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Yep, many nights when I was a young buck. Then went to my mom's house in Idaho to sell the house in October. Friggin consolidators sold my bed after two days and I had to stay there for ten days. My buddy loaned me his, wasn't bad after a day or two.
Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.
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There's reasons men died young back then...🤣
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I slept in game bags in Alaska in 2011 while moose hunting after my sleeping bag turned up missing. Turns out the 5 year old of the family we were staying while getting ready with took my bag for his and hid it.
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So on the movies and stuff, they could use a rock for a pillow and wake up fresh as a daisy after a 25 degree night in the desert with a golf ball size rock in your back.
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That was totally believable A game bag or t shirt rolled up with poached grass inside works better than you thing as well as dry ground moss in the far north. A clean meat bag over your head works in a pinch to keep skeeters and no seeums off. Osky
A woman's heart is the hardest rock the Almighty has put on this earth and I can find no sign on it.
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There's reasons men died young back then...🤣 That’s what I was thinking! Everyone waxing nostalgic on what I would consider torture.
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Never with a cowboy roll. Napped in the dirt one day under a Huey. Woke up as it took off.
If you ain’t Cav, you ain’t chitt.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Nope. I've had a sleeping bag since I was 8.
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There's reasons men died young back then...🤣 That’s what I was thinking! Everyone waxing nostalgic on what I would consider torture. Exactly It weren’t the fairy tale experience that Wabitard and 7mmCowboy romanticize about.
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I spent 2.5 months a year in one during elk and sheep season up the Gros Ventre back in the late 70's and early 80's. I don't remember where I got it, but it was pretty good sleeping as far as I am concerned. Of course getting up at 04:30 and hunting for 12 hours for days on end, will make sleeping on anything pretty easy.
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Dirt and pine?fur?
Yes. Slept good. You? I rather do that than sleep n a tent. Wake up, stand up, piss on your buddies tent. Go lay down Or say "Goddam it Badger, get the hell out of camp!" Badger was a big old yellow horse who came back into camp, carefully checking every spot we had poured grain on the ground when we had arrived right at dark, just in case there was a kernel left. We had just spread the bedrolls out right there after the horses finished. Except for Badger, who in pitch black, was making the rounds, carefully stepping over the bodies on the ground (8 of us, 16 horses and mules who were supposed to be out on their own hillside). That grain feed could have been thought out better. Those bedrolls were sure better than half-inch closed foam pad and lightweight sleeping bags I used on back-packing hunts! ,
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The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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The first time I shot myself in the head...
Meniere's Sucks Big Time!!!
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No, but I once fell asleep on bare concrete during a lull in the action while helping someone pull an engine from a Corvette. The other guys thought it was pretty funny…..
If I spent a night on a cowboy bedroll now, I’d likely need to be hospitalized.
What fresh Hell is this?
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tarp and a bag, slept under tree boughs, wrapped up in canvas tarp, and blankets when lucky.
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So on the movies and stuff, they could use a rock for a pillow and wake up fresh as a daisy after a 25 degree night in the desert with a golf ball size rock in your back.
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That was totally believable Don't knock it 'till you've tried it!
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
member of the cabal of dysfunctional squirrels?
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So on the movies and stuff, they could use a rock for a pillow and wake up fresh as a daisy after a 25 degree night in the desert with a golf ball size rock in your back.
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That was totally believable Don't knock it 'till you've tried it! There's some wisdom here.
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No does not look comfortable
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Gents Never in a cowboy roll. BUT I did sleep on a flak jacket in a poncho liner for bout a year!! Semper Fidelis Soup
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Never with a cowboy roll. Napped in the dirt one day under a Huey. Woke up as it took off.
If you ain’t Cav, you ain’t chitt. Should we wake Dan and get him outta there? Nah. He’ll move.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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Also slept on concrete runway of AF bases as their damn birds broke and left us stranded, but going to be fixed any minute (while maintenance went home)
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