Originally Posted By: Tbone-AZOriginally Posted By: DAA fart sack on a cold morning...
- DAA
lol are you a vet? I have never heard anyone else call their sleeping bag that..
No, but my Dad was. Got that phrase from him.
I don't use a tent a lot of the time. Same deal, sleep out on a cot, when the weather allows. Usually just do the roll over and go thing too. In the tent, I don't like using a bottle though, my aim ain't for crap in the middle of the night. Easier, or at least cleaner, for me to get up and stand in the open tent door. And, hardly anything, in this world, feels better than getting back in a warm bag after getting up in the freezing cold and letting a good long whizz out!
Originally Posted By: Tbone-AZ
I also bring a length of paracord, and a jingle bell. .... I hear the bell, and then unzip and use the pistol.
Heck... My Wife snores a bit. Sounds like a pride of lions in the bedroom at home with me. I sleep through THAT most nights. Ain't no way in the wide world of sports a tinkling bell is going to wake me up!
I do sleep with a pacifier in bear country, or anywhere there's people about. Trip like this last one though, I don't bother. No bears that I know of around there and I've never heard of a mountain lion dragging anyone out of their tent at night. I just don't worry about it.
I try to keep a clean camp, so as not to attract vermin, but have had bears in camp a couple times over the years, in bear country. Never had any real trouble though - knock on my wooden head.
Coyotes do come in camp once in awhile. Not often, but it happens. Far as I'm concerned, they are welcome to get into whatever mischief as they may while I'm sacked out. Have a few times had them stand just out of camp and carry on to beat the band, keeping me awake, and while I might be irritated at the time, I remember those instances fondly. Had one in particular once, the louder I yelled at him to STF, the louder he howled and barked and gargled and yodeled and screamed back. From about 75 yards away. Kept me awake for awhile, that one did!
Originally Posted By: Tbone-AZ
I also see that you skin in the field too.. I have a simular set-up, and wondered if you thought about adding a wench or something to help with the skinning. I find that after a few in the cold, it can wear you out at the end of a long day to peal those skins. I was thinking about adding some of the fur holds,(those eyelet type tarp edge holder things) and then hang some lead bags from them with loops to step into to use my weight to step into like a stur-up to pull the hides off.
Have you tried anything like that?
I have tried stuff like that. Actually built a skinning pole/machine that has a boat winch on it and fur grips and all that good stuff. Works pretty dang good. And is especially nice on the frozen ones! I use it on my truck. But cargo space in the Jeep is limited! So I use that simple hang pole only, when hunting out of the Jeep.
But I do carry my skinning bag, which has my fur grips in it. It's a pair of duck bill vise grips I welded some short pieces of offset 1/4" rod on the duck bills to grab the fur. They also have a length of chain welded to the other end. When using my big winch powered skinning pole, the length of chain is how I attach the grips to the bottom of the rig. But when using my simple pole, if I really need the leverage, I can clamp those grips on and loop the chain and stand into it.
In that picture, you can see towards the top of the pole a hitch pin and a hole. It telescopes and locks in much taller, to allow that "standing in" on them, when needed (frozen ones, basically).
- DAA
