Cabin Fever Part 29 ATV Scouting and my Kit 1

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when a guy's Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school what I thought we'd do today is go out on the UTV and take a little Scout talk about camp locations camp selection a little bit talk about some resources just see what we can get into we'll talk about some kit I'm going to throw a three day kit in here with me we'll take that out what kind of go through that with you while we're out stay with me guys we'll get it fired up and go

okay so let's talk for a minute about scouting from an ATV all right very popular thing to do a lot of people have ATVs now and that's how they travel okay and I've got about ten square miles out here that I can travel much easier to do that with a four-wheel-drive vehicle than it is to do it by foot and even my Jeep is not going to get placed that this thing will get so let's talk about this real quick and then we'll talk about the loadout it basically is a trail wagon which is tractor supplies brand 4x4 buggies all right it is four-wheel drive it is made in the USA it's got a 650 v-twin Subaru engine in it give you a shot from the back it's got a Reese hitch in the back of it there and there's the engine and drivetrain chain and things like that back in the back and the muffler it has a dumping cargo bed you just push this lever and you can lift that bed up and dump it it has a locking differential and it's full wheel drive so you can lock it into foil drive at all times and you can lock the differential as well to have full time all four tires cranking this thing is I've never gotten this thing stuck that's for sure it's got a nice brush guard on the front of it for going through things it's got a receiver on the front as well to hook a hitch to or a rope or a winch or anything like that it's got headlights it has a windshield that goes up and down it tucks inside these rubber grommets and then the windshield goes all the way up so that you have protection on windy days or rain things like that and then it also has a canopy on top which makes it a little bit harder to get through some things then with just a regular four-wheeler but again this is a lot more than just a four-wheeler this is a two-seat buggy situation it's got a four gallon gas tank on it and it gets about 6070 miles to the gallon so the thing will run forever I can fill this thing up with four gallons and be gone for a week and not use all the gas as long as I'm not just driving you know 100 miles a day so in the back of this thing I've got another five gallon can of gas I have a small toolbox for any repairs need on the fly I have a sled will pull all the stuff out later on that's just a small h2o sled cheap on sale at a hardware store type kids sled but this one's heavy-duty enough I've pulled deer in it and that's just for pulling things behind us in an emergency situation or taking it to a campsite to pull firewood or whatever to the camp and then I have my pack on the frame that we talked about in one of the other videos we're going to go through that pack and its contents today

okay so let's talk real quick about looking for a spot to hold up for the night this spot right off the trail okay and basically it's a mother nature made shelter okay you've got a fallen pine here coming over the top you've got a bunch of vines growing and brambles growing over the top of another fallen pine and another fallen pine there's three falling Pines right here and if I were just going to try to sleep on the ground in like an MMS system and just snuggle up inside that gore-tex bivy and lay my stuff right here on the ground there's lots and lots of pine needles here for padding so the ground is not going to be very hard I don't have to worry too much about the moisture between an emergency space blanket and my Billy I'm not going to get wet so I could lay right on the ground here tuck up inside there and this would be a dandy fine place to hold up for the night and like I said again it's right off the trail so whether I'm riding an ATV or whether I'm just lost or I can't get out for the night this is a good place to hold up and set up a temporary camp or I don't have to get too crazy I don't have to do a lot of building I'd have to do a lot of working all I got to do is get myself a fire belt to cook and boil some water or whatever the case may be heat some water up for the night and it's pretty much a ready-made done deal

okay guys I want to show you this vine real quick and this is a type of like a strangler vine that grows on trees and eventually kills them off but you can see the bark peeling off of this and shreds and because this is up in the air it's dry okay and you can see up in here there's just mountains of it that you can shred off and it makes a really really good bird nest material and it burns very readily then we'll even take a spark sometimes off of a Ferro rod if you get a good dry pile of it and you shred it up really good you can even get this to spark up with a Ferro rod so maybe we'll collect some of this up but we'll give that a shot here in just a little while I'm gonna put this in my pocket and we'll keep on trucking but I want to show you guys that because it's a really really good example of it and it's growing all the way up this tree you can see here where it's bare but down here it's just loaded easy line get this camera just down here it's just a little low to ash rutting bark and you can see that collect all that stuff up to take with you for a bird nest okay so again talking about possible locations to put a camp I have a lot of questions about this on YouTube this Ridge is going to go up its south-facing you can see that the snow is almost melted off of this area right here and that's because the Sun comes up and melts all this snow there's a lot of Oaks in here you can tell by looking at the ground because it's littered with oak leaves so that means it's going to be soft so we can get a good soft bed set up in here and right in front of me at about 11 o'clock you'll see a big shagbark hickory and I can see several more shag barks back in the background and the shagbark hickory combined with the oak is a key element to understand small game hunting for squirrel because those squirrels are going to be in here there is no doubt about it so if I were looking for a place to gather food like a meat source and I needed a place to camp I'd walk right up this deer trail and that's where I'd be looking because there's going to be some good dry spots up here but there's also going to be some good spots to hunt game or even kill something while you're sitting in camp the squirrels are curious animals but with the shagbark hickory there's definitely gonna be squirrels out here okay guys so we talked about the sled being in the back of that trail Wiegand it's just that h2o brand kids snow sled but it's really heavy-duty not as heavy duty as the Viking but it's definitely heavy-duty enough to pull a lot of gear in and stuff you needed to i have drugged deer in this there's no question about its ability to hold things it's not near as big as the Viking sled but it fits just right in the back of this trail wagons bed so that I can carry it with me out on the trail it's got about 20 foot of rope connected to it climbing great rope but once I leave that ATV this stuff generally will stay there unless there's a lot of snow on the ground I feel like pulling this empty sled are throwing my backpack in it and just pulling it along with me okay and I can do that as well so what we're going to do is we're going to forget about sled the toolbox the fuel and the ATV and we're going to talk about you know the self-sufficiency of just the kit that I carry because everything beyond those three items in that ATV are all in one consolidated location and that's what I carry with me all the time so when I walk away from that ATV to scout or whatever the case may be

I'm gonna have this backpack and that's everything I need even if I got to walk back okay guys so now let's move away from the ATV and the accoutrements that are in there and talk about what I would carry on my person now I would take the rope that was on that sled and I would attach to the outside of this backpack if I were going to walk away from that thing and not know whether I was coming back for sure or not rope is always something that you need you're going to find when we go through my kit that all of my redundancies really lie within the first five seasons of I've ability and I think that that's what's misunderstood the most about kits for any type of self-reliance even short-term survival your redundancy should all lie within the five Cs you should have multiple cutting tools multiple ways to start fire or combustion multiple things to create cover and microclimate multiple containers and multiple types of cordage so I've got the rope and we'll discuss the other cordage is inside the pack in just a minute well first let's talk about a firearm okay single-shot 12-gauge again you know back to the single-shot 12-gauge it's the most reliable firearm there is period a lot of people would argue and say a 22 is better for self-reliance long term and short term I disagree because if you're cold if you're tired if you're hungry you might not be able to shoot a squirrel at 30 yards with the 22 but if you shoot it with six shot you're more than likely going to hit them okay you don't have to be a crack shot with a 12-gauge that's my point you're not going to miss very often so this has just got a sleeve on the butt play here on the buttstock that has a pocket in it to keep anything spare you want to keep in there cleaning items things like that then it holds one two three four five shelves so on the bus stock I've got two six shot one eight shot two slugs quick down and dirty hunting I see it I can load it and kill it doesn't matter what it is whether it's bird whether small game or whether it's large game like a deer if I see it I've got with me right here something I can kill it with it's got a good rubberized backpack style sling on it I really like that it's bomb-proof

you know I do a lot of things the old timey way I carry an old-time 12-gauge a lot but when it comes to sheer bulletproof and sheer use ability you know this setup right here with the survivor type stock from chopped machine and tool is definitely the way to go I think this but sleeve is made by Fox outdoors it's a very nice addition that gives you a putt padded cheek plate on this side a pocket on this side and a shell holder on this side so it's a very good setup and then this rubber sling again that things bulletproof it holds that thing on your shoulder doesn't slip and slide if you want to carry a backpack style all you have to do is split it and you can carry it that way as well so I really like that I don't have a sidearm on me because for short term Scout like this not necessary I can kill anything I need to kill and protect my camp with just this 12-gauge okay guys so before we go to my pack let's talk real quick about clothing all right I get a lot of questions about that as well and we'll start from the foot and we'll go up I'm wearing muck arctic Pro boots these things are warm beyond warm I've never ever been cold in these boots

Bar None the best winter boots I've ever worn and I've worn them all over the United States and different parts of the world and some cold weather and they're good there's no question in my mind about I would stake my life on what I like about pull-on type boots as opposed to lace-up boots is think about what happens when you're trying to regulate your body's core temperature all right if you constrict the circulation to your extremities by lacing something tight then number one you've crushed any insulation that you have with wool socks and number two you've also restricted the circulation of blood to that extremity so you're never going to be as warm in a lace-up boot as you're going to be in a pull-up boot now the disadvantage to a pull-up boot is if you step in deep mud or deep water you can yank the thing off so you've got to be a little bit careful with that but I would rather take that chance than have cold feet because cold feet and cold hands will wear you out faster than anything else in cold weather it's not that hard to keep your body's core warm as long as you're wearing the right clothes keeping your extremities warm is the key so on my hands artic mitts BarNone period I've always got them in cold weather because I'll always keep my hands warm and then I carry an extra spare set

gloves in my pocket and they're just a thin set of work gloves and they're just Wells Fargo brand our wells Lamont brand excuse me leather palms nylon stretch material just like a work glove that are green to match the environment things like that I shoot my bows and these things I shoot guns and these things I work in these chop wood in them I've had these things for at least at least I know three years and have yet to have a hole in them so and I wearing quite a bit now I don't always wear gloves but if my hands are getting chilly I'll put those on first followed by the Arctic myths okay so moving up I'm wearing denim pants these things are cotton canvas pants made by Schmidt solar track supply cotton kills right don't get it wet you don't have to worry about that okay the key is cotton gets wet and holds moisture no question about it all right and it will kill you through convection but if you're wearing wool underneath which I am I have wool long underwear on then if something were to happen when you got these things wet because you fell through the ice or whatever the case may be you can strip these things off and dry them in front of that five-minute fire while you got that wool still on you that holds you know 75 to 85% of its insulative value even if it's soaking wet so wool undergarments are the key and nylon burns denim doesn't burn very easy no burn bit won't melt to your skin okay it's a little bit fire retardant compared to nylon so in the winter time I prefer to wear canvas tight pants and I've got to set a canvas rail rider pants that are a prototype item that I'm going to show you in another video and do a review on them rail riders makes a lot of the pants that I wear but they didn't have anything canvas so I very rarely wore them in a winter I wear their nylon pants in the summertime because they're quick drying and I like that in the summer but in the winter time I like heavier canvas and they've got a pair of canvas pants out now that I'll show you guys in another video so I've got long underwear underneath this that's wool I've got wool socks on or alpaca and I wear both to tell you the truth I like I'll pack it better the reason I like alpaca better than wool is not necessarily because it's warmer in general which it's proven to be but alpaca

matches pretty well all right so when you put on a pair of wool socks it just came out of the washer they're very very tight especially you put them in the dryer again that restricts the circulation of blood and makes your feet cold the alpaca doesn't seem to do that it seems to stretch very easily so once you put it on you still have that cushion of air space in your boots all right that's why I like our pack of socks but I do wear wool sometimes as well

upper body okay innermost layer is either a cotton t-shirt or a wicking t-shirt generally a wicking t-shirt some type of Under Armour type stuff that will wick moisture with my body but it's quick-drying on top of that I wear a wool long underwear shirt on top of that I wear 100% US military wool sweater and they're hard to find but you can still find them in hundred percent wool you just got to look at the labels I usually find mine at gun shows for anywhere from 10 to 15 bucks and I buy every one I can find in my size every time I see them now my outer most layer today is a new product that I'm prototype testing for another company I generally wear a luster River bushcraft shirt the thing I like about this jacket is it's more of a field type jacket that can be zipped for easy thermal regulation I can open this thing up and it lets the hot air out if I get too warm because I'm walking all right it's got big deep pockets in it it's got pockets on the inside that go all the way down into the inside pockets and on the outside it's more of a game hunting type coat made out of US military wool blankets it's got a great big roomy hood on it that zips all the way up it has a drawstring on the waist down at the bottom it does not have a drawstring in the middle but it's a very very warm coat especially if you've got wool on underneath it so that's what I'm wearing today and then I've got a wool hat on generally I'll either wear fur or I'll wear wool one of the two if it's really really extremely cold I usually will wear fur if not I'll wear 100% wool watch cap and that's what I've got on today so that covers the clothing that I'm wearing in a cold weather environment

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