What do I carry?
All that I own.
I hunt nearly 100% on foot and many times in the hills or mountains. So there is no rifle I don't carry.
In the summer if I go back-packing, and I am not hunting, I carry an M-1 Garand many times, and if I want something to go inside my pack I carry an AR15 taken apart.
2 times I carried an AK47 with a folding stock.
The ARs and the AKs don't get "babied" at all, and I can let therm bang around and not worry about them. At times that's pretty cool. I use them and carry them with the same mindset I carried rifles when I was a Marine.
If the stock is wood, I tend to try to keep it in good shape, (even my M1 Garand or my excellent condition Mosin Nagant.)
But metal or plastic gets about the same level of care of a hiking staff.
