The Adventurer's Gear Thread

[carebear]

Just last night I shot a kudu in my pajamas...

What was a kudu doing in your pajamas?

We've got an act!

 

[Nick Charles]

OK Bwana me to getem big game game. ebay 15.96 I may also go back and check out that beer, I didn't see it after the chair purchase.

 

[cookie]

OK Bwana me to getem big game game. ebay 15.96 I may also go back and check out that beer, I didn't see it after the chair purchase.

This thread is starting to go where no man has been before!

 

[Mojave Jack]

Good call, Nick. They have quite a selection of beer, amongst other things. All very exotic and fun.

On a side note, you just reminded me that I wanted to see if NetFlix had the Bob Hope comedy "Call Me Bwana." If you were wondering, the answer is no. Dang it.

Oh and nice act guys! I'd have taken that bait if Serial Hero hadn't been quicker on the draw!

 

[Nick Charles]

we are getting a good group of guys in here we need to really plan another camping trip.....I think it just BULLY!

 

[Mike K.]

I'll warn you...

That Cabela's safari game can be really addicting!
I've made through the complete safari hunt in intermediate mode and have taken all of the Big Five. Got trampled by an elephant once or twice also!

For all of us drooling over the double rifles but don't have the cost-of-a-house-downpayment kind of money to fork out for one, check this out.
http://www.nrapublications.org/sh. illustrated/twintube.asp

 

[Kodiak]

OK Bwana me to getem big game game. ebay 15.96 I may also go back and check out that beer, I didn't see it after the chair purchase.

Good God Nick, are you speaking Pidgin? :eusa_doh:

we are getting a good group of guys in here we need to really plan another camping trip.....I think it just BULLY

Hey... that sounds like fun. BT would have to bring a moving van for all his gear though... I think I could wear mine.

For all of us drooling over the double rifles...

We could just buy the Cabelas issue. The Kodiak Express Double Rifle, I don't have a linky but I just saw it in a "Limited Edition" catalog today. Its a black powder (Selous style), and comes in .72 caliber (which equals "Jesus Christ thats a big piece of lead!" in layman's terms) and even bears the lofty name of yours truly...

Now what's better than that?

 

[Diamondback]

IIRC, .72cal=12-gauge slug. I once saw a pistolized 12ga. side-by-side referred to as a ".72 Magnum"...

 

[Mike K.]

We could just buy the Cabelas issue. The Kodiak Express Double Rifle, I don't have a linky but I just saw it in a "Limited Edition" catalog today. Its a black powder (Selous style), and comes in .72 caliber (which equals "Jesus Christ thats a big piece of lead!" in layman's terms) and even bears the lofty name of yours truly...

Now what's better than that?

What's better than that is the cartridge model of the Pedersoli double rifle. The Cabelas version is their "standard" model - average wood stock and a muzzleloader. I'd prefer (for almost the same price) the Pedersoli Kodiak Mark IV in .45-70 caliber (cartridge instead of muzzleloader).
http://www.davide-pedersoli.com/ArmiCategoria.aspx?CategoriaId=280&lang=en

we are getting a good group of guys in here we need to really plan another camping trip.....I think it just BULLY!

Splendid idea Nick!! Just don't head my way until October. We're in the middle of sauna season here in south Florida.lol Wasn't it Baggers that suggested a game ranch somewhere in Texas?

 

[Rooster]

I wonder if Pedersoli would sell a barreled action in any of those SXS? I can never get past the crappy locks or the cheesy stocks on those things.:eusa_doh:

 

[Lancealot]

Vest help

I missed out on this vest over on ebay and was wondering if anyone knows a retailer that sales anything like it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...MEWA:IT&viewitem=&item=300121679512&rd=1&rd=1

Thanks,
Lance

 

[Edward]

Hey folks. Without wanting to offend folks who regard "costume" pieces as inapprorpiate to the serious business of adventuring, this thread seemed like the most appropriate place for this. Any passing bartenders please remove it to somewhere lese if that fits the house style better!

I recently chanced across this on eBay. It's a buy it now link from a company who sell lots of them, so I'm presuming it's ok to post it here (having gone through the rules on the posting of eBay auctions). If I'm wrong, please remove and apologies in advance!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160076096728

It's an Indy gunbelt / holster / whip holder set, from an ebay business specialising in movie costumes pieces (seems mostly Star Trek, Star Wars, and what looks like some really nice Pirates stuff). I'm sure it's nothing on the quality of the items you can get elsewhere (at a much higher price, of course), but I'm tempted to give it a shot myself. Could be a reasonable option for those of us who don't possess a gun and would only rarely be wearing the belt? Pity about the embossed logo on the belt - I did email to ask if they can be had without that.

Again, sorry if this is the wrong place to post this - I'm trying to keep to pre-existing threads rather than start new ones.

Moderator Note: With 13 of the items available, I believe you are indeed within the guidelines of:

" Items that are not one-of-a-kind that are offered by eBay members as a Buy It Now product on an ongoing basis. You will find links here to sales of inexpensive razor blades, for example. They are always offered, always at a standard price, and the ingredient of competition among bidders is removed."

Should the status of the item change, we may have to adjust this.

Thanks,
HJ

 

[Serial Hero]

I missed out on this vest over on ebay and was wondering if anyone knows a retailer that sales anything like it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...MEWA:IT&viewitem=&item=300121679512&rd=1&rd=1

Thanks,
Lance

Sorry to here that. That’s a great looking vest, and for $11.50 too!

I’m sure there’s something out there.

 

[DanielJones]

I think Orvis has something like it.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[TraderRic]

Sorry to here that. That’s a great looking vest, and for $11.50 too!

I’m sure there’s something out there.

I believe Cabela's has a leather vest too, but it's pretty steep if I remember.

 

[cookie]

Bad News From Zimbabwe :cry:

Poaching in Zimbabwe 'out of control'
By Stuart Coles
Last Updated: 2:01pm BST 10/07/2007



She is the unlikely guardian of an overlooked creature in a troubled land. Karen Paolillo tells how her fight to protect Hippopotami in Zimbabwe has put her in the frontline of a deadly struggle for food and resources - and why she will never leave

In pictures: Protecting Zimbabwe's hippos
News: Fuel shortage brings Zimbabwe to halt
The true scale of poaching in Zimbabwe is now impossible to gauge. But environmentalists are agreed; killing is widespread, indiscriminate and out of control.


Karen Paolillo with a pod of hippos in the background at Hippo Haven
The World Wildlife Fund estimates up to 80 per cent of wildlife on reclaimed farms has been slaughtered since 2001, with little sign of the desire for bush meat and cash abating.

Now poaching is deep into 'protected' state and privately-owned nature reserves and both endangered and common species are treated as prey.

"They are killing everything and anything from a squirrel to an elephant," says Karen Paolillo, "For food and for money."

British-born Karen and her French husband Jean have dedicated some 17 years to protecting hippos and other animals on the Turgwe River, in the privately-owned Save Valley Conservancy, in the southeast Lowveld.

But with settlements of hundreds of families now flanking their small, self-dubbed 'Hippo Haven' on two sides, the couple are seeing the wildlife vanishing.

Poachers' preferred targets are antelope, wildebeest and zebra, but they also kill lion, elephant, rhino, leopard, buffalo, and giraffe. Some are hacked for their most valuable parts, some are left to bleed to death, or die of gangrene.

Often the surrounding air stinks of rotting flesh.

advertisementImmediately after the Conservancy lands were occupied around Karen and Jean's haven, four of its hippos disappeared.

Although with negotiating and the help of two armed safari patrol officers they have managed to prevent any further hippo poaching, the slaughter of other animals is relentless and the hippos remain at risk.

In a country of empty shops and spiralling inflation, a hippo yielding a ton of meat, is a tempting prospect. Especially when coupled with tusk-like teeth which can be sold as an elephant ivory alternative.

Many now fear Zimbabwe will follow the pattern of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has seen its hippos reduced from 229,000 to a mere estimated 800 in three troubled decades. Hippos are classified 'vulnerable' under CITES, the international convention on endangered species.

Karen estimates in the last six years she has recovered some 4,000 wire snares and found around 3,500 dead animals from the area she patrols.

The Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force says if the killing continues at this rate by 2013 there will be no wildlife left nationwide.

Yet Karen who first came to Zimbabwe aged 22 in 1977, fired by the film 'Born Free,' remains philosophical.

"There will always be poaching. I have no problem with subsistence poaching, the odd poacher who 'deserves' to poach, through hunger. But this is about the bush meat trade and money. It is not sustainable."

Also caught in the massacre are scores of rare black rhino - prized for their horns which can fetch up to £60,000 - a lot of money in a country when the average fine for poaching is around £4.

"It's shocking but not surprising. If a bank gets raided and there's bank notes lying around on the ground, will people just pick them up?"

Karen and Jean have faced AK47 and shotgun-toting poachers and experienced a terrifying stand-off with a longbow-wielding raider. The couple have been threatened with having their house burned to the ground and Jean falsely accused of murder.

"Arrests and convictions for poachers are rare, fines limited and sentences are non-existent. At most they are kept overnight and have to walk back from the police station, it's a minor inconvenience," explains Karen.

"But these things happen when countries have difficult times - people and animals suffer."

All this must seem a long way from Woburn Abbey's 'Pet's Corner' in leafy Bedfordshire where Karen's mother worked tending rabbits, guinea pigs and the odd lama. Her mother and her veterinarian father were the inspiration behind her work with animals.

Now her geologist husband has given up his work to aid her in her work. The bush, she says, was never considered the easiest place for a petite, 5ft 4ins blonde English woman - but is now too dangerous alone. "I would be dead without his protection," she says bluntly.

Negotiations over the Conservancy settlers with the government, environmentalists and landowners are ongoing. And despite the fact the talks started six years ago, Karen is optimistic.

She thinks, as in Kenya, saving wildlife for tourism is the key, especially in the reserve where crops and cattle ranching has failed for both white and black farmers and water is becoming a point of conflict between humans and animals.

"The wildlife is the only thing that should naturally be in this area," she says. "I love Zim, I love Zimbabwean people and I believe in Zimbabwe. We need stability for tourists to return to Zimbabwe, and the wildlife is the reason they will come."

 

[Lancealot]

Sorry to here that. That’s a great looking vest, and for $11.50 too!

I’m sure there’s something out there.

Yeah, I couldn't believe it went for that low. I had to go out of town at the last minute and couldn't get to a computer to grab it.

 

[Lancealot]

I think Orvis has something like it.

Cheers!

Dan

Thanks for the link. They do have a couple I like but seeing the price really makes me hate I missed that other one.

 

[Mike K.]

Heads up!!

Found this site and thought some of you might be interested.
http://www.hemispherenovelties.com/
If you require any leather covered buckles, buttons, zipper pulls, etc.
It doesn't appear that there is any minimum order.

 

[Mojave Jack]

Mike, nice find! Thanks! Those are exactly the sorts of buckles I am looking for, but if only the 2.5" were as wide as the 2". My belt is 2-1/8" wide, and won't fit into a 2" buckle. Nick and I tried one two weekends ago, and it was a no go. This might do the trick, though, at least temporarily.

Cookie, that's a very disturbing story. I had read something similar to that just recently myself. Funny, but I was just reading in the Finch Hatton biography that at the end of his life he was becoming more and more adamantly conservation minded, and argued for game preserves. Too bad he died so early. He might have been influential enough to change the attitudes towards the animals and we might not be in this predicament.