Recent content by xavierdoc

Cont. It's seen a lot of use on game (I shoot a lot of deer and rabbits, having 4 freezers for meat): The open-backed design helps cleaning but, as with all Liner-locks, you have to get gunk out of the gap between the scale and the lock bar to avoid stiff disengagement and poor hygiene...

Spyderco Resilience after 8yrs. NB: Some hunting/gore pics in post two, below: Resilience by name, resilience by nature? Obviously, a fixed blade knife suits bushcraft use better than a folder but I usually carry a folder as well, particularly if my main knife has a thick blade or Scandi...

Continued... Food prep (scandi grinds never great for this): It’s a bit small for big onions: You can see where the sliced carrot has split due to the angle of the bevel/thickness of the blade, compared to a kitchen knife: Rabbit Stew ready: A very...

Warning- some hunting pics behind spoiler tabs, below. A review of the Ray Mears designed Spyderco Wolfspyder This knife had a lot of appeal: 1. I like Spyderco's compression lock 2. I have an irrational fondness for Scandi grinds 3. I like knives that date to be "different" (up to a...

Resilience. Great value beater when I bought it years ago (more expensive now). I have had various "hyper steel" knives (CPM-Rex, M390, S110v, etc) but for real world use I've come to the conclusion that it's all "Emperor's new clothes" and the "basic" alloys are better. Now, what model fungi...

Another year, another go at identifying these fungi (previous year’s pics below, but NB, different part of field and the recent ones are smaller) Location: S Wales coast. They were in a line (part of a ring?), in a cliff top grassy meadow. No trees but some gorse. Smell: not TCP/phenolic...

New book? I’m impressed with “old” book (Edible Mushrooms), though I’m still struggling with the fungi in the back ground.

Congratulations, Kev.

Thanks Dan! Ben/Xavierdoc

A short video and some photos of a little owl, last weekend.

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I had a PM asking about this, so for the benefit of non-UK readers and non-shooters: Moderator=silencer

I'm sure you're right! Otherwise I probably wouldn't own a No.1 and use wooden sticks, leather cheek-rise and cast-boolits of my own design! The scope is actually quite small- 1inch tube and 33mm objective. I was going to put a 1-4x or 1.5-5x but they were needed elsewhere. I suspect it will...

I try to look after my hearing but one can only attenuate conductive sound transmission (plugs and muffs); it's not practically possible to reduce bone conduction. Moderators are a godsend in this respect. The active defenders I use cause an interesting phenomenon when I hunt with my...

Yes- A modern classic! There is also a dead deer to spot. A bit later another joined it; a good, frosty morning with a lazy extraction!