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I have had an S1 for a fair few years, and i also have quite large hands. I've never had a problem with the handle myself, but it does initially feel strange if you are used to larger and more contoured e.g. 'coke bottle' shaped grips. I think its a great knife to be honest, and as you say, a...

I bought a few bits from them (albeit a while back) - not sure who supplies their kit, but the quality wasn't too great.

I have a honey stove - works ok, but to be honest, i probably wouldn't recommend it. Even with practice it is very fiddly to assemble, and has left a few cuts over the years!

The virtus side pocket zips are upside down compared to the PLCE zips... To be honest, much of the Virtus gear has been generally poorly received. They are on their third version of the bergen already, as the first two versions are generally considered not to be fit for purpose, and the...

Another vote for a silva type 4/54, the military version with the tritium illumination. Decent, no nonsense compass, with a sufficiently sized baseplate and useful roamer scales in 1:50k and 1:25k - no need for anything else in my book! e.g...

I feel your pain, my old house had a serious mouse problem for a while. My view was that they learnt to avoid the traps - i watched one run into our living room, and go out of its way to go round three traps i had by the skirting board. In the end, a combination of a load of poison under the...

From memory, i believe there are some scout association fact sheets covering this. Our scouts set up a range indoor, prepared using a backdrop of plywood on a de-mountable frame, with a heavy carpet hung in front to stop bounceback. pellet catchers are then affixed to the plywood through a...

We have bought the ex army ones for our Explorers, Definitely avoid the orange plastic survival bags - those are only really to be reserved for emergency use or wrapping up a rucksack that is left exposed outside a shelters etc (or as a groundsheet as per the post above). I generally just keep...

Very good quality smock, Arktis are generally regarded as top notch. There are cheaper clones which also have the waterproof drop liner, I've not used any of those to comment on their quality. Actually the army now issue a version of their smock in MTP Camp (if you don't mind that) which also...

For clarity, in case someone were to think otherwise this is best kept to a hypothetical 'survival' scenario - otherwise taking eggs will find oneself the wrong side of the law!

For me the decrease in outdoor time is purely down to a work/life balance shifting in the wrong direction - I'm self employed, and what with the mortgage etc, i'm having to put in a reasonable amount of time at work (not helped by the 4 hour daily round trip to commute to my place of work!). So...

You can get some similar ones they knock out from China - e.g...

Whilst my work bag, and my cars each have a CAT tourniquet and an Israeli dressing in them (in the last 15 years, i've only had to use one of the dressings from the car on a motor cyclist), and whilst when I'm outdoors i do carry an Israeli dressing, its massive overkill (perhaps the wrong...

I seem to recall that many years ago, the Softie 3 'merlin' was designed slightly 'oversize' in order to fit outside of another sleeping bag in order to create a two bag sleeping system without crushing the filling (and thereby denting the thermal performance) of whatever bag was used on the...

+ a couple of webbing straps/SR buckles to attach the base of the padded shoulder straps of the daysack yoke to the base of the side pouch(es). It was quite common to leave a yoke all set up ready to go attached to a single side pouch, with that side pouch attached to the bergen by its zips...

Impressive woggle, but I must say, your group scarf lacks a little something...!

Agreed! There are an increasing number of commercial woodland campsites that would enable a 'half way house' if you were really nervous, but ultimately, unless you decide to go to a very remote area or high altitude etc for your first time, there really shoudln't be much to fear from just having...

I use maverick and back country navigator - both allow the download and storage of 1:25k OS mapping (which facilitates later offline use). They work very well indeed, and there are free versions - which are the only versions i've ever used.

I used to use an MSR pocket rocket with an aluminium mug - just for the weight saving over the stainless crusader mug - which is a fairly heavy beast. Over the years the dents, scratches and misshapen parts of the mug just added character i thought!

The Carinthia Defence 4 - which was issued to the British army for a while before the modular sleep system became widespread issue has an insulated baffle on the inside of the zip (which is held in place with its own rigidity, and an external non insulated flap over the zip which has velcro...