Recent content by forrestdweller

sorry to hear that and speedy recovery!

google tells me cat gut is made from animal intestines, mainly from goat and sheep. i found several references of cat gut in books -- if anyone has a copy of "for the term of his natural life" by Marcus Clarke: Rufus Dawes uses goat intestines to make string for traps and to construct a coracle...

not in Costa Rica although the indigenous people have moved on to firearms... sorry for some infos not exactly related to the thread, but it was meant for entertainment only -- playing with arrow poisons can easily go wrong! to get back to the subject of the thread: last two days i saw a big...

some european some european plants are suitable for making arrow poison, too Antiaris Toxicaria is the tree used in Borneo to poison blowpipe darts -- not sure how strong it is, but the Golden Poison Frog (Phyllobates Terribliis)from Colombia is strong enough to kill 30 people and iirc you...

and early sniper rifle scopes iirc -- judging from our local spiders easy to believe (they like to put their nets at head hight across the trails in the jungle...), one spider in New Guinea produces nets strong enough to catch small fish...

occasional guide for tourists (national park and nearby private property which includes bowdrill demo ), still stuck in paperwork to obtain my license... no special wildlife today, just the normal hummingbirds, herons/ egrets etc. along river and poison dart frogs outside my door (i don't know...

no, unfortunately not... if there any around it would be most likely high up in the mountains where there's less destruction (=lot's of land clearing along coast for construction and inland for farming, + (illegal) logging :-( ) today however saw my third Red Brocket Deer since coming 7years ago...

i wish i'd be half as good as him, but after watching a few of his videos my accuracy seems to have slightly improved :-) -- i'm still a long way from being dangerous for our local critters, though...

more like a shotgun :P ,fortunately i was out of reach...

today only a juvenile nine-banded armadillo; yesterday howling and capucine monkeys, raccoons, coatis, two-toed sloths, vultures, woodpeckers and a bunch of tourists (=i was making some income as tour guide :P ) and earlier this week two peccaries. living in central america leads to different...

(cotton) hankie since my long-ago (and not voluntarily) days of wearing camo and carrying an assault rifle. unlike tissues it's rather hard to blow into them and get snot onto your hands when blowing too hard :P ,they don't get soggy in your pocket when you get wet or sweat (which is common in...

i'm using pebbles because they're for free (and i'm on a low budget), but i've also a casting mould for fishing sinkers, so i could cast my own .42cal ammo, too... there's a clip on YouTube called "carolina slingshot man" or something like this -- Rufus Hussey (=the guy featured) looked like a...

my hoofs are about average size :P and i didn't eat the bullet ant.... they can be up to 20mm long and the one i shot happened to turn up in front of me while i was practicing :-)

my slingshot is made from a forked branch, i'm using flat bands and switched to "over the top" attachment about 18months ago (after "through the fork" since long-ago childhood); ammo is river pebbles. so far i'm hopeless beyond 5m but it's relaxing :-) my only kill was a bullet ant about 5ft...

didn't know you need explosive devices for bushcrafting... :P (sorry, couldn't resist...)