Re: Sleeping with your rifle in your tent?
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Originally Posted by
scoutlt1
Always tent with a buddy. Make sure he goes to sleep in his tent before you do.
Once he's asleep open a can of tuna on the far side of his tent.
Costco sells tins of tuna cheap.
Even with a fresh can every night you're looking at less than 20 bucks for a week long trip.
Best bear insurance out there.
Just kidding of course :)
When kids, my brothers and I used to camp in the timber by Rolley Lake. We wouldn't use the
campground built for the city slickers. Our great grandfather had the lake named after him because
he had homesteaded by the side of the lake, so we country ragamuffins considered them and the
campgrounds intruders and would go out of our way to scare them at night. We would bring along
tins of sardines in oil, pour the oil all over a rotten stump, and then drop the sardines into the hollow
center. You could hear the bears growling and carrying on during the night as they tried to get those
sardines. Our camp was set inside a massive windfall above the trail to the falls, well away from those
stumps, so we never were bothered by anyone or the bears. If I could re-wind the clock, I would do it
again just to see how scared those city campers would get.
Re: Sleeping with your rifle in your tent?
All these stories have got me scared LOL. I often just take my Hammock in the woods - Not much room for rifle in there and they say another word for Hammock is bear Taco :{
Re: Sleeping with your rifle in your tent?
I always have mine ready on self pack in hunts if remote hunting, came in handy on a sheep hunt in a couple of the GO territories when Grizz game in twice, scary but still here to remember it all to well . but also at my side ever since the allocation BS started over a year ago. The lazer beams and red dots had me concerned. Now with gun at bed side even at home ....... I just fire toward any intense beam ....... Worked so far
Re: Sleeping with your rifle in your tent?
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All these stories have got me scared LOL. I often just take my Hammock in the woods - Not much room for rifle in there and they say another word for Hammock is bear Taco :{
Just lay it on a tarp under your hammock.
Re: Sleeping with your rifle in your tent?
I sleep with my rifle in the tent. I am not paranoid I am just cautious. The clip is loaded and in the rifle but nothing in the chamber. In the wild predators are always looking for an easy meal. I do not want to be an easy meal.
Re: Sleeping with your rifle in your tent?
All I'll add is for a camp gun get a light for it, for instance in camp I have my 870 with 00buck first then slugs...first shot in the face to mess with it's sight and smell, then slam slugs into the bear. Brownells and other places sell a light mount that mounts to the front of the mag tube, and keeps the powerful gun light to the left of the fore-end. Push the button in the light's base that faces you with your left hand, and it turns on...then shoot after you've identified the target! I really like the 14" open cylinder barrel I got from Dlask Arms in Delta for the 870, makes it very handy for camp use...
Re: Sleeping with your rifle in your tent?
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Originally Posted by
Walksalot
I sleep with my rifle in the tent. I am not paranoid I am just cautious. The clip is loaded and in the rifle but nothing in the chamber. In the wild predators are always looking for an easy meal. I do not want to be an easy meal.
I do the same....
Re: Sleeping with your rifle in your tent?
In a tent my rifle will be loaded and ready.
Re: Sleeping with your rifle in your tent?
At my side loaded, Safety on.