Putting up a tipi to music

Just to prove I can film something other than shooting, here's a little film I made after a camping trip with daughter Emma and her boyfriend Steve last autumn. That woodburner transformed what would otherwise be a chilly and rather miserable experience - a superb bit of kit.

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Spyderco Bushcraft knife

I'm a big fan of Spyderco knives (I've written about their UK-legal penknife here before) - so I made a beeline for the Spyderco stand at the recent IWA show in Nuremburg (more on that show in the current issue of Sporting Shooter - plus a few of my photos on Flickr).

Sadly I missed Joyce Laituri, their Golden, Colorado based marketing manager, who I used to be in regular contact with during my time on Gun Mart magazine. But I did pick up a copy of their press pack (rather splendidly supplied on a neat little USB stick that screws up into a tiny key-ring canister thingy).

And what should I find inside but a photo of this wonderful looking Bushcraft knife. Joyce tells me it's not out yet - but should be released soon. I'm hoping to persuade Joyce to let me have one for a review in due course, so watch this space!

UPDATE: Thanks to Surburban Bushwacker for pointing out there's some background to this knife's development here on the Bushcraft UK forum:

Rabbits, rifles, Berettas and more

Whew! What a week that was. I've been rabbit stalking and lamping with Terry Le Chem...

Tried out the new Beretta SV10 Perennia at West London Shooting School...

And taken Chloe Finch from the Countryside Alliance to learn rifle shooting with Ian Spicer of Red Deer Outdoors, at the British Sporting Rifle Club at Bisley...

Along the way, I came across some terrific bushcraft items by Neil Andrews (who cooks a mean venison stir-fry, and will shortly be instructing on some new bushcraft courses at Cowdray in Sussex)...

And I discovered Schultz & Larsen rifles, which I'd never encountered before, and discovered they're really rather good (here's Ian Spicer firing one)...

So to relax this weekend, I went fishing and caught my first fish of the year – two trout which are now in the fridge being turned into trout gravadlax, a cunning recipe borrowed from Mark Gilchrist (you'll find it in the June issue of Sporting Shooter)...

...just one little hiccough – today I discovered some lowlife has cloned my bank card, and is currently living it up in Canada at my expense! The bank has frozen my account, so that's put paid to his fun. It also has the unfortunate side-effect that I can't use my bank account either. Hmm.