Recent content by SI-Den

£4.50 !! that's a bloody good price for an MTP grab bag They are good bits of kit, i've got an older desert DPM bag I use for cadets - very useful when you've got just too much to fit in your pockets but not enough to fill a day sack!

BCB Cooling Scarf I thought I’d pen a quick review on a small & unusualitem – the BCB cooling scarf. These have been available for some time now and I’ve oftenlooked at them but never bought one thinking ‘how good can it be’ and ‘I doubtit would work’. However finding a few quid ‘spare’ in my...

Thats fantastic, if only I had the time & skill to undertake a project like that !! Thanks for sharing DB

Thats some great work there! DB

Hi If your in the CCF the best thing you can do is ask one of your instructors what type of sleeping bag they use and go from there. Failing that, you can search e-bay & other online shops to find an olive green sleeping bag rated down to about 0. I use a snugpak sleeping bag myself which...

Looks like a good jacket, what sort of size are the pockets? Big enough for a mess tin or smaller 'hexi stove' size? (not that I'd put a mess tin in a pocket justthi king of the size!) I'd been tempted to get one of these in DPM for a while, until we were issued with our MTP kit..... Although...

I'm not sure about the 18 month time scale, we put our sizes in for the new brown issue boots in December, just after our MTP issue, for issue early this year and I'm ACF so the regular Army must already be getting them! Can't say I'm keen on brown boots but they do look better with the new kit...

So, what do you do then?

+1 for the British surplus wicking t-shirts, i use the green & brown versions with no probs The seams along the shoulders are also lower / offset to help stop them rubbing Den

As a lot of folks have said, PLCE bergan is not a bad bit of kit but like all packs it has it's pro's & con's - all of which have been covered above. Personally Ive never had a problem with them - but then again I did my basic in 58 webbing with a 58 'large' pack so anything was an...

The only bit of arctic kit I've got is a British DPM cold weather hat - which is very warm But a bit itchy I find! Some great bits of kit in here and I do like the look of the two man arctic tent - going to havecto keep an eye out for one, wonder if the QM could rustle one up............. Den

I wish I was out tonight! No rain here at the moment in Norfolk, although it threw it down earlier with lightning Keep dry. & enjoy! Den

Sleeping Bag & bivi bag now SOLD

I've not used the sleeping bag & bivi myself, an from what I can see / gather its not been used before I picked it up either, but I wont bet my life on that! Den

Clearing out a few bits of kit, most of it is pure army surplus so probably not of interest here but the bits that may be are: MTP trousers, picked these up an they are a 'bit' small for me ;-) newer style with hidden buttons, size 80/84/100 - they have an 84cm waist, about 34" ish...