RC-6 On the Nature Trail

Horn Dog · Oct 17, 2009

This is the very first cool day here on the coast of Georgia. It has been a long, hot, wet summer. I thought I'd take a hike on the local nature trail that my tax dollars paid for and have lunch. I checked in as is required in the Peoples Authorized Recreation Area at Blythe Island Park Gulag. Looks like they were expecting me. What a sign. A local man was shot and killed by the county SWAT team after refusing to remove a sign in his yard. He allegedly threatened the code enforcement officier. Signs are serious business here.

I do enjoy walking the trail.

I finally got to the camp area where I would enjoy some lunch. I carried my RC-6 right out in plain view (as Georgia law requires) in the molded sheath attached to my Maxpedition shoulder bag.

The bag is well designed and has a pouch designed to hold a 24 oz beer. Coincidentally, a water bottle will also fit it. Time for a nice lunch. I sliced the apple with my RC-6 and the cheese with my folder. You can never have too many knives with you.

I chugged the last of my beverage and packed up my stuff to head on down the trail. I felt energized, with a strange sense of well-being.

Next up: Tree top rapel batoning.

Dizwolf · Oct 17, 2009

Excellent post. I just got my mexpedition jumbo in today, very good to know it also holds water, that may come in useful if I ever run out of beer.

While rapel batoning, do you just drop the batons to the ground and try to hit the blade, or do you prefer the leg-lock method, in which you strap the log to one leg, the baton to the other, and 'bump' it as you decend?

Horn Dog · Oct 17, 2009

Most people would cut down a tree and then saw or chop it into sections before splitting it using a knife and baton. Another method is to climb up the tree and top it. Then insert the knife in the tree and ride it all the way down. I call this "Tree top baton rapelling". Or was it Tree top rapel batoning? Don't you try this at home. You might accidentally gut yourself and then break your neck. Then you'd just be lying there, paralized from the eyebrows down, watching raccoons eat your innards.

Just kidding. Nature split this tree during a thunderstorm, but what kind of knife story is that? It's an excuse to take some RC-6 pics, though.
Anyway, I walked on down the trail, enjoying the cool breeze and the solitude. Took a couple more shots of the RC-6 at an interesting Juniper tree.

It was just a good day to get out in the woods, signs or not.

razorback1595 · Oct 17, 2009

Nice pics and what a split

kgd · Oct 17, 2009

Nice shots Horndog. So how was the ejection process from the park???

Horn Dog · Oct 17, 2009

kgd said:
Nice shots Horndog. So how was the ejection process from the park???

Smooth.

There must be over 100 campers there. You think any of them cut their steaks or chop their firewood? Maybe even take a sip in their camper trailers? And there is an archery range there, too. The sign is just insane and put up by an over zealous park superintendent. I know him.

IUKE12 · Oct 17, 2009

That sign is hilarious. It wouldn't need to be so large if they listed the items you could bring in

How am I supposed to use a picnic area without a knife

Looks like you had a fun time with the RC-6

Horn Dog · Oct 17, 2009

IUKE12 said:
That sign is hilarious. It wouldn't need to be so large if they listed the items you could bring in How am I supposed to use a picnic area without a knife Looks like you had a fun time with the RC-6

Or just a sign saying, "Anything Not Expressly Permitted is Prohibited". I kid the Park "Commandant" about the silly sign. He just uses it as an excuse to expell "undesirables", he says. He gets prisoners to clear the trails with machetes. I asked him why only criminals could have all the fun. What a world.

PastorMarko · Oct 17, 2009

Horn Dog, nice pics. Your lunch reminded me of what people do in Europe.
Nice trail, too bad about all the rules though

At least you had a good time, nice gear by the way.

Horn Dog · Oct 17, 2009

PastorMarko said:
Horn Dog, nice pics. Your lunch reminded me of what people do in Europe.
Nice trail, too bad about all the rules though
At least you had a good time, nice gear by the way.

In Germany, they mark their trail with little green bottles of Jagermeister.

TheGame · Oct 17, 2009

Sounds like it is just a sign there for looks more than function, lol. Nice pics :thumbup:

kyturkey · Oct 17, 2009

What folder is that in the photo with the food?

Horn Dog · Oct 17, 2009

kyturkey said:
What folder is that in the photo with the food?

That is the Rat Trap from Swamp Rat. It was made by Blade-Tech. Good knife.

Raskolnikov · Oct 17, 2009

Horn Dog said:
The bag is well designed and has a pouch designed to hold a 24 oz beer. Coincidentally, a water bottle will also fit it.

You had me in stitches with that one. :thumbup:

Dizwolf · Oct 17, 2009

It's ok if. Break my neck. My girl is an emt, she can fix that right?

Jake Bauer · Oct 18, 2009

Way to be the Rebel! Nice pics!!

luckykitty · Oct 18, 2009

Horn Dog said:
In Germany, they mark their trail with little green bottles of Jagermeister.

That's what they're for???? And there's me, always clearing them away ...

Cpl Punishment · Oct 18, 2009

Civil disobedience at it's finest.

You're a bad, bad Horn Dog.

Nice pics.

DallasSTB · Oct 18, 2009

Horn Dog - that was great. I realize now how I've been mis-using the water pouch on my Versipack

As side note, what are you using to attach the RC-6 sheath to the MOLLE loops? I can't tell, and that's a problem I've been working on. The spacing isn't standard.

That apple never stood a chance:thumbup:

mneedham · Oct 18, 2009

Awesome post:thumbup: You are truly an inspiration to us all... at some point we are going to have to get serious about reclaiming our forests and parks from the Nazis.