Recent content by ChrisM

Hi All, Particularly so as to help record your techniques in this forum, may I please ask which methods and techniques you have 'successfully' used to fairly accurately emulate particular animal sounds, please? For example, instead of solely use of the voice, have you utilized or improvised...

Hi All, Given that the likes of 'Mycil' anti-fungal Talcum POWDER has been removed from shelves, what have you, or the military, found to be an acceptable proprietary foot POWDER for Jungle/moist environments/conditions and foot care? Best Wishes, Chris.

Hi Guys, Yes, with regards to your replies so far, clearly if we are using a projectile method of hunting such as rifle or bow then we are aiming, intending, to avoid the abdominal region of birds and mammals, so I do apologise but that was an inherent assumption of the original question. My...

Hi All, Hope you're all OK!? May I please ask a question of those genuinely experienced in the use of various Animal traps and/or Shooting/Bow-Hunting, and condition and use of the animals caught thereby? When field dressing an animal, we tend to avoid puncturing the alimentary canal to avoid...

May I please put in a recommendation both for the forum and/or the Bushcraft Magazine(s) to consider, which is to collate all of the known types of smokeless fire & stove & techniques (e.g. the low-observability methods of cooking and having a fire) and to record them in the forum/magazine...

Dear All, I wonder if I could ask you please? Have any of you as yet had personal experience of Tom Brown Jr.'s (and colleagues') Tracker School courses in the USA, and, if so, which, and how have you found them and the experience, the attitude/approaches (e.g. inc...

Just a last quick question for now. This is just to gauge a smidgen of the prevalence/availability (or otherwise) of this tree/wood these days. Do readers of the forum know of any Elm trees, and/or Elms in hedges, maybe thus a little as to their state of health, and of their whereabouts &...

Dear All, I am wishing accrue a list of persons and/or organisations who are experienced and practiced in the arts of smelting and in metallurgy and metal separation and purification from ore generally, particularly from the finding and practical identification of said ores to...

Dear All, I apologise for this wide forum posting, but I did feel to need to ask. I have tried to contact Shadowhawk with regards to 2009 Tracking courses regularly since October 2008, by various means, and have been unable to speak to anyone or receive a reply thus far i all that time. May I...

Yep, if my wife's and my house purchase concludes OK then I sall be living near to Chulmleigh in the NW of mid-Devon and will be practising as much Bushcraft and all related skills, so-called Primitive skils, Self-Reliance skills, Natur & outdoors skills and so forth as is practicable. And...