Guns, knives and axes, what do you take in the woods?

[BB57]

I'm surprised you don't have a couple of flashlights with extra batteries in there. They are indispensable.

I carry a head mounted LED light (with white, red and green options) in the flight bag along with a couple 10,000 mAh batteries and a few charging cables. I also usually have a modern LED version of the old angle head flashlight in there as well. I guess I don't consider it to be specific to airplane camping, but rather just airplane use.

 

[ISCS Yoda]

Well, I don't spend any time in the woods anymore but my trunk has a toolbox packed with a variety of necessary tools of all kinds, including a camp axe. If I was just woods walking, which could happen, then at a minimum I'd have a firearm and a hunting knife (but that's the bare minimum!).

 

[SuperMan]

Backpacking...
S&W 60-10 3" .357
Cold Steel Outdoorsman original 5 5/8" blade
Gerber folding saw with extra blade in nylon sheath
Axe/hatchet...rarely.

Don't backpack much any more but camping wise...
4-5.5" .41 Magnum/Special of some kind
Bow saw
Estwing Campers Ax (short or long)
McCurdy or British Contact Kukri 11" blade
Cold Steel Pocket Bushman

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

In my mid 1980's backpack, I carried a 1911 on the waste belt. (3 spare mags), A Case XX 4 blade folder. In a side pouch a 14" folding saw and a weird Chinese "Chopper" (Like a thick blade meat cleaver) to use as a hatchet/machete. Total pack weight, Summer 50 pounds, Winter 60+ pounds My artificial light was a candle lantern. (4 ounces)

My last hiking trip was an overnight with my second son on the 20th anniversary of the first trip we did together. On my hip belt, Colt Cobra, one reload, SAK, and 8" folding saw. Total pack weight about 25 pounds. I was totally exhausted! My artificial light was a mountain climbing head lamp. (1.5 ounces)

Ivan

 

[tops]

I like your thinking. You are really prepared for any problems. Larry

 

[Bald1]

If I'm in the woods I'm probably on an ATV , tractor or Ranger UTV. ATV and UTV have gun racks which have an axe in them. Usually a 25-28" axe that I've restored. I like short handled heavy headed axes. Like a camp or boys axe but with a 3lb head. Sidearm just depends on what I'm doing. If I'm walking and checking posted signs I've probably got my MKII with 20 rds. And I'll probably have a roofers hatchet and a box of nails. Sometimes I'll carry the 629 if something is in season and I have tags. Like when checking trail cams.

 

[Darkenfast]

If I'm in the woods I'm probably on an ATV , tractor or Ranger UTV. ATV and UTV have gun racks which have an axe in them. Usually a 25-28" axe that I've restored. I like short handled heavy headed axes. Like a camp or boys axe but with a 3lb head. Sidearm just depends on what I'm doing. If I'm walking and checking posted signs I've probably got my MKII with 20 rds. And I'll probably have a roofers hatchet and a box of nails. Sometimes I'll carry the 629 if something is in season and I have tags. Like when checking trail cams.

Nice Ruger holster! Is it a 1791?

 

[Bald1]

Darkenfast, it's a Triple K. I bought it probably 7-8 yrs ago. I think it was $69. But i see Cabelas now charges $109. It's a well built holster. I like it a lot.

 

[mtgianni]

Last trip I packed a Model 69 4.2" and a leatherman wave. I truck camp with an ax but rarely have one when traveling. I get firewood with a rope and a rock, tying a rock in an old leather pouch to a rope and tossing it over dead limbs. If I can't pull it down it is too green to burn.

It is easy to find 8" or less trees in my area. In the worst case I can ring them with the leatherman saw close enough to break. Most cases You put the log in the fire and when the end burns off just add more of the log.

 

[Xfuzz]

Our deer lease in The East Texas Piney Woods
6.5 sections near all members have some sort of buggy.
Kawasaki, Polaris, etc....so most needed tools and such are
on board.

It is what I LIKE carrying OUT of the woods.

 

[Bald1]

2 dandy's.

 

[Igiveup]

If I am carrying my day pack while hunting, I generally have an old Estwing hand axe I got when I was eleven and a Boy Scout, a sheath knife or two with a diamond e-z sharpener, a Knapp small hand pack saw. On my belt, usually a .357 Smith of one sort or another and an Old Timer Sharp Finger knife I have had for over thirty years. Other things in the pack are first aid kit, para cord, matches and flashlite, plus other stuff if the season calls for it. In the truck is a long handled axe, Stihl saw, emerengy gear, chains, and a .22 for grouse.

 

[Charlie Foxtrott]

Don't forget the handgun.

For me it is a 329 PD in an El Paso Saddlery Tanker rig. And the wife carries her model 66 in a similar rig. They carry really well like that.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

For me it is a 329 PD in an El Paso Saddlery Tanker rig. And the wife carries her model 66 in a similar rig. They carry really well like that.

Since you're both right-handed, you don't get tangled together when slow dancing.

Love the revolver shoulder rigs!

Ivan

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Speaking of being with your spouse in the woods: My wife is left handed , so we hold hand with our off-hand and it doesn't interfere with drawing and shooting! We had practiced what to do a number of times. One evening (about 15 years ago) we are walking the trail around our farm. I the twilight ahead something appears out of the gloom. As practiced, I draw as I step forward and see that it is only a deer. As practiced, she turns to the rear while drawing and BAM! There was a skunk about 10 feet behind us! (I about peed my pants when I heard the shot!)

Ivan

 

[Farmer17]

My Yamaha Grizzly four wheeler has a Kukri short machete strapped to the handle bars and I have an Estwing hatchet but it doesn't get used nearly as much as the Kukri. I rarely use my big axes since I have gasoline and battery chainsaws and Sawzall's. My Ram truck has a Ontario Knife Company 7" military "Ka Bar" style knife under the seat and a 4" Lighting "out the front" automatic in the dashboard cubby. I like my Browning HP MK III for roaming the woods or my Bersa Thunder .22 but when I go backpack camping in bear country I have a S&W 4" 10mm M&P with hot FMJ flat point ammo.

 

[arjay]

Trailmix,a sandwich,water,a beer and a lighter

 

[CA Escapee]

What about signal flares? Emergency rations, water purification kit, ect.
All them side arms, knives and axes ain't going to help you unless you are stranded in the city park.

Who says you want to be found?