Recent content by IJ55

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    Ghillie Suits - Have I gone too far?....

    So every one keeps saying they are not needed for stalking animals or tracking. Well, guess the Ghillie suit part of it escapes most peoples notice - they were designed for Ghillies to stalk and shoot deer in, a worn / portable shooting blind if you will. It then was put into military...
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    Mountain Equipment Kongur

    Sorry mate - the wifes veto'd me on this one. She said she has got me a jacket but I have to wait for my birthday :) Sorry about that.
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    Mountain Equipment Kongur

    PM sent regarding jacket.
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    Bear Sighting!

    When you wake a bear in winter, you owe them 50,000 calories - in short, they'll do their damnest to eat you to get some replacement body fat. Caves in winter where bears live? holy all thats good - what on earth possessed a man to do that? As for the man alseep on the bench and dragged to...
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    Bear Sighting!

    I use mine all summer under an Aussie Basha (Tarp) - The best nights sleep I ever get to be honest. In winter however I'll resort to a neat little hopped bivvi I have, or if theres other people, tents. Reason being is that alot of times there are no trees where I trudge off to, so it makes sense. :)
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    survival on an island

    My thoughts totaly. Three months of feeding it, fattening it, watching it grow - wondering how many rashers you'll get and what it'll taste like... My monies on he ate it.
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    What combination of edged tools do you use?

    Leukku from Sweden, Large bushcraft knife and a laplander saw with back up pocket chainsaw for those two foot logs :) Unless I intend being out for extended time then I take a small forest axe instead of the leukku.
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    Iron Age Dig - Warm fluffy puppy fur cloaks!

    Now British Red, I would kindly like to know where the heck you got that from, because I want one. I wore one in Canada a few years back whilst my kit was drying out and it was so damn warm and snug I cried when I had to hand it back. UK brought or overseas?
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    New Handle For WS Woodie

    That is knife PRON! Red, where the heck did that beauty come from? that is just total absolute dream knife material. I am insanely jealous now!
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    Dental woes

    Kenny, you know why dentists have many different shaped heads and necks to their dental pliers? because if you do not grip a tooth squarley, you will shear of the enamel and expose the raw pulp and nerve underneath and it will still be attached to your jaw bone... This will then...
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    Bear Sighting!

    awesome thread. Three years ago I was camping in canada after visiting my cousins place. I was hung out in a hammock and was fast asleep when I felt some thign brush my backside, swinging me gently. I heard some shuffling, low growling and some playful sqeels and thought 'I'll stay still'...
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    Job update

    Always awesome to see people getting on well, and its good to know the great outdoors is making your fitness rise a few notches as thats always a bonus! Keep us all updated :) IJ55
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    Let us remember them

    Cigarettes, Whiskey and wild, wild women. That should be on his headstone - Sir, I salute you in your passing. May the Lord embrace you as the hero you are.
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    survival on an island

    "I couldn't eat it because there wasn't enough meat so I took it with me and she stayed with me for three months," In short, it got to three months old and I bet the dude ate it. Total badass though - 300 days, all alone. I salute him.
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    Teaching Bushcraft & Survival for the first time

    Thats alot of work, and alot to be proud of mate. Teaching the younger generation about bushcraft is an art form as well as a skill. Congratulations mate - you earnt a round of applause!