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Vintage clothing offers natural materials, superior workmanship and tailoring friendly. There’s an online blog; UK expat in Norway who talks about vintage and contemporary sources for clothing

My MK5 Canadian boots arrived today; six days transit and in half the stated 20 week lead time. The best conversion tables for sizing systems still leave many Unknown variables, especially footwear. I was lucky. An old pair of Churchill’s say I’m still a UK 11 and my intended MO5 Finnish sock...

Hello from California. Holds up a BIG SIGN ‘ You are here X’ That’s as good a place as any to start. You don’t have to get out the Cheque book quite yet. A few basics you probably have or can pick up to start. Everyone wants THE KNIFE. You have more stringent laws. Be careful BOOKS and online...

No Just being silly, since a can of spray paint, paracord wrapped handle and my Mora #1 is ‘tactical’ And 2x the base price

I just watched King Solomons Mines with a dapper Stuart Granger. He had a felt hat with leopard trim, khakis and a best grade rifle crooked in his arm. Behind him a couple dozen native load bearers ( mind the gin there !) Walked singing about taking off the minute danger appeared. I’m...

Can I bring my tactical knife?

Adequate ‘stopping power’ is useless if you can’t hit anything. Stunt men on jerk lines being thrown backwards by a .44 magnum ( terrible combat round) Look good on film but not real life. I had a coffee table book on old merchant ships still in service. A Norwegian skipper was transporting...

Survival Lily’s blurred derrière turned me off all iterations of the genre.

Re: Hunting The various loads of powder charge and projectile were sufficient ( to use RR reply to horsepower) for the chosen game. People also employed more hunting SKILLS IE stalking, waiting for a favorable shot and KNOWING Their firearm. A flintlock has a long ‘lock time’ between pulling...

I’ve been pursuing the Monty Python technical assault on roadside gutters. There were moments reaching for that hairline cement crack meant victory or inglorious descent.

Just ask a local for directions ( if the local accent is loaded on Star Treks’ universal translator) This worked for me in Ireland- except for this guy who, in all sincerity said ‘ well now, if I was you, I wouldn’t start from here.’

That ‘interchangeable’ percussion cylinder is a Hollywood gimmick dreamed up for PALE RIDER with ol razor blade eyes, anti firearm Clint Eastwood

People have this ignorant arrogance to the past. The great lithic monuments had to be made with alien help mindset. Old technologies WORK. The RN navigated the world because mechanical, analog chronometers were created. The critical burn time for Apollo’s re entry done with a wrist model...

If you have access to a power drill the wire wheels work just fine. Lots of YouTube instructional posts.

I don’t know about the multiple formulae determining ‘ power’ I carried the 1911 in the service- NOT the slight upgrade 1911a1. It was my grandfather’s US NAVY stamped, 4 digit From WW1 It’s grandfather was the .230 grain Scofield revolver load issued to the US Cavalry. The criteria? Founder a...

Is this flintlock exclusive, or percussion cap black powder? Some rifles IE the Hawken had sophisticated progressive twist rifling and double set triggers. Bullets can be simple ball, or later conical such as the dreaded French Minie’ with hollow base for expansion in bore for greater accuracy...

I worked for a used and rare bookstore in University. I arrived one afternoon to the smell of Dunhill pipe tobacco. Deep in the classical lit aisle a man, doppelgänger for King Edward stood in a wool Inverness, black homburg and free form Danish briar reciting a translation of the Iliad in Greek...

Cast iron can be cleaned up with progressive sanding to remove casting marks. Then reseason carefully and the performance improves remarkably

10’x10’ oilskin tarp, stakes and matching ground cloth with merino LiningfromBC Spain It’s POURING rain again in California. I had a horrid nightmare this AM just before the alarm went off. We had ‘ The Big One’ and my apt red flagged. Eggs went up again past $6 a dozen and Justin Bieber moved...

Steel ‘formulas’ are much like a beef stew with wine added. You May use a Cabernet Sauvignon but a different vintage or winery. And the parsnip was a little small so a bit more potatoes went in and that pinch of sea salt a little more than usual. It’s still a Delicious Beef stew within the...