Outdoor Survival Info

Archive for November, 2007

I love my .30-30. I got it for my birthday, early for use with the modern gun deer season. It’s a Marlin 336W, unscoped and slinged. The rifle is light, comfortable, and very easy to handle in the woods. This might be one of the best basic utility rifles around, and would be perfect for bugging out, bugging in, and hunting.

I’ll post some pics of it this week, because everybody loves some good gun porn. If I forget, then I’ll post them next week. Just keep checking back everyday until you see the pics. And I’ll write a review soon, too. Not too soon, though, because I need to use it more to get a real grip on it, its use and its function.

It’s frustrating to go out into the woods and see nothing. Likewise, it’s also frustrating to have hunters walking all over the deer path you know the deer would travel were it not for the intruding humans.

Man, I need to buy some land so I don’t have to deal with other hunters on the land I’m hunting.

No deer! I haven’t seen any deer yet. I think I might have heard one crossing the creek behind the brush line, but I can’t be sure. It could have been some loud ducks.

Weekend number two of modern gun deer season is looking rather dismal. Maybe it’s this ridiculous heat. I had to wear a t-shirt hunting this afternoon. It was 70 degrees!

Maybe It will cool off next weekend and I can bag some animal.

I’ve been adding more and more products to my bug out gear supply shop. And I’m going to add more and more. So go check it out and buy some gear. If you don’t see anything you want or need right now, sign up as a customer so you will receive the BDR Gear newsletter, which will be filled with product and site updates.

It’s important to stay warm when out and about during the winter, and with winter coming right around the corner, I thought I would tell you guys about a new category at my gear shop. The new category is Cold Weather Gear, and it contains only two items right now. But those two items are important to keeping you warm. And who knows? By the time you read this, I might have more products in that category.

Check out my cold weather gear and buy some to stay warm.

I hold the personal belief that the knife is the single most useful thing ever invented by man. I also am of the mind that one should have a particular knife for a particular job. Now, sure, there are some great “utility” knives out there, suitable for a wide variety of purposes. That’s how I look at my CRKT pocket folder. It’s tough and it’s handy.

But it’s not really going to cut it (pun shamelessly intended) when I gut a deer. So I bought a new knife today. I bought a Gerber fixed blade hunting knife with gut hook. It’s nothing fancy, and wasn’t expensive. But it’s something I needed, and I’ve already taken it out in the field. Of course, it didn’t get any use, but it will.

I’ll give a full review with pictures after I have the chance to use it. Well, I might just snap some photos of it tomorrow and post them so you can see what it looks like. Preview: Full tang construction with a grip-friendly hard-rubber…grip. The blade is 4 inches long and coated with titanium. It’s sharp enough, it seems, and the gut hook is a nice feature that doesn’t stick out too much. The knife also came with a basic nylon sheath. It’s a nice knife, especially considering how much I paid for it ($22 at Wal-Mart). I’ll see how it holds up to some real use and abuse — I demand serious performace from my gear, which my wife says is just being too hard on it all.