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Alaskan Jeff Graham is onetough hombre. He carriedhis pack forward and thencame back and got Jacob’s!He carries a light rifle fromDarrell Holland in a packbuilt to take the rifle (Jacobwishes he’d asked Jeff moreabout the pack). He’ll comedown out of the mountainscarrying 130 or morepounds, part of which wouldbe game meat, which meanshe did not go up with much.Facing the Alaskan weather,what he does carry is mightyefficient.Small binoculars and spotting scopes like thesefrom Leica, Swarovski, and Leupold (above) dothe job, while adding little to the overall weightof a pack. The SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger(below, left) has buttons tell your contacts youare OK, you need help, or you are in serioustrouble and need immediate assistance.Contacts can also follow you on Google Earth.Jacob has cooked a lot of meals on his BruntonCrux stove (below, right). As long as you canfind canisters the Brunton Crux is a jewel. Notetheir size next to the SOG folder.Face tent, my legs partially coveredby a North Face 40-degrees-belowzerosleeping bag, formerly top-ofthe-linegear out of the Netherlands.It was a long day and night. To quellthe boredom, I began looking at thelabels on all the gear I had in my tinytent. I realized if it weren’t for Chinaand parts of Southeast Asia, I wouldbe sitting in the Alaskan wilderness ina storm in only my underwear, waitingfor the onset of hypothermia anddonating food to the wolves.They allow 85 pounds per personon the planes that take hunters intothe tundra. That includes rifle, boots,food, et al. I spent many monthsremoving, exchanging, cutting, andgrumbling, trying to make weightprior to going.When I was a member of a SpecialForces A-Team and flown into themiddle of nowhere, I made a survivalkit small enough to fit in a soap dish.You remember: that little white thingwith a lid you took to camp. I putmorphine, dextroamphetamine, andother very strong but small drugs,diarrhea stoppers, mirrors, scalpelblades etc. in them and told my teammembers to carry them with a plasticcoated map in their blouse pockets(BDU) on the side of their pants.Team members, finding themselvesalone, were taught to “cache” gearin a good hide and run for days toavoid the cold, silent interior of oneof those damnable black body bags.But medical gear is another significantsubject. Maybe the editor will allowme to go into that subject someday.Until then, check out AdventureMedical Kits or Chinook MedicalGear for emergency gear.Parachute cord and duct tapewere handy as was a compass strungfrom my neck. Nobody ever heard ofGPS in those days. Navigating in thejungle was anything but precise. Youcould be off a degree and miss a targetSOG Knife Choicesmodel weight (ounces) PriceFlash II – Straight Edge 3.1 $59Powerlock Black Oxide 9.6 $120Jungle Primitive 14.0 $64Total weight: 1.67 poundsseveral hundred yards on a 10 klickinterdiction.I grew up in the mountains wherewe hunted in the winter in considerableamounts of snow. Our boots andclothes were water absorbent. I wouldspend hours rubbing mink oil, shoepolish, or other ineffective ingredientsinto my boots and then heating themin the oven. A couple of hours walkingin snow and any water repellencyor waterproofness was long gone,and my feet were soaked. ReferenceWWII in the Ardennes Forest or theKorean War. Nowadays, both bootsand clothes are moisture repellent orwaterproof and lighter.RiflesI will admit that most of mycompetitive and long range riflesweigh a bit more than I want to haulup and down the mountain ridgesall day long, particularly at my age.But today’s technology has made thecapabilities of lightweight huntingrifles quite effective. Some are smallenough to carry in special pouchesin backpacks made for that purpose.Today’s super stiff stocks, lightweightmetals, rings, and scopes have maderifles capable of first round hits inthe zero to 500-yard range. Reticles54WWW.GUNSMAGAZINE.COM • NOVEMBER 2011
are designed to take advantage ofsuch technology. My minimalistcompanions in Alaska had light riflesmade by Darrell Holland that got thejob done on caribou quite handily.Bottom line: Get rid of the stuff youdon’t need, search for lighter weightgear and think minimalist. The olddays of heavyweight, ineffective gearare quickly fading into the sunset.Visit one of our three traveling showrooms at a dealer near you and get yourhands on the hottest new products from today’s top manufacturers.Adventure Medical Kits7700 Edgewater Dr., Ste. 526Oakland, CA 94624(800) 324-3517www.gunsmagazine.com/adventure-medical-kitsBrunton2255 Brunton Ct., Riverton, WY 82501(800) 443-4871www.gunsmagazine.com/brunton-huntingChinook Medical Gear, Inc.120 Rock Point Dr., Unit CDurango, CO 81301(800) 766-1365www.gunsmagazine.com/chinook-medHolland’s GunsmithingP.O. Box 69, Powers, OR 97466(541) 439-5155www.gunsmagazine.com/holland-gunsSee our 2011 show dates online at www.elitesportsexpress.comTo book the ESE or get your productson board, call Don at 702-528-6771Leica Camera Inc.1 Pearl Ct., Unit A, Allendale, NJ 07401(800) 222-0118www.gunsmagazine.com/leicaLeupold14400 N.W. Greenbrier Pkwy.Beaverton, OR 97006(800) 538-7653www.gunsmagazine.com/leupold-stevensSOG Specialty Knives & Tools6521 212th St. S.W.Lynnwood, WA 98036(888) 405-6433www.gunsmagazine.com/sog-knivesSpot LLC300 Holiday Square Blvd.Covington, LA 70433(866) 651-7768www.gunsmagazine.com/spot-incSwarovski Optics2 Slater Rd., Cranston, RI 02920(800) 426-3089www.gunsmagazine.com/swarovski-opticNotable website:www.equipped.comWWW.GUNSMAGAZINE.COM 55
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