RichardR

This administration really likes to "pick & choose" which laws they will or won't enforce, this is just one more example of our DOJ ignoring the law, Constitution &/or judicial rulings because of ideological corruption. I've never seen anything like this, except in "banana republics" &/or one-party States.

Is she a working/hunting dog or just a pet? I'd say if she's just a pet keeping her leashed is probably your best bet, my labs are all working dogs though so I have to train them off-leash for them to be any use to me out in the field. Off-leash is tuff for a lab, they have a really high prey instinct along with very high energy, very tuff to maintain controll off-leash unless they are really well trained, you really have to work with them every day & not slack off at all, or they will sprint off & not come back until they are good & ready too. I've been working with my current chocolate lab for 2 years now, he's an awesome dog, very well trained both on-leash & off-leash, but off-leash training is an awful lot of work, they really want to "get that critter" and calling them off of one isn't easy, even as well trained & well behaved Bear (my chocolate lab) is, he will sometimes pretend he didn't hear me, that's when I have to put a little growl into my voice, which of course he hears LOL.

I've got a couple, they are pretty decent "light-duty" utility knives, I wouldn't want to use them for any heavy duty cutting chores though, would probably bend. My wife likes the couple that she has as well, if we get another it'd probably be one of the robust versions, the regular versions only real draw back is how thin the blades are IMHO.

My chickens favorite treat is "sticky rice" which is just white rice boiled in a bit of cane sugar & pressed/squeezed into small balls. They absolutely love it, meal worms are probably a close second.

I really wish ya wasn't on the other side of the damn state man! Have fun, maybe I'll eventually be able to talk the wife into looking the other way so I can sneak in a weekend trip out to visit with you guys sometime!

Oh and I never "fix" any of my animals, it can occasionally help with some behavorial problems but personally I'd only consider it as a last resort.

I use a lot of non-verbals, especially with labs who for what ever reason tend to respond quicker & with seemingly less confusion than with verbal commands. Pssssttttt! Pssssstttt! Is one I use that tells the animal instantly to stop what ever they are doing at that particular moment & to divert their attention to me. I've found that it works even when they are very distracted &/or excited, as a lab owner you already know that labs can get pretty excited at times & when they are excited they can completely ignore verbals unless you get their attention first. I'd probably suggest starting with something like that.

I got the impression that he was rather young, I'm not sure if he's serious about the topic or not, hard to tell on an online type forum if someone is seriously interested or just jerking folks around sometimes.

I don't mind sharing what I've learned & I have pretty thick skin so no worries, he (and anyone else) is welcome to come down & go hunting or fishing with me, so long as they have the proper license & don't act like a tard/jerkoff or drink/do drugs, we'd probably all have a good time, maybe learn something in the process. I learn new stuff all the time, the trick is to always keep an open mindset to new ideas/ways of doing stuff. Spot's is the man though, I'm just in awe of that dude & his dad, the stuff I could learn from those two would definately be invaluable.

Hahhahaa she sounds like my kids! Congrats on her passing the course, my youngest has also expressed interest in bow hunting, maybe we can get them together sometime.

Welp I won't be "surviving" by hunting, I will of course continue to hunt, but only to suppliment my families caloric intake, same with trapping, I am both a (former) farmer & a commercial fisherman so the Hatchie & Mississippi rivers is where my families main source of protien (and trade) will come from, but I fully intend to grow most of our food if S does ever HTF. I'm fairly certain my family will never go hungry enough to ever starve to death, but then again nothing is ever totally guaranteed either, which is why I've planned a multi-pronged approach. I just wish I could grow potatos, every year I have problems with them, even the little plot this years produced bumpkis! Never could get potatos to grow worth a darn in Indiana either. Say if one or both rivers ever experienced a massive fish kill or became contaminated, or if we experienced a sever cold snap for a few seasons (mini ice-age) at least I have more than one avenue of feeding my kin.

I haven't watched any television in years, but I'm guessing they "blurred out" the naughty bits eh? Anyway yea naked wouldn't be the best way to wander through a wilderness setting, between all of the bug bites, bramble thorns, and poison oak, ivy, sumac etc it'll be a full time job trying to maintain body temp in cooler climates. All of the spare clothing in our packs is the water resistant rip-stop stuff from Stearns, well all except our spare pairs of boots, skivvies & socks, it's great stuff, a bit expensive but the weight savings in the packs is well worth it, the weather/water-resistance is just a bonus IMHO. I suggest getting the kind with the poly-netted inner-lining, instead of the more comfortable cotton inner-linning, once that cotton inner-liner gets sweaty or drenched in a down-pour it sort of clings to you the whole time & gets annoying until it dries back out.

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The only time I'd use carbide is when I need to seriously reprofile an edge, but you have to be careful because it'll remove a lot of metal from the knife. Smith's makes a pretty good sharpening system that is quick, easy & affordable, comes with a clamp, honing oil, angle guides and diamond & ceramic stone, bout $20 if I recall correctly, that's what I'd probably recommend to someone getting started.

Agreed Robert which brings up a couple great points, relying on a "hunter-gatherer" plan of action for anything more than very short-term semi-solution to a very temporary dire-situation &/or to help suppliment other dietary resources would be rather unwise ... well for anyone actually serious about prepping/survival, some folks seem more than content with a lot less "preps & planning" than I could ever be comfortable with though. Setting the firearms/hunting discussion aside for a moment inorder to touch on a couple other important points that should be repeated as often as possible. Everyone needs to have both a stockpile of goods, as well as renewable, easily cultivated & harvested food & fresh water resources, preferably multiple sources & enough of an excess of them for potential barter/trade for other goods, services, skills not on hand or in enough abundence in your little "survival group". Security will also be a major concern, the "have nots" are not going to peacefully starve to death without putting up a desperate fight, especially if they see a family of "haves" that they believe they can take stuff from. What you would do to keep from having to watch your child die from starving to death, they would do, there is an infamous quote that I can't recall at the moment but essentially it says "society is just a few meals away from complete chaos". And remember that just because you've set aside extra food doesn't mean anyone else in your neighborhood has done so, the percentage of American's who have even a single week's worth of food for their families in their fridge & pantries is really sad & pathetic, that percentage drops even lower at two weeks worth & almost none of your fellow Americans have 3 weeks or more worth of food on-hand. I'm guessing after 3 weeks of not eating, even your own best friend would kill you over a mouthful of beans. Anyway a Prius, be it made by Honda/Toyota whatever it really makes no difference to me who makes that crappy little hybrid car it is just about worthless to me, it can't haul or tow anything worth hauling or towing, it can't travel off-roads past maybe a few dozen meters if lucky, so it wouldn't be able to take me, my family or my gear anywhere I'd want or need to go, the only thing I'd use one of those things is if I managed to drive it somewhere I needed it, park it tucked out of the way remote spot & use them to provide a remote auxillary power source for something useful, like powering my power tools, recharging batteries, running deep freezers, etc. I would apologize for the thread drift, but this trainwreck of a thread was doomed to derail almost as soon as it left the station LOL.

Wow you've got the audacity to suggest that there is a whole pound of meat, &/or 588 edible calories in the average squirrel? When they typically only weigh about a single pound when they are alive & kicking (on average) to begin with? I suppose that is possible on "survival fantasy-island" but it isn't very likely here in reality, as most folks don't typically eat them whole, bones, guts, fluffy tail & all. In my experience folks usually skin, gut, debone & soak the meat in brine prior to tossing them in the stew pot, well at least I do, and again this is just my experience mind you, but in my experience this averages about 1/3rd of their original body weight being edible meat, wait, what is a third of 588? Is that around 200? And if 200 is multiplied by three does that equal 600? Wow imagine that! Maff is fun! Anyway I honestly don't care what you personally choose to use, I just want the other folks following this thread not to get the wrong idea & believe wrongly, as you seem too, that a .22LR is a good choice for "survival" because it really isn't. Granted it's better than nothing, but it is not going to be able to provide enough calories to sustain even one adult, let alone an entire family.

The room key one was priceless, I laughed out-loud when the dude did a double take at his room key in the other guys hand while in the elevator. Video aborted after the vette door was removed by the bus though, so didn't catch any after that.

Welp IMHO relying on a .22LR for survival, is sort of like trying to win the Indy 500 in a Honda Prius, it might make it around the track a few times, but ya ain't real bright iffin ya try do it. So pardon the @#$% out of me for trying to prevent folks from handicapping themselves with their gear selection, apparently there are some very delusional Prius owners amongst us who really think they can get that checkered flag if they just believe in themselves. A squirrel is at best 200-250 calories a pop, a single human adult requires 2000-2500 calories a day, do the math, err maybe I should just shut the hell up & allow Darwinism to do it's work ...

Agreed, I also believe this to be nothing more than mere "gerrymandering".

I didn't see it listed, but I die a little inside everytime someone listens to "pop-country" music ...

Yea, I'd trade it all, well everything except my kids & grandkids, to feel (just feel) 18 again *sigh* congrats on the geezer-perks though, ya earned them.

Sportsman license limits you to a single one, but there is no limit to the number you can have in the water with a commercial license, so long as they are tagged.

I don't see an actual service handgun on your list so I'd have to second Spot's P226 suggestion, or if that's not in the budget, maybe a gently used G17, S&W MP9, Springfield XD, Beretta 92 or CZ75 of some sort.

Meh, a single 70 lb doe = 100 x squirrels IMHO but I'm not going to continue to argue the merits of shotguns, if folks want to chance it with a .22LR that's fine, just keep in mind that the only time I use a .22LR is when I want to make small game (rabbit,squirrel) hunting a bit more "challenging" ... and not when I want to fill my bag limit or for when I am after other game like duck,geese,deer,turkey,etc. The arguement reminds me of the guy who puts a single #8 hook + 20' of 12lb fishing line in his pack thinking he's prepared to "survive" because of it. I just look over at my dozen or so 125' 300lbs test main-line, 25 x #1 hook 150lb trotlines, and mutiple boat-loads of commercial slatbaskets, dozens of yo-yo's, juglines, etc & laugh. I was just trying to teach, I wasn't trying to be a douche, some folks just refuse to budge off of the fantasy & really see the reality of what it's going to take to actually "survive" such a collapse. A bulk-pack of .22LR & a #8 hook isn't going to cut it IMHO. I will agree traps & snares are also an efficient way to harvest wildlife, so long as your position is static anyway, iffin you are on the move they're hard to double back for.

I have the similar Lowrance combo, great stuff, love the DI makes reading structures so much easier IMHO, especially on the Hatchie where you can get tangled in/at just about everywhere in all of that mess. GPS is a nice feature to, it let's me mark where I drop my slatbaskets, I don't like tying them off on shore since they are to easy for other folks to find that way.