Carry more in your pack or break laws for survival?

[BRTreedogs]

Dude's holding himself accountable and the reaction is to pile on and call him an idiot? Very strange thread

I just think he’s being illogical.
IMO he is saying survival, but implying discomfort.

There a big difference between I’m cold this sucks.

And I’m gonna die with the next … minutes.

 

[7RemMag]

This thread should be locked and thrown into the illegal camp fire that the OP would definitely not ever make to save his own life if needed.

I’ve been told that the moral high ground can get pretty chilly from time to time….

 

[7mm-08]

I have not read all the posts (past page 4), but I can guarantee everyone, including the OP, this - if you are on the verge of death, you as a human being, have to understand that we are all nothing but evolved animals. All animals have an undeniable, involuntary survival instinct. OP's claim that he has a hill to die on are nothing more than his assertion that he KNOWS what he would or would not do. Principled as his argument may sound, it is nothing but hyperbole since he has never been put to that test. Nature and evolution make an undeniable argument that he would fail as none of us are that fatalistic (unless we are suicidal).

 

[average]

I just think he’s being illogical.
IMO he is saying survival, but implying discomfort.

There a big difference between I’m cold this sucks.

And I’m gonna die with the next … minutes.

He's definitely took his idea to the extreme but this thread could've been productive and went into adequate shelter, rain gear, chemical warmers, ECT.
A fire doesn't have to be a necessity, that idea was mentioned in the "fire in rain" thread instead of being discussed here. OP should've directed the conversation better I guess

 

[fngTony]

I agree with most of that, but the bans are not on off that quick. Usually the county commission has to remove the ban and they announce the date. I also don’t want anyone following my lead on anything.

I hunt a unit where the county line runs through the middle of it and there’s been a few years where one side wasn’t under restriction when the other was.

How about we let this thread rest and get back to episode 138 of the Robby and Ryan show—Modern Manscaping for Muleys

No thanks

 

[MuleDeerMike]

He's definitely took his idea to the extreme but this thread could've been productive and went into adequate shelter, rain gear, chemical warmers, ECT.
A fire doesn't have to be a necessity, that idea was mentioned in the "fire in rain" thread instead of being discussed here. OP should've directed the conversation better I guess

We just had a thread that was productive, respectful and that discussed all those things, then the OP here chimed in with this same line of thinking(?) and ruined it.

 

[Pacific_Fork]

I think it comes down to your definition of life threatening and how prepared you are. I don’t take fire stuff during a ban because I know I don’t need it. If that causes me to die, so be it. But I always have enough stuff to survive a couple of really bad nights with me. Always.

It’s hilarious how many people waste energy on OBVIOUS TROLL BOTS THAT JOINED YESTERDAY

Jesus H Christ grandmas, get with it already. These Kenya people are scamming everyone around here.

Mods! Do better! Even tho I enjoy laughing at people who take a fresh FNG this seriously all these recent bots are wasting space on here.

Live love laugh

 

[MuleDeerMike]

It’s hilarious how many people waste energy on OBVIOUS TROLL BOTS THAT JOINED YESTERDAY

Jesus H Christ grandmas, get with it already. These Kenya people are scamming everyone around here.

Mods! Do better! Even tho I enjoy laughing at people who take a fresh FNG this seriously all these recent bots are wasting space on here.

Live love laugh

Good point. This bot riled everyone up in the missing hunters thread and eventually got it locked. That shouldnt happen. I hope the mods are able to figure out a way to weed this out in the future otherwise Rokslide will eventually end up like every other online forum before them.

 

[npm352]

I'd do whatever I needed to survive. If the last Dodo bird meant not starving, he's getting a bullet. If starting a fire in a fire ban area means I don't freeze to death, I'm starting a fire.

And I once I shoot the last Dodo bird, I'm already in enough trouble that I'd start a fire then, too, to cook it.

 

[Jethro]

It’s hilarious how many people waste energy on OBVIOUS TROLL BOTS THAT JOINED YESTERDAY

What does this mean? I’ve seen the bot comment a lot lately about people posting. Do you really think OP is not a real person typing his posts?

 

[Macintosh]

It seems idiotic to intentionally not bring an ultra-basic item that weighs +\- nothing, all because one out of a million times you use it responsibly to survive. You can choose not to use it, but if you need it you’ll have it. Its not like you will be careless with it, either—that regulation is to guard against idiots, not because its impossible to utilize a flame without accidentally starting an out of control fire…in this case the conditions that justify the ban also more or less preclude needing the fire. Even if that sudden storm and cold front doesnt bring the area out of a drought, it’ll still be wet and not “tinderbox” conditions. Just dont be an idiot and all will be fine. It takes so many stars aligning in exactly the wrong way, all at the same time, for this to be approaching one iota of an issue, that it surprises me it’s even a topic. Zero-% chance I choose to be unprepared based on a temporary regulation like this.