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Hi Bob, I was sorry to read that your plans for a Chessie pup fell through. However I've heard some wonderful things about the Vizsla breed. Very sweet and loving and easier to train. They will probably need help with the biting bugs. I'm really sorry about the knee, maybe more time will help...

Well Glenn, I too use the internet to check out things, the wealth of information is sometimes overwhelming. But at the end of the day if you're going to buy a knife for use, it's got to fit your hand for you to really like it. Oh, you can hang on to every knife out there assuming you've got...

Pondering all this and in the interest of honesty, I must cheerfully admit to "battoning" on occasion. When my blood sugar gets low and I'm a bit wobbly, I'll use a club and smack the head of my axe to split off wood. It just isn't smart to be swinging an axe head around if you're not 100%...

Well Hoop, It sounds to me like you've got something caught cross-wise somewhere. You might want to go back and re-read just what I said in the beginning of all this. Let me try it another way: when you have a knife and you cross breed it with a wedge you wind up with a tool that is heavy for a...

Maybe so Turtle, maybe so. About your knife, I've got one probably just about like it, stays in the drawer. Why'd I buy it? Gee.....sure looked neat! Obviously, more money than sense. I've been looking at Cold Steel's Bird and Trout Knife, about all the way to the other end of the spectrum from...

Well Glenn, I've got a whole drawer full of grand fixed blade knives that would be quickly reduced to rubbish if I started "battoning" them through wood. They weren't designed for that, the guys who made them wanted knives. There are some knives out there that were designed to withstand the...

Well Mike, "common problem?" I guess I don't see it as all that much a problem. Maybe more like you're laboring as a matchmaker, uniting two different things; steel and wood into a fit, a union, a bond that will last the tests of time or until something really bad happens. Pretty much a real...

Well Christy, Looked up the instructions for the inflatable on the internet last night. What a whole lot of picky,, picky fussing along with warnings to don't do this or that. They do encourage you to do a blow up test to see that the thing will still hold air at the start of the water season...

Ha Ha! Dave you're sure right, I'm such a hypocrite: about the fun factor. For years I've lusted for one of those real deal Viking swords! Short of a stuffed elephant, I can't think of anything I need more. But can't you imagine: it's early light, the bow of our longship gently grates on the...

I've been playing about in various retail knife web sites, looking at what they call "Hunting Knives" and "Camping Knives" and "Survival Knives". There seems to be a curious practice that has become a major developmental force in the designing of many of these blades. That of batoning wood for...

Well Dave, Very glad you've decided to wear that vest, there's not never enough nice guys like you in the world, it'd be a real shame to lose one when it's so easily prevented. And besides, even if you were a stinker (discounting the bean factor) we all would miss seeing you work your...

Hi Christy, I have one of those Mustang inflatable vests. You can blow it up by mouth, pull the lanyard/ trigger and also it has a pressure trigger for if you were under water. It's light, comfortable and non-restrictive. It looks to be well made, Mustang has a good reputation. I wore it a few...

I believe the most important one to ask is your Chesapeake- to- be. "Say Chessie, how do you feel about sharing your Master, you know, the one who you love more than your own life itself?" "GGrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.........." Rob

Well, Philtrum, I was thinking the same thing. But then there are guys like Waterdog who seem to enjoy frisking about in the really cold weather. Maybe the answer would be to take a day, with friends along to help and see just how well your setup protects you under the conditions you are...

Well, I think that once you move past the one dog, you pretty quick get into space considerations, canoe and tent, plus volume of dog food. Although this time of year sure lends itself to daydreams and speculations of the improbable, in practice it might be more like polygamy: fun to think...

Hi Bob, You keep coming up with these great threads! At this rate the horrible January-February doldrums won't be so bad! With the two dogs you've introduced "the eternal triangle" , how each dog relates to you and to each other. Some very serious variables at work here. Two young dogs...

That's a great idea Alan! The only problem is to be sure you've got the right tent, Glenn's is the one with the flag on a pole that proclames "Isn't your life extremely flat with nothing whatever to grumble at!" I'd suggest that the optimal time for "bombs away" would be after it gets dark...

I've been trying to think which tip I'd judge the best. And in fact trying to remember if the idea was mine or somebody's else. I'm kinda like the old Sci-Fi movie "The Blob" I come on an idea and if it works I just engulf it! Later I forget that it wasn't mine all along. My all time favorite...

How do I pick? Well, it's pretty straight forward; I ask "how much kibble shall I bring?" If the tail wags, then I count the number of wags; anything over ten wags means we're good to go. Anything under six means we'd better stay home, could be weather or bears or something we're best off away...

Hi Hays, You present some interesting questions. I leave it to those members who know about wet/dry suits to answer your question. I do know that any floating accident doesn't end once you wade ashore alive. I'd really spend some time and effort figuring every step that would be required to get...