I never have been a survivalist per se and never saw the need to become a prepper until the past few months but being into the hunting, shooting, reloading and camping shit I was brought up with, I've had all the gear necessary to survive for a week or three or four but I really never kept it together in one place ready to grab and run.
But with politics and the economy being what they are nowadays (not to mention natural or man-made disasters) I got to thinking about things and have been buying a little at a time and put together a "git kit", something that will keep my fat Okie ass going for a while.
I've scored a medium ALICE pack, an Austrian (I think) ruck and of course I had my civilian backpack that I got 25 years ago. But each has their drawbacks. The Austrian ruck is made of canvas and is fairly quiet in the brush and very durable but it's just a bit too small for the shit I want to carry and there's no frame. The ALICE has a frame and is large enough, but I broke my back in my 20s and never found out for years and there's a small hump below my shoulder blades that the frame rubs against. My civilian pack has a frame but is way too lightweight to last. Besides, it's a bright blue.
The other day I was prowling through my garage and ran across a pack that I bought to carry for overnight coyote hunts and tossed aside when I realized it was way bigger than what I bought it for.
The motherfucker is perfect. It has 4 outside pockets for shit I need in a hurry, a roomy interior, an interior frame, is camouflaged (Realtree), rugged, sits well on my back, waterproof, and best of all cost me about 30 bucks at Big 5 Sporting Goods.
No shit.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Ron
Longtime friend and contributor to this blog Ron has taken ill with severe health issues and is hospitalized and the prognosis is shaky at best from what I understand from his wife.
Please keep him in your thoughts and for those of you that believe in prayer, they'd be appreciated.
Thanks,
KennyLane
Please keep him in your thoughts and for those of you that believe in prayer, they'd be appreciated.
Thanks,
KennyLane
Monday, June 13, 2011
Yeah, you got a point there, Duckman.
I was talking with Duckman at work today about ordering shit online and telling him I realized I had a problen when I had my credit card number, security code and expiration date memorized.
He just laughed and said "Wait until you come home one day and find the Fedex and UPS drivers fighting over a parking spot in front of your house because your packages are too heavy to walk to your porch."
Fuuuuuck, I ain't THAT far gone yet.
He just laughed and said "Wait until you come home one day and find the Fedex and UPS drivers fighting over a parking spot in front of your house because your packages are too heavy to walk to your porch."
Fuuuuuck, I ain't THAT far gone yet.
Gun owners beware....
Way to long for me to post here.
Go to Stormbringer for the full post and PAY FUCKING ATTENTION, dammit.
This is our lives and Nation at risk here.
http://seanlinnane.blogspot.com/2011/06/un-small-arms-treaty.html
Go to Stormbringer for the full post and PAY FUCKING ATTENTION, dammit.
This is our lives and Nation at risk here.
http://seanlinnane.blogspot.com/2011/06/un-small-arms-treaty.html
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Why I prefer a monopod over a bipod
This video is from Todd "Dogbreath" Sullivan, somebody that puts out some outstanding coyote calls, but on his site you'll also find a free downloadable guide to hunting coyotes for beginners and he'll also send along videos with tips occasionally. This is one of them:
http://www.dogbreathcoyotecalls.com/dogbreath-recommends/
I own one of the Primos monopods he's got there and prefer it 9 times out of 10 over my Harris bipod for the reasons he mentions and demonstrates.
The only clear advantage the bipod has is that you don't have to lay your rifle across your lap if you're digging out another call or glassing an area.
What you can't do with a bipod that you can with a Triggerstick is use it as a walking and wading stick - the one I have extends to about 5' 9" and is perfectly suited for those purposes.
Anyways, watch the short video and as long as you're on his site, buy something and tell him I sent you. He won't give you a discount (although I think he's offering free shipping at the moment) but he might give me one for kicking some business his way.
Seriously, he does put out some outrageous coyote calls and he's a hell of a nice guy.
http://www.dogbreathcoyotecalls.com/dogbreath-recommends/
I own one of the Primos monopods he's got there and prefer it 9 times out of 10 over my Harris bipod for the reasons he mentions and demonstrates.
The only clear advantage the bipod has is that you don't have to lay your rifle across your lap if you're digging out another call or glassing an area.
What you can't do with a bipod that you can with a Triggerstick is use it as a walking and wading stick - the one I have extends to about 5' 9" and is perfectly suited for those purposes.
Anyways, watch the short video and as long as you're on his site, buy something and tell him I sent you. He won't give you a discount (although I think he's offering free shipping at the moment) but he might give me one for kicking some business his way.
Seriously, he does put out some outrageous coyote calls and he's a hell of a nice guy.
Oh yeah. Every mans' Dream Woman.
Stolen from Sipsey Street Irregulars
To quote The Dutchman - "An MBA grad from Villanova?"
And now from me - How much you wanna bet she fucked for grades?
I wonder how she'd react if she saw me run over that cat last week?
I used to have an Evil Cat named Winchester who's favorite thing to do was fight racoons. Motherfucker was so badass that I couldn't get within 10 feet of it, had to carry pepper spray anytime I went out into the pasture nearest the house.
I wish this girl would've tried to hug him......
Mr. Calm Cool and Collected lost it?
OBAMA SCREAMS AT STAFF: “What the F**k Was That?” After Netanyahu Meeting
Now we know the rest of the story… Obama went into a rage after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lectured him on his suicide plan for Israel.
NewsFavor reported, via Doug Ross:
Now we know the rest of the story… Obama went into a rage after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lectured him on his suicide plan for Israel.
NewsFavor reported, via Doug Ross:
Shortly after the photo-op meeting and “working lunch” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the one that saw President Obama openly chastised by the Prime Minister for Obama’s earlier public comments regarding wanting to see Israel return to its 1967 borders, the president verbally “went off” on Richard Daley in the private study area that adjoins the Oval Office. President Obama’s verbal attack was clearly heard by numerous staff up and down the West Wing hallways.
The essence of the president’s rage and embarrassment can best be summed up with him yelling out very loudly, “What the f-ck was that!?” That phrase was apparently repeated a number of times in the span of about five minutes, a time period in which Obama’s voice became “louder and louder” and culminating in Obama exclaiming, “Never again! Do you understand me? Never again!” Any response by Bill Daley back to the president, if given, was not overheard.
Daley was soon after seen walking slowly down the hallway back toward his own office. He appeared “unconcerned” and was walking alone. His mood was apparently good enough that he took the time to speak briefly with some junior staffers before continuing down the hall. There was no sign of the president, though Valerie Jarrett did make an appearance on her way into the Oval Office. This was viewed as somewhat of a rare thing as Jarrett has apparently not been seen much on the lower levels of the West Wing for the last month or so. Neither she nor the president was seen for some time after that.
From The Gateway Pundit
Oh, I thought they'd been to Wal-mart....
BEIJING -- More than 600 people, including 103 children, have been sickened in China's latest case of mass lead poisoning, state media reported Sunday.
China has suffered widespread problems in recent years from heavy metal contamination, with thousands of children affected by lead poisoning in several provinces in 2009 and 2010 because they lived near metal smelters or battery factories.
The victims in the latest case were workers and their children in 25 family-run tinfoil processing workshops in Yangxunqiao town in Zhejiang province in eastern China, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
China has suffered widespread problems in recent years from heavy metal contamination, with thousands of children affected by lead poisoning in several provinces in 2009 and 2010 because they lived near metal smelters or battery factories.
The victims in the latest case were workers and their children in 25 family-run tinfoil processing workshops in Yangxunqiao town in Zhejiang province in eastern China, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
You know not of which you speak
RENO, Nev. -- Critics of Nevada's first black bear hunt are worried that with hunters and hikers near Lake Tahoe sharing the same woods, it won't only be bears that get shot.
"Someone could be out hiking the Tahoe Rim Trail with their family and along comes a pack of dogs running across the trail, followed by a guy who comes along with a gun. It's a whole different atmosphere," said Madonna Dunbar, resource conservationist for the Incline Village General Improvement District on the lake's north shore.
"People are really concerned there will be an accident and someone will get killed," she said in an interview with The Associated Press.
State wildlife officials have issued 45 licenses and say hunters will be trained so they know where it is safe to shoot, but opponents worried for the safety of tourists and residents have taken their concerns to court.
Read more: http://www.modbee.com/2011/06/11/1728166/bear-hunt-raises-safety-concerns.html#ixzz1P4ljoTQV
Ummm, Miss Dunbar? May I say something?
A pack of hounds, for the most part, are making a lot of noise when they're trailing something - you know, baying, crashing through brush, that sort of thing.
How about you and your tourists stay the hell out of the way when you hear that sort of thing and not interfere with or obstruct a legal and lawful hunt, which by the way is illegal in Nevada.
And folks that are commited enough to a sport to own a pack of hounds generally are very experienced hunters and know enough to not shoot tourists.
Oh wait, I almost forgot - anybody that lives within 500 miles of Tahoe have read about your huge overpopulation of bears that wander through residential areas raiding trash cans and generally being a pain in the ass because they have no fear of Man or dogs. I guarantee you that hunting will cure that shit real quick.
"Someone could be out hiking the Tahoe Rim Trail with their family and along comes a pack of dogs running across the trail, followed by a guy who comes along with a gun. It's a whole different atmosphere," said Madonna Dunbar, resource conservationist for the Incline Village General Improvement District on the lake's north shore.
"People are really concerned there will be an accident and someone will get killed," she said in an interview with The Associated Press.
State wildlife officials have issued 45 licenses and say hunters will be trained so they know where it is safe to shoot, but opponents worried for the safety of tourists and residents have taken their concerns to court.
Read more: http://www.modbee.com/2011/06/11/1728166/bear-hunt-raises-safety-concerns.html#ixzz1P4ljoTQV
*****
Ummm, Miss Dunbar? May I say something?
A pack of hounds, for the most part, are making a lot of noise when they're trailing something - you know, baying, crashing through brush, that sort of thing.
How about you and your tourists stay the hell out of the way when you hear that sort of thing and not interfere with or obstruct a legal and lawful hunt, which by the way is illegal in Nevada.
And folks that are commited enough to a sport to own a pack of hounds generally are very experienced hunters and know enough to not shoot tourists.
Oh wait, I almost forgot - anybody that lives within 500 miles of Tahoe have read about your huge overpopulation of bears that wander through residential areas raiding trash cans and generally being a pain in the ass because they have no fear of Man or dogs. I guarantee you that hunting will cure that shit real quick.
DON'T TAZE ME, BRO!
Last Saturday, one of Wendy Bordeleau’s two cows got loose from her 30-acre farm.
About a dozen people were trying to coral 800-pound Houdini across busy Mammoth Road when police showed up with their tasers.
"They said ‘We’re going to tase her, we’re going to taser it,’ and the group was pleading with them. Everyone was kinda yelling, ‘Please don’t taser the cow, it’s only going to make it worse,” she told WBZ NewsRadio 1030.
Houdini was zapped at least four times.
*****
Okay, seeing as the cows' name was Houdini I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this wasn't her first escape. In that case, police were justified in using a taser, then calling in SWAT for backup for a spray-n-pray takedown if the taser didn't work.
Jeez, hasn't anybody up there heard of a rope?
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
Priorities,man.
A group of friends went deer hunting and paired off for the day. That night, one of the hunters returned alone, staggering under the weight of an eight-point buck. "Where's Hank?" the others asked.
"He had a stroke of some kind. He's a couple of miles back up the trail," the successful hunter replied.
"You left Hank laying out there and carried the deer back!?" they inquired.
"A tough call" nodded the hunter. "But I figured no one is going to steal Hank!"
"He had a stroke of some kind. He's a couple of miles back up the trail," the successful hunter replied.
"You left Hank laying out there and carried the deer back!?" they inquired.
"A tough call" nodded the hunter. "But I figured no one is going to steal Hank!"
AND WE HAVE A WIENER!!!!
PISSED wins the caption contest hands down, folks. Damn, he's a sharp-witted motherfucker.
"She has the name of her favorite congressman on the tip of her tongue"
His blog is The Feral Irishman and you can find it here. Please pay him a visit, boost his readership and tell him Wirecutter sent you.
Thanks for all of you that cleared your alcohol and weed fogged brains to take a minute to send in a caption - and some of them were really good - and a special thanks again to Claymore for sending that picture in.
I gotta admit, I really enjoyed reading your comments.
Thanks again,
KennyLane
"She has the name of her favorite congressman on the tip of her tongue"
His blog is The Feral Irishman and you can find it here. Please pay him a visit, boost his readership and tell him Wirecutter sent you.
Thanks for all of you that cleared your alcohol and weed fogged brains to take a minute to send in a caption - and some of them were really good - and a special thanks again to Claymore for sending that picture in.
I gotta admit, I really enjoyed reading your comments.
Thanks again,
KennyLane
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Caption this.......
My first ever caption contest.......
So many thoughts come to mind, none of them wholesome or printable even on my blog. Except one and I'll post that in the comments after I announce the winner.
First place wins an honorable mention and a link to your blog if you run one.
Second place? There are no second place winners - if you ain't first, you lose.
And I'd like to thank Claymore for sending this in - you gotta love a motherfucker named Claymore, don't you?
So many thoughts come to mind, none of them wholesome or printable even on my blog. Except one and I'll post that in the comments after I announce the winner.
First place wins an honorable mention and a link to your blog if you run one.
Second place? There are no second place winners - if you ain't first, you lose.
And I'd like to thank Claymore for sending this in - you gotta love a motherfucker named Claymore, don't you?
From the mouths of babes
I was eating lunch on the 20th of February with my 10-year-old granddaughter and I asked her, "What day is tomorrow?"
She said "It's President's Day!" She is a smart kid.
I asked "What does President's Day mean?" I was waiting for something about Washington or Lincoln ... etc.
She replied, "President's Day is when President Obama steps out of the White House, and if he sees his shadow we have one more year of unemployment."
You know, it hurts when hot coffee spurts out your nose......
-John
http://writeontheright.blogspot.com/
She said "It's President's Day!" She is a smart kid.
I asked "What does President's Day mean?" I was waiting for something about Washington or Lincoln ... etc.
She replied, "President's Day is when President Obama steps out of the White House, and if he sees his shadow we have one more year of unemployment."
You know, it hurts when hot coffee spurts out your nose......
-John
http://writeontheright.blogspot.com/
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