Northern Ireland Outdoors Forum - Hiking, camping and more
General => General Chat => Topic started by: chunk on March 29, 2011
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have any of you lads done this type of wild camping, i tried it recently, i know hunting isn't to everyones taste,
myself and a mate headed to a private farm and forest, just outside bailesborough co. cavan.
contents of both rucksacks was as follows:
5 litres of water
6 spuds
2 carrots
2 pans
salt and pepper
water purification tabs.
2 lighters and 60 fags
10 or 15m of paracord
5m x 8m cheap tarp
.22lr rifle and 50 bullets
.243 rifle and 20 bullets
fried sika liver for breakfast. rabbit stew for dinner both nights. 2 days 1 cold night.
sorry i didn't take any pics, camp was so basic it really needs pics to show ::)
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what no beer !!!!!
nearest i got to that was when i shot my chicken flavoured super noodles with an airsoft gun 8)
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Would love to give something like that a blast or setting traps for Rabbits instead of rifles. Rabbit stew is hard to beat though yum yum.
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Sounds like an awesome trip. What was the plan if you didn't manage to kill anything to eat?
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Get in the car and drive to KFC ;)
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no beers, as beer and guns = dead mate ::)
if we hadn't shot anything we would have had some fine tasting spud and carrot stew. but having 600 acres to hunt, there wasn't much risk.
only big prob/issue is that for safety, the rifles must be locked in a car whilst we sleep, so we had to take jeep to the camp.
as far as snares go, i don't use them, they slowly strangle the rabbit. and as i like to eat my rabbit meat fresh i prefer to shoot, and gut pronto, rabbit left with guts intact will quickly taint the meat
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i'd be ok with the beer as i can't even shoot straight when i'm sober ;D