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Not to keep off subject, sorry. We recently had in the news a Mother orca carry her dead infant for 17 days, pretty sad an amazin'.

For like 50 bucks you can upgrade that ole 1911 to accept lasers and lights. https://www.amazon.com/Recover-Tactical-System-Changeable-Phantom/dp/B01G5EFRSE/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1537551160&sr=8-2-fkmr1&keywords=Recover+lightrail+1911 Just put mine on and it was super easy. It took longer to go get the right allen key. Feels sturdy. Simple design.

A respectable set-up. Props to you. I'll give you a couple of upgrade suggestions for future purchases. Trade up from the D3200 to a D7200. The 3000 and 5000 series are entry level DSLR cameras and cannot survive any kind of weather or dust. The D7200 has weather sealing and can handle moderate rain and dust if you also attach a weather sealed lens. The 35mm 1.8 DX lens is fairly capable lens and has the dust/moisture seal, fairly wide aperture for lower light use, and it is affordable. A Tamron 18-300 is a nice daytime walk-around lens, but not as good in low light. The D500 is what I use, but it isn't cheap. I use a D7200 as a backup body and it has served quite well. It's an intermediate camera but it is affordable, especially if you find a good used one at Adorama or B&H. One huge benefit to the D7200 is dual card slots. Pop a couple of 32 gig (Lexar platinum II UH1 or Sandisk Ultra Class 10 UHS1) cards and you can set up to send photos to one slot and video to the other slot or run 1 slot as primary and the other as a duplicate so you have a backup. SD cards go bad after about 1000 formats, so having a backup can save your bacon. I've been a wildlife photographer for 30 years. Find Moose Peterson on YouTube. He has some great tips on setups. I mostly shoot in Aperture Priority, set my ISO fairly high to keep the shutter speed up over 1/200 of a second. I highly recommend a battery grip as well. Once you use one, you will never shoot a DSLR without one.

That’s a sad video. I’ve had orcas next to me in a small boat like that. A big bull, too. It was most impressive. I’d be awfully nervous about letting that otter on my boat with those orcas after it. I’ve heard of 1500 lb Stellar sea lions boarding vessels to escape orcas as well as to steal fish. I can just imagine a hungry 5 ton orca on my 22’ Bayliner Trophy after a stowaway otter.

Thanks for sharing. My grandfather on my father's side is native American. The older relatives believe in the creature as a flesh in blood entity. Most of the younger generation seem to be more open to it being a spiritual being.

Israeli bandage does not have quikclot or similar infused. I have a packet of quikclot granules, but in order to use it, every other method to stop severe arterial bleeding would have had to fail. The Israeli bandage is pretty versatile as it is. I am not a Dr, so first off, I would suggest you speak to your doctor and explain that you are doing backcountry excursions and may not have help for quite some time...they will give you some recommendations of what supplies to bring with your current ability level. I also suggest a first aid class and a CERT course is VERY useful. Now, my training and experience tells me YOU DO NOT want to apply quikclot to a chest puncture wound, if by that you mean a “sucking chest wound” which is a puncture that punctures a lung that does not allow you to get the proper suction necessary to draw fresh air into your lungs. The clotting granules cause a lot of damage. That may cause too much damage for a surgeon to repair. I have seen arterial bleeds that quikclot was used on (femoral). It did save the soldiers life, but they had to remove a ton of damaged tissue, graft in new tissue, etc. If you ever have a non gushing wound, use quikclot as your last resort. If I get a severed limb, tourniquet first. If I am able to get to an ER in the next 4-5 hours, I’ll go so far as a tourniquet for a sever arterial bleed. Direct pressure is preferred while your body does it’s thing and swells, clots etc to stem the blood flow. Being on blood thinners is pretty scary as a bruise or knock to the head can be enough to cause internal hemorrhaging. To use the Israeli bandage for a sucking chest wound, you’d remove the bandage, turn the packaging inside out, place it against the wound to create a seal, then wrap the bandage around tightly, tying a knot over the wound. I tried the “raise your blood alcohol level to the point a pathogen cannot live” strategy...I got sick...alcohol suppresses the immune system...plus the possibility of permanent damage or alcohol poisoning...and alcohol increases bleeding as well. With a blood thinner, I would not drink alcohol...ever. If you are very concerned about torso damage, get an armored motorcycle jacket to wear under your jacket. They are $40 or so on eBay. I keep one in my vehicle as well as a bump helmet in case things get out of hand. It will help protect against large rocks, etc.

Two weeks elk archery hunting no luck but still a great time. Skamania County WA, right in the heart of BF country. Squirrels made some great knocks with those big fir cones. My partner ran into a big black bear that was chowing down on huckleberries. He left the area because all he was carrying was a bow. Took his revolver with him after that. I followed a cougar this morning that was tracking a deer last night. Hope he got it so he wasn't looking for something else for dinner.

I have spoken with people of the Chehalis, Makah, Quinault, Skokomish and Nisqually tribes that actively live on reservation. The majority of the folks I spoke with on the topic fully believe that the sasquatch or otterman is a very real creature and that it simply wants to be left alone. A few of the people even went on to say that they knew where Sasquatch spend certain times of the year, when I looked at the report history for these areas I found that the information indeed supported their statements. Neat thread by the way.