Recent content by forrestdweller

following this thread with interest...if anyone knows of a reasonable priced trail cam without that (imho)idiotic 5-second delay between activation and recording (or a way to bypass it) i'd be happy to know... i'm placing trail cams for a neighbor, and finding large enough gaps in the dense...

last week i cobbled up a small "veshmeshok" style backpack from various scraps i had floating around -- as it was sewn by hand it kept me occupied for a few evenings... not perfect, but it's doing it's job :)

glad to see i'm not the only one carrying multiple blades :-) (although that has been around since prehistoric times, one of many examples would be "Oetzi" the ice mummy...) my current set-up consists of ●a 12" machete (i'm in central america... a small parang would work better imho, but they're...

i had my share of close calls involving widow makers since coming to central america: on one occasion a dead tree we'd told our neighbor about for over six months decided to land on the roof 4m from where i was sitting and right over my toilet... another time i just took off in time when i heard...

Mora seems to be busy releasing new knifes lately....

what's that little pouch behind the knife for? my guess the material was originally something different, but the camo pattern looks very familiar to me...

the spork or the puukko?

so it's not just me getting annoyed by this...

today i painted the ditty bags mentioned in my previous post with silicone (dissolved in mineral spirit) in an attempt to waterproof them. currently they're out in the sun for drying-- can't wait to test if it worked... last night i made a new buckle from heavy-duty copper wire and started...

i recently bought some silicone spray at a hardware store in town -- it was cheaper than WD40 (which the clerk suggested first) but i'm somewhat unimpressed by it's performance... today i waterproofed some fabric with silicone (dissolved in mineral spirit) and decided to paint it on one rool as...

i thought all invaders were illegal...

somehow this looks like someone is step by step disarming the population to me...

iirc the NVA (that's the National People's Army, not the folks in Vietnam...) used the sleeve pocket for the compass and spare pistol magazine...

i was spotted by a gazillion mozzies thanks to the recent rains but also saw a northern tamandua up in a tree (been a while since i saw the last one as they're usually nocturnal...)

sorry for going a vit off-topic, but is there a gear list for this trip?