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>>607540
https://store.kifaru.net/mobile/sawtooth-p86.aspx

>>607540
Is weight an issue? IE. are you going to be hauling this stuff long distances in the future using your own strength?

If so then buy shit intended for mountaineering. Feathered Friends, Western Mountaineering, Back Diamond, Mountain Hardwear, The North Face, Montbell, Hilleberg, etc.

If not then buy shit intended for outfitters. I'm not that familiar with this stuff, but you'll be looking at canvas tents which can accommodate a chimney, a wood heating stove with a chimney, heavy as fuck sleeping bag, possibly a collapsible cot, etc.

Mountaineering stuff tends to be more expensive and often won't hold up to the same abuse as outfitter gear, but performs just as well if you take care of it. A -40C/F mountaineering sleeping bag will be about 4-5lb and cost usually around $700. A -40C/F outfitter sleeping bag will be like 20lb and cost around $200 with much thicker abrasion resistant fabrics than the mountaineering bag.

>>607571
Yeah, the general idea is to be hauling the stuff long distance in the future.

>>607173

Fire skills are impressive.

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>>607173
>a real deal.
The only way to find out, is to get into a real survival situation. I'm afraid overconfident people usually are the first to break under extreme stress. (usually, not always)

A "survival expert" may not be able to deal with failures.
>I've been training, practicing and teaching other people to survive and now, when it's real I can't do it.

If a normal person fails to make a friction fire, it's not like failing in life. An expert can blame himself even if it wasn't his fault.

It's not like there isn't a book thread or anything already

>>607188
Haven't noticed

>>607171
>that has been confirmed to have the least amount of facts that has been proved wrong
confirmed or proved wrong by whom?

I personally didn't find this book very useful. Almost everything in it is either obvious, or explained too superficially to be useful in practice. I spotted a few "facts" I most certainly don't agree with.

John Wiseman's book is by no means a bad book, but it claims to be the ultimate guide to surviving anywhere, and it's not.

Huron, superior, ontario/michigan, erie. in that order

they're all better on the canuck side anyway

I live in niagara on the lake

Lake Ontario is trash but the Niagara river is chill af. This summer me and my friends did a twelve km float to the mouth of the river.

Lake Erie is bretty good if you know the right beaches.

Lake Huron is based though, tobermory is GOAT

>>607067
>michigan
>canuck side

Albino kill you in your sleep spider, I think.

>>606742
A white flower spider.

A good one?

>>605911
If that is indeed the case, then it's no different from hunting anywhere else, silly.

>>605911
You can still do big game hunting with those criteria. Cape buffalo is least concerned and hunting those is both dangerous and rewarding, plus you are injecting a serious amount of money into the local economy by doing one of those hunts.

>>605911

RIP Cecil

Do you have any experience outdoors?
Have you ever been camping?
What food are you going to bring?
Is it near water or do you have to bring a month worth of water?
What are you going to do for fun?
Why are you doing this?

>>605461
>Why are you doing this?
did you read his post?

>>605427
OP I'd look up airbnb type accomodations, you can get some off the grid style cabins and stuff through there, which can be nice. no idea whether its possible in your part of the world though. dont know how "isolated" you're actually wanting to be. but if youre there for a whole month, it'd be good to get a place in the woods but near enough to a small village/town where you can go get more food from once a week/ every few days.

Also being a literary trip, you planning on writing by hand? or want a place that actually has electricity to use your laptop?

>>605472
I'm actually primarily going to be reading and maybe keeping a journal. I picked up 14 boxes of books for free off a dude on craigslist and I want some time just for tearing through them.

So, in regards to electricity, I can work without it. My accommodations would be ideal if the main light source was candles and my only sources of heat being a wood stove/furnace. Just wanna read and chop wood.

>>604911
> "abandonded" places

Lesse:

mines?
> trespass

Power plants?
> trespass

Airplane graveyard?
> military base, felony trespass

Ghost towns?
> we may have a winner

>>604911
I hear there's an old air base about 20 miles SW of Rachel. Don't mind the signs.

>>604911
Any interest in Native American sites?

>>597124
That doesn't look save at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fWo0P0MdJM

wow I think thats the exact same watch I have lol. I just need to get a wrist strap like yours. Mine came with one of those bulky metal ones that I find super uncomfortable so I hardly wear the thing.

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Citizen chrono aqualand reporting in

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>>588531
It's a good watch, mate.
Those types of straps are called NATO or sometimes G10s. ZULU straps are similar except they have rounded buckles.

>>579723
OP here. This is one of my favorite recipes and I strongly recommend it for new hunters. Rabbits are easy to find, easy to kill, easy to clean, and extremely delicious in a dish like this.

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2534648/braised-rabbit-pappardelle

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>>579723
OP with a particularly tasty wild swine, 2013

She made many pounds of carnitas tacos for me and was a delicious addition to my chest freezer

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>>579723
One of 14 rabbits I ate last winter, but the only one I bagged with a handgun

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OC fresh off the presses, courtesy of /mu/

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We'd love it if you'd come with us!
<3

>>600297
if you are really badly out of shape and it requires backpacking in you might want to re think it.

but other than that no. you should try it out you might like it. you might even make a friend. but living in a cabin isn't really camping. in my opinion it is worse because you have to deal with the animals that makes cabins their homes.

also people make fun of other races, you probably do it too nigger, but once you actually meet someone you think of them as a person not a stereotype, right? well all the honkeys and wetbacks do the same.

>>600297
Women, weed, alcohol and 2 people who don't want to be there.

>>600297
go for it man! no big deal. probly just be college kids behaving like college kids. just make sure you bring the basics like sleeping bag, seep mat, personal hygiene stuff, food, water, TP, clean undies, some decent hiking shoes.

only thing i can say is dont get drunk/high. keep your cool man. should be fun.

>>593907
That man is having sex with that dog

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>>593907

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>>593909

Go back to /b/.