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Thursday, 22 June 2017

Hunting and Hiking Pack

Hunting/stalking pack.

Basic 5 Kg hunting/stalking pack:

Hunters Element 15L Vertical Pack. (855g)
3L water Camel Back (with 1L water, incorporated in pack).
iPhone
Snacks.
Folding Hand Saw.
2 S Hooks.
Disposable Gloves.
Toilet Paper.
Ear Plugs.
40 L dry pack / Meat Bag.
Ledlenser Head Lamp.
First aid Kit.
Knife Sharpener.
Garmin eTrex 10 GPS.
MT410G Emergency Personal Locator Beacon (PLB).
Falkniven F1 Knife on pack strap.
Puma SGB Knife (Spare).
Emergency Kit (in Camel Back pocket)

This kit gives me sufficient tools to process and carry out game, deer etc from a hunt / stalk.

Emergency kit:

Space blanket.
Sawyer MINI Water Filtration System.
Spare AA and AAA batteries.
Bic mini lighter
Compression bandage.
Tissues.
Folding Knife.
BG Flint and Striker fire starter.
Cotton wool soaked in vaseline (firestarters).
Wet Wipes.
Panadol.

Emergency kit is for any event where I might not get back to camp or the car because of injury, distance or just plain lost. This stuff can aid others I may come across also.

Camel Back pouch.

Emergency kit is in the Camel Back pouch flat and out of the way.

Pack for hunting including the pack itself is 5Kg.

I also carry a .308 Rifle and Ammo 4 Kg,

GME 5 Watt UHF Radio,

Binoculars , Cold Steel SRK Knife

an extra 1.5 Kg. Total 10.5 Kg.

All items in hunt pack plus UHF Radio, Binos and belt knife.

Sleep system:

High Strength Camping Hammock with Mosquito Net.
Klymit ultralight inflatable sleeping mat.
Atlas Hammock Suspension Staps.
Tarp / Fly.
4 Degree C Hiking Sleeping Bag

Have slept 2 nights at 0 degrees C and it was very comfortable and warm.

With the ultralight stove, pot and spoon total weight 4 Kg.

This sleeping kit will fit in the pack with the sleeping bag strapped to the top, total pack 14.5 Kg. Add dehydrated and powdered food for 3 days add 1.5 Kg.

16Kg total stalking pack, sleeping system and carry items.

Tuesday, 13 June 2017

Free Range Organic Venison

Aged Sambar backstrap with cream and parmesan scalloped potatoes, wild mushroom medley and brussel sprouts.

Wild mushroom medley

Cream and parmesan scalloped potatoes

Aged Sambar backstrap

Brussel sprouts

Thursday, 25 May 2017

Free Range Organic Meat

First off . . . . In my opinion wild harvested game, or Free Range Organic Meat is infinity more preferable to packaged, sometimes chemically supplemented and processed meat.

When you pick up that plastic wrapped meat from the supermarket please be aware that farmed animals can be confined, fattened, transported and processed sometimes in cruel conditions and may wait as long as 48 hours smelling death waiting at a processing plant. I fear they often suffer. Of course they may live a life as pleasant as responsible farmers can make possible.

Wild taken game is ideally enjoying a free and natural life in the wild unaware of any danger and in the next second quickly and ethically taken. No suffering and I am respectful and thankful to the animal.

I do not hunt any animal I can't utilise and mostly they are feral (introduced pests) and practice the sustainable utilisation of wildlife. This is my sport and my hobby.

My first Victorian high country Sambar.

Just a small part of the cleaned and trimmed venison.

Vacum packed cuts of venison.

Some in the ageing fridge ready for further processing to steaks, snitzel and venison jerky.

Hermiones share, mostly the shoulders and other off cuts.

Happy Hermione

My Tikka .308 deer rifle.

Sellier & Bellot 180 grain round and the actual projectile that dispatched the deer.

Saturday, 18 May 2013

Lace Monitor

A Lace Monitor can to grow to 2 metres in length , this one was about 1.5 and they feed upon birds, insects, reptiles, small mammals and carrion. They also actively forage for nesting birds’ eggs and I found he loved chicken eggs.