What's the farthest you've carried a rifle?

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About 11 1/2 months with a basic load of 400 rounds, 4 frags, a claymore, two trip flares, two smoke grenades, an entrenching tool and a machete.

On really fun days, we got to also hump a mortar round or a belt of machine gun ammo. Some days we got so carried away that we found a couple of 81mm mortars to break down and distribute to the troops to add to our tropical experience.

At the deer lease not far north of Uvalde, a typical hunting loop was commonly two to three miles.

At Terlingua, I've made many and many a hunting loop of a dozen miles. The longest single jaunt was, from the topo map, eight miles airline, each way. Probably twenty and maybe a little more, considering the hills and canyons.

My usual quail hunt in the Lefthand Shutup creek bottom was three miles down to the Blackrock Waterfall and then back.

Deer hunting---about 14 miles-- we got lost---I MEAN TURNED AROUND

Coyote hunting with hounds 5+ easy without thinking about it.

being military and infantry I'v walked pretty far with a rifle. Just went for EIB last month there's a 12mi ruck involved and you carry your rifle.......

Hunting - not much, especially rifles. Shotguns, maybe 5 or 6 miles.

On the other hand, Uncle Sugar likes to put some miles on you, and the 82D ABN likes it more than he does!

Just went for EIB last month there's a 12mi ruck involved and you carry your rifle.......

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So, didja earn it?

Two weekends marching punishment tours to work off some excess gigs as a ROTC cadet during summer camp. Eight hours a day for six days. Quite a bit for an Air Force puke.

FH

I dunno, USMC OCS....12 miles I think was the longest we ever did. Does that count? Or does it have to be loaded

Tim the student said:

Hunting - not much, especially rifles. Shotguns, maybe 5 or 6 miles.

On the other hand, Uncle Sugar likes to put some miles on you, and the 82D ABN likes it more than he does!



So, didja earn it?

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No the whole company "tried" out for it I would have passed everything as we gave our own here to prepare the whole course over and over but when it came down to sending guys the numbers went from the whole company to 50 guys then cut even more down to 21 only guys who are staying in and can use the promotion points. I ETS Feb next year and have no plans of going any farther I'm more then content as a E4 SPC/CPL.....I'm a Cpl for the deployment then get bumped back to Spc after we get back as there is "no need" for Cpl when state side what ever that means us in E4 team leader spots got our Cpl with our demotion date on our promotion orders lol. So yeah no EIB for me which is fine we let the younger newer guys who could use the experience and points go for it out of 21 we sent only 2 got it 1 of them being my squad leader who got it "True Blue" no no goes got all 4 points on the land nav and had I think 13 minutes to spare on his ruck time he's going to pathfinder day after tomorrow. One of the bonus's to getting this crap deployment as infantry there throwing schools at us like crazy I was up in Germany a few months ago for Small Arms Expert Marksmen and I got Squad Designated Marksmen school just before shipping out when the plan WAS to go to Afghanistan.

goalie said:

A long, long way in the Marines

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This. A really long way. A really.... really long way.

Ugh.

Our typical small game/ grouse hunt in federal forests in MI can easily include 6-10 miles a day. Usually I lug a shotgun or a trusty old Savage Model 24 in 22LR over 20ga. Never used to phase me at all, but at the far side of 50 I end up tired at the end of the day.

Does humpin' the boonies count? Seems like it was a long ways, but it was a long time ago.

25 miles. Straight leg infantry for 3 years in the 80's.

Over 20 Miles, Army Basic Tng. M1, also Army Ranger School, M 14, 0ver 5 Miles, Viet Nam, M 16, M 60!

Many. I did get my EIB. Also took part in a couple of "International Danau Waffen Lauf" competing against Germans, Brits, French, Belgies, Canadians,and Swiss and maybe a few others (had Czech observer and Russian observer(Soviet Military Laison Mission SMLM "Smell'em") many moons before the fall of the evil empire) My four man team won best "auslander" forigner cup one year. Part of that was 20 Km on the clock carrying a set weight and a G3 rifle. The other year(1974) team consisted of two GIs one German Jager and one old man reservist German WWII vet (SS) "team International" got a meantion at the awards supper. One year I was on one of the German TV channels staggering through the little obstical course.

As light weapons Infantryman in a true light unit we typically used LPCs for transport.....that's LEATHER PERSONEL CARRIERS aka boots aka Desiels as Des'll get you there.

These days I am happy to restrict my marches to out to the mail box AND back with or with out knee brace or cane.

-kBob

About 45 miles in 54 hours. They call it the "crucible" in Marine Corps recruit training. In addition to that we had packs that weighed about 50-60 lbs, plus ammo, got about 3 hours of sleep, had to overcome multiple obstacle course and to top it all off we only got to eat 3 MRE's. And incase your wandering, yes, it sucked. LOL

Besides the Army, I went on an ELK hunt and covered 10miles in the mountains with a 12lbs rifle. Worst part was I shot the ELK 5miles into the hunt and had to carry him the other 5miles back. Ain't been Elk hunting since lol.

We covered 7-8miles one day in the GA mountains. Got lost in a wildlife management area in Florida once and I swear it seemed a lot further than that, even though it was all flat.

Right around 30 miles for the Bayonet March in Basic.

Then during the invasion of Iraq we covered a lot of miles on foot clearing the outskirts of Baghdad. I did that with a SAW and 900 rounds. Long days.

In the Military - multiple 10 to 20 mile marches.

Hunting - my gosh - a million miles Elk hunting for over 30 years.

And a million and a half miles Quail & Pheasant hunting.

It was fun tho.

dondavis3 said:

?.. Elf hunting for over 30 years.

It was fun tho.

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did you come across any Orcs?!?!

I have done ruck runs up to 10 miles with a rubber rifle and 50lb pack, and patrols in Afghanistan that were normally under 5 miles each way. Training patrols....jeez..... I'm not sure numbers go that high. Also, Camp Pendleton isn't the flattest of places.

The problem for me on my second deployment to Afghanistan was not the distance, it was the rifle. The M60 and M240 have got nothing on the 35lbs of M107 .50 cal. That rifle caused me more pain than anyone who was on the other end of it. A little on the loud side too. Come to think of it, why in the hell did I ever carry that big dumb gun?.......Oh yeah, explodie-bullets.

@ meanmrmustard

Good catch -

I changed it

My last successful elk hunt was about 15 hours including packing out the meat. I did leave the rifle in my truck after the first load but it was a long day regardless.

I hunt with an external frame hauler where I can hang my rifle on the frame and don't feel the weight. It's good for the hike out.

Over 5 plus Drag

When I started deer hunting with my Dad and Granddad at the club in the Adirondacks, it was all Drives and Watchers. I discovered there was a "price" for acceptance into that group! -It meant you were a Driver all day, and when anyone shot a buck, you were the "Dragger" either off of the ridge, or up out of the swamp! If it was an uphill walk for the drive, I was always the last guy dropped off by the Guide/Caretaker. I remember one day in that first week when we ran 7 drives, and there were 4 bucks shot...

I have also walked 8-10 miles/day hunting grouse, pheasant, and woodcock on a couple thousand acres of central Conn. farms and woods that a Club I belonged to had signed up on the State permit program (of course, now most of those acres are subdivisions, darnit!)