is wondering if anyone has got any feedback on the ''Bear Grylls'' fire starter, and how it compares to the old Ultimate Survival Strikeforce?
cheers chaps!
cheers chaps!
Bear Grylls vs Ultimate Survival?
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I dont know about the Ultimate Survival Strikeforce. However I can confidently say that the BG fire starter is a load of tat! It does work, but not very well at all!
here we have Uncle Les socking it to him... lol
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Why? It is generally very good quality. Or is that just inverse snobbery on your part?
The Bear Grylls craghopper trousers I have are excellent. Tough, quick drying, hard wearing, light ....and only £19 in the sale.
Are you saying that if you were in a similar position you wouldn't do a licensing deal?
I just loved it when BG was eating the remains of the apples out of the bear sh~t, he said it tasted like dog S****ttttttttt# smeared with bogies, Nice one BG. Craghopper trousers were never the best anyway but for £19 I don’t care whose name is on them.
Now where’s that apple tree.
Now where’s that apple tree.
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I really dislike bear grylls program, i have watched most of them but i find he is too in your face. I like his enthusiasm.
I really like ray mears. Brill in my opinion. Placid but informative. Ive been watching dual survival whick is good but similar to the bg program, more for escape n evade or rescue i like the long term bushcraft. Ray mears all the way.
I really like ray mears. Brill in my opinion. Placid but informative. Ive been watching dual survival whick is good but similar to the bg program, more for escape n evade or rescue i like the long term bushcraft. Ray mears all the way.
My big problem with his stuff, why all the orange?
Well at least we will see them coming, so we can get out of their way.
I think he's just got a different style than say Ray Mears. I like them both for different reasons.
The Bear Grylls, Craghoppers stuff is well made, and fits me pretty well.
The equipment seems pretty robust and holds its values, i was looking at a BG ruck sack on fleabay and it was going vvvv well, beyond me any way!
The Bear Grylls, Craghoppers stuff is well made, and fits me pretty well.
The equipment seems pretty robust and holds its values, i was looking at a BG ruck sack on fleabay and it was going vvvv well, beyond me any way!
Bear takes the subject and jazzes it up a bit for the masses - and lots of people lap it up, so what. The same thing can happen with any TV show, something that seems quite unexciting and mundane to someone who lives with it everyday suddenly becomes on-the-edge stuff for the guy/gal sat in their comfortable armchair. Maybe some people on internet forums also jazz things up a bit to make them sound more exciting than they actually are.......
Been workin' on your tact while I've been away then.
Seriously though, BG Craghoppers are excellent quality, the Bayley knife was superlative quality, and although cheap and cheerful, the Gerber stuff is exceeding expectations too. So you can't call anything with his name on it poor quality because that just isn't true by any means, in fact, quite the opposite, it is part of Craghoppers luxury ranges and the Bayley knife is extremely high end in terms of hand made custom blades.
On the firesteel, Davey569 and I tried that one day and it wasn't too good. Although it wasn't the firesteel to blame, it was the striker. I've since sharpened that and it performs just as well as the LMF version.
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Ever tried dropping your olive green handled Mora/Laplander saw on the woodland floor as evening draws in? At least you have a better chance of seeing the orange stuff, even if you don't necessarily want to use it ever again.
Thats interesting Jon, How did you come to that conclusion? Did you use a different striker?
I have to say Im quite tempted to get one of his folders too..
Yeah, I've bought a few of those pyroflint alloy strikers from here...
http://www.sharkdesigns.co.uk/bushc..._sparks_main_view.html#pyroflint_sas_x1_store
They're really good.
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