Backpacking with gun

Backpacking with gun

It isn’t essential to carry a gun when you’re backpacking, it’s just insurance

I carried this rifle around with me when I was backpacking around Australia a few years’ ago. It’s a  .22 rimfire Anschutz rifle, and the great thing about it was, it was light and easy to carry.

Why the gun?

Insurance, really. That plus I liked guns. This is really difficult to explain to someone that hates guns. But it definitely has nothing to do with a need to feel powerful. If it does, there’s something wrong with the gun-owner.

Backpacking with gun

Backpacking equipment in order of importance – maybe

The other stuff in the vehicle is less lethal. In probable order of importance there’s a five gallon plastic container of drinking water,  a water bottle, a compass, spade or shovel, roll of wire mesh, canned food, several one gallon cans of spare gas, or petrol as it was called, a small butane gas cooking stove, a `billy can’, which is a metal container that’s used to boil water for tea or coffee in, or just to drink water from, and a couple of plates and cups in case someone invited themselves for dinner.
The spade and wire mesh were for digging the vehicle out of the sand, in case you were thinking they were for gardening.