Good ones do a good job, pack down small, are light and keep you a bit warmer. Guess it depends a lot on how comfy you want to be vs how much you want to carry and location and time your staying wherever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aly
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Good ones do a good job, pack down small, are light and keep you a bit warmer. Guess it depends a lot on how comfy you want to be vs how much you want to carry and location and time your staying wherever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aly
Gotta keep that rep in order!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nibblet
I'm thinking next year when I hit 20 I might get one and use old age as an excuse :yuush:
They might be talking blow up dolls Aly ............ careful girl some of these fullas are warped:ORLY:
Yes as we all know us 19 year olds are just one year away from developing bad hips and brittle bones :pacman:Quote:
Originally Posted by Toby
Is that not what we are talking about here?? :ORLY:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
Just remember they do not meet the national requirements for a personal flotation device if you get caught out in a risen river :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nibblet
Not as warped as eating our pets cuzzy! Poor buddy :D :P
That would be a rookie mistake.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aly
Riding the blow up doll down some rapids?Quote:
Originally Posted by Aly
Only to find yourself at the bottom of those rapids hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by Toby
Keen for a race?Quote:
Originally Posted by Toby
Depends, are you keen to lose? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Nibblet
Rookies.
At least take a GoPro with ya
Fighting words!Quote:
Originally Posted by Toby
Always, thats how you get the best footage, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSSLc1p_gqIQuote:
Originally Posted by Aly
Fighting words alright! but they have to be shallow, I dont know if I can swim lol
That leg drag you to the bottom or something?Quote:
Originally Posted by Toby
Getting to my hunting spot with an hour walk in the dark and having a head torch that a candle could out shine, all good just went by feel!!!
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Originally Posted by Nibblet
Havent tried yet
If ya gunna go surfcasting off rocks in ya crocs, which is fine as they are the ultimate multi use footwear, dont be all cool and have ya heel strap up front like when ya cruisin through town. Put the flamin thing round ya heel. Climbing up the rocks on the way out, bait bucket in one hand, rod in the other, wet feet slip out of crocs grinding the underside of toes followed by a sweet face plant as hands were not available to break the fall.:sick:
I am now a much wiser croc wearer:cool:
Can't be that wise, you still wear crocs!!! :D
@kokako haha
Always bring blister block ... like, always. Even if you have good boots. Especially if you go out with a group of people, one guy with sore feet can really slow you down.
I always carry them in my first aid kit. I've hardly had to use them myself (fantastic boots) ... but I've had to hand a lot out to people wearing new boots/bad footwear to save them pain/speed them up on a trip.
On my last 3-day trip into the mountains though... I had a sore toe and it felt like it was ridiculously swollen and I just thought it was from my wet socks. Didn't check my toes the whole trip haha, not even when changing socks. Got home to inspect in front of the shower - I had a blister that was, literally, bigger than the toe it was formed on. Hmmm rookie mistake - should've cranked out some blister block so it didn't get to that point! Holy heck it took a long time to drain that thing!
What is blister block? A bandage or an ointment?
I went hunting with a guy who had some of this fluffy white stuff for putting down ya boots to stop it rubbing, I don't suppose that's the same thing?
That sounds interesting! Never heard of anything fluffy or white for stopping blisters, sounds like cotton haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by 308
Blister block is like a type of gel patch, you get them in different sizings for toes or the heel of your foot. Like a sticky patch - they stay on for ages and you leave them on. The gel protects the blisters from rubbing, but also act as a healing agent which cool down the hot blister! They feel so good when you've got them on haha, you can also wear them to blister-prone areas pre-blister.
Best brands are Band-Aid and Compeed, get them at the supermarket :)
http://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/i...8%3A25%3A12+AMQuote:
Originally Posted by 308
Ive useed the band aid ones, works good
Don't sit on the old metal rubbish bins in the huts in your underpants. The cracks in the top can snap shut on one of your knackers when you try to stand up.
Nice to see you got your name fixed mate. Oh PS you just made me spit coffee at my screen :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scribe
I put a post up on here about 2 years ago about getting a knacker stuck in the rubbish tin lid 'Gibo' I thought I was going to be there until I was found and released by the next tramping party coming through.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
By then I would have been hanging limply from the bin in a trench I had worn around it in the dirt floor.
Fuck me, just spat coffee all over my keyboard :D I'll bet your eyes were wateringQuote:
Originally Posted by Scribe
It was a long time ago 'Mikee' but I still pucker up a bit when I see one of those old galvanised rubbish tins in a hut.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikee
Hey Scribe that brings back an eye watering memory of the same result on a cracked plastic toilet seat......ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH... .'get it off.....get it off'..........Quote:
Originally Posted by Scribe
I wear 2 pairs of socks. An inner thin merino sock and an outer thicker possum/wool sock.
Keeps the inner pair dry and don't get blisters or sore feet any more.
Two possum Trappers met on day up on a ridge and sat down for a yarn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouser
First Trapper. 'I sat on a possum trap I set on a log the other day and it caught me by the knackers. Ghastly experience, second worst pain I ever experienced in me life"
Second Trapper. "That's pretty bad mate but surely this was the worst pain you ever experienced in your life".
First Trapper. "Nah, That came when I got to the end of the chain".
Wow I'm so glad I can't relate to this haha
Yeah I don't think you can ever go wrong with extra socks! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by aharvnz
Its a rookie manouvre you wont need to be concerned with ha haQuote:
Originally Posted by Aly
Man Rookie get such a fright when trap grab him he tow log down to road and his mother get it for firewood.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aly
I made a rookie mistake along time ago when I started trapping possums. The area I was trapping was real steep and it was thick bush on the bank of a river. To steep and thick to carry a rifle. While setting traps it required one hand to hold on to the bush while other hand nailed traps to trees,it was quite an art to nail traps to the trees with one hand without falling into the river.
When checking traps it required more skill. Hang on to tree with one hand,club possum with hammer and put foot on bag while having possum on uphill side of foot while I plucked the fur off.
You are probably thinking well what was the mistake I made?
One possum was clubbed released from trap,plucked on uphill side of foot while I was swinging off a tree and the bugger came too as I had just plucked all its fur off. This naked possum took off into the thick bush with a hell of a headache and no fur coat.:oh noes:
No wonder the Anti 1080 brigade get accused of farming possums.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
going duckshooting in cheap shitty chinese vinyl waders. setting decoys and getting the cold damp feeling crawling slowly upwards. look up to see a grinning GSP followerand another mate pointing at a rapidly splitting shitty seam. boy was it bloody cold and did the wedding tackle suffer -did it hell.:ORLY: even though i invested in a better quality full boot wader those plastic bastards aer colder than an embalmers handshake even in summer ,so ive had for kast 2yrs good neproene waders.
Ps A good long warm fart is a welcome method of warming tackle on the freezing mornings.:thumbsup: if its got a liquid overtone you may well be in a spot of strife.:sick:
secondly check your duck calls are tight.Ive lost two that came apart (one found thank christ)and had a brand new one slip out of its tether into the shitty water of ellesmere-at $50.00 a pop roughly it gets expensive.