Recent content by ObGobOobaleeney

Love my Savage 24F-12 double barrel combination rifle/shotgun. .223 on top, 12g on bottom. It's my favorite, most-used hobby weapon. The combo's were originally designed as an airman's survival gun. The stopped making them recently, but many are still out there for sale.

yes I run a CB alongside my 2m/440 ham rig. Most 4x4ers use CB, not ham radio, so it makes very good sense to keep a CB handy. my 3 top pics for ham radio: (newer versions exist of some) Yaesu FT-8800 2m/440, 50w, because it has 50 watts on 2m, and has a crossband repeater function (it will...

Great advice, and it's never too late to second that kind of good advice! Hand helds are second radios, not first. Period. Get a standard 50w 2m or dual band mobile unit and if/when the emergency comes, you'll be ever so thankful you did not get stuck with a highly limited .5, 1.5 or 5w hand...

Last year @ 86k miles, I put OM Emu "stock light" suspension kit on my stock '99 Tacoma V-6 xtracab 4x4. (it has stock alloy 15x7 rims and stock sized 31x10.5 BFG At/KOs) Gained 2+ inches height/travel. Lovely riding little trail truck. Last week I replaced the worn AT/KO's with new 31x10.5...

Yes, like many others I can recommend the OME suspension kit. But choose carefully which version of the kit you get, and I highly recommend getting the complete kit, not mixing it with different shocks or springs. I put OME full kit on my 1999 Tacoma xtracab v-6, and at advice of an ARB tech I...

I'm the original owner of my 1999 Tacoma 5 speed manual 4x4. I've never driven an auto off road. Here's some pros and cons I learned from experience and research: manual pros: excellent engine compression braking when going down hills easy roll starts in dead-battery scenario excellent gear...

I have a buddipole, but when I was operating portable I used the pictured system more often for portable HF -- in front of my truck is a Sigma GT5 vertical, band switchable dipole. Overpriced, clunky but solid construction, and easier to use when car camping than a buddipole. It breaks down...

Chiming in late.... I hear ya. l I'm a fan of BTU's for boiling water, but I have noticed over time that, water boiling aside, 90% of my cooking is low heat type stuff anyway. Once that realization sank in, I gave up my quest for more BTUs. (and I find that my MSR heat exchanger does reduce...

It's working. I'm still asking why. I'll get hung up on it and write a book about it someday. Extinct: Discussions on The Great Cooler Shelving Mystery. Kinda like the dinosaur debate, only relevant and practical.

That's nice! I keep saying I'm going to make something like that with mine (well, not a cooledor, but a food-friendly version)

It's been ages since I used a canister stove. I'm curious; how does the flame/heat out put behave as the tank gets near empty? I had a backpacker's propane/butane mix stove about 20 years ago, and it drove me nuts as the tank got low. But it did not use the bigger propane tanks these use.

Well, at least you were playing! I've almost done worse-- almost. :Wow1:

Friggin great photos, but gotta ask about the rig in the rut; how did it end up there with so much flat terrain as an option? :Wow1:

Yes indeed, I agree. That was my central curiosity when starting the thread; minimalism is relative, so what are the relative observations from these different "camps"? There's been some good stuff here. As a 4x4 car camper, the one thing that makes me swing from "bring the pizza maker and...

In the 1990s a friend of mine would take months long road trips in his NEW Honda Civic four door, which he had heavily converted to be a mini camper. He removed all seats except for the driver's, and built a sleeping deck in the entire empty space, with below deck storage, and clip-on window...