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Very nice RT

I mainly use a Swibo for filleting and skinning, I also have an F Dick for skinning, long skinny blade for the bigger fish. Had both these knives for many years. cheers

For the tropics.......I pretty much just use khaki or green cool wear clothing from the safety clothing shops now, they specialise in cool wear clothing for the tropics and you can try them on before you buy. If bow hunting I have some Natural gear, the pants are great, the shirts are too thick for the tropics. Also been experimenting with shorts and knee high gaitors, when its raining or the long grass is wet I think this maybe the way to go because the gaitors don't hold water. Ohh nearly forgot, most importantly, Step One boxers to avoid jock rot and monkey butt 😀 that will ruin any day in the bush haha

I have posted this elsewhere but feel its worth sharing here, I have no ties to Garmin. I have had a Garmin Montana 650T since 2012, not a cheap bit of kit, about $800 at the time. I went for it because it has a larger screen 3 or 4", can carry it, mount it in car, boat, or bike etc.... It's had a rough life, bounced around on the quad, tropical rain, dust and sat on the windscreen in the NT heat. The power button didn't like the tropics, perished some time ago but I managed with it, it was looking pretty rough. A few weeks back, the touch screen stopped working, tried a few things but decided it was done, I could do a final upload to basecamp though. I rang Garmin support, asked if I could send it in for repair, the person I spoke to could see I registered it back then and said the 650T is obsolete, we can't repair but we can offer you an exchange of the newer model 680T for $229. I couldn't jump quick enough, accepted the deal, whipped the credit card out and paid! I posted mine down and received the replacement in 10 days. It looks new, has screen protector, battery shipped in new packaging outside of unit, just not in a flash new box. It takes all the same cables. What I discovered is you must purchase a Birdseye subscription to transfer coords from basecamp to the new unit, $39 for one year, I did it and now have all my old coords and some select maps in satellite image. I thought that was pretty good service from Garmin, shows it is worth while registering equipment, cheers.

That is cool, interesting you can get them in mig and stick as well Looks like thats what it is designed for Rosso

I second the claw, hands down the best sling for grip

Confirmed my suspicions, I have a pair of 10x42's that I never carry, thanks

How often do you use binos up here Mick? I was thinking about going 8 x 32 (recent SSAA mag article driven)

I like these too Musty, my every day wear, I did have an issue walking down hills in them though, toes pushing into the steel cap, maybe a second pair of socks might sort that out....

Depends how windy I guess, they wouldn't work in gale force, wouldn't bother with mozzie coils or citronella candles again

I've got that pack, done some big days with it up here in the heat, usually carry extra water than the 3L bladder, extra 2.5L, no issue with comfort

Rhino, as everyone else has said, impressive work! Can you recommend a source(s) of information for someone starting out? Particularly the metallurgy side of things, I was going to have a crack at this a few years back but never got around to it. Probably won't either haha, cheers

Hey mate, instead of spraying that stinky stuff on ya, around camp try a Thermacell, we swear by them here, had 3 going in the boat the other night and the mozzies just hovered above us just haunting us with the annoying buzzing noise, they were thick! https://www.thermacell.com/pages/how-it-works

I took Shanu's advise, went to BCF and bought an $8 head lamp with 3 batteries, took it home and put the strap on one of the Led lensers. Was that easy I went back and bought another for the brighter H14.

Thanks fellas, I knew there would be some real time experience reviews here ?