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    Orange is the New Black

    Maybe , your equally parochial and myopic comments on Bushcraft USA are equally pedantic and all the other insults you feel raise your manly man street cred. No, don’t go take your own inventory, just go stuff yourself
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    Tomahawk - design feature?

    You can also make feather sticks with a Napoleonic heavy cavalry Sabre.
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    Orange is the New Black

    You forgot to ski off the mountain with bullets wizzing past, drop your skis and pull the ripcord to deploy a Union Jack parachute With Adele singing there 007. I posted a simple EXAMPLE.
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    Orange is the New Black

    Years ago, I was a student worker In a local college with agricultural Science history. I was using up my G I Bill. So, I’m working in a orange orchard, and as a joke, wore olive fatigues with orange circles. Ronald Reagan came on a campaign swing. I’m up a tree mending a torn branch with tar...
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    A failed attempt.....

    Trail munchies are more comfort food than survival rations. Carry what you enjoy, and accustomed to. My expensive habit is Kendall’s Mint cake. There are over the counter meds for rebelling bowels and the danger of dehydration.
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    Orange is the New Black

    Please look up the California State Flower. Then look up our periodic ‘Superblooms.’ Orange can blend in with lesser colors of fall. Bright Blue is another option
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    Anyone remember wire saws, 40+ years ago, that cut?

    The original, RAF escape kit saws were hidden in a collar lining and meant to cut seasoned small dimensional lumber ( Stalag seventeen bed boards for tunnel shoring. Get a bowsaw blade, sew up a sheath and thread it over your belt.
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    Recommendations on companion knife

    I assume, since your present collection comes up short, you will be selling everything? No? Take care of them, save your money for other kit just as critical.
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    What to use as tinder in different parts of Europe

    Ukrainian Drones
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    Humidity and cooling down

    Phoenix Arizona is the hottest large city in the USA. The last open areas have been ‘developed’ And the heat signature from reflecting cement and asphalt are enough to blunt all but the powerful monsoons coming in. Public misters are everywhere. Longterm natives have done everything to adapt...
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    A failed attempt.....

    ‘What happened before that happened?’ My equestrian mentor Would pose that after things ‘ got western.’ You drank more water than usual. My initial thought was hyponatremia and to ask if you added electrolytes and were they sugared? The JBs were revving your internal engine with little gas Then...
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    Spear shafts

    Is this a thrusting or throwing spear? Britain was/ is home to A tradition of fighting. Errol Flynn aside; you want a very straight, stable and sanded SMOOTH ‘Wee Stick’ for close in parrying and shifting grips.
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    Dawn redwood (Metasequoia)

    Coastal; AKA Sempiverins are the tallest. There range is Northern California but once extended as far south as Santa Barbara where Harry and Megan rough it. Gigantea are the inland big boys. There are a few other individual for species taller than the coastal. The giants are the biggest known...
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    Tomahawk - design feature?

    Tomahawks were used in Vietnam As a last ditch, or close quarter combat weapon if a .45, entrenching tool or knife wasn’t available. The point was akin to the armour piercing bodkin used with yew longbows. Tomahawks are comparatively light vs working axes and purely a fighting weapon. Think...
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    Dawn redwood (Metasequoia)

    I was active in the redwood summer protests. Julia Butterfly slept in the premium bag I bought during her tree sit in Luna. I grew up visiting the second Giant species. Grow your Redwood. And plant a dozen native trees. EARTH FIRST!