Today I enjoyed the outdoors. I chose to carry......

I took my EDC fishing with me because I don't like leaving it behind in the truck. Long Island Sound is where I spend a good deal of time May-October.

stonebuster said:

View attachment 941507 I took my EDC fishing with me because I don't like leaving it behind in the truck. Long Island Sound is where I spend a good deal of time May-October.

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Jealous!!! What do you carry for your EDC?

WisBorn said:

Jealous!!! What do you carry for your EDC?

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Driving to the boat though the inner city, I usually carry a PC Shield 9. The predators there tend to run in packs so I want the extra capacity. My SP101 DAO .357 fills in other times.

Jealous of the above pics of clear blue skies. Wildfire smoke has inundated our area and our air quality yesterday was at 532. The chart goes from 0 to 500. No outdoor activity for me for a while. Imagine sitting next to a campfire, and the smoke is being blown on you, everywhere you go, including sitting at your desk at work. It's bad. View from my deck...

Trey Veston said:

Jealous of the above pics of clear blue skies. Wildfire smoke has inundated our area and our air quality yesterday was at 532. The chart goes from 0 to 500. No outdoor activity for me for a while. Imagine sitting next to a campfire, and the smoke is being blown on you, everywhere you go, including sitting at your desk at work. It's bad. View from my deck...

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Many prayers to our friends out west with these fires. Stay safe!

Trey Veston said:

Jealous of the above pics of clear blue skies. Wildfire smoke has inundated our area and our air quality yesterday was at 532. The chart goes from 0 to 500. No outdoor activity for me for a while. Imagine sitting next to a campfire, and the smoke is being blown on you, everywhere you go, including sitting at your desk at work. It's bad. View from my deck...

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It is horrible, horrible, horrible. My dogs aren't happy, as I'm not letting them out in the yard at all except for pottying them; walks are out of the question. Yesterday, Seattle had the worst air quality of any major city in the world; I'm down the Sound aways, and it's just bad. Looks like a post-apocalyptic world (think movies Book of Eli or The Road). I cleaned my furnace and air cleaner filters, cranked the AC down to 65 and and not leaving the house except for that silly work thing.

460Shooter said:

Shot a variety of guns yesterday with an old friend.
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S&W 686+ was the main fun

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Beautiful view!
I was shooting rifles on Saturday. Not much handgun shooting do to not being able to find ammo

Just got back from a short trip to a local wetlands preserve. Nothing dangerous there that doesn't walk on two legs.

Good morning from Daytona Beach!


Watched the Sunrise this morning on the east coast. Thinking about our friends on the west coast dealing with the fires and the folks dealing with the storm in the Gulf Coast.
The best thing about THR is the friendships we develop and the true caring about the members. Stay safe my friends!

I forgot to mention my carry today is my favorite little buddy my LCP2.
I needed it for all the beach birds and post sitting Pelicans!

460Shooter said:

Walk after work.

Had my XDs-45 on me, my ZT0900, and my walking stick.
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Not a bad buck When does your deer season begin?
You may want to use something with a bit more punch, though the 45acp will work

I can`t really say I was "enjoying the outdoors" as I was clearing brush from my pond`s run-around (that`s what we call a secondary water outlet in case of flooding) and I was in my own yard. That being said, I was more concerned with the possibly of rabid raccoons than anything larger since a couple of days ago 7 family pets in my county were exposed to rabies from a raccoon.

I had a Ruger SR 22 pistol on me and figured (hoped) that I`d see it before it got to me and I could get some shots off in time and failing that, I`d have dove in the pond

Missed the sunrise this morning. Just felt lazy. I did like the clouds yesterday and the flowers growing on the beach. Looking for ammo at few stores in Daytona Beach without any luck. Bought a Bond Arms Rowdy and would like to shoot it and maybe carry it.

Oh, no! I’m going to need to get a .22 revolver!


That little guy is the third Massasauga Rattle snake baby I’ve seen near the house this fall.

I had a 1911 on me, but I think it may had been overkill. I’m sure the neighbors appreciate me not dispatching it at nine in the evening.
I was looking at the Wranglers, but I think a higher order pistol is necessary, like a Single Ten.

I looked around but didn’t find any caterpillars or very small Alices when I spotted these very large mushrooms.
Chlorophyllum molybdites, green-spored Lepiota or “The Vomiter Mushroom”. I guess this is a no-eater too, huh?

This one looks small because I haven’t mown the grass in a week! 4” was a high as I could cut and it was too much!


Great mornings make for great days!

Demi-human said:

Oh, no! I’m going to need to get a .22 revolver!
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That little guy is the third Massasauga Rattle snake baby I’ve seen near the house this fall.

I had a 1911 on me, but I think it may had been overkill. I’m sure the neighbors appreciate me not dispatching it at nine in the evening.
I was looking at the Wranglers, but I think a higher order pistol is necessary, like a Single Ten.

I looked around but didn’t find any caterpillars or very small Alices when I spotted these very large mushrooms.View attachment 943750
Chlorophyllum molybdites, green-spored Lepiota or “The Vomiter Mushroom”. I guess this is a no-eater too, huh?

View attachment 943753 This one looks small because I haven’t mown the grass in a week! 4” was a high as I could cut and it was too much!

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Great mornings make for great days!

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Cool mushroom!
I hear a lot of good about the Ruger Wrangler.
I like the single six/ten better. But does cost a lot more.

I reloaded "on the clock" this weekend in the woods. Doing prep work around the cabin for hunting season. Dad open the small firewood stack we keep next to the hunting cabin. We were going to move the last of the wood from the main stack there in prep for hunting season and re-cover it against the weather. He motioned me there was a snake. A young timber rattler.

Normally I would let a snake go but being venomous and 10 ft from the cabin door, nested in our firewood stack it had to go. I reached in my toolbox in the UTV and grab the speed-loader of shot shells for the old model 10. Dump the cylinder of 158 gr HP into my vest pocket and loaded the shot shells.

We started knocking logs off and snakes seemed to be under each new log. I went 5 of 6 with the shot shells only wounding the sixth one. Reached back grabbed my spare speed loader off the belt just in time to put a 158 grain HP through the head of the 4-ft long mother and that last young one took two more shots to finish. In the end 9 shots fired for six young and one adult rattler snake. That got the blood flowing for sure.

Is there more snakes this year????
I think they do good, but don't want them in the house, cabin, or garage.
I did pick up a new pistol for the task just in case.

The 45/410 should be fun. I have not shot it yet. Looking forward to getting it out. It won't be a primary carry, but for rifle hunting it will be nice to have it's versatile loading in my pocket or when carrying a small pistol like my 380 LCP2.

WisBorn said:

Is there more snakes this year????
I think they do good, but don't want them in the house, cabin, or garage.
I did pick up a new pistol for the task just in case.
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The 45/410 should be fun. I have not shot it yet. Looking forward to getting it out. It won't be a primary carry, but for rifle hunting it will be nice to have it's versatile loading in my pocket or when carrying a small pistol like my 380 LCP2.

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We have certainly seen more these past two years than the previous few years. Last fall building a new backstop for the shooting range I dug up another big nest of young rattle snakes with the tractor. Last last summer I had a very close encounter with a huge Rattler in the main firewood stack while spraying. We has a big rattler in the barn earlier this summer and I saw lots of rat snakes last fall and this summer too, but I always let them go being non-venomous. That rattle snake in the barn this summer (I let him go too) did keep it mouse free for several weeks. I have a auto-resetting mouse trap I leave in there and it almost always has 2-6 dead mice in it when I check it (ever 2-3 weeks). It went weeks this summer without catching a single mouse, and I am pretty sure it was due to that rattler living in the back corner of the barn. I don't mind snakes but can't have them living in the firewood piles and near the cabin, to dangerous with my daughter and nephews around. Now that we are nearly out of firewood we are going to rethink how we store firewood when we cut the next batch so it does not draw the rattlers. Any ideas would be appreciated.

I normally live and let live, but...

They will find them fun, like the toads, frogs and chipmunks. I can’t have bites, not even little ones.
And that pic was next to the house.

I think I agree with @mcb , I've seen more snakes this year than nearly my whole life! They used to be more scarce than bears here for me to see.

And grandma was worried about ticks...

Enjoyed two different Boardwalk Paths in Nature Wetlands located in Palm Beach County FL today. Carried my LCP2.
Saw lots of birds one gator and 6 Iguanas. We need to take control of these invasive species.