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And received - superb all round - many thanks!

Swimming whilst floating a rucksack in front is very very slow. Ok for the width of a river, but not particularly feasible for e.g. a welsh reservoir only a few degrees above freezing. ahem. I second the comment above - dragging the flooded rucksack out of the waters edge - despite the drybags...

Bushcraft aside, your first day trip out needs to be a tour of the Adnams brewery in Southwold!

Looks lush! Does it have a central hanging point on the ridge? Some internet photos suggest they do, some don't! how does the fabric compare to a DD?

These do look rather nice tarps - love that pencott scheme too. The only thing that I notice (and it might just be that the pictures are not accurate) is that there is not a central loop along the ridge - which presumably means its rather limiting if someone were to want to pitch it on the...

I've got an Umarex Glock17 Gen 4 - very realistic, good blow back, but rather inaccurate. A Webley MKVI revolver - in .177 pellet - and an 'aged' finish - very nice actually, and quite accurate. An umarex Walther PPK - bb, blowback - not hugely accurate, but as a very small pistol with a strong...

An Umarex Beretta 92fs for the growing CO2 pistol collection! Once the barrel is leaded it will hopefully be a little more accurate than my other replicas (although the Webley MkVI is pretty good), and as a .177 lead pellet firer it is crucially a touch safer than my metal bb firing replicas...

Many thanks - that is some very useful information! I'm now rather interested! I loved the HF stuff that I did in the army, and always enjoyes the 'magic' of radio. I have memories of my grandfather (an ex Royal Navy WW2 radio operator) talking via morse at lightning speed to people all round...

This is possibly a silly question - but i have often wondered what people actually talk about when you make contacts over (HAM) radio? Is it mostly a fairly short exchange to identify where someone is relative to yourself and perhaps ask about their kit? With the point being principally to make...

I think some camelbacks were issues as an 'Urgent Operational Requirement' during afghanistan. Not sure if that is still the case though. Same was true for Karrimor SF/PRI branded daysacks. These days, except for some specialist roles, I suspect that the Virtus stuff is generally on issue (with...

I see no reason why that would be an issue. As long as you have sufficient 'real estate' on the side of your preferred pack, it would be a very simple job to remove any existing side pockets and then sew on the two zips that are required to attach the PLCE pockets. They are a standard spec zip -...

Silvermans is an absolute classic shop - and were knocking out better than issue kit to squaddies in the days before there were loads of shops doing similar. Perhaps cometing with the likes of Survival Aids back in the day. To be honest, these days they do have some interesting kit still (and...

That's a 58 pattern SAS E&E drop leg pouch. possibly a copy e.g. here: https://www.sofmilitary.co.uk/1958-sas-escape-ration-pouch-by-kay-canvas.html , possibly genuine! edited to say - beaten to it!

An excellent bit of kit - pre-dated the DPM basha (the design of which continues with the current MTP version), and was issued at the same time as the 58patt poncho to specialist units, and for jungle use. I was happily issued one by accident back in the day when all my mates got 58ponchos...

I've got a munroe, a sabre 30, sabre 45, and a 5.11 Rush 24 (and had various other similar sized daysacks in the past). To be honest, the sabre 30 seems to be my go-to when i have a few bulky items only to carry e.g. water, warm layer, waterproof, lunch; and the Rush 24, where i have a few other...

Got a prison stay coming up?!

I did something similar with the 88" Lightweight - with a clansman antenna arm bolted onto the side at the rear (in a removeable manner) and a large black fibreglass antenna poking through a slightly modified clansman rubber antenna base. Mobile radio mounted down in the passenger footwell, with...

You will probably be surprised just how effective the radios are - we run a large scout event each year over an area of forest about 2km x 2km - and 15/20 yrs ago when we first started running it we maintained an effective radio net just with the 0.5w PMR446 handhelds (with 20 to 30 adults using...

We use UHF radios on 446 for scouting events in wooded rolling hills. Most of our radios these days are 4/5w TX and cope just fine over approx a 2km area. In the old days using mainly 0.5w TX 446 radios, we tended to find that useful range was restricted to approx 1km in the same terrain/site...

As per Wildgoose's advice- I've had good service from one of these for many years. Its very flat, breathable, and the simple buckle gives you the option of threading the webbing all the way through both halves for the strongest possible/no slip (i've never had the need to), or just through one...