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Really Basic Compass Skills
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Minimum Kit for Day in the Bush
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In this video I show what I typically take into the woods for day trips when traveling light in late fall / early winter. Please like, subscribe, and hit the bell if you found this video interesting. Follow me on twitter or Facebook to get notified when I make a new video. cheap_outdoors Outdoors-On-The-Cheap-105897678160687/? Music: "back in the wood" by audionautix.com
Simple Way to Raise a Boat Seat
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The Many Uses of Walking Sticks
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A Taste of Real Fishing & Canoeing in the Bush
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How to Fillet Flounder
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Flounder have tasty and delicate white flesh, but there's a bit of a knack to filleting them. In this video I show how to do that, how to skin the fillets, and explain why I don't bother to skin the bottom fillets. Please like, subscribe, and hit the bell if you found this video interesting. Follow me on twitter or facebook to get notified when I make a new video. cheap_outdoors fac...
Pier Flounder Basics
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Easy Way to Replace a Fishing Rod Eyelet
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Early Season Fly Fishing
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Early Season Trout Tips
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In this video I share tips for snagging early season trout, and then I catch some fish! Please like, subscribe, and hit the bell if you found this video interesting. Follow me on twitter or Facebook to get notified when I make a new video. cheap_outdoors Outdoors-On-The-Cheap-105897678160687/? Music: "back in the wood" by audionautix.com
How to Load a Ruckus on a Motorcycle Rack
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In this video I show I load and secure my honda ruckus onto a motorcycle carrier using ropes and ratchet straps - and how easy the whole thing is to unload and dismantle. Please like, subscribe, and hit the bell if you found this video interesting. Follow me on twitter or facebook to get notified when I make a new video. cheap_outdoors Outdoors-On-The-Cheap-105897678160...
Best Way to Carry a Backpack on a Ruckus
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In this video I show how, through trial and error, I have arrived at the simplest, yet most effective way, to carry a backpack on a Honda Ruckus Please like, subscribe, and hit the bell if you found this video interesting. Follow me on twitter or facebook to get notified when I make a new video. cheap_outdoors Outdoors-On-The-Cheap-105897678160687/? Music: "back in the ...
Straight Talk About Silky Saws
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In this video I speak frankly about my experience of using silky saws over the years - what I like and don't like about them. Please like, subscribe, and hit the bell if you found this video interesting. Follow me on twitter or facebook to get notified when I make a new video. cheap_outdoors Outdoors-On-The-Cheap-105897678160687/? Music: "back in the wood" by audionauti...
Response to Dave Canterbury's Neck Knife Argument
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In this video I respond to Dave Canterbury's reasons for not liking neck knives. Please like, subscribe, and hit the bell if you found this video interesting. Follow me on twitter or facebook to get notified when I make a new video. cheap_outdoors Outdoors-On-The-Cheap-105897678160687/? Music: "back in the wood" by audionautix.com
There Was Fire Before 1095 Steel
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In this video I respond to a number of arguments that viewers have made about how important it is to have a knife that can be batoned. Please like, subscribe, and hit the bell if you found this video interesting. Follow me on twitter or facebook to get notified when I make a new video. cheap_outdoors Outdoors-On-The-Cheap-105897678160687/? Music: "back in the wood" by a...
Why I Made No Snaring Videos in 2024
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Why I Made No Snaring Videos in 2024
Batoning is not Needed with Knowledge of Woodlore
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Batoning is not Needed with Knowledge of Woodlore
How to Catch Chain Pickerel Through Ice
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How to Catch Chain Pickerel Through Ice
Solution For Blackflies When Camping
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Solution For Blackflies When Camping
I know nothing about compasses. What if you realized you were lost all the sudden. You don’t know what way you came in. Would a compass be useful?
You have to have a sense of which way is out - a general sense of orientation, like if you had studied a map or google earth before hand, or as I showed in the video - had taken a bearing on the way in. To go in the woods without taking a bearing at the start or studying a map before hand would be foolhardy. So if you know that South is "out" , for instance - then the compass helps you find South.
Ferrocerium rods (commonly referred to as "ferro rods") do not "go bad" in the conventional sense, but there are factors that can affect their performance over time. Corrosion: Ferrocerium is a mix of metals, including iron, magnesium, and rare-earth elements. If left exposed to moisture, especially saltwater environments, the rod can corrode. This doesn’t typically ruin the rod but may create a less effective striking surface. If you don't see shiny silver, you won't generate good sparks. Efficient technique is helpful as well.
Any recommend budget compasses that are reliable
I like the Silva starter 1-2-3 . That's what I'm using in the video - I've had it for years. Suunto's are good too.
@ thanks for the quick informative video as always
Hi Greg, I like your old school, no-nonsense style! I think too that using a compass forces you to be more aware of your surroundings in a real sense - you are constantly checking landmarks, looking about you, rather than staring at the screen and saying, "I'm there", meaning "there on the screen".
Exactly. Meant to mention that in the video. It really forces you to read the landscape and notice things.
Good simple tips. What is in season there at the moment? Nate
It's late fall.
Another video filled with good information and simple, straight forward instructions. I really like your down to earth approach to things.👍👍👍
Thanks
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I gathered a collection of compasses over my 70 years of using them along with maps of areas of places I hunted, fished, hiked and camped. A GPS is the greatest modern navigation tool since the wheel. Google earth is another innovation to use that costs nothing to learn to use. Simple navigation works however, precision navigation is worth every penny spent once you try it. Think about shooting a 200-pound deer and dragging it in a general direction to your car. I assure you that experience will make a GPS more important than you can ever imagine. You cannot hunt efficiently looking at compass constantly and looking for deer or any wild game. 🤔😆😅
I wonder how people did it before the 2000s? I guess no one was hunting efficiently or effectively.
I enjoyed that. Thanks for getting out in the rain to show us. My Silva is similar to yours but it's somewhere around a 1982 model. Type 3
Can't beat a classic!
If you get the small rubber bands put on the stick then the walking stick can double as a tracking stick use rubber bands to measure the stride of the animal being tracked toe to heel less likely to lose the trail
Just ran across your video, and I think it's great. Sound advice
Thanks
Looking at getting a used one, anything I should look for when I pick it up? Gorgeous piece.
Make sure the magazine cycles properly and the variable choke works.
@@outdoorsonthecheap The cycle ill check, how do I check the variable choke?
Excellent presentation of your well thought out kit. Customization is a great part to success! I took an early retirement in the Republic of the Philippine Islands. We are blessed with an abidance of water sources. Drinking that water without treatment is a bad idea. Your kit surely checks the box for pre-filtering and a means to pasteurize/sterilize water. In our humid and often soaking wet environment, we always have a supply of kick-@$$ DIY fire starters and multiple means of reliable ignition. Certain verities of our skeeters carry bad things such as malaria and dengue fever. Prevention is worth a pound of cure. Bug nets and repellants are the order of the day. You are correct, build your kit with your area of operation in mind!
Thanks NHJ
I made my knife into a fire kit. i love your videos Greg!
Thanks :)
Love your videos. No bs! I especially loved your video on how to create a fire without beating on your knife batoning. Thanx for the great videos.
Thanks man
Nice rundown of your knives over the years. some great choices there. Thanks Nate
Thanks for watching!
I carry a smaller pocket knife, a large Japanese NATA, and a Silky saw-either the Gomboy or Bigboy model. Dismissing the value of different tools while pretending to know best is nothing short of pathetic. No, your knife of choice is not the end-all, be-all of knives, nor does it make everything else garbage. I’ve forgotten more about bushcraft across multiple ecosystems-jungle, cold climates, and desert-than you likely know. No single tool is perfect for every scenario; use several. And by the way, batoning a knife to make kindling is a useful skill. There’s no need for your Neanderthal, caveman attitude. Humans invented tools for a reason-adaptability and efficiency. To wrap this all up with a bow: you’re wrong on a lot of points-so many, in fact, that I don’t have the time (or patience) to go through them all here. All self defense is from a Firearm. No knife fighting necessary. Generally my EDC.
I don't think the title of the video was: "There's only one tool you need and I know everything". You're really not speaking to my point .
Nice work. Sometimes those in the "survival" world make things more complicated than they need to be. Nate
Not many things better than a good stick. Thanks Greg Nate
Great breakdown. Nice to go minimalist. Less stuff to have to worry about and or manage. Nate
Absolutely!
Good points. I've used a belt knife, then switched to a horizontal cross draw set up and now I'm using a mora companion HD as a neck knife and am enjoying it thoroughly. Sometimes you just have to test things out for a while for yourself. What wood handle knife were you wearing as a neck knife for this video? Nate
It's a BPS BS3 - I discuss it in this video: ruclips.net/video/uOG7J1pR4oM/видео.html
Your either really passionate about Canadian Knife laws, or you not allowed to have anything larger. You are soooo anti "Batoning" it's weird. It's just another useful method, along with the others. God bless America 🇺🇲 and my Huge Nata and , Kukri Machetes and folding blades..
You don't know anything about Canadian knife laws. God what a ridiculous comment. I can basically own all the same stuff you own if I want - I just don't find it necessary - and I see the batoning thing as nothing more than a sales pitch to market big knives - one that appears to have been very effective on you. Yes it is a useful skill - I never said that it wasn't. I'm showing another useful skill...
Watch how close you keep metal (knife) to your compass as it will deflect the magnetic lines and have you going slightly off course. To help this, run the compass lanyard through your pocket button hole and run the compass through the loop. It gets the compass further from your body. Careful with the knife so not to conceal it.
If the knife is against the chest and the compass it held high - the compass is not affected. They are about 12" apart.
@@outdoorsonthecheap The compass lanyard through a button hole allows the compass to be held out further, even better. I say this because I am a Forester and I have cruised the bush for thousands of Km and had to account for metal tape measure, tree boring tool and metal calipers in hand. Yes there is not much to the knife but the closer it is to the compass the more effect it has. I have a few stories from the bush, fortunately I was not part of that story and others had the problem. Cheers, great video.
👍👍👍 .. very good advice .. thanks. Around my neck .. my house key and a whistle, on separate lanyards .. always, no matter where I go. Those 'Emergency Blankets' .. not blankets but just Mylar Sheets and once deployed, they assume a space and volume of their choosing 😁. That said, years back, I bought a batch of Plastic 'Emergency' Rain Ponchos that were going on the cheap .. and they can be re-folded after use and put back into their bag. Combined with a Mylar Sheet, some Duct Tape wound around a card of sorts (to tape the ends of the slit cut into the Mylar Sheet for the head to go through .. prevents the cut from 'running') and some Garden / Mason's Line (for a Belt if required) .. one can hunker down for a perhaps uncomfortable, but functional over-nighter .. and this combo does not take up much space. A Swiss RUclipsr I follow, has demonstrated, sitting up against a tree on one's pack, knees up with a 'T-Lite' Candle down in the space so created that even in unfavourable weather, one's chance of pulling through will improve. On 'how much' to take with? That depends where and when. Down into the Marianas Trench .. a ten ton bathysphere would be useful .. it all depends 😏. A good one .. thanks once again. Take care ..
I also opted for Fanny pack to reduce back sweat. I bring back pack only to fit sleeping bag for winter if I want to be really comfy without fire
I’m also looking I to getting a bayite keychain ferro rod, wax paper in phone case. My back up knife is a kabar dozier pocket knofe that’s always on me. If I can bring a main it’s my mora HD SS and a big fat ferro rod wrapped in tape and Bic lighter. I tend to carry water bottle in a bottle bag that has some gauze and paracord. My Fanny pack would alwyas have a poncho tarp, I’m thinking about getting a UCO lantern in case I’m too dumb or dead to start a fire, that way I can stick under my poncho. If I’m not lazy I’ll have hammock and tarp to sleep on cause things crawling on me when I sleep on ground will drive me insane
Also thinking about taking gloves with me because I can withstand a decent amount of cold but my fingers lose dexterity fast Can you make a video about good compasses and how to use
Good idea - yes I'll do that soon. Recommend mitts over gloves if its cold where you are - below certain temps gloves aren't that good.
thanks for the link to this video. some great advice here. thank you
No problem!
Don't forget money! Theoretically, absolutely not necessary for these circumstances, but a couple of notes/bills can come in handy for the unexpected. No volume, no mass.
Honestly, I have had good performance for several seasons out of the Ozark Trail Folding Saw from Walmart. It is basically a Silky copy for $10 made in China, but it holds up very well with constant use on limbs up 4-inches in diameter. The blade is thin, and can be bent if you get careless, but it is hard and the teeth pattern is aggressive. As far as performance, I’d say that it is a high-value folding saw… it cuts and it isn’t very expensive. JMO
It's amazing how many good knockoffs are out there!
Awesom video! Well explained!! I’m going to share this with my Scouting group as it’s great for Scout and Venture age youth. Thanks Greg.
Thanks!
I stumbled upon your channel this morning. I greatly appreciate your willingness to share not only the content of your kit, but also an explanation of why you chose to carry what you do. From my experience, it is easy to overload on the gear that we are carrying for a simple walk in the woods. Seems like my basic kit is always changing. In trying to figure out what my kit should look like, it always helps to see what others are packing. In this case, your kit isn’t intended to get you through a night in the woods, but it can if necessary. I appreciate the detail in your content. God bless and be safe. - Tennessee Smoky
Thanks TS :)
You always have 2 compasses . If you are lost your brain is going to tell you the wrong way to go. Your compass will tell you the way to go but, your brain will not believe the compass so you use both of them to convince your brain that what the compasses are correct in their directions because they match.
I was installing a Satellite Dish and the customer knew it had to be pointed to the south in the northern hemisphere. Only problem was for nearly 2 decades at his home he thought south was north. So I showed him my compass and he asserted it must be wrong. I then broke out the paper map and showed him the street and intersection and orientated it to the front of his house and reminded him that the bottom of the page is south. He stared in disbelief at the map and implied that something must still be wrong. I finally convinced him to let me do my job but he was still not convinced he could have been wrong even with all the evidence demonstrating otherwise.
I wonder how many dead hikers he's sent out 'Due south fer a spell...' haha!
@ amazing . Thank you for sharing that story.👍🇺🇸
I will have to test the wax paper fire starter material. Makes sense and thank you
Im sure I've shown it working in a video - I just can't remember that that vid was called :)
it's this one: ruclips.net/video/U34IvW47nNA/видео.html
It didn't work worth a damn here in Florida.
Maybe you need to try again? I should work anywhere.
Good to see a new vid brotha. Was wondering when we’d get something new about kit. My personal picks for a Fanny kit are a 16 oz nalgene with a soup can made bottle cup, ferro rod, yellow bic lighter, 70 ft bank line and a poly painter drop cloth along with Mylar blanket. Always keep a mora 511 around my neck at the very least and a leatherman wave in my pocket… Best wishes!!!! EO
nice video on the basics. and a good reminder, the goal is to survive, not to be the most "manly!" ... and also, practice. Watching youtube is not practice.
Thank you for sharing your ideas for a walk in the woods, with a minimal amount of gear. I like having a GPS for marking spots I find letting me find them again using a shorter direct route. It gives me less worry about getting back to my car and not wondering to far not to get stuck overnight. You don't need to keep it turn on all the time and waste battery storage. Having a map and compass still is important as you said.👍
27:15 "Looking at your eyes" (reference to the mirror) Maybe you and everyone else already knows about this, but I'll detail it, in the event it might help someone. Often times, if you have some foreign object in your eye, or on your eyeball, not imbedded but floating in your eye...an easy way to remove it is using the mirror for a good view, carefully touch it with a rolled corner of a dry absorbent paper. The paper will quickly draw the water from the object, which in turn pulls it free from your eyeball. The paper needs to be free of dies and perfumes...a bargain brand white paper towel is perfect, and toilet tissue also works. I have used this method to remove large saw dust from chainsaw, metal chips, wind blown vegetable matter, etc. Hope this may help someone. I enjoy your videos, you always bring practical suggestions and solutions to us. Thank you
I've done that many times - yes that is a good trick :)
Lots of pieces in a small space!
👍 Nice kit. Contents would be useful during the day even if one did not get lost. Surprisingly what useful inexpensive gear you can get in a small easily carried container.
Very true!
Greg, it’s good to hear from you! I always look for your videos.
I appreciate that!
Around the house the little knife is better ... Even if its a pocket knife. Out in the garden and yard a bigger knife is better ... even if its a machete.
I have an enormous veg garden. I have never, in all my years, thought - "If only I had a machete out here". I use a 4" blade in the garden when needed - just like when I'm in the woods - for all the same reasons I provided in the video.
@@outdoorsonthecheap Probably no need for a full size machete unless you have wild acreage. But a shorter Skrama type machete can be handy if only for splitting wood for the BBQ. A cheap beat up six inch knife is good for weeding, trimming, scraping, harvesting, opening and can still baton BBQ wood.
Around the yard there are better tools for all those things. Why would anyone split wood with a knife if an axe was handy.
@@outdoorsonthecheap Because its what you have hanging on your belt.
I give up
I've got a beater axe like that but it's nothing compared to my granfors small forest axe. One swing would have gone through that tree you were removing, it's pretty remarkable. My cheap one gets uses to chop roots.
I'll happily take an extra swing or two to save $200
Thank you for your content. I love the fact that it is straight forward, makes sense, safe, and saves energy. Especially your fire makign, batoning, widow maker videos. Any tips for someone new to camping/sruvival/bushcraft
Thanks Brandon. Just get out there and get experience using your tools and dealing with different conditions. Keep the gear minimal and don't buy into too much of the bushcraft hype
@@outdoorsonthecheap I will defiently do that. I tend to have an eye out for bull and also being stingy broke helps me stay minimal 😂
@@outdoorsonthecheap I know I need to get out there and experiment myself but I was wondering if you’d add or take away things from my packing list: Axe, mora, Bic, ferro, canteen, sawyer, poncho tarp, paracord, gauze, tape
Wouldn't take anything away from that. I suppose, depending on the time of year, & where you are going, you could possibly drop the axe. I don't know how many time I've gone on multiple day fishing trips in late Apr/May/June and never used my axe at all, despite having fires every morning and night, and despite using forest materials for part of my shelter. I suppose I should do a video on kits. There's so many out there it feels redundant - but I guess there's so much BS on the topic (& advertising) that it would still help some people.
@ 100% agree. It almsot never drops below 40 here. So I wouldn’t take axe except winter if I really needed a fire all night long but even then a sleeping bag might be better. There is a ton of videos on kits but I think it would be beneficial for viewers like me who are tryna sort the the noise and bull
I can't believe I found this video, this is exactly what I was thinking about.
...and that's why I made it man :)
A guy I worked with preached the virtues of the 16 Ga. His motto was "It carries like a 20 but hits like a 12..." I'm doing a restoration job on a 385T Mossberg 20Ga. and once I get it straightened out it seems like it would be a decent starter gun for a new hunter. I'll have to take it to the range and fire a decent spread of ammo through it. Everything from bird shot to slugs, then clean it up and set it aside. I know a few guys with younger kids who may be interested in borrowing it in a few years...
Right on man
Great clip, exactly what i was looking for. Thanks for the knots too. I would likely want 100' of rope, with the 50' and multiple pullies i would be frustrated to only get a few steps before i have to set it all up again (and in case of large gaps between anchors)
I heard Mors tell the story, and I may be Misremembering. That he got the idea from a group of nurses he was training, who in turn got it from the indigenous people they were treating. And the reason the indigenous people did so was because they did not wear belts. And the reason I think the nurses were not themselves indigenous was surely you would not have to teach an indigenous person how to live of the land. But like I said I could be wrong Great videos, thank you.
Much respect for this video. If you dig into the arguments you make about nature at the end of the video, you may find there's not as much solid ethical ground as you might intuitively feel there to be. In absence of a biological necessity to eat meat for health, almost all killing and eating of animals becomes gratuitous. It falls into the same moral category as fishing for entertainment. It's fishing and eating for entertainment. Or lifestyle preference, or whatever you want to call it. It's optional. I'm satisfied that meat consumption is not mandatory. Hope this doesn't read as preachy, I just held your exact position for a long time and I think you're right on the cusp of seeing things differently, maybe.
I don't follow the argument that the absence of necessity makes it gratuitous (i.e. uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted). I think this statement comes more from a moral stance about killing and eating things - that humans should be better than that. Personally (and despite the fact that we are omnivores), I've never seen much evidence that humans are better than any other animals - in fact - most of the evidence points to us being worse than all of them. To that effect, I'd have to say that, on the scale of human crimes against nature, I'd put catching and eating fish caught by rod and reel pretty low on the ethical continuum.
@@outdoorsonthecheap The gratuity enters into it because it inflicts suffering and then death on an animal that is most likely sentient. The science points to fish having much more sophisticated "inner lives" than is commonly believed. They have long memories, they have relatively complex social relationships, they have what could be described as personalities. They also do appear to process pain as suffering. That's true of (so it seems) every animal with a spine and lots of them without one. From a meta perspective, inflicting harm on one animal isn't anywhere close to the same moral weight as something like an oil spill or deforestation or carbon emissions. But from a micro perspective, that of the subjective experience of the animal in question, it's of absolute importance. The fish don't see themselves as tiny motes of animate matter of zero big-picture significance. Nor do human beings, and nor should they. The old anecdote about someone seeing a kid running down the beach after a storm, throwing as many starfish back in the water as possible. "Hey kid, why bother? There are thousands of them. It doesn't make a difference." And the kid responds, "It makes a difference to those starfish." Humans are in a unique / inconvenient position of having moral agency and also having the physiological ability to opt out of animal foods without apparent health consequences. That last part is obviously controversial but that's what the best evidence suggests. I don't think I would make a categorical evaluation of humans as being "better" than any other animal. What I do think is that an individual human has the ability to make choices that run contrary to nature's brutal default premises. In that, we are unlike any other creature. "Opting out" of the eternal cycle of killing to live seems silly only because it's uncommon. I've never seen anyone urging everyone to embrace the natural order when it comes to things like infectious disease, rape, cannibalism, infanticide, etc. We seem to make appeals to nature where they're convenient to us more than out of consistent principle. I spent my entire life fishing. Seeing it from this perspective is painful but, at least to me, inescapable. Not typing all this out to reprimand you for fishing for meat but because I think you have the exact kind of intellectually consistent way of considering things that might make these challenges interesting.
It sounds like you are of the persuasion that killing anything for food is beneath us, as humans, because we have transcended nature in some ways, and therefore, should aspire to a transcendent brand of morality. It is possible that your are right, but I am not sure we are so special. I am quite content with my simple moral code that adheres to the notion that killing for food is ok, while killing for sport is not. I contemplated many of the notions you expressed years ago when studying ethics in university, and spent hours debating them with others. For what it's worth - I have even dabbled in vegetarianism and veganism, and do try my best to make plant-based foods the core of my caloric intake . Still, the intoxicating taste of flesh always brings me back. For what it's worth - I only kill and eat the things that I enjoy eating.
@@outdoorsonthecheap Do I think that killing for food is beneath us? No, not really, or at least not categorically. I think a lot of people around the world do it out of material necessity. I do think, though, that there's a starkly more logical case to be made not to, if given the option. Whether that moral choice adheres to "nature" is getting into weedy semantic territory that would take forever to navigate and you're probably already tired of having an unsolicited philosophy jam session with a stranger on the internet. I will just point out that it seems like there's a little bit of tension between your push towards a plant-based diet and your love of meat for the sake of pleasure. If it doesn't bother you, it doesn't bother you. But does it bother you? Anyway, thanks for entertaining my responses. Really love this sort of content and wish there was more like it. I think this is a huge part of the sport that everyone grapples with at some point. Also, jealous of the scenery. Wish everyone could experience that sort of country and what it does to you.
No prob man. Re: the tension Q- No tension at all - I have an enormous veg garden (check out "maritime gardening "youtube channel) - I like veg and they are good for me. I don't think it's immoral to kill animals and eat them - so long as that activity does not put a given animal population at risk . The plant-based diet thing is more about health, cost and sustainability. Just ate a meal with beets, carrots, potatoes and swiss chard... and roasted chicken :) So for me - plant-based simply means "mostly plants" - not "only plants".
This is 21 minutes of crap, it's an opinion man
It's 21 minutes of responding to an argument. You clearly don't know the difference between an opinion and an argument.
I baton wood. There, I said it. My use case is canoe trips, we love our campfires. It is NOT for survival. Since we are on backcountry campsites, surrounding "choice wood" is already picked over, so we have to use what we can find. We'd be gleeful to find any one of those fallen trees in your video, I dont want to cut down live trees. Gear-wise I want to go light weight and safe. I bring a folding saw and a good knife instead of an axe. In my opinion sawing and batoning is generally safer than swinging an axe (or worse, a hatchet), especially when you're tired at the end of a long day of paddling and portaging, and those two tools are more light weight than one splitting axe. I'll baton wood open when it's wet, to use when the fire is still a juvenile, before you can just throw cylindrical wetter logs on a mature fire. The two-tool setup works for me. That said there are plenty of folks who carry axes instead. Also, I just bring a BIC lighter (4, actually, in various locations) and some bits of fire starter.. no need to featherstick and make life harder for oneself. Anyway, nice video, I enjoyed it a lot.
I picked one up at a gun shop a few years ago that I don't think was ever fired. The magazine tube and follower have zero visible wear, and the bore is 100% perfect. Sadly though it looks like it was stored and forgotten about. The barrel was at one time covered in rust and has lost a bit of bluing to clean it off. It also has a little bit of pitting all down the length of the barrel. It could easily be removed and redone it's so minor
Good find!