How can I learn more about hunting, fishing, guns, and outdoors? I am 16 years old and I want to start hunting and fishing. I have never hunted and only fish maybe once a month. My dad has bought a cabin and he goes hunting and fishing all the time and I need to get information about deer, guns, and tips and stuff on fishing and hunting. I would like websites and online information if you could give me links. I will also take other sources of information. Thanks for all your help ahead of time!

Google would tell you a lot more than I can.. Right now is spring break and I'm out hunting the museums and stuff for my family. We're also hunting for animals in the National Zoo.

I like hunting these

Dat's mah baby, my own customized AR15 built using the core components of a S&W M&P 15, but completely hand rebuilt around it.


Fold up sights down, prior to adding Magpul stock


fold up sights up, home defense light attached

Before anybody asks, yes, you want both iron sights and the holo-optic. For one, never know when you won't have batteries. For two, when I do have batteries, using both together at range gives me sub-MOA accuracy, perfect for picking off those 200+ yard shots. Obviously, for home defense use, the irons stay down because they only get in the way of a fast shot, the holo-optic rules CQB. But for hunting use, the irons would definately be up and used in co-witness with the Eotech. Also, obviously, I wouldn't have a topped off 30 round mag either. 5 shots is all your supposed to have loaded for mid sized or larger game.

Parts list:
S&W M&P 15 (Cerro Forge) upper receiver
S&W M&P 15 standard BCG
S&W M&P 15 16" chrome lined carbine length gas system barrel
S&W M&P 15 lower receiver, complete with buffer tube, all internals, and 6 position stock
Timmney 3.5lb trigger group
Daniel Defense Omega X 12.0 FSP rail system
YHM flip hooded front sight gas block
YHM flip rear sight
YHM Phantom 5C2 flash suppressor/compensator
Magpul Angled Fore Grip
ATI Ergonomic pistol grip
Eotech 512.A65 Holographic Optics
DD ambidex QD single point sling mount
Condor Single Point Sling
(Lancer L5 30 round mag inserted)

It's like building a PC, but much more frustrating at times. But for an all-purpose rifle, there's none I can recommend higher then a well built AR15. Home defense, range plinking, zombie apolcalypse, varmet and up to mid sized game hunting, there's a reason the AR15 is called a Sport Utility Rifle. To call one an assault rifle is a terrible misnomer.

WOW!

Damn, now I have to get that Sport Utility Rifle.

I'm really wondering about 2012, if something bad will happen to America. This would be good defense against something like an Alien Al Qaeda invasion!

Perhaps, but useless against an invasion like in Hellgate: London.

What kind of invasion do you picture?
--Inter-dimensional non-corporeal or the boring Star Trek kind?

Can this be moved from "gaming" into "off topic"?

I realize you can hunt for "big game", but it's a completely different form of "gaming" if you can even call it that.

Can't help ya with training for those pesky Alien Al Qaeda invaders, BUT, I can help ya with training for Al Qaeda Zombie attacks!



Zombie Bin Laden, at your shooting service!

And, for those days when Zombie Terrorists and Zombie Clowns just are not hitting that proper "Castle Wolfenstein" feeling, there's Nazi Zombies! Everybody's favorite thing to shoot at! At least, I cannot think of anything I'd rather shoot at. Nazi + Zombie, it's like Reece's Peanut Butter Cups, 2 great things that go great together... about 100 yards down range :p



Between Nazi Zombies, Osama Bin Zombie, and Clown Zombies, I'm properly prepared to train for a fascist zombie uprising, an Islamic zombie uprising, or even a circus zombie uprising. Gotta cover your various zombie apolcalypse scenarios :p

Well, actually, I picture not an invasion but some kind of chaos if a worldwide disaster happens where we all lose electricity. The sun is perfectly capable of ejecting such a strong EMP burst that destroys all of the electronic devices on Earth. Given that most of us are on "life support" with electricity, unable to survive without it like growing food in our own backyard and gathering our own water, using gasoline at the gas pumps that cease to work without electricity, etc.. The thing is that since all of our $$$ is stored in the banks that have all of it computerized somewhere on a server, the one in power will be the one with GUNS.

Yes, GUNS, that is, as we all fight for food that we don't know how to grow or gather (with most of us being uneducated at raw survival skills).

The rich who have the most guns/ammo will retain their dominance in this possible catastrophe.

Else, some kind of a nuclear war could still wipe out the internet as we have it today. The un-prepared banks still lose their data (there's no reason for them to be prepared for this thing as nobody really expects it), and the arms determine the outcome. We need whatever defense we can gather in this fragile ecosphere.