CraigC
Sixgun Nut
Nearly forgot to post this. Couple weeks ago I went on a two night camping hunt on our family property. Decided this year I needed to get out there before all the leaves have fallen and that means squirrel hunting in the weeks before blackpowder season opens. I'm working my way towards camping out of a backpack, instead of hauling everything I own in my truck. Trying out a new tent cot from Teton Sports that's proven interesting.
I reconfigured my Ruger American rimfire for this trip. Came in a 6.8lbs with a Burris mini 4x. Posted about it here: https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/lightweight-but-not-too-light-squirrel-rifle.923764/
I had picked this spot out on top of a ridge a couple weeks beforehand and when I arrived, this little dead cedar had been rubbed by a buck.
It ended up being right in the way of my tarp shelter, so down it went. I ended up using nearly the whole thing. Used the bark for tinder and cut it up for making toggles, a baton for splitting wood, a pot scraper, bacon turner and to raise my ridgeline.
Took a picture of my cat hole, so you get the full experience.
Fishing the old man's pond was a bust so the first night I had MRE chilli and coffee over the fire.
Next morning after bacon and eggs, I packed some of those MRE snacks for lunch and set out. We have a lot of cool rock formations on the property, this is one of them.
I managed two squirrels in the first half hour but they both had botfly larvae so I stopped hunting and just explored.
I walked for about 3.5hrs and made it back to camp for lunch, where I inhaled those MRE snacks I'd packed. After a short rest, I decided to go back to the pond. Figured out t hat I was missing fish before because the drag was set too low on the reel, as it was new and had only been used to catch the tiny fish in our creek at home. With that sorted, I caught three nice bass, a crappie and two catfish.
That night I ended up cooking a water buffalo steak with baked beans. No pics of that for some dumb reason.
I had a miserable might's sleep with my head/neck issues. So I was up at 4am starting a fire and brewing coffee.
Breakfast a short time after.
Had a great time and will probably do it again in the next week or two.
I reconfigured my Ruger American rimfire for this trip. Came in a 6.8lbs with a Burris mini 4x. Posted about it here: https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/lightweight-but-not-too-light-squirrel-rifle.923764/
I had picked this spot out on top of a ridge a couple weeks beforehand and when I arrived, this little dead cedar had been rubbed by a buck.
It ended up being right in the way of my tarp shelter, so down it went. I ended up using nearly the whole thing. Used the bark for tinder and cut it up for making toggles, a baton for splitting wood, a pot scraper, bacon turner and to raise my ridgeline.
Took a picture of my cat hole, so you get the full experience.
Fishing the old man's pond was a bust so the first night I had MRE chilli and coffee over the fire.
Next morning after bacon and eggs, I packed some of those MRE snacks for lunch and set out. We have a lot of cool rock formations on the property, this is one of them.
I managed two squirrels in the first half hour but they both had botfly larvae so I stopped hunting and just explored.
I walked for about 3.5hrs and made it back to camp for lunch, where I inhaled those MRE snacks I'd packed. After a short rest, I decided to go back to the pond. Figured out t hat I was missing fish before because the drag was set too low on the reel, as it was new and had only been used to catch the tiny fish in our creek at home. With that sorted, I caught three nice bass, a crappie and two catfish.
That night I ended up cooking a water buffalo steak with baked beans. No pics of that for some dumb reason.
I had a miserable might's sleep with my head/neck issues. So I was up at 4am starting a fire and brewing coffee.
Breakfast a short time after.
Had a great time and will probably do it again in the next week or two.
