Recent content by Wildgoose

Plenty of temperate smocks about for reasonable prices. Sizing wise the numbers are height and chest in CM or as close to it. The temperate smock was still used in the late 90s/early 2000s in Northern Ireland as the cotton gave better flame resistance being cotton.

Top one is probably around 2005, standard issue to all personnel. Replaced the soldier 95 rip stop one. The mod started printing woodland on the labels to distinguish from desert dpm which was very popular at the time. Issued until MTP came in 2010 ish. Bottom one is 94 pattern. Full cotton I...

No affiliation but cadet direct have TQ’s on sale right now, £13 or so. Not as good for self rescue but the Tourni Key is a reasonable alternative at under a tenner too

I find a lot of ready to go kits are lacking in the quality of the items provided. The cheaper ones also add a load of fillers with very little real world use. Check out reflex medical, they used to be on here and at one stage offered a FM discount. Bought from them a few times and they are...

I hankered after a spray way jacket in that blue/teal colour in the 90s. At £200+ was just a dream then.

Do you mean the bottle green smart ones? I think they were replaced in the early 2000s with a more khaki coloured type. The bottle green plastic ones used to melt at the sight of an iron so the shortage may be due to the fact that there’s more material on the iron plate than on the legs

Probably not, but logic would suggest a rise in knife related statistics following a law change.

Perhaps not everyone thinks they are bad laws?

But that’s the law in the UK, like it or not. If you wore steel toe cap boots with the intent on kicking someone then potentially yes, or those sand gloves that were doing the rounds a few years back.

In the UK that’s part of the issue being discussed. As soon as you consider an item for use as a weapon the intent part of the law is complete. Admittedly it would be quite hard to prove your intent, unless they found a forum post or similar.

Nice that. The M95 was on my list about 20 years ago when it was advertised in the back of Combat and Survival magazine for about £90. I didn’t ever order and still regret that.

I’ve always questioned why the government favour blacked out SUV’s and men in suits in such events.

I carry a space pen in the small pocket of my jeans/chinos. Being small it doesn’t break/stab me when I sit down. Prices have shot up on them though, so if I lost it I’m not sure I’d replace it. I have a Bic 4 colour mini too

Actually there is another on here by Wayland (I think) being stopped in his van full of swords, spears and other weaponry. Have a balanced and entertaining view if I remember correctly

I’m not keen to shift goalposts or derail threads, but since 2012 there have been 12 summer moots, numerous winter moots, hundreds of outdoor/bushcraft gatherings and probably thousands of camping trips, wanders, walk with a brew etc by members here, all of which involved people travelling and...