Chaz, I have noticed that a deer rifle can silence a lantern at several hundred yards. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Jim <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
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Chaz, I have noticed that a deer rifle can silence a lantern at several hundred yards. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Jim <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
Several hundred ? I thought you were a crack shot. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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More with a scope. But I didn't know a lantern made noise. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Only when it's wounded - then it tries to sound like an injured snipe to throw off it's pursuers <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
Not really, if you're talking about the green coleman propane cylinders - they don't go boom. That's hollywood. If you shoot them with a rifle they spew, and most of the time don't ignite. Even igniting them only produces a nice flare. not a boom. Let's just say my misspent youth shot at lots of "interesting" things. Hollywood makes lots of things explode that don't. Generally speaking stuff like propane and gas has to be mixed with air before it'll explode. coming out of a container, even ignited, it just burns. (unless you let the stuff coming out mix with air first before providing a source of ignition - then boom..
Otherwise my turkey fryer would have exploded yesterday - instead of just making quick work of a turkey <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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Not one you are likely to hear in your neck of the woods but the humble male Koala has a mighty roar that can be heard for miles. Rather strange sound when it is dark and you are long way from home.
I want to know what type animal it is that sniffs me or bumps me when I am sleeping in my hammock. It freaks me out. What an why? As for night time noises I am usually immune because I sleep right though them, I guess - or there are no nighttime noises in my local area.
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Haven't actually done any camping in the woods yet, so I'm just trying to cover all my bases to make sure I don't chicken out and run back to my car. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Please don't chicken out. Just look at how many people are on all the forums -- they all sleep in the woods. Control your mind - there is no boogie man. Just don't sleep with chicken wings in your tent.
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I don't think Michelle (OP) is here anymore. She hasn't posted since a few days after starting her membership, and she hasn't responded to any of my PMs.
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I don't think Michelle (OP) is here anymore. She hasn't posted since a few days after starting her membership, and she hasn't responded to any of my PMs.
I guess I should have waited until she got back from her first trip to tell her about the Chupacabras <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />
When I was driving around the desert near El Paso doing military stuff, they had these warning signs for Peligros. Someone told me how ferocious they were, much like a small chupacabre. Anyways, the signs all read " Warning! Peligro!". The military always wants you to be aware of all the dangers around you.
(Don't worry, I know what Peligro means in spanish, in case someone wanted to educate me.) <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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Back when I was a teenager, I spent a week on a survival 'camp out' in the Superstition Mountains. We hiked back and eventually nested in a remote area with a small, nasty spring for water. There is an old legend of a miner who went up into the mountains and found a huge load of gold. The tale has it that he died without ever disclosing the location.
Anyways, on the 2nd night of our stay, I was sleeping in a makeshift lean too with a few others, and having a hard time sleeping, for whatever reason. As I lay there, in the pitch black, I began to hear the sound of 'picking' way off in the distant. Maybe a mile or so. Then it got closer. Then it drew further away. Then it sounded like it was about 10 yards away. It kept going all night long. I had a machette with me (I was 16, what do you want?) and lay there with my hand gripped so tightly that I lost feeling. The noise kept fading and returning. It was awful.
The next night I was so exhausted that I fell asleep right after dark. The last night we were there, I did hear it again, but it faded away as I fell asleep. No one else heard it, but I'll be damned if it wasn't as clear as day.
That's my story of eery nighttime noises. And yes, I plan on hiking about Four Peaks in the near future, so I'll be listening for it. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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That's a good one, Bill. Wonder if Franco has anything to add to that (other than the guy must have been pulled into a Rainshadow 2, since it's the only HS Tarptent that holds 3 people.), Looking more for the answer to "Is that what it's really like to camp in Australia?"
Night takes away our vision, so gradually our hearing becomes more sensitive. During the day, hiking through the woods, stop, sit down, put on a blindfold. Just Listen. You will most likely start hearing noises you did not hear as you hiked along. The same will be true at night. You start hearing things you cannot see. Your imagination kicks in. Harmless natural sounds are suddenly foot steps. It's a bear or a mad man! A bush that faded into a shadowy shape at dusk suddenly becomes a monster ready to pounce. I think I'll take my night chances in the woods rather than a darkened city street. Also, try letting your eyes adjust to the dark. Keep any light off for several minutes as you stare into the dark. Pitch black often fades away.
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If not, here's a link to an entry I just found on Trail Journals that sent shivers down my spine. Way too freaky. And to think, I was considering hiking this trail....
People are to easily freaked out. So if all that stuff did happen, I still wouldn't have left without packing up my stuff. Oh! did anyone hear dueling banjos playing?
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