Steel may be cheaper than lead but what does it cost to process it from billet to shot?
Liked On: 29-10-2024, 08:46 AM
No time to sort this out with the public holiday tomorrow. In the meantime, some fettling about in the garage with some aluminium storage hooks and I have something that will work (hopefully!). ...
Liked On: 28-10-2024, 05:22 PM
Yeah I really rate trekking poles or even just one to help with coming down a hill with a heavy pack. I never used to use them until my knees started packing up but now I've always got at least one...
Liked On: 27-10-2024, 10:37 PM
I have a spare x-Mid solid outer I'm willing to send if someone wants to have a look and try it. Just pay courier and return it but happy for someone to borrow if they are thinking of one. I have...
Liked On: 27-10-2024, 03:12 PM
The footprint isn't hugely different to other 2P tents. I posted this in another thread somewhere, but here is a scale drawing I did of it compared to my MSR Hubbahubba. Ill be pulling the trigger on...
Liked On: 27-10-2024, 03:12 PM
I think theyre great IF you're already using trekking poles. Order straight from the durston website. The 2p has quite a large footprint. I use the 1p standard model and find it great. Double...
Liked On: 27-10-2024, 09:16 AM
I think I'll buy one of these tents. Definitely seems to tick all my requirements.
Liked On: 27-10-2024, 09:16 AM
I just did this to my daughter's sleeping mat after the weekend . Silicone dots on the bottom and flat beads on the top. Works a treat.
Liked On: 27-10-2024, 09:15 AM
I guess the contention is cartridge choice is a consequence of what you are rather than it making you into something. Guess the idea is correct, just that the cause-effect analysis is faulty. Samurai...
Liked On: 26-10-2024, 05:04 PM
You drive a Landrover and you're calling someone a poof? When you're in a hole the first rule is - stop digging
Liked On: 26-10-2024, 05:03 PM
You probably won't die from lead poisoning, but you will probably wish to die, because of how it destroys your health and quality of life. The father of a mate of mine had high blood lead from...
Liked On: 25-10-2024, 09:27 AM
I cant find a single scientific peer reviewed research finding that says lead in bullets is not dangerous. A quick search brings up hundreds that says it is. E.g....
Liked On: 25-10-2024, 09:26 AM
One last try. Southland is having a torrid time right now. Its hard to explain unless you have experienced it, days and weeks and months of rain, and what it does too your psychology. Waking up at...
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 08:33 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, 08:26 PM
The podcast talks about fragments visible on x-ray 30cm from the wound channel, also about the lead tested lead content in minced meat where there was none visible with x-ray
Liked On: 23-10-2024, 08:23 PM