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    Free to good home...

    Hi I'd like the boots if still available please
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    looking for Crooked knife info

    Any hardened metal , like a hacksaw blade or a file can be softened (annealed) by heating to cherry red then being allowed to cool slowly, it can then be shaped rough ground and bent ro the required shape before hardening and tempering again as required. the finally sharpened and polished. Good...
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    Clearout - loom

    Hi just what I have been looking for, am in Ilfracombe so could collect.
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    Nintendo DS/R4DS

    have loads to trade, what are you looking for?
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    three word story

    My ham sandwich was very limp from wet lettuce and pouring rain, as per normal. I put it near the fire. Aliens landed nearby to investigate my rectum. It hurt. But not as hot coals feel when strategically placed on top of my prized knife and inserted deeply into my ear. The smell was really...
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    Altberg Field & Fell boots - breaking in?

    the easiest way to break in a new pair of books is to pee in them, urine is used in tanning leather and also an antiseptic. Ask any WW2 footslogger how they broke boots in.
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    anybody converted their own campervan ?

    there are plenty of caravan breakers out there for parts. Think about a fix transverse bed with storage under. Shame you are so far away have a few bits knockinh around here. I also have a 1971 tax exempt transit CI motorhome, I fitted a modern 2.5di just needs finishing now but basically all...
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    Freebies

    bum bag arrived today perfect fit for my camera, thanks again.
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    Compound Bow / Air Rifle & 2 x Pistols to go!

    pm inbound for one of the pistols
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    Bushcraft Boat? Ref: Rivers TV Show

    Is that really the case, they own the bank and riverbed but not the water and you are on the water. Fishing any river from a public bridge or footpath is legal without the landowners permission so why would paddling on the water be any different. Any answers please?
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    The Good Life, Bushcraft and the Recession

    I have always been a gardener, prefering fresh fruit and veg to buying in vitamin deficient and additive enhanced food, I hunt the odd bunny mainlt to stop them eating my veg and destroying the headrows, and chuck in a bit of foraging for good measure, any surplus is bottled or frozen. So for...
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    Government to take away your ability to buy vitamins

    If people grew their own food, had an allotment or whatever then additional vitamins would not be necessary. If people ate sensibly, a balanced and restricted diet with out additives we would all be much healthier. (Says a 17stone, gardener, hee hee)
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    what is the law on blade length

    irrespective of blade length a lock blade knife is an illegal carry, UNLESS you can show just cause, Equipped for fishing on way to beach= fine, equipped for fishing sat in pub= arrestable and just seen someone on tv ARRESTED FOR HAVING A LOCK KNIFE IN THE BOOT OF THE CAR. So not even on person.
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    How old are you?

    62 so have earned the right to be niggly at time as I come from a time when every word in the English language had a different meaning. But not to worry with my health I don't think I'll be in your hair for too long, hee hee.
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    Anybody else keep Guinea pigs?

    been thinking about it, what do they taste like Actually had several over the years. they do like to burrow so beware of letting them loose on grass, they need wood to chew on to keep their teeth short, if they get too long you can clip them like fingernails, check them often or they can grow...