flames, but what the heck). If you don't have your head up your butt while using your guns, then don't put it there when you get in your car and you won't have to worry about what to say to LEOs in any state because you'll never get pulled over. Personally, I'd rather go up against someone armed with a gun than someone armed with a 2,000 pound personal vehicle - at least I've got a pretty good idea of what the guy with gun is going to do.

I'm going to keep this very simple (knowing that I'll probably go down in flames, but what the heck). If you don't have your head up your butt while using your guns, then don't put it there when you get in your car and you won't have to worry about what to say to LEOs in any state because you'll never get pulled over. Personally, I'd rather go up against someone armed with a gun than someone armed with a 2,000 pound personal vehicle - at least I've got a pretty good idea of what the guy with gun is going to do.

Never been to Kansas, have you? We got the crap kicked out of us by both sides during the war. Little old ladies up home don't take any stuff from anyone!

Yeah, I guess I kinda' got my answer by the rather under-whelming response.

New to TGO, so this is the first time I've even seen the thread. Sounds like an interesting idea to be sure. Never really a survivalist type, but I spent a few years up home (in Western Kansas) demonstrating/teaching "frontier survival skills" (basic tracking, flint & steel/bow drill fire starting methods, muzzle loader safety, basic shelter w/out modern materials, cordage making, etc...) so I might be able to offer a smidgin or two of useful info. Truthfully, I'm not sure how much I could actually add, but I'd be more than tickled to show what I generally carry in my tumpline bedroll for a 2 - 3 day primitive trek (actually, kinda' the forerunner of the modern day bugout bag) and maybe give a little different perspective. Heck, even if no one is interested in my style of "camping" it'd be worth it to me just to talk to other folks about their style of camping/survival. Only thing is, I drive a truck 5-6 days a week, so my time is kind've at a premium. A Saturday would definitely be best if I had enough notice. Keep yer nose to th' wind! ...Timestepper...

Wow, congrats on all your success, present and future! All I ever succeeded at was a full scholarship to the school of hard knocks. (But OH, what stories are behind each knock and bump and bruise!)

Wow! I've learned some things from this thread. I guess that's a good thing, although I'll readily admit that some of the ideas had me scratching my head and wondering how the folks that suggested them still had enough fingers left to type with. lmao Having spent many years as a living historian, (doing the mountain man/buckskinning/frontier scout thing), I've learned quite a bit on how fires were started before there were matches. Some, like flint & steel, are fairly simple and can be mastered in short order. Others, like using a bow drill, take a bit more time and preparation. Having said that, you are limited only by your imagination and using a combination of "old fashioned" and "new age" techniques seems to be the key for me. The following are just a few things I've used to great advantage over a lifetime of time of primitive camping and modern mis-adventures. (I'm going to assume that you've already got a flame source, i.,e., matches, lighter, etc...) Cotton balls soaked in vaseline and stored in a film canister. Paper egg cartons filled with sawdust/pine shavings and saturated with wax (simply break off one at a time and light the wax soaked paper edge - it'll burn for about 10 minutes and light even damp wood). Old film negatives light easily and put off tremendous heat as do most plastic cups (don't breath the fumes). Gasoline mixed with enough powered laundry detergent to make a gel (basically homemade napalm) and stored in a small charcoal lighter fluid bottle (just squeeze out a ribbon onto your kindling and touch a match or lighter to it). A small bundle of cedar bark dipped in paraffin or beeswax is great (this will light even when wet). Hickory splinters dipped in paraffin or beeswax (not quite as good as cedar bark, but still throws a good hot flame). The so-called Tea-light candles are great fire starters and I generally carry a half dozen or so in a plastic bag (they don't take up much room) and just light one and place it under my tinder pyramid when I want a fire (candle stubs work great, too) good thing about tea-lights/candle stubs is that they can also be used for actual lighting purposes in a pinch. I've also used tightly rolled "newspaper logs" dipped in/coated with wax. A simple and very effective stove can be made using a tuna or cat food can and a 1 inch wide strip of corrugated cardboard rolled tightly and placed in the bottom of the can and saturated with wax (don't fill the can with wax, just saturate the cardboard) to extinguish, simply place the bottom of your cook pot, pan, etc... directly on top the can. When the flames are out, set it off to the side to cool down and let the remaining wax harden, then pack it away for the next time (this stove works best with a trivet of some sort to keep your pot above the flame). I've also used homemade alcohol stoves and a few other methods (that I refuse to pass along for fear of getting sued). But the stuff mentioned above is tried and true and has been used to great effect on a reasonably regular basis. I'm sure there are other things that I'm simply not thinking of right now - like I mentioned earlier, you're limited only by your imagination - but the key is to practice all of it before you need it. Nothing sucks more than finding yourself in a situation where you are depending upon a method of fire starting that you're only vaguely familiar with or "read about once in a forum or a magazine or something."

I received the following in an email from a LEO buddy up home, in Kansas. I don't know if it's true or not, but knowing my own mother - who lives in the same part of the state - it very well could be. I hope so. I made a traffic stop on an elderly lady the other day for speeding on U.S.166 Eastbound at Mile Marker 73 just East of Sedan, KS. I asked for her driver’s license, registration, and proof of insurance. The lady took out the required information and handed it to me. In with the cards I was somewhat surprised (due to her advanced age) to see she had a concealed carry permit. I looked at her and asked if she had a weapon in her possession at this time. She responded that she indeed had .45 automatic in her glove box. Something, body language, or the way she said it made me want to ask if she had any other firearms. She did admit to also having a 9mm Glock in her center console. Now I had to ask one more time if that was all. She responded once again she did have just one more, a .38 special in her purse. I then asked her what was she so afraid of? She looked me right in the eye and said, "Not a damn thing!" And that, folks, is my kind of Grandma!

Oh, and calling the cops is nice, but don't do it while you're driving unless you have a hands-free device or someone else in the car to use the phone for you. In fact, it's okay to notice the tag number, but please don't try to write it down while you're driving. I mean, I know everyone here is great driver and can multi-task and everything, but I get real tired of avoiding you while you're swerving around doing it. Simple fact is that driving is like sex: Nearly everyone who has ever done it thinks they're really good at it, while the fact remains that most simply don't know what the hell they're doing.

As a truck driver with slightly more than 2 1/2 million miles behind me, I've read this entire thread with great interest. And I took special notice of a member's reference to a "company safety Nazi." I'm not offended by it, but I'm willing to bet that my company Safety Director would be. In the course of driving for a living, I'm willing to bet that I encounter more "idiots" in the space of a week than the average motorist does in a year. And it never ceases to amaze me how little actual thought the vast majority of the motoring public puts into getting from one place to another. Especially since I feel a personal obligation to not only get home safely myself, but to constantly be prepared to safely deal with those who don't seem to give a rat's rear end about anyone's safety let alone their own. Simply put, if two cars get together, there will always be an exchange of paint. Sometimes there will be injuries, occasionally there will be death. On the other hand, if a 2,000 pound car gets together with an 80,000 pound commercial motor vehicle, paint is obliterated and there will nearly always be serious injuries and death is not uncommon. And I don't want that on my conscience. So I take extra pains to drive 10 X or 100 X or even a thousand times more responsibly than John Q. Public. Because I'm selfish. Because I don't want someone else's idiocy to cause me bad dreams because they weren't as concerned with getting home safely to their family as they should have been. I wrote the previous paragraph to firmly establish my "credentials" as it were. Now I will answer the original "What would you do?" question: I'd do pretty much the same thing that the O.P. did with one slight modification: First, hit the brakes, lay on the horn and avoid the potential collision. Second, I'd use my middle finger, too. Difference is that I wouldn't roll the window down to do it. In fact I would deliberately keep it out of sight down on my lap. It's still there, I know it's still there. Hell, the emotions are still there. But the individual who just cut me off can't see it and it doesn't give him an excuse to further escalate his stupidity and obvious disregard for his fellow man. So, kesava, your question has finally been answered. That's what I would do. I know it's what I would do because - as much as I would like to profess complete rational, angelic composure - it's what I do on a regular basis in the course of dealing with John Q. Motorist for 110,000 miles a year. Oh, and I also repeat what has become my own personal mantra: Illegitmas non-carborundum. (Don't let the b*stards wear you down!) Luck to you! ...Timestepper...

Not to mention the .32 is too small to take deer with legally. BUT, the .32 IS a great squirrel gun and rabbit & squirrel hunting is a great way to introduce a youngster to the woods and hunting. Luck to you! And like I said, if you have any questions feel free to give me a holler. I'll readily admit that I am strictly a traditionalist where muzzle loading is concerned and have virtually NO experience with modern inline smoke poles, but otherwise, I'll do my best to help you out.