Recent content by Holme

In Sweden Signal crayfish is an invasive specie, spreading the mortal "cray fish plague", thus destroying all the domestic crayfish habitats. It has now gone so far that the original domestic crayfish is about to become extinct. I own a crayfish water that previousluy contained a large...

IF there is a change in quality - I´m not shure - then that change took place some 30 years ago. Up until then, Fjällräven was a quality brand with an inventive approach that made high quality products, made in Sweden, at least to a large part. Then the company was sold to venture...

Nice trip and great photos! As you have become aware of, the average Swedish forest isn´t always that hospitable.:) If I may, I would suggest that you get hold of another type of compass, preferably a traditional orienteering compass. I believe that will improve your navigation skills. It...

IMHO, nothing good, I´m afraid. However, here is link to one shop a bit away from the city center, but you can still take the tram. http://www.kvibergsoverskott.se/ I was there in July and it´s mostly crap nowadays. If you have access to a car, you may try A.L.E in a very small village...

You will for sure learn all the "do´s and dont´s" - and you may rest assured, there are a lot of them - when you become a member of a moose hunting team.;) The most important of all - you never regret the shot that you never took, so if you want to fit in, always be absolutely shure that you aim...

Moose can vary in size. I live and and hunt in the southwestern parts of Sweden and our moose are never allowed to grow as big as they can be in Alaska and Kamtjatka, Russia. A big moose bull here weighs perhaps 300-400 kilo and in many cases significantly less, but I guess, that is big...

Well, we normally don´t hunt horses over here, otherwise than the occasional trigger happy, half blind geezer that might shoot up a bicycle or so in the next shot.;) I have a badger family living under one of my outhouses, that i have to do something about, before they undermine the whole...

Over here the annual moose hunting season almost stops all other activities in the country side. Our hunting team consists from farmers/landowners and we have about 940 hectars of land between us. For us this years moose hunting season is now over, after successfully having shot 6 animals...

As I am shure my fellow countryman "Forestwalker" is aware of, the use of "gäddsaxar" is allowed to use only by professional fishermen (as in having a a professional fishing license, issued by the national fishery agency) or by the direct owner of the fishing rights. Further, it is a real...

It is definitely a Swedish Army coookset, the steel version, i believe. Are you sure that you have folded the legs in the right order? As i remember you had to fold one of the legs before the other in a specific order.

Just a few caveats when using methanol as fuel. It is severly poisonous and of course it may not be digested and must always be kept away from children etc. It also permeates human skin so one better not have direct contact, at least not for more than a brief moment. Further, the flame from pure...

I agree. As mentioned in another thread, I have used my Trangia 25 for more than 30 years and there isn´t even a trace of any marks from the burner. But, storing the burner and the aluminium together, without the little protective plastic bag that comes with the stove (or any other bag of...

I have found my long lost brother I´m glad to be of assistance.:)

Särö is just 20 km south of me. The hunting season starts within a week... This year we have an increased qouta,so I count on more meat in the freezer than previous years:)

For that price, they are OK, I believe. However the steel in the Hultafors are nowhere near the Sandvik steel in the stainless Mora knives. The same goes for the carbon steel versions. Over here they seem to have somewhat replaced the Mora-knives as disposables.