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>>931712
hunting season is over, except for spring turkey and maybe duck. but I dont hunt duck so not sure. the three big national forests are nice, sam houston is about an hour from stinkadena, davy crocket is just 30 minutes more. you can aways go walk around san jacinto and get some texas history, carpetbagger. it's 10 minutes away, but not much hiking.

brazos bend is a well kept state park with hiking about 45 minues south. if you have never seen aligators, they will be out in april. they also have telescope that is open to the public on some weekends.

or you could just go to the tpwd website and fuck around. there are alot of nice state parks in the hill country.

>>931712
Reminder that Texas is worthless in every way.

Cheers.

>>931730
Thanks anon, you're excellent.

Ever been through Big Bend? What about hog hunting? I heard Calwell Co. offers a 10 dollar bounty on ears/tails if you sit through an hour seminar.

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>>931696
>that smug face tho

>>931696
hobie or gtfo

>>931718
Could you elaborate? I'm not seeing any below 1k (plus it looks like most have foot-paddles which wouldn't work for the river).

>>931649
We have a species of large, nocturnal orb weaver spiders here in East TX that love to string their webs up between two trees at around head height... Walking through the woods at night here you're constantly running into their webs. By constantly I mean every 30 - 50 feet or so. Often times the spider will then frantically crawl around on your body after you hit their web and the fuckers have a habit of biting you on the neck or arm as well. I hate them. I usually only walk around the woods at night when I'm hunting wild pigs so I try to hold my rifle vertically out in front of me when I'm walking through areas that will probably have spiderwebs. That way the rifle hits the web first and not my face. You might try the same with a walking stick or something.

>>931649
i just use a walking stick thats taller than me. A stick such as this is also useful for navigating the vine infested woods of eastern north carolina.

>>931649
keep a stick in front of your face or do a karate chop type motion with your hand. Stupid but works. Also take your time

>>931631
A furmeet.

>>931631
Eh, it really depends. I know from personal experience that a secluded campsite in West TX can go from "comfy af" to "Jesus Christ I'm literally shaking" with nothing more than a single shriek from a nearby cougar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxo8X5uIWRE

>>931646

Kinda reminds me of a fox scream, just a lot longer.

Hey, be happy it's making noise. A silent Cougar is more scary than the one you hear.

I remember camping in WA with a friend. He and I are sitting around the camp fire, enjoying some beer and bud.

Friend gets up to go use the restroom. He gets up and prob walked only a few feet before turning on his flash light, a Cougar was about 20 feet from us, just sitting and staring.

Startled the shit out of me, cause it was right there. Friend and I yell at it and throws some small pieces of wood towards it, it just sits there, not giving a fuck. Finally left when friend shot off his shotgun as a warning shot.

I didn't sleep well at all that night. Prob cause the cougar made me think of my own cat. How cats are ninjas, that was a big ass ninja cat that could of snuck up and fucked us up. Rather deal eith bears, at least I can hear bears, so not much of a surprise when you hear them walking around.

>>931631
Most scariest thing in the woods, Is your own imagination. Let that shit run wild and you could be in a world of hurt.

Comes from the survivalist/prepper fags. They think space blankets are the end-all-be-all of keeping warm in the wilderness.

>>931587
I've never seen anyone actually use a space blanket.

>>931602
Do they think radiation is the only form of heat transfer?

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Boring.

>>931544
There are 6 people online. Are you sure you joined the right thing?

just figure out how to start a fire and you can go anywhere. ive got no experience but i can at least fucking walk on a trail lol

>>931491
Practice what you see in the vids in your backyard, when you feel confident you can do those skills in a safe environment then you can go try them on the wild.

dude. All you have to do is get a pack and go on day hikes that start to turn into overnights after a few weeks. Matches, a knife, water and food, simple cookware, rain jacket, first aid, flashlight, tarp, and rope are all you need at most for starting out. You don't have to buy most of this stuff or get stupidly expensive items either. For hikes you could easily just take water and some crackers and enjoy yourself

nohikez are always paranoid of animals. So get bear spray and a solid staff. A gun of course always helps. Eventually you'll want to stay the night some time, so set up a good tarp and tent with a fire from wood you've gathered/chopped. That's it, have fun

probably metal

Looks like a machete

It's the kind with a handle.

>>931407
I don't know anything about alpine touring stuff but when I was buying my backcountry XC skis, everyone said to pick the boots that fit my feet and the bindings that fit the boots.

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>>931407
what about beacon/shovel/probe? airbag pack?
do you know how to use that rescue gear?
more importantly, do your friends know how to use that rescue gear?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSMKdXvJ31M

>>932025
no, not yet. I’ll attend a seminar and buy the equipment soon after.

I just wanna try the skis on a small hill behind my house first where i definitely won’t find myself buried under tons of snow.

>>931364
>but I don't know if I'd trust my credit card.

kek, I bought a parachute material hammock with attatched mosquito netting from some unknown outdoor clearance site a couple years back and my credit card company canceled my cards and sent me new ones within a couple of days after that. The hammock still came in and I had no issues after that but apparently my credit card company didn't like me shopping there.

>>931364
> .co

The company I work for get attacked by some social engineering bullshit a while back the fake email where .co instead of .com

But I don't know the site they might be legit

>>931634
Same goes with a few other shady Chinese sites I've bought from. The way it typically works is that the company is legit and will sell you stuff, but you'll start getting phone calls about how your card has been compromised and you need to do something about it. The calls themselves are phishing scams of course. I just ignore it and my goods arrive some time later.

>>931268
For EDC type tasks m390 is my all around favorite blade steel
But it also depends who heat treats it etc

Take a look at the Bradford guardian 3 and 4
3 is great for EDC. And the owner is a nice guy

Sadly I rarely carry mine because of the type of work I do

>>931272
Yeah, the heat treatment is crucial but the only thing I know about that is that they treat it to 61rc. Bradford have sweet knives but the shipment to europistan is a pain in the ass due to import tax and other border shit. Funny thing because our borders are pretty much inexistent when it comes to filthy migrants.

m390 is an excellent steel type.
You'll be making an awesome choice OP
go ahead and pull the trigger on it.

kingfisher ;-;

>>931175
Why sad?

OP download the app in pic related. You can identify birds on the go

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>>931178
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>>931133
Nikwax. Their tekwash and then dwr treatment works pretty well on any synthetic fabric... And even cotton(though it's nowhere near as good as a polyester softshell that's been treated.)

>>931294
Is there anything else out there worth looking into?

Melt plastic grocery bags onto the leaky parts

>>930879
what? the only time my feet feels cold is when i have a fever.
i can walk on cold stone with bare feet and don't feel any discomfort.

>>930883
One of the lucky few I guess. I don't think I could walk around barefoot on anything cold

>>930883
That being said, what do you think of the socks?

>>930872
Tell me how you made 155k and I'll tell you how to live out of a van

>>930872
If you can't travel with 500€ a month you are doing something wrong.

>>930882
>If you can't travel in europe for 16 euros a day you're doing something wrong

Okay grandpa