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Sucks if you don't own a firearm.

The machete is a handy tool but having one safely in the car these days probably depends on where you live and the type of car.

I have one in my car, but its a Jeep that goes off road, along with other off road gear, tools, camping gear etc. I'd love for a cop to tell me it has no purpose in the car etc.

Its completely different though if you live in the city with a standard car and are driving around with a machete. In this case you would likely be in trouble.

What distance?

I really like the open style red dot, like a C More, for a run and gun type setup.

The flash really does make a big difference. I went to Africa with a better beamer but didn't use it as I struggled to keep the thing together.

I've been following these guys and their development of a similar thing, they recently released it.

www.amazon.com/MagMod-MMBEAMW01-MagBeam-Wildlife-Kit/dp/B01M1FG2ZO/ref=pd_sim_421_8?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=XXMJ79YZYX6J6SCNXQHF

The 300 and 600 I picked up slightly used, you would have to look well to find marks.

I got them both for a song though otherwise I'd never have been able to sink so much $ into glass.

I did have a nice 400 2.8 IS, it was my first big white but I sold it in order to fund the 200-400. That 400 was a nice lens but too big for working out of a vehicle in Africa at the time, plus it weighed around 6.5kg with a body attached. About the same as the 600 now.

Are they offering free test flights now so we can all evaluate it?

That was a pretty weak argument and doesn't change the fact its a failure. Even if they were in service with out the issues they are having it's still a plane that "tries to do everything, does nothing well"

Very cool mate, certainly had some experience at it.

How do you go about contributing to magazines? Do you just esquire with what you have or do they tell you what they are after?

Typical camp site int he Kalahari



No fences, just drive off the game trails and hope for the best. blocked out my mates face in the pic.

We stayed at several camp sites like this, the last night we a lion come visit us. It was pitch black, I'd say he stopped not too far outside the light of our camp fire and let loose a roar that sent us scrambling for the tents lol


The truck was a sweet setup (it was a diesel), impressed me in the soft sand with the amount of power it had at very low revs (less than a 1000 in 2nd and pulled through) even as loaded up as it was. We never had an issue with it or any of the gear in it. The Waeco fridge was awesome as well. (I've only had Engel)

There was this one river crossing on a dingy little barge that had a tinny bolt to the site to power it. The drive came up to us, half way across and said "your vehicle too heavy" then we had to constantly shift the weight by driving backward and forward for him until we made the other side at which point he stopped short of the bank and we drove off into about 1m of water and up the bank

A few pics of the truck I took around Africa.

This was the first night on the way to the Kalahari. We just camped outside a small town in a camping area, hence the concrete slab.