New here but been in the woods most of my life....

[engtorch]

I'm from West Virginia. I have had an interest in bushcraft since 2018 when I was doing such fun activities such as discrete camping and heard bushcraft being referenced a lot on the internet.

A lot of the kit I use for outdoors activities such as hiking, cycling, camping, etc. was sourced from the UK. It used to have a very favourable exchange rate and imports used to not be taxed here. So I have a lot of NSN '99' items, BCB, Marauder, Highlander, and the usual EU/US stuff. With a shared language and common items I decided to pick this forum. I think in my country such things seems to fall under survivalist which is a bit extreme for myself. YMMV.

I've hunted in my youth and shot some guns. I've spent a lot of time in the woods hiking, wondering around, and living there months on end even. I'm wanting to get into fishing and other general outdoors type activities. Using a minimal amount of kit seems like an interesting concept too. My other hobby includes collecting torches.

 

[John Fenna]

Hello and welcome!

 

[Mesquite]

Hello and welcome to the forum

 

[Broch]

Hi, welcome to the forum

There are a few on here that take medication for the torch addiction - I'm sure you'll have many 'confession' conversations

 

[Pattree]

Hi, welcome.

 

[crosslandkelly]

Hi, welcome and enjoy.

 

[engtorch]

Hi, welcome to the forum

There are a few on here that take medication for the torch addiction - I'm sure you'll have many 'confession' conversations

I think just keep buying them until you have everything you ever wanted. Really though 10 different ones are about all anyone needs. I really can't go out to a shop that stocks a bunch of different models to try out nowadays since Cabelas doesn't have quite the selection that it used to so I order ones from the internet and some work and some don't. It doesn't help that every review tells you how great a light is. One I wanted from long ago from Fliklite says it is bright when in reality it is as dim as can be.

Now that I have a collection I find myself biking and hiking more at night to play with some of the lights.

 

[demented dale]

I'm from West Virginia. I have had an interest in bushcraft since 2018 when I was doing such fun activities such as discrete camping and heard bushcraft being referenced a lot on the internet.

A lot of the kit I use for outdoors activities such as hiking, cycling, camping, etc. was sourced from the UK. It used to have a very favourable exchange rate and imports used to not be taxed here. So I have a lot of NSN '99' items, BCB, Marauder, Highlander, and the usual EU/US stuff. With a shared language and common items I decided to pick this forum. I think in my country such things seems to fall under survivalist which is a bit extreme for myself. YMMV.

I've hunted in my youth and shot some guns. I've spent a lot of time in the woods hiking, wondering around, and living there months on end even. I'm wanting to get into fishing and other general outdoors type activities. Using a minimal amount of kit seems like an interesting concept too. My other hobby includes collecting torches.

hello and welcome x

 

[Chris]

Welcome!