| | I'm kind of annoyed right now. I've been trying to figure out how to do something (well legally anyway, illegally it would be easy) and it shouldn't be near as difficult as it is. That's what I get for living in civilization in a free country I guess.
I'll back up and describe the situation. For a long time I've wanted to spend a rather lengthy amount of time in the wilderness , with just what I could carry in on my back, wits, and training to support me. Ideally I'd fish and hunt and gather wild plants to supplement my food supplies to the point where the ones I brought in were no longer necessary.The problem with this, is to do it legally Id have to wait for the fishing and hunting seasons, and because of that if the fish weren't biting I couldn't just shoot a few squirrels instead on the way back to camp. So that cuts my chances of getting something to eat every day down. I would read a lot of my Bible and explore too. I remember a few years ago I went camping with a couple before they got married, and one of the days I was by myself and I just sort of wandered around the woods and sand dunes along Lake Michegan and read my Bible because I didnt have much else to do. It was really nice.
My second problem comes with packing firearms. I found out that for legal hunting purposes guns are allowed in national forests. That's great. What happens if I come across a wolf pack that thinks I'll make a good dinner or something and all I have is a gun for killing squirrels?... I mean I wouldn't exactly be staying at a campground next to someones RV I'd be out of cell range and even if I weren't the rangers wouldn't find me in time. In Minnesota I could carry a hand gun for protection/hunting as I have a permit for that... but here in Wisconsin there's a huge grey area about the carrying of guns for protection so I'd be stuck again with a small game gun if/when i needed it to shoot something that was trying to eat me or otherwise hurt me. Also the national forests themselves have, in my opinion, idiotic rules about weapons that seem to tend to change now and then from what I've seen.
Why is it so hard to detach from civilization for a while? You'd think in a country that prides itself on being free, that an ambitious, law abiding young man like myself could still go in the woods and stay there for a while. Just kinda live like an old time indian or grizzly adams or something ya know?
Whatever the answer, I'm going to keep trying to figure this out... it sure is frusterating because it shouldnt be this difficult to plan something like this... if it wasnt for all the legal crap I'd pack a bag tomorrow and be in northern wisconsin or minnesota by nightfall. Well maybe friday sometime (again, hypothetically speaking) , I have plans tomorrow.
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