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  1. Oldsarge

    Show us your Guns!

    I would guess so!
  2. Oldsarge

    Show us your Guns!

    Pity, that. The tundra is a magical place. When you stand on a rise and look over the rolling landscape you might be inclined to say, "Meh!" But when you get down on your knees and look close you see the northern forest in miniature. Blueberry bushes six inches high, cloud berries raising...
  3. Oldsarge

    Show us your Guns!

    Laminated wood is good, stable stuff but not, to my eye, any more attractive than black polymer. It's more expensive, too.
  4. Oldsarge

    Show us your Guns!

    Under most circumstances I agree with the preference for walnut stocks. However, when the hunting is to be done in the cold and wet of the Arctic, polymer rules. As a woodworker I cheerfully admit that there is no way in Hell you can fully seal wood, hard as you may try. And when the moisture...
  5. Oldsarge

    Campaign Bed

    I dunno . . . getting in would be a challenge and getting out again might require gymnastics.
  7. Oldsarge

    Adventure! Fedora Lounge Folks in Action!

    That was my feeling. The Army told a bunch of us old zebras that twenty-nine had been a good number but it was time for us to let some younger chaps fill our spots. The rest of the cohort panicked and tried everything they could think of to stay in. I shrugged, said "Thanx for the fun"...
  8. Oldsarge

    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    My maternal grandfather left me a Brunton Pocket Transit. Where I've got it would be a good question but I live in a small house. It shouldn't be too hard to locate . . .
  9. Oldsarge

    Campaign Bed

    Perhaps a trailer is in order? :cool:
  10. Oldsarge

    Campaign Bed

    I couldn't access the 'box bed' that the OP first posted but did a google search of the term and found this. Damn, if you want a portable double to queen size bed this is The One.
  11. Oldsarge

    Campaign Bed

    The most comfortable bed on the planet is an Army cot with a semi-full inflated air mattress on top, an M16 between the mattress and the cot, a issue sleeping bag on top and having been awake for 44 hours! Migawd, it was heaven to pull off the boots and just die there.
  13. Oldsarge

    Campaign Bed

    Ah, Whelen's On Your Own In the Wilderness! A grand book now long out of print and probably a style of camping no longer possible given the Canadian penchant for bureaucracy and regulation. But I still sometimes dream of a spruce bed, a Whelen lean-to and a set of glowing coals in front.
  14. Oldsarge

    Campaign Bed

    Mine ended when the kids were small. Now I don't have any kids, just adults. Roughing it now seems to mean slipping into a teardrop trailer!
  15. Oldsarge

    Campaign Bed

    It's well worth the searching. I have a copy that I was fortunate enough to obtain when it was still in print.
  16. Oldsarge

    Show us your Guns!

    For years I coveted a M12 Heavy Duck with hopes of taking it after geese. Alas, my joints now require more cushioning than any pump gun delivers and a 3" mag hammering a limit of snows or speckle bellies on day one would leave me incapable of getting up on day two. But there never was built a...
  17. Oldsarge

    Campaign Bed

    Depending on how handy you are with tools, you might consider this. Schwarz is a very well regarded writer on furniture and its construction.
  19. Oldsarge

    Show us your Guns!

    All those STW calibers make me fall back on one of my favorite aphorisms, "Just because something is possible doesn't make it a good idea." Recoil velocity is far harder on the human frame than mere recoil. I happily shoot .375's and .404's but I neither own nor covet anything by Weatherby or...
  20. Oldsarge

    Bush Jackets

    Hebert, we need either a picture or a link.
  21. Oldsarge

    Report from the mountains

    Great times, great times.
  22. Oldsarge

    Report from the mountains

    My daughter was the easy one. The son's growing up has been . . . interesting.
  23. Oldsarge

    Show us your Guns!

    For sheer utility, they're still hard to beat. Possibly a pump twelve would be better but a double is even less likely to break down. And don't even get me started on semiautos!

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