How many of you guys actually tried going innawoods with just

>>32215701
Did it when I was 16.
It was really fucking boring.

>>32215737
I'm planning on doing it next spring and boredom is actually one of my major concerns.

I'm thinking I should just spend my days building some more complex shelter.

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yea i did and it was kinda chill because i like the outdoors but kinda crappy because i live in south florida and there are snakes and giant banana spiders and all sorts of other shit so you need to be careful but otherwise its fun just go inside your sleeping bag or hammock with a couple mosquito nets around it and you are good, also sleep with you boots and a gun in case you are near water and a rouge gator migrating from canal to canal or swamp to swamp and decides to smell you out

stay safe fellow /k/omanndos

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>>32215701
the better question is to stalker challenge or to not stalker challenge

>>32215838
>>32215737
if you ever want to try LSD or something like that. that's the time.

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>his bugout bag doesn't include books to stave off the boredom

>>32218041
>First time using LSD
>In the woods
>Alone
>With guns

Horrible idea

>>32218096
this

always have a babysitter when you mess with that stuff

>>32218096
>>32218247

and pls no fucking guns around

>>32215701
Me, I died

>>32218096
>>32218247
faggots

>>32215701
I've done 2 nights/three days with no bugout bag. I took what I could fit in my pockets. A knife, a Flint rod, and a metal canteen. Super busy the first day but once I had my shelter built it was chill. I recommend doing a run with just edc first so you're ready for anything .

>>32219877

was that for Eagle Scout or just for giggles?

>>32219916
>modern day eagle scouts
>doing anything close to that
lel

>>32215737
This. I got bored after 3 hours, so built a big ass fire for no reason.

I should have hunted something.

>>32219935
I had no idea

I did 2 days on the Appalachian trail when i was a sixth grader

>>32219935
this. i left early on because we didnt do much of anything

>>32218088

I'm presuming in an actual SHTF scenario boredom won't be an issue because you'll be too preocuppied with shitting yourself and making longer-term plans for whatever calamity has occurred.

No point lying about it on an anonymous website, if you're running away from cops or whatever you'll be too busy being terrified to be bored.

>>32219916
For giggles. I had two friends who also did it. We were all about a quarter mile apart on opposite sides of a lake. The challenge was who could last all three days

I'm actually thinking about doing the STALKER challenge, but taking a Go-pro for some proof. And the ability to have my last words shared should I be gored to death by wild pigs.

>>32216763

I can't do the stalker challenge because of no abandoned buildings in my area. At best I will be able to find an old barn.

>>32220457
Where can I stalker or at least innawoods in CA? There's nowhere I can even shooti without driving out 2 hours into the desert

>>32218088
This. Staying sane is just as important as staying alive.

>>32215701
I've done that quite a few times. Thanks to my job description I need that experience in every six to eight months to let some steam out from my system. My bosses are not complaining.

My bugout takes usually 10 to 15 days to complete. I really bug out with my bugout bag in the wild and stay there until things are better. It's fucking great.

Boots rule. I have hiked about 60 to 80 miles in average during these bugouts. My boots rule, old school Meindls (my Danners feel heavier but about the same in everything else) and the spare Nokian FDF style wellingtons I almost never use but take with me every time.

Water rules. I carry in the beginning about 10 liters of bottled water on me. I just buy it from the store before going in the wilderness. The rest of the water is out there, somewhere.

My Berghaus Atlas weighs about 80 pounds in the beginning. I have a cell phone with me plus 5 extra batteries fully charged, but I haven't yet answered to calls or texts during these bugouts. But a cell phone is handy for navigation: Find the best mountain side view with an icy mountain stream.

I've been doing this for about 15 years. Better than Burning man I think (been there twice).

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>>32220496
I'm super lucky when it comes to shooting
>rent a place on an acreage just outside of the city limits
>surrounded by farmers on three sides
>one of the farmers likes to shoot waterfowl
>when city decided to annex this area for more industrial land the farmer neighbor kicked up a stink about his duck hunting preferences
>forces the city to put a clause in the annexation that will allow him to hunt and it applies to all annexed land
>I now live on a city property where I can hunt
>the increased city activity drives most coyotes away
>I live on a property within city limits that I'm allowed to hunt and shoot recreationally on and I have grouse literally walking around on my lawn.

That being said I know about no abandoned buildings within 400 mile radius.

>>32220673
How do you go about picking the right place to bug out in?

I don't mean the right camping spot but rather the right forest/area to hang around in.

>>32220744
Ok.

Driving basically aimlessly in the beginning, for a day or two. Stop at motels, hotels, even at the private grounds. Explain yourself and give some money for them to take care of your car.

Protip: Both Montana and Alaska give you endless possibilities to really practice bug out.

They don't care if you are carrying a 6" 44 Magnum revolver to protect yourself against bears.

I sometimes dream of becoming a student pilot, buying a bush qualified solo aircraft, flying it away to some undisclosed location and sleeping under it's wing until it's time to get back to the world.

>>32220003
Scouts is the autistic kid baby sitting service now. Sure some scouts still do awesome things, but that's a small small percentage. Now it's just popcorn and participation trophies.

>>32220947
Take me with you.

>>32220984
I won't.

But you can do it all by yourself though.

Imagine:

Drive aimlessly. You spot a slow grill/bar/bistro.

Step in and ask if they could prepare for you a gentleman's picnic basket for one.

A gentleman's picnic basket for one.

It can be a bold and brave move. And it may take some time and serious thinking to really enjoy a gentleman's picnic basket for one.

>>32216763
Where the hell would you even find an area like that in the U.S.?

>>32215701
Does SERE training count?

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>>32215701
4 days backpack hunting. Close enough I imagine.

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>>32221226
>A gentleman's picnic basket for one.

What did he mean by this

>>32215737
Same, also when I was sixteen. The woods here aren't all that extensive either, so I didn't have much exploring to do, I knew the area really well to begin with. I did bring a journal and a sketchbook, but after a while I just ran out of things to write/draw. I normally have the TV on 24/7 when I'm home, just for background noise, I hadn't realized how accustomed I'd grown to that over time. It isn't even that quiet where I live, you can't spend much time in the woods without running into some joggers, the highway isn't far off and you can hear planes pass overhead almost everywhere you go. All in all it was really nice though. I wanna repeat that experience in a significantly more remote forest sometime, maybe in an adjacent county that's more rural.

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>>32221519
I dunno, but I am definitely interested!

>>32215701
Considering my BoB is hiking kit+gun, I do it pretty much monthly. It's called camping.
>three days
>surviving
There are like, 6 places on the whole continent where a person is unlikely to survive 3 days with just the shit in a normal cityfolk's pockets. And 4 of them are winter dependent.

>>32220971
Whiich...is why things like Venture crews are a thing.

But yeah. The "everyone's included even if they're a legit vegetable bound to a wheelchair, sure it can have Eagle Scout, we'll just waive 99.9999% of the requirements on the off-chance it has enough self awareness to feel pride in something it didn't do" is the whole reason I stopped helping with the troop I was.

Also, we lose all the kids that are physically capable of doing cool shit as soon as high school sports/pussy/driving starts looking good to them and are left with the basement-dwellers, mentally ill, and handicapped kids.

>>32215701
How do I? I live in Louisiana. I'm interning at a big 4 this spring and wanna bug out for a week after. I wanna drive a few hours and disappear. Any good tips for going somewhere in sout east where I can go with my raifu or a handblamo

>>32219935
I left boyscouts because it was mainly the dad's drinking while their kids fucked up the woods around the campsite. It probably depends on your troop, but mine was shite. Some kid got a stick up his ass at midnight and had to be driven 40 miles to a hospital.

>>32221641
Channel your inner Huck Finn.

Build a raft on the Mississippi Delta and float around fishing with a cane pole and clubbing gators for a few days.

>>32221636
Venture crews are cool. Our scoutmaster started a crew once most of the guys in our group were 13. I had already pretty much given up on the scouts, but I stayed in the crew all through high school.

We planned a trip at least once a month, hiked in Colorado, Arkansas, New Mexico, hunted, fished, it was baller. Also, grills.

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>>32219935
>people ridicule boy scouts for being a useless organization
>my troop actually did shit innawoods
>had 50 mile hikes
>had desert survival camps where a good majority of the older scouts participated

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>>32221678
yea thats not similar to mine but close

>have meetings at ladys house
>barely do shit
>the one time we go camping we are at like a small rv park with amenities
>1 fucking night
>didn't get any knives or whatever
>quit because it was a waste of time.

i was born in '96 if that helps explain it
my boycott experience was thoroughly pozzed

>>32221798
That would have me 100% accidentally hit by a barge or something and I'd drown.

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>>32221830
boyscout* not boycott

>>32221809
Yeah it's pretty cool. I took a crew down to Sea Base for an extended trip down to the Bahamas on a rented sailboat (used it as a jumping-off point instead of the actual Sea Base trip).

In other news, I had the council threaten to strip me of my Eagle Scout when I refused to sign off on a retarded kid's Eagle project because he was legitimately so retarded he'd never seen any part of it and his dad did it all. Which is when I gave up on Scouts (but not before mailing copies of the threat emails to National Headquarters and throwing the entire council under the bus).

>>32221832
Dude...the Delta's like 30 miles wide with only 2 navigable shipping channels. Don't sail a fucking raft up the channel, the kind of whole point of a raft is it gets places a regular boat doesn't (that and it's pretty easy to build one yourself with hand tools and a few bucks' of rope).

>>32221867
Even better, you can get a beater pontoon, strip it down and park a beater minivan on it... instant houseboat! With a decent outboard you could be on the water for under two grand. I knew a guy who did that on Erie Canal.

>>32221933
One of the guys I hunt ducks with is a bridge welder for the state.

His "duck blind" is 12, 55gal metal drums welded together and to 2 bridge I-beams, with an old Econoline van chassis welded to the I-beams with a 9.9hp Evinrude clamped to the trailer hitch. He nigger-rigged the Econoline's gas tank and key-start to work with the outboard.

The thing weighs like 4 tons and that poor outboard drives it slower than I can walk the bank, but he didn't pay a red cent for anything but the outboard.

>>32221848
Neat. I should have kids so I can show them cool stuff too.

Sucks about the retard kid's dad, though. I mean, I guess I kind of feel for the dad, wanting his son to be able to do Boy Scouts and all, but that's just ridiculous. Not everyone makes Eagle, and it's not needed to have a good time outside and spend time with your kid. I hope someday for my children to be able to experience scouting the way me and my friends did, but I have heard so many bad things about the organization now.

>>32215701
No, but I've done a lot of backpacking for longer than three days, so I'm sure it would be easier to just stay in one place the whole time. Each time you go out, your goal should be to slim down on gear and weight. That's what I'm doing.

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>>32221978
Kek!

>>32222012
The organisation is really hit or miss. Where I live now (I've since moved), it's heavily sponsored by the Catholic church. They do a lot of innawoods stuff but it's 100% STRICTLY NO WEAPONS ALLOWED. No pocket knives, no shooting sports, no axes/saws, nothing. But that's at the impetus of the local arch-dioses, who throws a LOOOOOT of money the Scouts' way, so people roll with it.

Anybody who wishes to really continue with Scouts joins one of the many good venture crews around here, and we even have a collegiate shooting team strictly for Venture crews that places nationally almost every year.

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>>32222012
I wish I had kids. I just stuck with Scouts after I aged out, became an assistant scoutmaster then ended up on the Council's Eagle Board of Review, got my BSA lifeguard and climbing instructor certs (which were free, at least) so I could help with the venture crews.

As much fun and as much of a benefit to me that scouting was in the early 90's-early 00's, it's gone downhill enough that even if I did have kids I'd probably be against them being in Scouts.

And especially if I had girls, the Girl Scouts were a huge joke of an organization even back then.

>>32221636
Zozzle. Same thing here venture crews have grills even of they are only campcute at best.

>>32221413
Hello Garand Thumb. How was the PrisonOfWar phase?

>>32221420
I don't really hunt so excuse my ignorance. But how do you get the deer back to where you came from if you're backpacking?

>>32224024
Quarter it and pack the quarters out strapped to your backpack. Usually requires multiple trips.

>>32215701
I'd need proper thermal gear and some food. Maybe some tinder and matches, an axe. Easy. Wouldn't even need a gun this time of year because it's fucking cold

>>32224024
Hunt out of a Basecamp. My pack is only rated for 55 I think so I can't carry all my gear and the animal in one trip. I deboned all the meat and removed the antlers then walked it out 8 miles.