The Suburban Bushwacker: From Fat Boy to Elk Hunter

A tubby suburban dad watching hunting and adventure shows on TV and wondering could I do that? This is the chronicle of my adventures as I learn to learn to Forage, Hunt and Fish for food that has lived as I would wish to myself - Wild and Free.

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Wednesday, 8 June 2011

Survival In The Bush: When Bears Eat Your Dinner

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Shot in 1954, Bob Anderson a producer with NFB and Angus Baptiste, his guide and minder, are given a thorough drenching and then left drip...
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Tuesday, 7 June 2011

And Thoreau's Mum Did His Laundry Every Week

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Paleo-Survival TV has been on my mind this week and while I would happily sell what few scraps of dignity I have left, and appear on pretty...
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Saturday, 4 June 2011

The Biggest Known Elephant Tusks

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For scale the cardboard plaque is 2 meters or 6.56 feet tall  and together the tusks weigh 183g or 403.45lbs In WMD 'karamojo' Bel...
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Thursday, 2 June 2011

Book Review: The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter

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A while back when I spent what was to be the first of many hilarious weekends with blogger, deerstalker and rifle aficionado, The Bambi B...
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Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Ethics, Karma And Dead Deer

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Dear You know who you are. We live in a world where it is socially acceptable to have others mistreat animals before we eat them. Fact. ...
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Monday, 30 May 2011

Urban Hunter [Spoof]

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OK they're joking, but for how long? While I'm not a doom and gloom prepper myself the number of credible voices starting to talk...
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Saturday, 28 May 2011

Mark Zuckerberg Wants To Be SBW?

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Really? I was delighted to read that you and I dear reader are not alone in our desire to have a more honest relationship with our dinner. M...
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Friday, 27 May 2011

Locavore Escargot AKA Snails

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It's that time of year again  Helix aspersa  or the common garden snail is out of hiding and on the move. Towards my dinner table. Th...
Thursday, 26 May 2011

If You Only Had One Wild Food Cookbook

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'We live in an edible world. And yet many of us have forgotten the feast that lives all around us' Regular readers will know that I...
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Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Kifaru Stuff Sack Review

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Well who-da-thunk-it a sleeping bag stuff sack that's actually worth reviewing? I've always seen sleeping bag stuff sacks as a nece...
Thursday, 19 May 2011

Skinning Rabbits - Made Easy

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Advice as good as this deserves a wider audience. Yeah I know filler post, but a funny filler post. More soon SBW
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Sunday, 15 May 2011

Unboxing: Parker Hale Phoenix Air Rifle Review

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Parker Hale Phoenix PCP (Pre Charged Pneumatic) Air rifle spittin' .177's @ 11.22 Ft/Lbs. I first put my hands on one of these abou...
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Saturday, 14 May 2011

Food Inc.

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I cannot recommend this highly enough. A fascinating documentery about the industrialisation of the food chain. Here's the link to LE...
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Sunday, 8 May 2011

Modern Life - Still Rubbish

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I feel a paralysis not because these images are horrible but because this particular issue is just one (a faraway one at that) of the many p...
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Friday, 6 May 2011

Weekend Reading: New UK Blogs

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I've been meaning to update the blog roll for a while now, but time and tide haven't deigned to coincide, so in the meantime I thou...
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Thursday, 5 May 2011

Where Architecture Meets Bushcraft

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This filler post comes from the intersection where architecture and bushcraft meet 'The living bridges of Cherrapunji, India are made fr...
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Monday, 2 May 2011

One In And One Out

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The ethics of the hunt have been in my thoughts this weekend. One young man had to be deleted from the blog roll after reporting that he ...
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Unboxing: The DD Frontline Hammock Review

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900g and fairly small although it can easily be modified to be smaller and lighter I first slept in a hammock about 25 years ago [so no one...
Tuesday, 26 April 2011

Deer Hunting In The UK Pt6

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Zombie Jesus weekend dawned warm and dry and with it our last chance to hunt Fallow bucks this season. I'd finished [for the time bein...
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Kifaru And Mora

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One of those Kit Tart's 'gear shots' we like so much. Sad isn't it. I saw this sentiment on a forum the other day and thoug...
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