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Sheesh, there must have been something about 2ce that you liked in order to eat a gram of it :)
I ate it over 20 times and puked just once...think that’s my only time vomiting on a psychedelic
I guess I'm a glutton for punishment. I've puked on so many psychedelics. Especially phenethylamines. I love to trip so it's never stopped me yet.
 
Have you tried 3 or 4-CMC yet? I have not, but thought 4-FMC was pretty decent. At the time 4-MMC and bk-MDMA were dirt cheap so I didn't feel the need to try more than a few grams of 4-FMC. It didn't quite stack up to those, but at least in my experience of 4-EMC with an SSRI it was more similar to a roll and less jittery. It was probably the SSRI.
I have tried both 3 and 4-CMC yeah, had a little of both since it was dirt cheap at some point.

People always talk about how they could be neurotoxic, so I only tried 1 line snorted of both and then threw it away, quite mediocre imo, but I was already deep into a 3-MMC binge... So yeah....
 
I have tried both 3 and 4-CMC yeah, had a little of both since it was dirt cheap at some point.

People always talk about how they could be neurotoxic, so I only tried 1 line snorted of both and then threw it away, quite mediocre imo, but I was already deep into a 3-MMC binge... So yeah....
Thanks. Yeah I might steer clear of those then.

3-methylmethamphetamine is out and that's probably what I'll try next. Very little info about it all though.
 
Got into my freezer this morning and finally got into my LSD. Took 1.5g of Phenibut a few hours before. I'm going for a nice long hike today and cutting some trails. Taking the tent and planning to stay overnight. I want to test my cold weather gear. If I get real comfortable I'll stay in for a little while.

I screwed up by not doing the AT before 2019. I had a chance to go in 2017 and 2018 but I kept putting it off hoping to save up some more money. Now I'll probably never get the real experience. The festivals and community around the AT will never be like it was before. :(
 
Got into my freezer this morning and finally got into my LSD. Took 1.5g of Phenibut a few hours before. I'm going for a nice long hike today and cutting some trails. Taking the tent and planning to stay overnight. I want to test my cold weather gear. If I get real comfortable I'll stay in for a little while.

I screwed up by not doing the AT before 2019. I had a chance to go in 2017 and 2018 but I kept putting it off hoping to save up some more money. Now I'll probably never get the real experience. The festivals and community around the AT will never be like it was before. :(
LSD + camping is one of my favorite things. Enjoy!
Are you talking about the Appalachian Trail? Thru-hiking that would be a huge achievement..most probably out of my skill/endurance level
 
Got into my freezer this morning and finally got into my LSD. Took 1.5g of Phenibut a few hours before. I'm going for a nice long hike today and cutting some trails. Taking the tent and planning to stay overnight. I want to test my cold weather gear. If I get real comfortable I'll stay in for a little while.

I screwed up by not doing the AT before 2019. I had a chance to go in 2017 and 2018 but I kept putting it off hoping to save up some more money. Now I'll probably never get the real experience. The festivals and community around the AT will never be like it was before. :(
Have a great time!!

I wish I had attempted to thru hike at some point too. I've done two sections. Week long hikes each.

I was in rehab a couple of years ago and a guy got kicked out and tried to talk me into leaving to go hike the AT with him because I had a car, lol.
 
Got into my freezer this morning and finally got into my LSD. Took 1.5g of Phenibut a few hours before. I'm going for a nice long hike today and cutting some trails. Taking the tent and planning to stay overnight. I want to test my cold weather gear. If I get real comfortable I'll stay in for a little while.

I screwed up by not doing the AT before 2019. I had a chance to go in 2017 and 2018 but I kept putting it off hoping to save up some more money. Now I'll probably never get the real experience. The festivals and community around the AT will never be like it was before. :(

I don't know about festivals, but the on-trail community seems unlikely to change much, it's not like anyone's enforcing covid stuff on the trail. I have always wanted to do the AT, too. I've done short sections, 2-3 days at a time. My job won't ever let me take most of a year off though so I don't think I ever will. Plus I'm almost 40 and my knees are already pretty fucked, even a one-day hike without a backpack makes my knees hurt for a whole day afterwards. It's fucked. :\
 
I made a friend the other weekend while hiking by myself on LSD (2 decent hits where 1 is enough to trip)
We crossed paths for the 2nd time with him having just turned around at the end of the trail. He had said “oochie boochie” to me as he past by the first time and as ridiculous as it sounded it was an effective ice breaker I guess. And despite how high I was feeling I felt compelled to ask if he wanted some company which is unusually extroverted for me. Ended up hiking with him for 2-3 miles chatting about different outdoor locations, eventually smoking some weed and exchanged numbers so we can do some more hiking. Turns out “oochie boochie” is from jay and silent bob, by the way.
He’s definitely more of a serious hiker than me though. He’s got gear and I’m just stumbling around, tripping in the woods.

Xorkoth I hear you on the knees. I’m only 36 but they are starting to hurt badly at times. And it will seem random like I hike on Sunday and my knees randomly kill me on Wednesday or something to the point where I need to use the railing to go up stairs. My grandma had bad knees and no wonder she would complain sometimes. She was nearly 90 I can’t imagine how I’m gonna hold up that long (if I’m lucky)
 
Getting old sucks.

My dad and his dad both had bad knees... my grandpa had a full knee replacement surgery around age 50, and my dad had knee surgery too, at age 55. So yeah, I anticipate that my knees will continue to suck worse and worse. Only a few years ago, they didn't really bother me. Age 31, 32, I felt invincible and was at my physical peak. I'm 38 now. A lot has changed in the last few years. It doesn't help that my psoriasis evolved into psoriatic arthritis (similar to rheumatoid arthritis) and I spent a year or so getting joint damage before I realized I needed to bite the bullet and go on immune suppressing drugs. The earlier generations of those were sketchy as fuck but the newest ones are so much more targeted that they have few to no side effects. Wish I'd done it years sooner. I never cared about the skin patches (fortunately I didn't develop psoriasis until I was an adult so I never developed any shame from it because I never had to endure the cruelty of children... well, I did, quite a lot, but not about my skin). But progressive permanent joint damage is another story. My uncle developed it before there were any drugs to treat it and he can barely turn his neck or bend his back. He's been on drugs for it for years now but the damage is permanent. I'm not sur whether my knee pain is affected by that at all or not though, it's mostly my back that got damaged by the psoriatic arthritis.
 
I came back in a few hours ago under the cover of darkness. I was going to stay out for another night but I wanted a shower and some ice creme. I shouldn't have smoked a joint after I finished eating supper. I just left my tent and some other things to have an excuse to go back out tomorrow morning. I'm going to go rabbit hunting in the morning and decide if I want to spend a couple of more nights.

I had a really fun time. I love taking LSD way out in the woods and in those hidden open areas (old farms) you can only find on foot. If you stay mostly still and quiet for long enough everything comes back to life. It goes from dead silence to a symphony. If you're really good at it animals will just walk straight up to you. They'll even hang out as long as you're patient and give them time to get used to you.

First day/night I spent the first few hours setting up, clearing an area, and collecting firewood. This went by surprisingly fast. Once I got a good fire going I ate most of the food I brought and just sat around camp. I've been practicing meditation hoping to get back into a state I did by accident about a year ago. It was the most content and happy I've ever felt. No drugs involved. I didn't manage to do it but I got close enough. I did this for many hours until late into the night then crawled into my tent to sleep. Phenibut always makes me sleep like a log so I didn't have much trouble.

I got up late in the next day and had to get the fire going again. Had the last of my food/water and went out to collect more. I filled up my water bottles from a spring on my way to the fields. I did some rabbit hunting and had some good luck. Once I got done with all of them it was late in the day. When I got back to camp I ate and passed out. Third day was more of the same but I got up early.

I've always enjoyed camping and I really love stealth camping. I make a game out of not being seen. I figure if you can avoid people you don't have any problems finding animals. I don't go off the deep end though. You won't find me camping without a .22lr, an axe, and a good knife. I'm not interested in making fire with wet rocks. I just carry a zippo, matches, and a bic lighter. :)

I want to try hunting small game and maybe deer while on LSD. As odd at it sounds because I hate killing anything. It's the stalking part of it I like so much. Being able to get close to an animal that bolts at the first hint things aren't chill. I like the stalking aspect of it so much I do it even when I'm not hunting. If I spot a deer, rabbit, stray cat/dog, or anything else fearful of people sometimes I'll just track it for fun. I've always been able to get very close to animals like that. A lot of times I can coax them into trusting me. It's harder with wild animals but cats/dogs are easy. You just have to be careful you don't corner the animal and get the claws.

Lots of people will disagree with what I'm about to say but I have a goal this hunting season. My goal is to only hunt and take game with a .22lr this season. I'm also restricting myself to standard round nose lead projectiles. The bargain bin stuff everyone says you should only use for plinking. All the modern hunters and tacticool people will tell you I'm wrong and I should be using "hunting bullets". The thing is back in the day all the old timers hunted with worse ammo than I'm using right now. No one told them it wasn't good enough. My goal is to take a deer clean from less than 25 yards with my .22lr before the end of the season.

The reason I'm doing this is I want to experience how my Great-Grandparents lived during the Great Depression. They had this wealth of knowledge I wish I would have asked more about when they were still alive. They fed themselves with a combination of wild game and farming during the bad years. They told me the first winter wasn't that bad. They ate really good because of the abundance of wild deer and rabbit in our area. The second year was when things started to get tough. All the easy game had been hunted already. They started resorting to eating other game like Groundhogs. It wasn't long before there was no more Groundhog to eat.

Anyway. My Grandparents and Great Grandparents were all expert shots with .22lr. They took everything including deer with them. They always used round nose bullets and headshots to avoid damaging the meat. I'd wager a .22 rifle is the cheapest way to eat even today if you're willing to hunt wild game. It costs about 2-9cents per round. I don't know of any other way to fill a freezer with meat for less than 10 cents.

I'm going to camp and hunt as much as possible over the course of 2022. Trying to disconnect myself from the constant news and social media cycle. I figure by 2023 I'll have shaken down my equipment enough to try a long thru-hike. I still want to do the AT but I'm thinking I may want to save it for last. I want to do the PCT and CDT first. Then finish the triple crown with the AT. Party the entire walk and hit every festival. Really take my time.
 
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I came back in a few hours ago under the cover of darkness. I was going to stay out for another night but I wanted a shower and some ice creme. I shouldn't have smoked a joint after I finished eating supper. I just left my tent and some other things to have an excuse to go back out tomorrow morning. I'm going to go rabbit hunting in the morning and decide if I want to spend a couple of more nights.

I had a really fun time. I love taking LSD way out in the woods and in those hidden open areas (old farms) you can only find on foot. If you stay mostly still and quiet for long enough everything comes back to life. It goes from dead silence to a symphony. If you're really good at it animals will just walk straight up to you. They'll even hang out as long as you're patient and give them time to get used to you.

First day/night I spent the first few hours setting up, clearing an area, and collecting firewood. This went by surprisingly fast. Once I got a good fire going I ate most of the food I brought and just sat around camp. I've been practicing meditation hoping to get back into a state I did by accident about a year ago. It was the most content and happy I've ever felt. No drugs involved. I didn't manage to do it but I got close enough. I did this for many hours until late into the night then crawled into my tent to sleep. Phenibut always makes me sleep like a log so I didn't have much trouble.

I got up late in the next day and had to get the fire going again. Had the last of my food/water and went out to collect more. I filled up my water bottles from a spring on my way to the fields. I did some rabbit hunting and had some good luck. Once I got done with all of them it was late in the day. When I got back to camp I ate and passed out. Third day was more of the same but I got up early.

I've always enjoyed camping and I really love stealth camping. I make a game out of not being seen. I figure if you can avoid people you don't have any problems finding animals. I don't go off the deep end though. You won't find me camping without a .22lr, an axe, and a good knife. I'm not interested in making fire with wet rocks. I just carry a zippo, matches, and a bic lighter. :)

I want to try hunting small game and maybe deer while on LSD. As odd at it sounds because I hate killing anything. It's the stalking part of it I like so much. Being able to get close to an animal that bolts at the first hint things aren't chill. I like the stalking aspect of it so much I do it even when I'm not hunting. If I spot a deer, rabbit, stray cat/dog, or anything else fearful of people sometimes I'll just track it for fun. I've always been able to get very close to animals like that. A lot of times I can coax them into trusting me. It's harder with wild animals but cats/dogs are easy. You just have to be careful you don't corner the animal and get the claws.

Lots of people will disagree with what I'm about to say but I have a goal this hunting season. My goal is to only hunt and take game with a .22lr this season. I'm also restricting myself to standard round nose lead projectiles. The bargain bin stuff everyone says you should only use for plinking. All the modern hunters and tacticool people will tell you I'm wrong and I should be using "hunting bullets". The thing is back in the day all the old timers hunted with worse ammo than I'm using right now. No one told them it wasn't good enough. My goal is to take a deer clean from less than 25 yards with my .22lr before the end of the season.

The reason I'm doing this is I want to experience how my Great-Grandparents lived during the Great Depression. They had this wealth of knowledge I wish I would have asked more about when they were still alive. They fed themselves with a combination of wild game and farming during the bad years. They told me the first winter wasn't that bad. They ate really good because of the abundance of wild deer and rabbit in our area. The second year was when things started to get tough. All the easy game had been hunted already. They started resorting to eating other game like Groundhogs. It wasn't long before there was no more Groundhog to eat.

Anyway. My Grandparents and Great Grandparents were all expert shots with .22lr. They took everything including deer with them. They always used round nose bullets and headshots to avoid damaging the meat. I'd wager a .22 rifle is the cheapest way to eat even today if you're willing to hunt wild game. It costs about 2-9cents per round. I don't know of any other way to fill a freezer with meat for less than 10 cents.

I'm going to camp and hunt as much as possible over the course of 2022. Trying to disconnect myself from the constant news and social media cycle. I figure by 2023 I'll have shaken down my equipment enough to try a long thru-hike. I still want to do the AT but I'm thinking I may want to save it for last. I want to do the PCT and CDT first. Then finish the triple crown with the AT. Party the entire walk and hit every festival. Really take my time.
Man, that whole thing sounds so incredibly wonderful. I can just imagine moving so silently through the night on acid that you totally feel you are part of the ecosystem yourself and able to vibe with the animals as they move around you.

I camped a lot when I was a kid (a little young for LSD) but you brought back beautiful memories of clear, cool, dawns and woodfire smoke and just feeling wonder at it all.

I thought I was past it and only good for glamping now - but you have made me think about it especially after almost 2 years of rolling lockdowns in which I have not once left the city.

I’m not 100 % sure about hunting deer with a .22. More experienced hunters will know better than me. I’ve only shot them a few times from max 300m with .223. At 25 yards would you penetrate the skull sufficiently or get a heart/lung shot all the way through.

No question about the rabbits. Stalking rabbits on an overcast day with a light mist or drizzle of rain is awesome even without acid. I usually would cook them ‘cacciatore’ as my grandma showed me.
 
I came back in a few hours ago under the cover of darkness. I was going to stay out for another night but I wanted a shower and some ice creme. I shouldn't have smoked a joint after I finished eating supper. I just left my tent and some other things to have an excuse to go back out tomorrow morning. I'm going to go rabbit hunting in the morning and decide if I want to spend a couple of more nights.

I had a really fun time. I love taking LSD way out in the woods and in those hidden open areas (old farms) you can only find on foot. If you stay mostly still and quiet for long enough everything comes back to life. It goes from dead silence to a symphony. If you're really good at it animals will just walk straight up to you. They'll even hang out as long as you're patient and give them time to get used to you.

First day/night I spent the first few hours setting up, clearing an area, and collecting firewood. This went by surprisingly fast. Once I got a good fire going I ate most of the food I brought and just sat around camp. I've been practicing meditation hoping to get back into a state I did by accident about a year ago. It was the most content and happy I've ever felt. No drugs involved. I didn't manage to do it but I got close enough. I did this for many hours until late into the night then crawled into my tent to sleep. Phenibut always makes me sleep like a log so I didn't have much trouble.

I got up late in the next day and had to get the fire going again. Had the last of my food/water and went out to collect more. I filled up my water bottles from a spring on my way to the fields. I did some rabbit hunting and had some good luck. Once I got done with all of them it was late in the day. When I got back to camp I ate and passed out. Third day was more of the same but I got up early.

I've always enjoyed camping and I really love stealth camping. I make a game out of not being seen. I figure if you can avoid people you don't have any problems finding animals. I don't go off the deep end though. You won't find me camping without a .22lr, an axe, and a good knife. I'm not interested in making fire with wet rocks. I just carry a zippo, matches, and a bic lighter. :)

I want to try hunting small game and maybe deer while on LSD. As odd at it sounds because I hate killing anything. It's the stalking part of it I like so much. Being able to get close to an animal that bolts at the first hint things aren't chill. I like the stalking aspect of it so much I do it even when I'm not hunting. If I spot a deer, rabbit, stray cat/dog, or anything else fearful of people sometimes I'll just track it for fun. I've always been able to get very close to animals like that. A lot of times I can coax them into trusting me. It's harder with wild animals but cats/dogs are easy. You just have to be careful you don't corner the animal and get the claws.

Lots of people will disagree with what I'm about to say but I have a goal this hunting season. My goal is to only hunt and take game with a .22lr this season. I'm also restricting myself to standard round nose lead projectiles. The bargain bin stuff everyone says you should only use for plinking. All the modern hunters and tacticool people will tell you I'm wrong and I should be using "hunting bullets". The thing is back in the day all the old timers hunted with worse ammo than I'm using right now. No one told them it wasn't good enough. My goal is to take a deer clean from less than 25 yards with my .22lr before the end of the season.

The reason I'm doing this is I want to experience how my Great-Grandparents lived during the Great Depression. They had this wealth of knowledge I wish I would have asked more about when they were still alive. They fed themselves with a combination of wild game and farming during the bad years. They told me the first winter wasn't that bad. They ate really good because of the abundance of wild deer and rabbit in our area. The second year was when things started to get tough. All the easy game had been hunted already. They started resorting to eating other game like Groundhogs. It wasn't long before there was no more Groundhog to eat.

Anyway. My Grandparents and Great Grandparents were all expert shots with .22lr. They took everything including deer with them. They always used round nose bullets and headshots to avoid damaging the meat. I'd wager a .22 rifle is the cheapest way to eat even today if you're willing to hunt wild game. It costs about 2-9cents per round. I don't know of any other way to fill a freezer with meat for less than 10 cents.

I'm going to camp and hunt as much as possible over the course of 2022. Trying to disconnect myself from the constant news and social media cycle. I figure by 2023 I'll have shaken down my equipment enough to try a long thru-hike. I still want to do the AT but I'm thinking I may want to save it for last. I want to do the PCT and CDT first. Then finish the triple crown with the AT. Party the entire walk and hit every festival. Really take my time.
Great!!!
 
I want to try hunting small game and maybe deer while on LSD. As odd at it sounds because I hate killing anything. It's the stalking part of it I like so much.
Interesting idea. Stick to small game, though. Imagining myself in such a situation... missing a vital shot and making the deer suffer, having to potentially field dress an animal or gut it while high on LSD... idk man sounds fairly traumatic and bad vibes.

The stalking part sounds fun. Maybe just stalk with no intention to kill? Be the wild crazy predator LSD lets you become. Rawr. Caw caw. Hissssss.
 
I came back in a few hours ago under the cover of darkness. I was going to stay out for another night but I wanted a shower and some ice creme. I shouldn't have smoked a joint after I finished eating supper. I just left my tent and some other things to have an excuse to go back out tomorrow morning. I'm going to go rabbit hunting in the morning and decide if I want to spend a couple of more nights.

I had a really fun time. I love taking LSD way out in the woods and in those hidden open areas (old farms) you can only find on foot. If you stay mostly still and quiet for long enough everything comes back to life. It goes from dead silence to a symphony. If you're really good at it animals will just walk straight up to you. They'll even hang out as long as you're patient and give them time to get used to you.

First day/night I spent the first few hours setting up, clearing an area, and collecting firewood. This went by surprisingly fast. Once I got a good fire going I ate most of the food I brought and just sat around camp. I've been practicing meditation hoping to get back into a state I did by accident about a year ago. It was the most content and happy I've ever felt. No drugs involved. I didn't manage to do it but I got close enough. I did this for many hours until late into the night then crawled into my tent to sleep. Phenibut always makes me sleep like a log so I didn't have much trouble.

I got up late in the next day and had to get the fire going again. Had the last of my food/water and went out to collect more. I filled up my water bottles from a spring on my way to the fields. I did some rabbit hunting and had some good luck. Once I got done with all of them it was late in the day. When I got back to camp I ate and passed out. Third day was more of the same but I got up early.

I've always enjoyed camping and I really love stealth camping. I make a game out of not being seen. I figure if you can avoid people you don't have any problems finding animals. I don't go off the deep end though. You won't find me camping without a .22lr, an axe, and a good knife. I'm not interested in making fire with wet rocks. I just carry a zippo, matches, and a bic lighter. :)

I want to try hunting small game and maybe deer while on LSD. As odd at it sounds because I hate killing anything. It's the stalking part of it I like so much. Being able to get close to an animal that bolts at the first hint things aren't chill. I like the stalking aspect of it so much I do it even when I'm not hunting. If I spot a deer, rabbit, stray cat/dog, or anything else fearful of people sometimes I'll just track it for fun. I've always been able to get very close to animals like that. A lot of times I can coax them into trusting me. It's harder with wild animals but cats/dogs are easy. You just have to be careful you don't corner the animal and get the claws.

Lots of people will disagree with what I'm about to say but I have a goal this hunting season. My goal is to only hunt and take game with a .22lr this season. I'm also restricting myself to standard round nose lead projectiles. The bargain bin stuff everyone says you should only use for plinking. All the modern hunters and tacticool people will tell you I'm wrong and I should be using "hunting bullets". The thing is back in the day all the old timers hunted with worse ammo than I'm using right now. No one told them it wasn't good enough. My goal is to take a deer clean from less than 25 yards with my .22lr before the end of the season.

The reason I'm doing this is I want to experience how my Great-Grandparents lived during the Great Depression. They had this wealth of knowledge I wish I would have asked more about when they were still alive. They fed themselves with a combination of wild game and farming during the bad years. They told me the first winter wasn't that bad. They ate really good because of the abundance of wild deer and rabbit in our area. The second year was when things started to get tough. All the easy game had been hunted already. They started resorting to eating other game like Groundhogs. It wasn't long before there was no more Groundhog to eat.

Anyway. My Grandparents and Great Grandparents were all expert shots with .22lr. They took everything including deer with them. They always used round nose bullets and headshots to avoid damaging the meat. I'd wager a .22 rifle is the cheapest way to eat even today if you're willing to hunt wild game. It costs about 2-9cents per round. I don't know of any other way to fill a freezer with meat for less than 10 cents.

I'm going to camp and hunt as much as possible over the course of 2022. Trying to disconnect myself from the constant news and social media cycle. I figure by 2023 I'll have shaken down my equipment enough to try a long thru-hike. I still want to do the AT but I'm thinking I may want to save it for last. I want to do the PCT and CDT first. Then finish the triple crown with the AT. Party the entire walk and hit every festival. Really take my time.

I couldn't imagine the emotions of injuring a deer while tripping and losing it to die in the wild...

7.62x39 all day for me.
 
Here is why I'm practicing taking deer with .22lr

- If I ever have to flee to the woods I'm only lugging at most 2 rifles with me but more than likely just one.
- I can carry far more .22lr ammo than I can for other calibers
- When I'm carrying a .22 rifle it's nearly always in my hands instead of being slung over my back (it's light and handy)

Therefor I'm more likely to have that particular rifle when I really need a rifle. Like when I've been on the move for days and really need a meal. I understand where you guys are coming from and re-reading it I wrote it like I planned on taking LSD then running to hunt deer. I respect the animals. I wouldn't just take a chance shot at a deer while intoxicated (although plenty around here do). I'll most likely be sober if I'm attempting to stalk one until it's within 25 yards and going for the shot.

I've used .22lr on them before and even larger animals. But the larger animals were trapped and it was so routine by the time they taught me how that it's nearly impossible to screw it up. You go for the brain and if you can hit that silver dollar sized spot they go down quick and quiet. I have seen people miss even at point blank range and it's horrible. Those bovine and swine screams of bloody murder are something you can't ever forget. Most sad sound I've ever heard. The Second saddest sound is the night after you take their babies away. They spend the next few days to week wailing and crying for them. :(

I don't know about going for the heart with .22lr. I'm sure it'd work but I wouldn't risk it. They didn't do body shots here back in the day because it was less good meat for the table. Normally, when I hunt deer I used 30-06. Not because I think it's particularly good or I think other calibers are underpowered. I use it because I have an endless supply of surplus produced before and during WW2. I'll never shoot it all before it goes bad. Half of it I can't even legally use for hunting or at a public range. My Grandfather left me a mountain of black tips. I've considered selling it all since I saw how much I can get for it in the current market.

I can't justify spending the $1-2k for my perfect rifle build. I ping-pong on what caliber I want all of the time. I'm torn between 6.5 creedmoor and .308 in a full sized battle rifle. But then I have second thoughts and start thinking about 6.5 grendel in a short action. It would be a nicer handier rifle that could still reach out way beyond any range I'd ever need it for. Then the gears start turning again and I think I'd really like to pair a 10mm or .45 carbine with a new pistol or two. I could use the same mags/ammo in all of them. It would be effective for what I need it for. I could get aftermarket barrels and play with .357sig and .40 in the same pistol. I could even get a can and play with subsonics. Go all in with a progressive loader and an easy to hand-load caliber (bottle necks are a PITA). The idea of a modern cowboy set-up where every gun uses the same ammo appeals to my self sufficient side.

Then I open the gun safe to grab one of the only guns I really use and realize I already have more guns that I really need. The kicker is I've given a bunch away to family already and the 3 I mainly use are either the two I bought or my first one (.22 rifle my Grandfather gave me). I already stock ammo for all three of them. So why even bother dumping thousands into stuff I don't really need? I'm never going to require a 10mm pistol for the woods. I don't live in Alaska (yet).

People spend a lot of money chasing the perfect firearm. They're always content for awhile until some company produces another wonder cartridge or firearm. Personally, what I really want isn't even available despite the fact that it's the most widely copied action since the 70s. I want to use an AR-18 type action but with a couple of modifications. Mainly changing the dimensions of the bolt and bolt carrier to make the receiver slimmer. Standard AR-15 trigger group but in a custom designed lower to match the new upper's profile. A slightly extended magwell to get just a bit longer cartridge to work in that short action. I'd pair it with my own wildcat just for shits and giggles.

With guns I'm more into design and fixing them than I am shooting. I like to target shoot and hunt. But it's not something I wish to do socially or much of beyond zeroing. I view it as a waste of ammo. If I want to practice I have plenty of real reasons to be using the rifle. It's my job to shoot muskrats in some local ponds all summer. The muskrats burrow into the earthen dams. If they manage to cause it to burst it's bad news for everything downstream. Since you're no longer allowed to construct earthen dams if they fail you can not rebuild them. The people that own these ponds can't afford to construct a dam the state will give the okay on. People pay good money to fish in these ponds but they don't pay enough to cover that.

Swimming muskrats are the ultimate training aide. The target is really small, it moves really fast, when you see it you have just a few seconds to get on target and fire. When you shoot them they dive under the water so you're never sure if you scored a clean hit until they come back up. If they get to the shore they're gone and you won't see them for the rest of the afternoon. When I was a kid this was my punishment in the summer months. They'd make me stand out in the heat (no shade allowed) and take pop-shots at these things. I didn't want to shoot them and that's how they broke me of that habit. Once I understood they put every other animal at the pond plus the pond itself at risk I got over it. They're like snakes to me now. Anything with venom get shots instantly. I don't screw around with them I won't have children bitten by a snake like that at an area I'm responsible for.

Obviously, I didn't go back out tonight. Got roped into family stuff. Was a really good day until I ran into a rude person in public. I got pretty pissed off for awhile but I'm letting it go. I'm trying to learn to let things go like that. I let rude/asshole people slide on so much over the last 25 years. I thought I was letting it go but instead I've been storing it up. If I don't stop storing it like that I'm going to unleash 25 years of ass whoopin's on someone. I don't want to end up being the angry guy that clean clocked some dumb kid just because he happened to be the one that broke the camel's back.

I feel like I was justified in being mad today though. Some chick parked in the firelane right at the exit of the restaurant I was eating at. I just happened to be coming out for a smoke after my meal. I was being absent minded and stood facing her car while lighting up my cigarette. I wasn't even looking in the car. The chick is already halfway in the door when she comes walking back and getting an attitude with me. Asked me wtf I was doing and accusing me of looking at her car.

Well. I thought I'd stand here and mind my business while I lit this cigarette and waited for my family

She just kept yammering on accusing me of shit and muttering something about my race. She got back into the car. Parked in a proper space. Then came walking back by me giving me the stink eye while recording me with her phone. I didn't even do anything. I just shut up and let it go but I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to smack the shit out of her. Maybe take her phone and toss it as far as I could. Here is the worst part. She went straight in and asked to be seated. That's when I figured it out. She thought I was going to snitch on her for parking in the firelane and decided to make a big scene about it. I am positive she was hoping for some kind of reaction to film.

I have had my fill of people lately. I have to go back into the city in a few days. Hopefully my happy place is open. It wasn't today and if it was I would have avoided meeting that horrible person. I'm spending some money to feel better when I get there. I'm going to walk out with the most ridiculous Japanese toy I can find for $200.

Sorry for rant as always. A good day turned into a bad day and now it's a 1.5mg of xanax and pot day.
 
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The idea of a modern cowboy set-up where every gun uses the same ammo appeals to my self sufficient side.
You remind me so much of my best friend at times. I'm the type who enjoys keeping up with modern weaponry; he just wants all his weapons to be chambered in the same caliber so he can throw everything in his truck and go if needed. Last year he spent a chunk of change on 10 33rd Glock magazines so he could run them in both his G17 and Kel-Tec Sub2000.

I've thought about getting a Kel-Tec, they make one in .40 S&W which is what I run in my G23, so I'd have similar overlap and need less ammo diversity for any situation. I'd rather something aside from a Kel-Tec for a PCC but there aren't many options for .40 S&W.
 
Choice of round aside, some of my friends and I find that it can be fun to "hunt" with our cameras. Gun season is short, but wildlife photography keeps your skills sharp year-round.

Ever condider bow hunting? You get a much longer season that way, too.
 
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