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  1. BearInTheWoods

    Sometimes you have to laugh...

    Me too, in the end the pub landlord dragged it out the next morning, along with the monkey-bike, using a sort of grappling-iron thing on a rope. It all went into his dumpster.
  2. BearInTheWoods

    Sometimes you have to laugh...

    I'm waiting until the weather improves, then going out again to a nearby farm, will take a deer rifle with me just in case a roe comes passing by. Hard to beat venison kidneys fried in butter for breakfast, with a lump of crusty brown bread to soak up the juices, and a lake of tea to wash it down.
  3. BearInTheWoods

    Sometimes you have to laugh...

    Because with both legs coming disgustingly unravelled from cellulitis, a dud left knee and borked right ankle, it seemed wise to be close to what I had innocently assumed would be civilisation.
  4. BearInTheWoods

    Sometimes you have to laugh...

    Ah, but I did get to see the look on the face of Junior Hooligan no. 2 when, like Wile E. Coyote, he realised that he and his machine were of a sudden in mid-air with downwards as his only available direction. Fortunately it was only a 5' drop but into a lovely deep mudbank which he landed in...
  5. BearInTheWoods

    Rarest flying thing seen today I'll wager!

    Join a rifle club; they're quite legal to own as target rifles. Though you may prefer a No. 4 in 7.62mm as I am told that the .303 is a bit hard to find, these days. It is addictive, though, before you know it you'll have reloading presses and ten different powders, four different primers and...
  6. BearInTheWoods

    Sometimes you have to laugh...

    It was an unusual night, certainly.
  7. BearInTheWoods

    Sometimes you have to laugh...

    Been feeling a bit better of late, and thought I'd try to get out just for one night. I decided to go to a pub that allows you to put a tent up, perhaps this was where the trouble started. Another chap decided to invite himself along, great I thought, a bit of company to shoot the breeze over...
  8. BearInTheWoods

    My 1000th post competition!

    Fishpaste sandwiches?
  9. BearInTheWoods

    BcUK Photograph of 2013 competition Grand Final

    They're all so dashed good it's a job choosing between them.
  10. BearInTheWoods

    Finnish Wilderness 'Pukko' knife

    No but I'd take £40. Postage included.
  11. BearInTheWoods

    ND filters

    Just a warning to anyone thinking of ordering Hitech filters, they seem to turn out a few as and when the spirit moves them, I've been waiting 3 weeks for some 100x150 grads, with no delivery date in sight, call and ask them when you can have your order, and a sort of massive shrug comes back...
  12. BearInTheWoods

    Finnish Wilderness 'Pukko' knife

    Made by 'Finnish Wilderness'. That's the name of the manufacturer. All the other details are on the link as stated above, but here they are if you want them on this page: 3.5" x3mm Carbon Steel blade.
  13. BearInTheWoods

    trousers

    The 'Farmer's Favourite', Dickies Reaper trousers, would do you very nicely I think, they make other models too. Very well constructed strides, you have to work at it to get cash out of a Devon farmer and these go down a storm here...
  14. BearInTheWoods

    My new coffee cup.

    Very nice, it's beyond both my skills and my motivation, I tend to go to Moorland Rambler and buy an insulated stainless mug. (I'd put a 'shame-faced' emoticon here if I were inclined to search for it). I like the rough-hewn, handmade look of yours, rather than the shiny-smooth effect of the...
  15. BearInTheWoods

    Finnish Wilderness 'Pukko' knife

    Absolutely brand new and unused, a very attractive knife with a handle made from zillions* of layers of birch bark, in a traditional Finnish 'dangly' sheath. It was obtained for a photo shoot, now concluded, and has never been used to cut so much as a bit of string. Below are a couple of pics...
  16. BearInTheWoods

    Dartmoor

    I would guess that he either had permission for the use of firewood/lighting fires, or that he was very lucky to get away with it.
  17. BearInTheWoods

    More mystery parcels..

    If you don't know who they're from, don't open them in front of others is my advice. I once fell for that with what felt like (and turned out to be) a book of 'coffee table book' dimensions. It was the contents of the book that were a little... unusual. I won't elaborate as I'm sure some of you...
  18. BearInTheWoods

    Suggestions for a stove? Under £50 (if possible)

    Another vote for the Coleman 533 - best stove I've ever owned, works like a dream and is very controllable. Wouldn't swap it for anything.
  19. BearInTheWoods

    New Bushcraft/Firearms Poll

    Quite a few shoots in the UK will send you home if you turn up with a pump or semi. All part of the British safety culture - when the gun's 'broken' it is beyond all doubt safe, but you can't tell if a semi/pump has a round chambered. Plus there's still a bit of snobbery going on (especially...
  20. BearInTheWoods

    New Bushcraft/Firearms Poll

    Nearly everyone uses 12s, a few use 20s, usually under the impression (mistaken IMO) that the recoil will be less (throwing the same amount of lead at the same speed down a narrower tube ought surely to increase it?). 16s are pretty much a dead duck, there are a few old ones knocking about...