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To put together complete sets, at less than mortgage busting prices, I've resorted to searching for parts of the complete 6 piece kit,,, a lid here, a pot there, and soon I've another complete set. Some wealthy folk collect paintings, I collect, (or accumulate) billy pots and camp cookware. (Egg...

Given the small amount of actual cooking I do, I'm not too fretful of the real or supposed dreadful effects of aluminum on my brain. I'm mostly using the pots for boiling water or for mixing bowls, but people must be fearful of something I suppose Bulldog Brand did produce a nonstick version...

A Bulldog Brand pot lifter would be quite a coup,,, I'll keep looking. These older pots and their accoutrements have a greater appeal to me than most of the more modern offerings. Nostalgia perhaps in part, but there is a no nonsense usefulness about them as well.

Some weeks ago, for $10 at the thrift store, I picked up a 6-piece set of pots and lids marked only "Hong Kong". In trying to discover who made them, I discovered that they were in point of fact clones of Bulldog Brand Billy pots. Since that original find, I've acquired a couple of sets and...

I reckon it'll be great, when it gets here; for skinning bears, deer, and beaver. I've an old Solingen made knife of a similar shape with a sharpened swedge I've use to that purpose for well over 40 years. One knife, two totally different blades, and a spear point for splitting bones when...

Nice knives ,,,

We see wolves here in our yard on occasion, and sometimes back in the bush. They are a secretive creature, but I often follow their tracks in the snow in winter to see how they hunt, or what they have killed. Nothing much so hair raising as to feel eyes watching me in the bush, then to look up...

I've seen pictographs and carvings on stone in many places in the U.S. and Canada, and as with most every one else, I indulge myself in guessing why they were made, or what they signified. Then I think of the stones in cemeteries, each marked with someone's name, and some bit of something about...

When first we bought our 100 acre "homestead", Wolf Cairn Moor, I kept both beef and and dairy cows, pigs, chickens for meat and eggs, and rabbits. Herself wanted a garden, but she won't tend it, and I don't in general eat garden produce. Because of our very short summers, raising feed for our...

You could cut the helve off flush with the head, soak the head and the bit of remnant helve in water until the grains swell; this crushes the wood fibers in the axes eye. Once it has swelled as much as it will, set the head in a warm sunny place. With average luck, the crushed bit of helve in...

Well done,,, I could fancy myself carrying those, and wearing a pair of John Lobb bespoke Chelsea boots,,,

Looks like a great place and a good time,, thank you for sharing it,,,

Great camp,,, thanks for sharing. When I see these permanent camps, it makes me want to bodge one up in the woods on my back-60.

Sound like it would be a hoot, and I'll make sure to fetch along my kilt and a pair of chaps as well,,,

Yes, and yodeling !!!! Ha,,, yodeling the melody to YMCA ?

It's still a bit early over here in the Colonies, but have been trying to keep up. So the need for an agreeable stockmans coat has given rise to the image of wet cowboy with a 48" bust line wearing chaps and standing in the doorway of the Blue Oyster Bar?

Beaver pelts I have and Frost River packs and pouches I have, but you're making me want to count my pieces to see if I'm keep up!!! Great kit and photos,,,, thank you,,,

English Longhorns are a lovely breed. I've only read of them and seen them in photos, but they are an interesting breed. The steaks look good as well,,,

Herself really does care how many knives, axes, or packs I acquire, just so long as I fetch her in a duplicate. She doesn't use any of them of course, or carry them; no reason to so long as I have mine along. When I don't purchase her a duplicate something I've gotten, I find that spending twice...

The wild rice season is nearly over, next up is netting White Fish, next is the deer hunting season, when the deer hunting season over, and I have been nearly everyday in the bush for the last 2 months, the snows will fall. Once there is snow, I will snowshoe every day until late March or early...