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Don't carry anything you don't know how to use.

You don't need any devices for cpr. If they need cpr while /out/, they're just dead.

You don't need an "IV bag". You don't know how to start an IV, or how to use one. You can kill someone if you don't know how.

Everything you listed is for treating minor aches and pains. Don't worry about saving a life, you won't anyways. Just keep a few things for treating minor stuff and you'll be fine.

OP here. What medicine and bark treats diarrhea?

I'll be in the city mostly so I don't care about carrying too much. When I'm buggin out I'll drop all the useless stuff.

>>839694
You should list all the injuries you and your compadres have had. This will tell you exactly what to bring.

A quick summary of me. I am a 25 year old Blacksmith and recently achieved my journeyman’s degree here in my home country Austria. After a lot of detours (mostly university) I started an apprenticeship at the age of 22. I quit my job because my former employer and his company were literally hell (for example, my boss would stand beside me and would stop the time it took me to forge 100 coat hangers etc.) and in addition the love of my life suddenly left me after 5 years. So moved back to my hometown ( for the apprenticeshipI moved to another part of the country and lived pretty much alone for 3 years during the week while my ex-girlfriend was studying at the university, had neither friends nor family, only work).
I am a trained metal worker but not that much of a blacksmith, although I won a few prices during my apprenticeship, and that is something I want to change. The trade itself is slowly fading away in my country although there are still some institutions left. There are just a few shops that do blacksmithing exclusively (I am talking about blacksmithing not metal work like steel constructing frames or simple hand railing for flats etc.) and those who do can hardly pick up another "unskilled" worker.
So the thing is, i don’t have anything left in my life that would keep me here and furthermore working in metal construction would be hell for me (no offense to fellow welders and so on, it is just not the right job for me), but blacksmithing on the other hand is more than fulfilling. Aside from the general balcksmith, the bladesmith as a job nearly completely vanished from our job market, those who do are very few self taught or blacksmiths who took up the trade and this is what I intend to do. But before I can open a shop I want to learn from mastersmiths how things are done. Hand forged tools for every purpose is that what i want to do in my future

welding bump

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Maybe to give a little more insight, here's a work of mine. A bottle holder made from stainless steel and apple wood.
For the fellow craftsmen this is what i love about working with so different materials like combining wood with metal to create something usefull and also appealing

nobody have any good pictures on differnt kind of hunting huts?

>>839593
It depends entirely on where you live and what kind of material that are easily available. Judging by your pic i would say just insulate the floor, roof, walls and everything with spruce.

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>>839593
simple enough?

>>839491
>gnats
no-see-ums
deet will sort of work but they'll still fly in your mouth and ears and eyes and hair and up nose.

>>839491
Bug nets. They're absolutely retarded looking, but they work amazingly.

https://www.amazon.com/Coghlans-8941-Mosquito-Head-Net/dp/B000WFXDMK/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1471497461&sr=8-7&keywords=bug+net

You can get them at Walmart, and pretty much any sporting goods place that is worthy of the title. Just don't spray it with deet, depending on the fabric deet with destroy it.

>>839491
>Deet?

Yes. 100%. None of that other shit will do.

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>>839186
>>839245
>inflatable

Too much ancient trash in the waterways from floods. Metal and glass.

>>839255
They normally have a few different sections though, right? At least you wouldn't sink, but it would suck to have 20 patches holding the thing together by the end of the season.

>>839258
aluminum really is the perfect material for tight waters. you never know where a branch might be and its impossible to see everything if the water is murky

>>839175
>What is /out/s general opinion on firearms innawoods?
I like to have one.

>Do you carry,
Yes.
>and why?
Two-legged predators, mostly. If though some celestial misfortune I should stumble onto a drug deal or a grow site or a meth lab or something then I'm sure as shit going to want a gun. Apart from that, it's useful for survival purposes. I don't really worry about critters at all because there are no wolves or brown bears where I live, mountain lions are shit-scared of people and dogs, and black bears will fuck right off if you yell at them. I honestly worry more about coyotes than anything else; those little shits can become absolutely fearless and they travel in packs.

>>839182
Coyotes are a problem everywhere, it seems. The county offered "bounty rewards" on them where I was out west because they were enough of a problem, and I used to see them on a daily basis. Down here in the South they don't show their faces, but they eat small animals like cats and chickens during the night.

Mountain lions out in Tooele County of Utah are becoming a problem because the people living there have thought it a good idea to start feeding the deer.
>deer head into the valley
>mountain lions follow
Last I heard nobody had been attacked, but there were more than enough sightings to be worried about. And that's in the suburbs for fucks sake.

I don't carry
I own some guns but haven't gone through with getting my CCW yet
There's a place where I can get all the instruction and training done in one day and also provides free ammo which is cool

You basically just go and don't stop

Literally just don't stop

Even obese people can do 100km on a bicycle in a day

Pedal as fast as possible until your legs cramp so badly you cannot pedal, do this twice a week. This will build muscle the fastest for long term riding. You could actually probably sprint 100km with a bicycle on one of your first training sessions if you are average health.

-I bike 30-50 miles 7 days a week and go on much longer rides monthly

>>838435
First: Buy a bike.

Then basically bike a lot. You can do a training regimen like what >>838441 suggested, but you really don't need to be that gung ho about it if your goal is distance rather than speed.

You can start small and work your way up, starting with short rides and then working yourself into longer ones. You can go from a normal amount of biking to 100 KM in a day pretty easily.

In high school I biked across the US (from Charleston, SC to San Diego, CA) with no real prior biking experience and I only really trained for about two months, and it wasn't really as rigorous as other anon's suggestion. My "training" consisted of maybe biking about 60 miles (100km) twice a week (I was still in school, so there was little time to train during the week) and riding my bike everywhere instead of driving. I started out with just 15 mile rides (25 km) and just increased the distance each time. I probably could have gone at it even more intensely, but the amount that I did was more than enough to prepare for my trip, which in terms of biking, was about 85-130 miles (140-200 km) every day for several weeks.

So basically anon, 100km is very very doable and possible with little to no training. I would say that once you get there, work on being faster, as that is much harder to do. Also, be prepared for butt burn and hand blisters on your first few rides. But that'll go away quickly.

>>838441
>>838475
Thank you very much!

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Vagrants are more my style.

This one only survived to day 4, was hoping he would be more fun that than but hey can't expect much from a bum. Certainly shouldn't expect him to be good at forced dehydration.

>>838186
So do you like, pickle them or just freeze them afterwards? Cause I feed the sparrows to my cat

>>838186
I make a plastic coocoon and paint it to look like a living person, people think they're mannequins. They have no idea what's inside, lol!

A pot, you can't go without a container to cook in, boil water, you know. Get a pot.

>>837976
any suggestions on picking a rifle and caliber

youre not going to last more than a week because of the mosquitoes

literally none of them.

If it's your beer just bottle some in 2L PET bottles, it's not like you're going to have any left over.

>>837949
B because it looks the most fussy and steampunky.

Nothing I like more than sitting at a roadside picnic table in a national park, stroking my well oiled beard while pulling a draft of craft brew from a portable pump station as my friend films me in 4k with our Filson Wedge tent in the background and Gransfors Bruk axe conspicuously arranged in front of me.

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>>837456
In what way do you imagine a bag could be 'fun'?

>>837456
In humid weather/areas you need it sealed tightly or you'll have mushy nuts

>>837456
>A ziploc baggie works I guess but that's no fun.
WTF?
Or are you one of those cosplay /out/ LARPers who wants to romanticize their outdoor adventures with low tech gear?

>>837373
>/sp/ecialists
>>>/sp/

>>837391
Fuck, I didn't correct that one. I asked there and they sent me to /out/.

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>>837373
Ok anon, I'm not am expert or pro,, but I've been snorkeling and freediving since before I could walk so I kinda know know what's up.
>>How often should I practice my O2 and CO2 tables? Erryday? Every other day? My maximum the last time I checked was 2:02 static (it's shit, but what can ye do but train more) and I want to get better.
I never did anything special to train except for my technique which is a few minutes of deep breaths, complete inhale and compete exhale, pretty slow so not to hyperventilate. There is science behind this, but I can't be fucked to explain it. There are some very goot tutorials on youtube.
>>Is there any advice regarding fins I should know? I dived only in shoes this year and it was difficult moving around, I feel fins would give me a great advantage. What should I look at when buying fins?
Fins are a MUST for even casual diving. Human feet are shit in water and the mobility fins give you is insane compared to bare feet. There are a bunch of different finns, but you should just look for semi-stiff, pretty long, preferably without a back-strap/ just slip ons. I suggest getting a chepa pair so if the're to stiff/long/short/ narrow etc. you know what to look for.
>>Any tips on great dives around Europe?
Literally all of the mediterranean is the fucking bomb and it's cheap as fuck. Going to malta for a week in a month to scuba dive, and I've been to many of the countries around the mediterranean and they're seriously good.
Also, where are you from? I guess ireland due to your use of "ye". Anyway, your seas are cold as fuck, and I don't know if you can dive there in anything thinner than a thick wetsuit. But Ican say for a fact that cold reefs are sick, and you shoud check them out.

I'm staying in the thread, so if you have questions just ask.

>>837360
You first

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