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With horned game seaon a few days away I have been running the sewing machine like crazy. This just popped out and it is oddly perfect IMHO;)

It is to go with a bivy sack and some courage. Built from scraps and garbage.
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Has a few pitch options but this one is the important one. (the odd bumps are kids wrestling inside)
 
thanks guys, heading out with it monday evening for a 5 day trip. I'll let you know if it works out as well as I hope.
 
It takes a big man to admit he sews. My mom taught me that I would eat three times a day for the rest of my life, so I better learn how to cook. And I would wear clothes every one of those days, so I better learn how to use a sewing machine. I wear shoes, but have yet to master cobblery.
 
maple_leaf_eh said:
It takes a big man to admit he sews. My mom taught me that I would eat three times a day for the rest of my life, so I better learn how to cook. And I would wear clothes every one of those days, so I better learn how to use a sewing machine. I wear shoes, but have yet to master cobblery.
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LOL

our mothers must be related.
On my 13th birthday, I received this lecture, "this son is a washing machine and now I'm going to show you how it works."
Same with a sewing machine.
Cooking came naturally, my grandfather was a chef.

Years ago, before it became fashionable I learned basic knitting because I wanted to make a belt out of what we now call paracord.
Geeze, that was in the 60s. Where does the time go?
 
Nice shelter, luv DIYers.

It takes a real men to be proud of what is chauvinistically refer to as Women skills. Cooking, sewing sure beats hungry and cold.
 
LOL, Yeah I like to eat too much to trust the kitchen to anyone else and was in the very first girls AND boys Home Economics class in N.B. (progressive stuff in it's day).

At the end of the day a sewing machine is about the coolest tool out there, multiple rotary and linear motion all timed and in sync. Makes a lathe and even a shaper look simple. I got a bit of a thing for dragging home the old school Iron and german machining ones. Unfortunately I gotta compete with the old Huterite girls for them at the yard sales and thrift stores, dangerous bussiness to get in the way of a motivated 300 pound 60 year old woman who has been labouring for 55 years, good training for cape buffalo and grizzly hunting.

To keep it on topic and in line with the hunting forum, I just finished up a 'custom' two strap sling with pack attachment points and quick adjust offhand set up. Cost nothing and would'nt trade it for 10 of any of the high end commercial slings. Took about 10 minutes to sew but a lifetime to design......
 
Hunt camps are usually shown in idealic conditions, but where I hunted the sun didn't always shine.
That is H4831 with his pants off to dry. The native boy on the right was hired to look after our only horse, a big pack animal. In front of him is our waterproof lean to shelter. With the heat reflecting into it, it is actually a dry, comfortable place to sleep.
We'll have a good bed of coals and be rid of the smoke, before cooking supper. The smoky fire shown was what the boy had as he stayed in camp to look after the horse, while the other two of us hunted.
But first on the list is to get out of those wet clothes and get them dried, smoke or no smoke. This was October and the rain at that time of year in northern BC was not warm.
The horse was loaded with caribou on the trip home.
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what kind of poles did you find for that? They look pretty robust to be 'old tent poles'.

Looks great- is the plan to add a ground sheet to keep you dry?

BTW, I sew and cook too. I also do my own laundry (and at least some of my kids'). I was taught that real man can do anything- including 'women's work'.
 
H4831 great photo! Glad to hear you agree with Mr Whelen re the utility of a lean-to. extra nice if you got a wrangler in camp all day cutting a nice Huge pile of dry wood.
Got any more of them 'bad ole days' camp pics?

ALLSlondon they are ski poles, my knees went from invincable to 'twingy' the second I turned 40, they help a bit especially on the down hills. They have some sort of fancy handles that just happened to lock together perfectly. cost a buck a piece at the local junk store. No ground sheet I have a goretex bivy sack, the structure also can be pitched with the edges folded in forming a floor. The bivy 'should' work though. One thing for certain, like H4831 says, no amount of sprinklers in the back yard can replicate field conditions so I am certain after a few nights I'll have plans for the mkiv mdl. Not for this year though come aug 15th I move into a vaude with my lady for a couple weeks, then a bigger dome and then a canvas set up.....
 
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