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Member Section => Handguns => Topic started by: Gossamer on July 22, 2008, 08:58:45 PM
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Has anyone discussed camping handguns here? I cannot hike like I used to so instead of hiking all over God's green earth I have decided to camp on it instead. When I do camp I bring my SASS handguns (were legal to bring them). Here in IL sadly we are not know for our love of the handgun. I have talked to many people that have a .22 handgun for pests (racoons and the such). But would you want to fight a dog or wild boar with it?
I bring my Rem. 1875 clone and Colt SAA clone. Both chambered in .45LC. I know that people prefer .38's to use in SASS but a wild dog is going to have a bigger hole in them when you use the old round. Just because you are not going to the store to get a gallon of milk does not mean that you are not going to run into trouble. Besides can you think of a worse place to run into trouble than 30 min from a town?
Ok I will get off the soapbox now. Take care.
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Hey Goss ... welcome to the forum!
One year while deer hunting I had three armed guys come walking into our camp one night. Up in the middle of no-where in the mountains, all I could hear was the tune of "Duelling Banjos" going through my head. They were just "lost" but I never hunt/camp or go up in the hills without carrying now.
When I go hunting. my choice of camp carry is a 4" S&W M629 (no dash). Gun has been tuned and ported by Larry Kelly's team at Mag-Na-Port. If I were to go hiking or camping, my choice would be my SIG P220 or a Behlert tuned Browning HP.
Used to live in St. Charles and I know the love of guns the "land of drink'n" has.
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I carry my Glock 26 (9mm) with an extra 17 rd mag when I go backpacking. It carries well and is fine for critters, varmints, and trouble makers ........ but if I were to venture into grizzly territory, I would want perhaps a .44 mag or larger.
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I used to spend a fair amount of time in the Adirondacks in upstate NY. I could hike then and went all over the place. My kids and I saw black bears all the time and some even came close enough to get me awfulll excited (less than 25 yards). I came to realize two things. Bears do not like loud meat, so sing to them and talk to them and they will leave you be. Also handguns don't make you feel any safer in bear country. But I agree that a .44Mag would be better than my beloved .45LC's. Just my two cents.
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I bring my Rem. 1875 clone and Colt SAA clone. Both chambered in .45LC.
Uh, last time I checked .45 LC is "all good". I like the Winchester Silvertips IMHO, for the occasional 4 legged, let alone 2 legged "varmint", its a great choice to have when "out there".
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm182/twyacht/45LC.jpg)
I have loved the .45LC for a long,long time; as far as a camping gun,... It's a fine choice..It works, period. Yes, more caliber will always work, but what works for you will always matter most.
Don't worry about the soapbox,., I am thankful I can get on mine, every once and a while, on the best forum to do so.
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When I go hiking, hunting or horse back riding mountains or desert, I carry a .357 with 125 gr jacketed hollow points (reloads). Don't have a .44 mag otherwise that is what I would carry. In the Land of Enchantment we have no problems packing outdoors.
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I don't go camping as I had 10 years of it thanks to Uncle Sam ( ;D ). My idea of 'roughing it' is having to leave the room to get ice. ;)
In any case, if I were to go I'd take my Redhawk 45 and some Buffalo Bore ammo.
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I'm way off topic here, but I'm a brand new member, and need a bit of instruction on how to start a new topic for discussion. By way of introducing myself, I'll copy a comment I just posted on the blog site regarding some "movie guns" that were on display at a recent event.
I retired in 2000, after nearly 40 years work, as an art director, in the motion picture industry in Hollywood. Back in the day, Stembridge Gun Rentals, located under Paramount Studios was THE source for period weaponry. They used to claim that they could outfit a good sized army, from any period in history, or spot on the globe, and I certainly believed it was no empty boast. The collection was enormous and of extremely high quality. The last I heard they were out in the Valley, and have probably sold off now, if these great guns are beginning to show up in private hands.
I vividly remember doing a close inspecting of a Gattling gun on a set one day, and doing a big, verbal reaction to a discovery I made. Duke Wayne was passing by and laughed at my outburst and asked me what caused it. I had noticed the initials, R.A.C. stamped into the weapon, and I had the stamp of the same inspector on my own SAA Colt, that I’d purchased in a pawn shop (for $70) in 1951. The prop master had Duke’s Peacemaker locked up (the usual practice between shots), but Duke brought it over to me following the next take to point out a few things he loved about the pistol.
By the way, having worked on two movies with Duke, and also filmed on his beloved boat many other times, I never heard anyone call him THE Duke. It was a nickname - not a title.
I quit making movies when it quit being fun. The bean-counters moved in and removed the heart from the business. I did have a lot of good years and a lot of good stories from a bunch of fun, mostly very nice people.
I never met anyone in the business who didn't like to work on a good western.
Later,
Bill (k39noodles)
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Welcome Bill, sounds like you have some good stories about the movie industry.What do you like and or carry in sidearms.? Hope you find the site informative. ;D
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Bill.. to start a new topic for discussion you just go click on " new topic" button and you are good to go.
Looks like you could start many new topics and keep us all entertained with some good stories.
Welcome.. :)
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Hello Bill and welcome, sounds like you were in the movie industry during a better time, with better actors.
Any stories about this actor?
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Bill.. to start a new topic for discussion you just go click on " new topic" button and you are good to go.
Looks like you could start many new topics and keep us all entertained with some good stories.
Welcome.. :)
You have to be at the top level in the Forum for this to work. Go to the yellow options bar at the top Click on Forum. Then select the proper forum for your post - like Politics & RKBA for a political post, the Cafe for general interest, etc. Click on the forum you want, and you should see a button toward the top right called "New Topic". Click that and you are on your way.
Welcome to the site, and boy would I love to hear your stories. Start with Bill Holden.
Know anyone at Winddancer? My only contact with Hollyweird.
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An XD45 with three mag on me and 100 rounds in the car or tent depending on where I am camping.
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My idea of 'roughing it' is having to leave the room to get ice. ;)
My idea of camping I always said was the Holiday Inn.
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My idea of camping I always said was the Holiday Inn.
YEP!
Friend "Let's go camping".
Me "I'll see you at the bar in the nearest Holiday Inn". ;D
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My camping days have pretty much ended. Not by choice, but wife's idea of camping is like you Holiday Inn guys and mine is a sleeping bag out in the open (as I age I like a lawn chair). I used to ride motorcycle all over and bed was any place I could both park the bike and unroll the bag. There were many nights I was chased out of city parks and rest areas for sleeping on the tables in the picnic shelters when it was raining, but that might have been because I rode the bike in there as well.
As for the actual topic - I don't see camping as being any different than a back up gun when hiking or hunting. I like my single action revolvers when I clean up in the grove and pasture for the same reason I like them for back up when hunting - they are trouble free and VERY forgiving when it comes to mud, slush and shit manure. I'm clumsy and tend to fall when I step in it and slip. I have found that my primary hunting revolver is also very good even though it is a double action. I had it so coated with ice once that it would not cycle double, but I could operate it as single action. I don't carry it as a back up, because it is a 6 1/2" S&W 500 PC.
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Hi twyacht,
I did work with Chuck Heston on one movie. That was the first Planet of the Apes. You may not like my whole answer, but here goes.
To begin with, most actors are exceptional people in many ways, and Chuck was no exception. He was very serious about his profession and his work, but had a great sense of fun and humor. I think there were times when he might have felt a bit overwhelmed by the roles he was asked to play - Michelangelo, Moses, El Cid, Ben Hur . . . Who wouldn't be? He did mention to me one day that probably his favorite role was the Mexican policeman that he did in the movie with Orson Wells. Funny - I can't remember the name of the movie right now, but I'm sure you know it. ". . . something . . . Evil".
I've got to preface the next bit with the following. Up to the year I retired, I NEVER heard any talk touching on politics on the set. This divisive - us v. them mentality - is a very new thing. Actors found grounds for respect, and even friendship, in the talents of their coworkers. That common ground made for some strange combinations at times - when seen from hindsight (or from these polarized times). One of the movies I worked with Duke Wayne on, also starred Rock Hudson (who preferred being called Roy). Now, Rock was a name given to him by his agent, who ONLY represented gay men. Roy's sexual preference was no secret in the business, and Duke and Roy got along famously. They were about the same size and were like two BIG kids. I'm sure that the same was true when Duke worked with Monty Clift on the classic, Red River. Just a lot of respect between acting peers.
The lack of political, or personal, differences intruding on the work was unknown - except in the case of strong feuds, such as between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford - and explains half the observation I'd like to make in regard to Chuck Heston. I felt bad for him because I think he was sandbagged from both sides, by two different groups. First the NRA - then Michael Moore's film crew.
Let me explain the second side of that statement. I've had a couple of close friends who have gone down the same path to oblivion that struck both Heston and Reagan. It is not an easy ride. One friend never drank, but as his mind and memory began to go he drank more and more. It was his excuse, or rationalization, for the loss that he could not reconcile. I had no contact with Chuck Heston in these years, but I understand from friends who did, that he began to lose the fun and humor as he concentrated so hard to find the present.
I've owned guns my whole life, except for the years I lived in England, and am an NRA member. But I'll never remember Chuck Heston as representing any group. I think of him representing all of us through his work as so many unforgettable characters, and representing himself, as the funny, balanced and artistically fulfilled man that he was. A nice guy, seeking continued growth.
Someone asked me about Bill Holden, but I never met the man. Saw him around a few times, but never met him.
Please don't add any undeserved validity to my anecdotal musings. I'm just an artist who fell into a pretty decent way for one of my ilk to make a living. The only difference between my work and that of a brick layer is that a number of the folks I worked with are known to the public. I just love living on this Mud-Ball, and my art and my children are keys to that.
I did not add a website to my sign-up info for this site, because I have a few. One aspect of my life can be viewed at www.mcallisterpaintings.com. My whole life, I've thrilled at taking sheets of blank paper and changing it forever with puddles of pigment. I've also loved placing sheets of paper down range and tearing them up with bits of lead and copper.
Im better at the first than the later.
Later,
Bill (k39noodles)
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K39 your art is excellent, some are like photographs, but your attention to detail is very much like a camera., it's there whether you like it or not. Captured the moment. Thanks.
Favorite camping handgun is my Glock 21, .45 acp, 2 mags full of Black Talon, or XST, and a bag full of 185 gr, semiwadcutters, In the woods, I keep the pistol loaded with the hard stuff, but a spare 15 round mag full of the SWC'S, If I meet trouble I'm ready, if I find small game or just targets of convenience the SWC's take over.. Just a quick mag change. The 185's are loaded light and very accurate, but punch a big square hole..
In the more dangerous woods, here in Texas, I carry my 4" model 57 S&W .41 magnum, with the hot stuff and lots of speedloaders.
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k39Noodles, you simply reinforce my belief that all the worth while knowledge of mankind can be accessed through this forum.
We have writers, factory workers, people from the oil industry, Military, Law enforcement, and any other field or endeavor imaginable, and if your question doesn't fall into any of those catagories some one will know where to look to find the answer.
This forum is in microcosm the best of America.
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k39Noodles, you simply reinforce my belief that all the worth while knowledge of mankind can be accessed through this forum.
We have writers, factory workers, people from the oil industry, Military, Law enforcement, and any other field or endeavor imaginable, and if your question doesn't fall into any of those catagories some one will know where to look to find the answer.
This forum is in microcosm the best of America.
Bullseye!
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Thank you k39Noodles,
"But I'll never remember Chuck Heston as representing any group. I think of him representing all of us through his work as so many unforgettable characters, and representing himself, as the funny, balanced and artistically fulfilled man that he was."
I agree and you phrased it perfectly. Welcome (again).
Another option of a "camping gun" could be the S&W 460V, it shoots the .45lc, 454 Casull and the .460 S&W Magnum, without changing anything. It would cover any "4 legged, let alone 2 legged" situation while camping.
Although the pool area at the Holiday Inn doesn't allow glass or firearms. ;)
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If I'm going to be plinking, I take my Ruger 22/45. For self defense I take my XD-45.
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The movie that Charlton Heston starred in as a Mexican police is "Touch of Evil" with Orson Welles. Great performances by both actors. Favorite movie(s) with Heston are "The Warlord", "Will Penny" and Khartoum and "Touch of Evil". Thanks k39noodles.
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seeing as we ahve gone off topic and i feel like putting my two pennies in to the handgun topic... as i have realized over the course of the last year playing with my guns, buying guns, researching guns, hunting with guns... ect.. i have discovered 2 things...
1) I do not like revolvers...
i love their safety features and the fact that a good one will never stop.. i just dont like the feel and fit of them.
2) My favorite calibure is the 9mm... not as much takedown as the 45 or 40... but still enough to get the job done
however the area i go camping in has rather large animals.. such as brown bears and wolves of some sort.. so i carry a 1911 in 45... as well as a rifle, either a springfield m1a soccom II or my old trusty browning 30-06
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Hi M25,
I think the photographic comparison is a fair one. I was always a fair draftsman and love to draw. One element that you are seeing is the paintings that seem the most photographic, as far as the seeming detail, are the larger paintings. When they are reduced from 30" x 42" down to fit your computer screen, they appear VERY tight.
Designing motion pictures is a unique discipline, and I always said that my paintings made me a better art director, and my film work made me a better painter. My film work was viewed in a two-dimensional format. The final work was projected onto a flat screen. Part of my job was to create the depth to add the third dimension. As often as possible this was accomplished by the inclusion of foreground, mid-ground and background. This is also fully explored in my paintings.
More important to both artistic endeavors, is establishing the light source and using it to full, visual advantage. I do love light, and could not do either job without it. I show my appreciation by making it the lead character whenever possible.
Later,
Bill (k39noodles)
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Hi HAZCAT,
I always used to say that my idea of camping was drinking the house wine at Morton's.
I really used to enjoy bird hunting. I guess it was strolling through the fields on a beautiful California morning. I don't do that these days, but still have an occasional "perfect day". That consists of getting out to a remote spot, doing some serious plinking for a couple of hours, then get down to business. We lock up the guns and break out the food and wine for a great picnic. Given the opportunity, any meal tastes better outdoors.
But when the sun dips into Mother Earth and the mosquitoes come out, it's never a tent that I turn to, but off to Morton's - where the only thing I might have to shoot is a Champagne cork.
Later,
Bill (k39noodles)
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Hi Bill,
Yep, old bones don't take the hard ground and damp air (or at least that's one of the excuses I use ;) )
Haz
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Camping is having to use the shampoo you find in the little bathroom basket in your hotel room.
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seeing as we ahve gone off topic and i feel like putting my two pennies in to the handgun topic... as i have realized over the course of the last year playing with my guns, buying guns, researching guns, hunting with guns... ect.. i have discovered 2 things...
1) I do not like revolvers...
i love their safety features and the fact that a good one will never stop.. i just dont like the feel and fit of them.
2) My favorite calibure is the 9mm... not as much takedown as the 45 or 40... but still enough to get the job done
however the area i go camping in has rather large animals.. such as brown bears and wolves of some sort.. so i carry a 1911 in 45... as well as a rifle, either a springfield m1a soccom II or my old trusty browning 30-06
I like your choices when camping. How do you like your SoccomII? I carried an M14 in the Corps for a short while and never really liked it but that one looks interesting. Can't beat that Browning 30-06, made in Belguim?
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Well my family and I went camping this weekend. We camped out at Sand Ridge SP in the western part of the great state of IL. There is a trap range out there that I did not see the first time we camped there so the next trip I think that my .410 and .16 gauge are going to come with us. No trouble other than some of our fellow campers did not realize that quiet hours really mean to be quiet. So my lovely and stern wife went over there and explained to the teenagers that they needed to keep their teeth together.
I am a little disappointed that there seem to be so many people that are against camping. We heard whooperwills, owls, woopeckers and saw lots of deer and wild turkeys while we were out. Life is better out of doors if for no other reason that it makes you appreciate your home more. Take care all.
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I'm not against camping although I joke about it. At this stage of my life I want soft couches and massages from lovely women, not rocks and bugs and tourists in pop-ups. But then, I live on the ocean, so I guess that's a big like camping...it can get pretty wild pretty quick.
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Rocks are your friend! The big ones can be used as pillows. I understand what you mean about wanting to take it easy. I have to use a cane or crutches to walk and there are times where I wonder why I am doing this to myself. Then I see something that reminds me that one day I might not be able to walk at all so I need to get out and see all I can while I am able.
You are gutsier than me. I could not live next to the ocean. I would want to play in it all the time and eventually something would eat me or my own foolishness would do me in.
On the subject I took my daughter out to the range last week and she really took to my Marlin 1894 in .45LC and think that might be coming camping instead of one handgun. The Remington replica is still coming though. Does anyone know about rail forearms for 1894's? I heard that some where being dreamed up by manufacturers but cannot find any. Take care.
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I'm not against camping although I joke about it.
Right on, jaybethel. I've nothing against camping. It's just that, unlike a bear, or the Pope, there are certain things I don't enjoy doing in the woods. I, too, have spent most of my life living near (or practically on) the ocean. Mine was just a bigger, bluer one. That is certainly living with a constant awareness of nature, isn't it? I miss it, but as soon as my youngest finishes high school (one more year) I think we'll head for big, deep waters again.
Like Gossamer, I've been on crutches and a cane for the past ten months. I was going down some stairs (to the indoor range at a local gun shop), and toward the bottom did something wrong and ended up landing on both kneecaps on the concrete floor below. No bones broken, but I managed to rupture both quad tendons, requiring double surgery on both knees, to reattach them, with incisions that started at the point of each shoulder and ended up between my big and middle toes. Big suckers, anyway. I'm a fighter, so I got my range of motion back in half the time of a man a third my age. But the 6 weeks of total immobility caused a lot of atrophy in those quads. I only use the cane, on doctor's orders, in public now - just to keep the public at bay, since I'm a bit easier to tip than a cow. In the early days of the recovery, I just felt my exertion better applied to getting into Morton's, or up the front stairs to the Saddle Peak Lodge, than to some place where I could look for a bigger rock to use as a pillow.
Speaking of the Saddle Peak, it's one of my favorite places in the world. It's an extended, expanded old cowboy bar in the Malibu Mountains. Malibu was one of the biggest, and certainly most beautiful, of the old land grant ranches in California, and the last, female descendent of the land-grant family married the ranch forman, and it became known as the Rindge Ranch. Their daughter, Rhoda Rindge, in the 1920s, had mounted, armed riders patrolling the barbed wire fences trying to keep out the "eminent domain" folks from extending the Coast Highway through her property. As usual, the lawyers got all her money, and the State got the land. All she saved was the Adohr (Rhoda spelled backward) Dairy, which is still very big today.
The Saddle Peak is a reminder of those days. It is very rustic in appearance and filled with beautifully mounted trophy heads. They serve a LOT of game dishes but prepared in unique American/Continental sauces. They have the wine list to go with the food, but I used to take some from my own collection for special dinners. There were a lot of those.
I wish some of your contributers were a bit more tolerant of California. Like everywhere else in this country, it's filled with Americans. Just because there are a higher percentage of politicians who are f---ed, has no bearing on the people who live there. Having been raised (and now living) in Western Pennsylvania - "Deerhunter" country - I'll guarantee you that there are many more gun shops, and ranges where you can shoot them, in Los Angeles than there are here in Pittsburgh. I think that many more people in LA carry concealed than they do here as well. They don't have the CC Permit that I have in my wallet right now, but just have better holsters because of that. Short magazines - no semi-autos - no assault rifles? I don't know what the California laws are now, and I'll guarantee that most of the residents don't either. The Arizona border isn't that far away, and you can buy anything there. Can & do! Boys will be boys and girls will be girls. Californians are well armed.
I'll tell you a few funny things about Arizona, but that's another letter. Meanwhile, back in the woods . . .
Later,
Bill (k39noodles)
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Most of the time when I am out by the Columbia River camping I wear my Glock 19 in a sholder holster, and now that I have it, my Puma. I have those to on me at all times almost. In my backpack, not main camping clothes bag, that stays in the tent, but in my backpack that is on me or next to me at all times, is a 100 rounds of 9mm and a 100 .357 mag. My back pack always has my water, towel. book, iPod and other stuff in it. So it kinda just goes everywhere with me.
Over there snakes are really common so I suppose a .410\.45 would be supreme for handgun, but I run what I got and know that my Ka-Bar can chop the head off any snake and has already more than once.
Also alot of times I will have my 1911 with me, but I like the Glock more in the sholder holster cause i sit on the bank of the river alot and it seems alot of times with having the full size 1911 on my waist I seem to roll it in the dirt and sand alot when it is on my waist. So I try to keep my hand gun up higher so I dont punch the barrel in the sand when I sit. I use a serpa II holster so maybe another holster would help this from happening.
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I usually take a Para .45 loaded with 15 hollowpoints when camping. Any good brand of ammo, any weight, +P or regular.
I sure miss the Dan Wesson .357 Magnum that I used to have. I sometimes had Remington mult-ball ammo in it, with 2 000 Buckshot per round. I also had a lot of 110 and 125 grain CCI Lawman Penta-Point ammo back then.
During deer season I can only carry a rimfire if I don't have a deer-hunting license. Then I carry a Ruger 22/45 or Mark II Target with high-velocity ammo.
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Hi Bill,
Yep, old bones don't take the hard ground and damp air (or at least that's one of the excuses I use ;) )
Haz
Gee Haz....what's that other name for a cat? ;)
For camping, which I usually do in Arkansas, I generally have my Kimber 1911 in 10 MM if I'm going to be roaming the woods and might disturb a black bear. The 10MM at full power is probably my best stopper in a handgun (shot a 500 S&W this week...it's on the want one list!). Around the campsite I used to keep a CZ 75B in 40 S&W...but I like my M&P 45 so much I'm thinking about carrying that in the camping area now....first round rat shot for the rattlers.
For an in camp rifle...I like my CZ 452 full wood stock in 17 HMR....though the new kid on a the block I'll be bringing next time is a Ruger 10/22 on a 3 position adjustable Fajen stock with an AAC Cloak barrel ( hush --- hush ). Hunting with supressors is legal in Arkansas....my ears are most happy with this arrangement. For bigger work...I've got an AR-15 with and AAC M2000 (thank you again Arkansas for protecting my hearing) for longer range varmints and self defense (never know when some meth freak will visit).
Bill (k39noodles)----Welcome to the forum. Your stories and observations are great!
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I used to camp and fish almost every weekend, but, I don't much any more. Due to circumstances beyond my control I can't walk on uneven terrain very well and sometimes do good to make it accross flat ground.
I always carry my 4 3/4" Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 Mag in a Hunter crossdraw.
The first two in order in the tubes are CCI snakeshot. The next two are .44 Spl JHP's. The last two are Cor-Bon JHP boomers.
I keep a big supply of spare ammo in a carrier.
Our biggest threat in my area is rattlesnakes and 2-legged predators.
I think I'm sufficiently armed.
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I usually take my usual carry pistols. Last camping trip, my GLOCK 30 and my Taurus 617 .357.
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Ahhhh, this thread again....... Going backpacking in October..... Cant wait!
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Ahhhh, this thread again....... Going backpacking in October..... Cant wait!
Where at E.??
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Where at E.??
On the Chattooga River. Specifically we will be starting out at Ridley Fields and then hiking north. See here:
http://www.sctrails.net/trails/MAPS/Chattoogatrl%20map.html
See also:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=102816001972615620082.00046d5bd3e058e335ec2
There is some really great trout fishing in that area, however this time of the year it is catch and release.
*An interesting bit of trivia..... the movie Deliverance was filmed on that river about 5-10 miles south of Ridley Fields
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On the Chattooga River. Specifically we will be starting out at Ridley Fields and then hiking north. See here:
http://www.sctrails.net/trails/MAPS/Chattoogatrl%20map.html
See also:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=102816001972615620082.00046d5bd3e058e335ec2
There is some really great trout fishing in that area, however this time of the year it is catch and release.
To bad about the catch and release. Looks like a great time,take some pic's and enjoy the hiking!
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On the Chattooga River. Specifically we will be starting out at Ridley Fields and then hiking north. See here:
http://www.sctrails.net/trails/MAPS/Chattoogatrl%20map.html
See also:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=102816001972615620082.00046d5bd3e058e335ec2
There is some really great trout fishing in that area, however this time of the year it is catch and release.
*An interesting bit of trivia..... the movie Deliverance was filmed on that river about 5-10 miles south of Ridley Fields
Too bad Deliverance wasn't catch and release. ;D
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Gatlinburg's pretty close to that trail section. Interesting little town, GREAT place to ride bike (motor-bike)! Hillbilly Las Vegas!!!
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Ruger Blackhawk 44mag Gp100 or g20 10mm. ;D
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I have a 4-5/8" Ruger Super Blackhawk that I use. I also think a Glock 20 would be a great choice.
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I have a 4-5/8" Ruger Super Blackhawk that I use. I also think a Glock 20 would be a great choice.
Fine guns and fine choice......as I've posted earlier, that is my carry gun for outdoors occasions and around the farm.
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Any well worn, NON safe queen that can take some, morning dew, maybe a ding here or there, utterly reliable revolver or semi auto in a larger caliber is a great choice.
Over the years camping my choice was a 4" Ruger Service Six, .357. with a Rem 870 on a sling, with a .50 caliber fishing pole. ;)
Last camping trip I took was with my son's Boy Scout Troop, kept the pistol, with trigger lock in a backpack. JIC. No Rem.
Since my Ruger fell to the post divorce cash demand :'(, it would be today, my Glock 21 .45ACP, or Vaquero .45Colt.
with the Rem 870, staggered with spray & wash loads. with my Rossi M971 .357,and/ or Walther PPK/S backup, or depending on how long,,,, all of them.
I have a double barrel Stoeger coach's 12g, which is smaller and lighter than the 870, but, having the Rem. well, just covers all the bases...
If I were in open country, I could see my Mauser 7.65 or good ol' Winchester 30-30.. just to have close.
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I've done allot of camping and canoeing with the boys (won't count the stuff with the Army and the M1911/M9s around the world). Usually the handgun would be Smith .41 Mag during deer season or Ruger Single Six during small game season. Canoeing you could usually find a Smith M13/65 3" or old Charter Arms 3" .44 Spl Bulldog on me. Backpacking I usually had on a CZ50 on my hip. I usually swap guns around depending on the threat, hunting if in season or just because I haven't had it out to play with.
CD
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I know it's an old thread, but thought I'd chime in.
Size and weight have always been an issue for me when backpacking/camping, so my choice in the past has been a Kel-Tec p11 with 12 round magazine +1 spare. That's an amazing number of shots in a small, lightweight package.
Having moved to western Colorado now, I'm looking to try out a Ruger SP-101...more weight and fewer rounds, but I believe I'd be more comfortable (given the local fauna) with some hard-cast .357's.
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My uncle camps quite a bit with my aunt. He carries a Bond Arms 410 derringer in a sort-of safepacker copy on his belt and a Walther PPK in his pocket.
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We went camping the other week in NC. Twice durring the night we were woke up by raccoons fighting very close by, and once by what we think was a coyote that ran through the camp. Made the trip way more fun! Having seen coons, and fox's with rabbies in the past... Yeah, I was plenty glad I had a gun in the tent!
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It probably wasnt a Coyote..... they usually wouldnt get within 200 yards unless they got rabies
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Iit probably wasnt a Coyote..... they usually wouldnt get within 200 yards unless they got rabbis
Maybe this one had an Imam. ::)
I couldn't resist ;D
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Maybe this one had an Imam. ::)
I couldn't resist ;D
I had no clue how to spell it.... I just went with what spell check gave me.
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Rabies ;D
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Rabies ;D
I fixed it, Asshole! ;D
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You found out my middle name ;D
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You found out my middle name ;D
Tom Asshole Bogan aka TAB
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Tom Asshole Bogan aka TAB
:o :o :o :o :o :o :o
;D
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AAARRRRGGGHHH !!!
MY EYES !
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;D ;D ;D
Whatever it was, it made deeply weird noises, was panting a bit, and moved FAST at about the height of a big dog. May well have been a wild dog. "The world may never know."
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;D ;D ;D
Whatever it was, it made deeply weird noises, was panting a bit, and moved FAST at about the height of a big dog. May well have been a wild dog. "The world may never know."
Keith Olbermann(D)
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It wasn't this guy was it ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF9qhQCGPMM&feature=related
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Tom Asshole Bogan aka TAB
OHHH! That is CLASSIC! (http://www.smileyx.com/smilies/2erOBh1.gif)
Tom, yer NEVER gonna live it down! (http://www.smileyx.com/smilies/Y7IEYY000009b.gif)
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The fact of you associating TAB with some of my better posts will probably drive HIM crazy to ;D
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Sitting around the fire drinking George Dickel going snipe hunting again eh????
Oh, wait,,, that was my last camping trip.... :P
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I carry my Springer SS loaded champ or my Browning Buckmark micro.
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;D ;D ;D
Whatever it was, it made deeply weird noises, was panting a bit, and moved FAST at about the height of a big dog. May well have been a wild dog. "The world may never know."
Keith Olbermann(D) humping an inflatable Obama doll.
Had to amend that one, Eric. ;) ;D ;D ;D
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For me it depends where I'm camping. If I can, I'll take my 629 or m-19, both are 4". Otherwise I'll cc a Taurus M85 Ti in .38 spc. I look at it as something is better than nothing.
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;D ;D ;D
Whatever it was, it made deeply weird noises, was panting a bit, and moved FAST at about the height of a big dog. May well have been a wild dog. "The world may never know."
Keith Olbermann(D)
That would have been a hog.
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Most of the time it is my Glock 21, once I get my G 20 shooting the way I like, it will probably become the gun. If I am in hog country, then my 4" 57 .41 mag, with full power cartridges.