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Consider it an apprenticeship for the Viking axe and gold jewelry next time. Oh wait, that’s state property.

Shrade was a US company until going bankrupt. They sold the name and remaining assets; mostly knife patterns to a Chinese concern. I would go on every internet knife forum and post details.

Instead of fretting over a hypothetical Chinese kid I’d be buying British or at least commonwealth. I follow the news about your people facing extreme hardship, experience it here first hand. I bought a G K Chesterton 1st edition today, hard to find in any form from a dealer over there. She...

My avocation ( Archaeology) still gets the frantic call to guide digital age graduate students to recorded sites I found a half century ago with a compass, map and lots of ground pounding. Then I hear concerns about my ability to hike that far, see the stares at my also dated canvas, leather...

People make last minute, or ‘spur of the moment’ decisions all the time. A goodly number manage to misplace or forget a basic item, or Themselves not truly focused. That’s when serious ‘ threats to life and limb’ show up uninvited and ‘Things go south’ in a unpleasant way. Somewhere on a...

Paracord has become some sacred Part of the bushcraft sacrament. Why? It’s utterly wretched as fishing line and worse for snares. It actually wicks rainwater in time and degrades in sunlight and is not biodegradable. I’ve had more than one melted glob burn and find it knot and hitch dyslexic. It...

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Harry and Megan ‘ get by’ a short drive up the coast from me in a neighborhood of pretty ‘ comfortable’ people with less worries than many. With the histrionics going on, They could do an episode of ‘ALONE’ Not to bash your institution, but I thought my family had issues!

Toddy, This girl in a anthropology class was convinced ‘corn’ grew in Europe pre Colombian. No amount of explaining the old world term ‘Corn’ was not maize. We considered a Harry Potter death in that year’s corn MAZE to shut her up. She dropped out of university to marry a guy installed AC...

Ahem, In an older episode ol Dave went pedantic on the correct pronunciation of MarLINEspike vs Marlinspike. It was ‘ my way or the highway’ classic countyourberries VS millions of sailors, and the US Army hero’s ignorance of linguistics Language fluidity and patois. FYI Dave, a USCG Chief...

100’ if 5/8” silk Manila. Service in the USCG left me dyslexic with paracord and I’m always burning myself sealing the ends. It’s not biodegradable and looks like hell with oilcloth. The first American Cowboys often came off ships. There is a lot of Nautical tradition and songs came with them...

Grits are a southern dish. Your nearest version would be Italian polenta. The corn/maize varieties Are different. They are usually stone ground and yellow vs white preferred by traditionalists. You can make cheesy grits, and the ultimate shrimp and grits. A red corn version from Arizona is...

Surplus is a funny business. A Duchy of Fenwick raincape becomes available for tuppence And becomes popular. Then one day stocks run out and prices escalate faster than the great tulip fad. Then the copies; good, bad and the ugly. I learned to buy multiples of good kit. It’s not speculation ...

My input is from California. And no, I haven’t tied a ridge line between giant redwoods.my observation, British bushcraft is a more cohesive activity with many related pursuits like home food preservation , weaving etc The US has more variants than Doctor Who actors from politic pickled...

Lonnie of Far North Bushcraft on YouTube has an episode making an inexpensive Baker out of plastic tarp material. You could make your own to test the concept. If it works THEN invest in a canvas unit.

OMG the next must have item in bush crafting. Read rapidly; GoodmorningpeopleDaveCanturburyatpathfinderssurvivalschool.TodayIwantyotalkaboutthetraditionalChineseaxe. Wehavethisinthestorefor$399.00 less mask and shipping.....

I’ve never bailed out of a Wellington over Germany, extracted compass from my uniform button and started for France. Some items are to critical to skimp on quality or secondary priorities ( to often based on Walter Mitty romanticism.) I have two Suunto MC2 on my person and rucksack. I...

If she starts driving a Bentley convertible and taking vacations In Jamaica the Pythons’ red robed Spanish Inquisition can show up. I volunteer for the service veterans Group that helped me and donate to the church based social services That connected us. We just had a new ‘volunteer’...

1600 people could be 1600 meals.