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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Friday, 27 April 2012

On the subject of WDM Bell: Small Bores Versus Big Bores

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The food ran out. The boys had eaten all the elephant meat they had bought with them. My food was finished, but the cartridges were not...
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Thursday, 19 April 2012

Book Review: Karamojo Safari by WDM Bell

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I first learned about Bell through shooting the .275 Rigby, the tweaked Mauser Rifle he's synonymous with. Rigby bought the workings...
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Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Spam Comments On Blogger

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A while back I showed you a window into the strange, perhaps surreal, world of the FLSC or ‘foreign language spam comment’ . Well than...
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Sunday, 15 April 2012

Deer Hunting In The UK Pt7

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Pricket skulls found in the woods A chap, we'll call him HunterX, wrote to me a few weeks ago, said he was a reader and invited m...
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Monday, 2 April 2012

Old School SBW In France Hunting Pr0n

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Reserved for Hunting - How's that for POSTED! While Shooter and I were traveling to the clay ground the other day the inevitable su...
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Sunday, 1 April 2012

Unboxing Torch Review: NiteCore D10SP

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There are lots of really cool torches available, and most of them run on CR-123A wonder batteries. Making them very bright but less than i...
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Saturday, 31 March 2012

Shooting Clays - A Lesson Or Two

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The very first day the clay grounds take delivery of those barn door sized clays,  I'm going to be lethal! Honest. This week S...
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Friday, 30 March 2012

At Shooter's Place

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Now that's something you don't see every day! Popped over to Shooter 's place yesterday on the way to the shooting ground t...
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Wave goodbye To The Norcal Cazadora

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Just a quick one to let you know that Holly AKA The Norcal Cazadora has hung up her hat and posted what she says is her last post. Crying s...
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Saturday, 24 March 2012

Restoring Bison

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A fella wrote to me asking if I'd share this with you, its a lord-able aim, with stunning photography. I thought you'd like it too...
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Friday, 23 March 2012

Hunting Shows: David Petzal AKA Spokesfart Speaks

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You might not know this, but I'm a big big fan of David E Petzal's writing, sure I pissed myself laughing when he endorsed Sarah ...
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Thursday, 22 March 2012

Weekend Reading: Welcome Shooter

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Delighted to add a new voice to the blog roll, and following on from our meeting yesterday also award 'one of the good guys' stat...
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Kifaru Regulator Sleeping Bag Review

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"Lightweight, Durable, Inexpensive. Your choice of two." - Truism Many years ago my cousin and I were camping out in Gallowa...
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Saturday, 17 March 2012

Fish Fight - Please Help

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Remember a while back when we looked at the massive problem of all ex-quota fish being caught only to be discarded ? The news from Hugh ...
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Friday, 16 March 2012

Bushcraft Weather Prediction Pt.1

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Frogs Pr0n init! In a suburban garden the rite of spring has sprung once again, and I'm reminded of Andy Richardson 's observa...
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Thursday, 15 March 2012

Book Review - Glock: The Rise of America's Gun

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Not really a handgun kind of guy myself [air pistols aside I've only ever fired an S&W 1911] but I do enjoy a bit of riflery and k...
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Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Suburban Hunters Of The Old East End

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East Enders Afield Just a quick one to let you know I've not fallen off the edge of the world. A while back I met up with Cleve ...
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Thursday, 1 March 2012

Leuku: The Knives Of Finland

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In the pristine frozen north of europe where oily softwoods like birch and pine grow the Sammi people developed a form of knife known as t...
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Monday, 27 February 2012

Blogger WTF!

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Dear Blogger What is going on with you guys? Really WTF is going on? I cant comment on my own blog, other people with blogger accounts...
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5 Gun Meme

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I've been a little busy this year, and mysteriously unable to post comments on my own blog for the last three weeks but rest assured dea...
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