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Today, because I could, I added another 10/22 to my little collection - this one is the Talo 10/22 Takedown on a Magpul Backpacker stock. The barrel is 16ish" with a threaded end for a suppressor or flash hider, hi-vis sights, and comes with 4 10x Ruger mags, three of which can stow in the...

After receiving mine today, I think it will be "installed" inside the console or glove box. I'm not sticking it on my vehicle exterior or interior.

Once, in 1992. We were leaving California and took an open ended trip to decide where to move. Sold off most things and stored family things. We lived out of our truck camper for what ended up being six months but finally decided on Idaho. Now, in 2019, we own two homes filled with stuff. I...

I use a traditional collapsible sling chair (from Walmart IIRC) which is very comfy and is now 13-14 years old or a Trekology (like the helinox) which I keep in the LX for its diminutive collapsed size. Less comfy but better than sitting on a rock.

I use either Lexan utensils I got at REI probably 30 years ago for normal eating and a pair of Toaks long handled titanium utensils - the spoon and the spork. Those are, mostly, for my Mountain House items so you can get into the bag without food all over your knuckles. This is when I'm in the...

I don't care for a brightly lit camp. At night, I want it to be night. The lighting I bring, other than a headlamp is both a small Streamlight LED lantern and my favored UCO candle lantern (the original style with the long burning candles).

We don't name our vehicles, we call them by either their model or their color. I drive an LX but I'll say, "I'm taking the Land Cruiser." when referring to it. We have a silver and a white Camry which we refer to by the color, a truck which we call "the truck", and the camping van is called...

I believe I am prepared for most but not all situations. Then again, I generally don't do things that would likely get me in trouble. I remember a story about a family from Oregon some years back who took a drive in the mountains during winter and got stuck in the snow. The husband decided to...

Without dreaming of commenting on which of those particular two you might want to buy, I will say the LX is the model I'd want over a GX. More space and heavier duty build. In spite of their reputation to go so many miles, I wouldn't buy any vehicle with over 100k miles. I bought my used LX...

Good point if one is leading a team event.

How much is a little Honda 1000? Makes more sense to me than solar for 1-2 night stays. Longer too if you carry your own gas.

I use about two of the little green bottles a year. The problem I have with propane in the LX is that if I got a 5 or 20# tank, I'd have to mount it outside and I don't do "built" rigs, meaning, it's stock without racks or bumpers where I could carry a tank. No need for my type of travels and...

I love the idea of solar but there is so much hype and misinformation out there, I'm left more confused about it than ever. However, as my needs are so simple and I spend more time driving in that I only camp in a spot overnight that I've been able to make due just fine with my two Group 27...

I have very eclectic taste in music (like most everything in my life) but, mostly, I'm a jazz guy. I have a bunch of CDs ripped to my gen 2 Nano that I can run through my audio system as well as Pandora (set up artist stations) and a Premium Spotify account where I have a huge library of albums...

Kind of what I though. In the law enforcement world too. I have a few other agency patches from the old days. When I moved to Idaho and got to know the local sheriff and police chief, I traded them patches from my old agency and got one of theirs.

I have a Deadhead sticker in the back window of my LX (my nod to Don Henley's "Boys of Summer") but I can't see putting decals on my vehicles, especially large ones unless I drove a commercial vehicle and was advertising my business.

I wondered about that too. I get patches on a uniform (like when I was a cop and our department patch was on our shirt sleeves) but I'm not sure I get all the other patches many of which (like bumper stickers and buttons) seem to be virtue signaling (not suggesting that's what the OP is doing...

I'm not carrying a Zippo these days but I tried an experiment with one where I used a *ranger* band (read: cut piece of bicycle innertube) over the seam separating the top from the bottom and I think the fluid lasted (unused) around three weeks. Without that seal, you might get a week.

I think that's where mine will go too (if it doesn't just go in the closet). I understand they don't weather very well.

I was going to get the FlameKing until I realized just how little I use propane. I don't run a heater and only carry my Weber Q occasionally. Cooking is done (depending which vehicle I'm in) on either a butane burner (in the van even though it has a two burner cooktop) or a little MSR Superfly...