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I read that and thought, Whaaaaat? Gotta be an urban legend. But no: Stun gun wheel lock Sadly, no longer available. Standard price on the Ravelco is $469 with two keys. Incidentally, you can have multiple vehicle installations that use the same key, so you don't have to have two or three of...

Yeah, not much to be done about a tow truck . . . or a helicopter, depending on what your car is worth to the thief.

I like that idea.

Exactly. And the more of a pain you make it, the better. The advantage of the Ravelco is that it presents a huge pain (as proven by its record) for a thief, yet is simple in the extreme - no batteries, no randomly generated codes, no remotes or sirens, no door contacts, nothing to short out in...

Easy answer: Factory anti-theft systems are, by their nature, all the same, therefore thieves only have to learn one bypass technique to access hundreds of thousands of vehicles. It's axiomatic that the good guys are always racing to stay ahead of the bad guys, not vice versa. Not that factory...

I can tell you what's wrong with a steering wheel lock, as detailed by several convicted car thieves who were interviewed a few years ago by one of the alarm makers. When asked about Club-type locks, they smiled and said they loved them. Apparently a Club device provides an excellent lever with...

I'm thinking a near-perfect setup would be a Ravelco to keep the vehicle safe, combined with an alarm/pager system with no ignition cutout - just noise/alert in the even of a break-in. That way if the alarm malfunctioned in the middle of nowhere, you wouldn't be stranded, but it would offer some...

07, thanks for the writeup and photos. After I wrote the news item about the Ravelco in Overland Journal, we were scheduled to have one installed in Roseann's diesel 60; however, it's having some clutch issues addressed at the moment, so we had one put in our 911 SC in the meantime. Short of...

Make sure you look at the Turbo Tents: Turbo Tent Extremely fast pitch (second only to an Oz Tent, which doesn't break down very compactly), lots of size options. So far ours is holding up very well. There's a short review in the Fall 2009 Overland Journal.

Roseann and I put over 150,000 miles on our Four Wheel Camper, with no issues at all except for some loose door fittings. For much of that time we were resident naturalists on a wildlife refuge, seven miles of rough dirt from a highway. So every time we went anywhere, even just to town, the...

Tom has several reasons for using jerry cans. The first is indeed the ability to remove significant weight when the need for self-recovery arises. Since, for Tom, this is virtually always deep sand while traveling solo far off-tracks, that advantage by itself essentially justifies the practice...

It was moved into a section that includes "all hunting, fishing, and gun carry topics." Why is that amusing? It's simply relevant.

I believe you're correct on the .338. However, I've seen plenty of photos and videos of .50 caliber Barretts, etc. being employed over there. How does it violate the Geneva Convention?

Angling for that PR position with FWC, are you Brian?

That is a very clever bespoke creation from Four Wheel Campers. I'm hoping we can do a story on it soon.

Roseann and I have been using Zarges cases for three years now. They're fiendishly expensive. However, they're very light for their volume, and the space efficiency is far superior to Pelican-style cases. The standard Zarges cases are not completely watertight, but they're rainproof and...

Thanks for the post and photos. Jackson Cabin is one of my favorite drives in southern Arizona. The geology in the cliffs to the east is incredible.

I agree about McCain, Chuck, and said so from the beginning. However, a G&F employee who knew about the situation and covered it up shares a heavy part of the blame. He's admitted to doing so. Just because I suspect others at G&F might have known about it too doesn't mean I'm condemning the...

Thanks for posting that, Thom. The news simply confirmed what we knew all along, that a G&F officer was in on the whole scheme. What we still don't know is if it went any higher up the chain of command.

Keeno, I'm insanely jealous of that narwhal photo.