Armed And Not So Dangerous

This is the Ruger Single Six .22 caliber with the 22 long cylinder. I have the magnum cylinder for it as well but have never fired a round through it. For my tastes this is the perfect companion for extended stays in the backwoods. I don’t really like a heavy pistol and don’t need anything I could shoot a hole through a tree with. I especially like the single-action revolver because in order to fire it you have to be intending to do just that. It is hard to accidentally discharge a single-action revolver. For those unfamiliar – single-action means the hammer has to be manually pulled back into the firing position or cocked before the gun will fire whereas on a double-action handgun, pulling the trigger cocks and fires the gun.

My uses for a handgun range from using it as a snake charmer to scaring off wild boar, wild dogs, bobcat, rampaging rabid turtles…

and the occasional horde of vicious butterfly’s.

But seriously – I don’t shoot at the turtles and I’m seriously outnumbered with the butterfly’s. Maybe a butterfly net would be of more use but that would be a tough one to explain to the buddies. Plus I’d look kind of silly trying to scare off a pack of wild dogs with a net on a stick.

I almost forgot my other tool. This is my Crocodile Dundee Special with a whopping 3 inch blade. I have this in case a bear attacks. When I’m in the tree, I can use this to whittle until the bear leaves. Or if he manages to shake me out of the tree it would come in handy for digging thorns out of my body from runnin’ headlong into the nearest briar patch – not by choice but if I’m already having that kind of day – why not? Otherwise, although a handy tool, this knife is actually pretty useless in a bear encounter. Unless of course I was just intending on making matters worse with an already mad bear. It would come in pretty handy for that as well.