Grandfather died this week top man, proper kiwi bloke Shepard light house keeper ranger prison officer then retired . I owe him a lot because the outdoors skipped a generation but he made sure he...
Liked On: 29-10-2024, 01:35 PM
I've run small beads of silicone on the underside of my sleeping mat to give it extra grip.
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 02:13 PM
The wife bought one of these for her 40th and generously let me use it on my recent hunting trip. Before this, we'd just used it on the lawn. We bought the Solid version as we want to have the...
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 02:13 PM
When I was a scout I used to have salted peanuts and energy chocolate as the only ingredients in my Scroggin mix. These days I might put cashews in as well or macadamia nuts if I have won lotto :)
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 02:12 PM
I've been making deer jerky. The benefit of eating it in the mountains is that it tastes so good that it inspires me to find more deer to make more jerky.
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 02:11 PM
i have the same problem, i dehydrated some black pudding once, never even made it to the campground
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 02:11 PM
biltong/jerky/dry wors - not gonna last with me around. But yes.
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 02:11 PM
rather take beef jerky, good protein hit and weighs bugga all
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 02:11 PM
This is a very good point One of the problems with emegencies is recognising that it is an emergency in the first place
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 02:03 PM
Yep, mine is in a pouch on a strong belt so always got it if you drop your pack. Yes I have used it. Out helping a farmer out culling goats that were eating his newly planted pines. Foot slipped on a...
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 02:03 PM
I like mine in a pouch on my bino harness along with a few medical things, very rare that I take that off while hunting.
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 02:03 PM
You're spot on there, I've seen so many examples of death by committee. Not litterial death thankfully but so many good ideas get buried because people want 100% agreement and don't have the balls...
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 02:03 PM
Don't put your PLB on your belt. Speaking from experience anything on the outside of your body gets wrecked when you fall a long way down a mountain. Hanging around your neck and down the front...
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 02:03 PM
I've used mine once in the three years I've been doing wilderness stuff. Took family including my mother to a DOC Hut accessible by 4WD, great few days until we were 200-300m from the track at a...
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 02:02 PM
Second that. You see a hell of a lot of people, perhaps new to the backcountry, with their PLBs looped through their shoulder straps. It’ll be the first thing to go if you fall through a whole lot of...
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 02:01 PM