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Serious Survival Challenge for Myself

zman308 said:
The sight on your rifle looks really vulnerable. It sits high and looks like it could get bumped or snapped off easily. Why not try a Williams receiver sight.
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The sights are rock solid, no problem there. They have very solid click detents for the elevation adjustments and return to zero.
The aperture is removable and I have a 0.8mm and a 1.4mm aperture for target shooting but I also have a 3.2mm aperture for hunting.
The big 3.2 lets plenty of light in, and its almost the same size as the peep sights on an M16.
I also have my stock sights on the back of the barrel and under the front sight as a backup. But those sights have given me many years of small game hunts without issue and I find them far superior to the Williams because of how solid the "clicks" are for dialing range.
The aperture in the pic is the small 0.8mm that is for silhouette shooting. I will be using the large 3.2mm for my trip.
It is not visible in the picture but the base plate for the rear sight has a 3/16 steel pin that sits in a hole I drilled in the receiver as a durability backup. It has been bumping around in a truck and banged on many trees in the woods and its never moved.
 
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Wow, definitely have fun, and be safe. Look forward to your thoughts when you get back :thumbup:
 
zman308 said:
The sight on your rifle looks really vulnerable. It sits high and looks like it could get bumped or snapped off easily. Why not try a Williams receiver sight.
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+1 If you take it far afield or on a survival experiment.

I immediately saw the vulnerability of the sights. The sights may be strong but they are
a precision instrument. If they take a good hit with no apparent damage, it will
throw doubts in your mind, and that will bother your enjoyment, at the very least.

You might devise some kind of guard that you can affix and remove quickly,
to protect the rear sight.
 
I know you aren't saying exactly where you plan on doing your ''survival challenge".

But I'm also in the mid-atlantic(Maryland to be exact) and I'm always looking for people who share my interest in hiking/camping and primitive skills.

If you ever want to get out in the bush let me know, I love MD/PA/WV camping.
 
Sounds awesome! Wish I could do something like this. Have fun and be safe. I look forward to hear/see the results.
 
fnc said:
+1 If you take it far afield or on a survival experiment.

I immediately saw the vulnerability of the sights. The sights may be strong but they are
a precision instrument. If they take a good hit with no apparent damage, it will
throw doubts in your mind, and that will bother your enjoyment, at the very least.

You might devise some kind of guard that you can affix and remove quickly,
to protect the rear sight.
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Everyone lay off the rifle and sights.
I've had them for many years of rough hunting and truck riding and they have never moved. I have already stated earlier that there is a hole drilled in the steel receiver and a pin locking the sights in place directly to the receiver. This is on top of the four screws that were holding it to begin with. Its spent many years in the back of a truck and on hunts. I don't treat my hunting guns gently so if anything was gonna move, it would have happened years ago.
 
midnite-penguin said:
I know you aren't saying exactly where you plan on doing your ''survival challenge".

But I'm also in the mid-atlantic(Maryland to be exact) and I'm always looking for people who share my interest in hiking/camping and primitive skills.

If you ever want to get out in the bush let me know, I love MD/PA/WV camping.
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I live in Md, hike most of the Delmarva. P.M. me and maybe we can hook up for a hike some time. What part of Md are you in?
 
Md25v, Getting close ay? Just wondering what pack you'll be carrying and what you'll have in it? Do you keep your rifle in a bag and will you be doing this survival trip with rifle in bag?
 
dartanyon said:
Md25v, Getting close ay? Just wondering what pack you'll be carrying and what you'll have in it? Do you keep your rifle in a bag and will you be doing this survival trip with rifle in bag?
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I'll have a camelback daypack like this.
http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/s...1_73709_325006000_325000000_325006000_325-6-0

It it the backpack that I usually carry on small game hunts. I keep a personal survival kit on my belt but I also have a full survival kit in my backpack.
I have a well stocked first aid kit in my pack, a pair of sandals for water crossing to keep my boots dry, one extra pair of wool socks, a pair of wool gloves and a wool hat in case the weather gets cold, an ultralight backpacker's tarp, A folded up piece of heavy-duty aluminum foil as an extra container to boil water in, I keep a Bark river Golok on my pack and a Fox-River knife on my belt, there is a 0.5 liter titanium cup attached to the outside of my pack, a fold up, pocket size, rain poncho, and some baby's wet wipes which are much better than T.P. out in the woods. I will also have extra batteries for my camcorder and camera, both of which are very small and could easily fit in a pocket.

I am basing this trip on a small game hunting trip where I became lost. The list of things in my backpack are the things that have been there for a couple months. I'm not going to pack anything special for the trip.

I am not going to have any kind of case for my gun. I don't carry a rifle case with me when I'm hunting so there's no reason for me to bring one on this trip. I'm going to check the weather and make sure I get at least one or two days of rain and I'm sure my gun will get wet. Thats not really a big deal to me as I hunt in light rain pretty often. I'll wipe the gun down whenever I can and any surface rust that is still there will clean up at the end of the week.
I blued the gun myself as it was badly in need of restoration when I got it so I'm sure that anything that happens to it, I'll easily be able to fix.

This is the golok that I keep strapped to my daypack. As you can see, this is a working tool.
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This is my fox river rig that I keep on my belt.
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