What's your everyday carry?

RI .38 wheel gun on the small of the back... I am really starting to love this Rock Island .38, Old Colt Python on the hip Yeah I like my wheel guns, a machete on the other hip, a Sharp Finger on the belt, a folding knife in every pocket. And a Zippo, smoke and tubes in my cookie tin. That is just around the farm. Going out it is just .38 and the cookie tin and a couple of knives in pockets.

 

Python is just hard to beat, I got a four inch that sees a lot of carry.

 

uninformed people are going to get a rude surprise when they try their hand aat raising a garden or fruit, there is a lot to understand that many take a few years and proper attention to get a good crop and some years it's a bust, due to no fault of your own. It took 3 years for my vines to produce good tasting grapes at first they were sour and musty after that the 2 main runners (everything else you trim in January here) and that lets the 2 naked vines have all the energy to grow and produce fruit I have vines that run 20+ feet. Last year my blackberries produced a 1/3 of the previous year no rhyme or reason same year figs hardly made a double handful year before got over 15 gallons . It is not a perfect science you can fertilize trim and nurture and nature drops rain in buckets and your crop is minuscule as too much of anything can have a reverse effect. A plant need to exercise as people a lack of water stresses the plant and a good rain relieves that like tension on a muscle and release heat and cool are the plants circulation some thrive in a certain environment but need some change in temps or they don't thrive.

Anyone that has ambitions to grow and not a lot of time passive growing is the best way to start you want fruit trees that suit your climate and know what and when to care for them before you go all in, I would have to say Blackberries and blueberries are pretty durable and tolerate abuse blackberry "canes" do not produce the first year they grow tall and you need to top them to bush or I like to train them to a trellis they will grow 10 foot tall, the next year those canes will produce fruit and new canes will come up after the fruit is harvested over weeks I leave them till late winter and the previous years canes die you need to cut these out with limb cutters or else they will get so thick you can't run a dozer through them.and they don't do anything for the new growth but if you train them they make a good walking stick light and tough they are also good larger tinder once dry.

Every plant has a time Loquats bear in the early spring blackberries I am picking now, grapes and figs in a month or so. I love peaches but, so do squirrels and when they are green so I rarely get any but I do get my share of squirrels so it's a trade off I have no reason now but in a bad time I can take robin redbreast dove and a few other birds that visit my fruit. I doubt I will go hungry again there is a possibility that Yellowstone goes and we have a couple years of nothing and die off happened in Europe in 1815 Mount Tambora eruption the ash reflected or absorbed the sunlight and little grew first starvation many froze to death and then disease waves of flu and colds that turned into Pneumonia and in those days more than likely you died. weather in not something you can forecast there are too many variables volcanoes droughts monsoons in places not known for them alters growing patterns and when crops fail if you do not have a Larder full your going to suffer and if there is a wave of illness in a depleted state your apt to die child mortality skyrockets birth rates drop because of death in the womb and some of the women die from complications, Life is not a graph that wiggles in a range it wild and unknowable

Farmers and ranchers know this, we go for decades ticking along and then it may be weather illness or insects or a combination and your praying you can keep enough alive to have a brood stock plants or seed to start again you have to plant there can be a change you don't expect but you want to keep seed back for another year and there have been times like the dust bowl where farmers and ranchers lost everything. Don't let science or the CO-OP tell you it can't happen because we have new methods because those "new" methods came from unexpected horrors and we learned but not all can be mitigated as the people in Hawaii lava or Mt Saint Helen feet of ash the 80's when the Mississippi basin flooded and took a lot of the top soil, and no crops. Life isn't fair it is not historically traceable hundreds of years with no major problem and like Africa a lake evaporated that supplied 4 countries it happens be prepared or suffer and starve. Don't be a damn fool and eat like your used to better to go on rations and string it out as long as you can Venezuelans thought their problem would not last this long 2002 and every year more decline this year 700% inflation and it is not near over the death rate is almost that of Syria. Those 2 boxes of shells are not going to last that long and peanut butter sucks without bread and jelly. hell they have no cooking oil if you can't afford food and utilities your clothes better last all these fashionistas wearing the wino sheik holes in their pants are going to wish the got a good pair.

 

My basic EDC is a Ruger LC9s, a folding Gerber, a Leatherman Micra and a few bucks. As the season and the mission changes, I may add but never subtract.

 

.38 S&W
Benchmade barrage
Leatherman crunch
Personal ring of keys with light
Work keys
Handkerchief
Wallet with fresnel lens and (possibly cheesy) credit card multitool thingy
Pager
Cell phone
11n1 screwdriver
Bic lighter
Tweaker screwdriver
Headlamp
Inkpen and notepad
Retractable reel and ID badge plus other crap
Can of snuff
Casio G-shock watch with compass, barometer, Ect

550 cord for bootlaces in my Obaz hikers

That's on my person.

 

Yeah well I'm getting a bit older and my back ain't what it useta be

 

You must have some big arms to be carrying that gear all day mate!

 

These have become more essential lately.

 

I also added a little zippered nylon pouch that I have dummy corded to my cargo pocket. It has some things that have really made my life easier.


The dummy cord itself is a glasses strap if I need one (on the water) and inside the hollow strap is a magnet. Always handy when antiquing. Inside are a couple BC powders and eyeglass cleaners, a razor, tiny flint sparker, some sight tools attached to a magnet to keep them all together. My "finger" for opening biometric swipers is in there since none of my real fingers will read. But most important are spare keys to my car, and door locks. I don't know how many times these have saved me time and frustration. They're tied to the inside of the bag with an elastic hair band, and there are a few spares tied alongside to keep my hair and beard tied up if necessary. This thing has been a life saver.

 

As a general principle,
I carry the maximum number of legal "weapons" that I can carry discreetly in as many places as possible,
both on and off the body. The "weapons" vary greatly and are sometimes everyday objects.
I have experienced a lot of crime around the world since I was a teen,
but not in red states where I am allowed to carry a firearm constitutionally.
I work from home and only go out for errands, exercise and local recon.
(I don't always carry a separate bag when exercising; a walking stick might be good)

Besides the keys, watch, wallet and its contents, and 'fashion accessories' like a hat & sunglasses,
some other items that I carry on my person and in my bag:

In my bag, which could be anything from a small messenger to a backpack to a large tote or laptop bag:
-durable water bottle;
-sometimes glass bottles of drinks that I buy throughout the day (habit of mine);
-large maglite or police flashlight, for deniable use as a weapon;
-other weapons depending on legality, such as mace, collapsible baton, stun gun;
-Pibella or similar to pee standing up like a man, also a rag;
-folded reusable canvas bags for shopping and for padding;
-in a separate pocket, a notepad and pens, I write notes and draw a lot;
-water spigot key or sillcock key for emergencies;
-caffeine pills for emergencies when I am falling asleep;
-compass and small laminated maps sometimes;
-laptop sometimes for work;
-sometimes a pocket calendar/planner;
-orange(s) for deniability with a small folding knife but not my favourite (I prefer fixed blades or switchblades if possible);
-I could carry a large fixed-blade survival knife or machete but I have not done so;
-I could carry a larger pistol or AK pistol but I have not done so

In a belly-band holster & pockets on my person, possibly also in a garter or ankle holster(s), depending on the outfit:
-firearm(s) and spare magazines if legal;
-a smaller police flashlight;
-a small legal folding knife or other knife;
-other weapons not in my bag depending on legality such as mace, collapsible baton, stun gun;
-old dumb mobile phone and charger for emergencies (I don't chat or use modern smart phones);
-tactical pen;
-notepad and pens if not in my bag;
-compass and small laminated maps sometimes if not in my bag

In my vehicle: sometimes a GHB or mini-GHB as I describe, but I don't carry all the items listed
5-bag survival kit system: grab and go bag, EDC, GHB, BOB, never-coming-home bag

 

The only out of the ordinary items (wallet, phone, some cash etc)

Is a little Gerber Dime - a small multi-tool and a small AM/FM/WX band radio. These go into a small butt pack, this so my pockets stay empty