Photographers Challenge: Classic Kit
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cbradley
Adventurer
Anniversary model? I've only seen the gray accents once before. Great camera. I still prefer mine to digital in some ways. I'd love to check out the F6 someday.
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tdesanto
Expedition Leader
These days I usually just take a 12-gauge, but when I first got into off-road driving, and hiking I didn't have any; so I brought this.
This war use (not surplus) 1943 Mosin Nagant was my first large caliber rifle, I payed sixty dollars for it.
I had no choice but to refinish it, because it had sustained water damage severe enough that the stock was disintegrating.
I after stripping, bleaching, brightening, and staining it I applied 40 coats of oil, polishing with 0 aught steel wool up to 20, 00 to 30, and 0000 to the final coat. Took a little over a month, but the finished product (a glass-like surface) was well worth the effort.
Seeing as the collector value was already ruined I drilled and tapped, and put an old 1970's 2.5-10 power scope on it.
Accurate out to 300 yards, gets a pretty shaky at 500, and -given accuracy by volume- can make shots out at 800.
There was a time, when you'd never find me out in the wild without this thing. But it's kind of heavy, and not the best choice when it comes to getting charged by a bear, so I've since downsized to a small 870, and a .44 Magnum revolver. But this Mosin will always be my favorite.
Chazz Layne
Administrator
That is one beautiful piece of "kit".
john101477
Photographer in the Wild
cpl of really nice images here.
Clark White
Explorer
Taken along along the Colorado River north of Moab.
Figure a horse is about the oldest adventure vehicle around, so it qualifies right?
Clark White
Figure a horse is about the oldest adventure vehicle around, so it qualifies right?
Clark White
Ray Hyland
Expedition Leader
That is a great shot of the horse Clark. I love the colour.
Scott Brady
Founder
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Every Miles A Memory
Expedition Leader
I figured I'd throw in a few to see what people think...I'm going a different angle than everyone else
Classic Two Wheels type mode of travel
Back when Classic Overland Travel was Stripped Down, Chromed and Simple
Classic Two Wheels type mode of travel
Back when Classic Overland Travel was Stripped Down, Chromed and Simple
Colorado David
Explorer
Images Copyright © Colorado David
Colorado David
Explorer
I should have added a description, but I was in a hurry to post the images.
The first is a 1970ish Orvis Battenkill 2-tip 5 weight fly rod. It was my dad's and now is mine. No fish but the lovely trout has ever bent this rod. The field bag is a classic British House of Hardy fishing bag.
The second photo is my Svea 123 stove. I bought this stove in the early 1970s along with a good quality goose down bag that I still use. I earned the money for the purchase by painting my grandmother's house. The bag was new, but the stove was refurbished because, at the time it was just too much money. The stove has worked great for decades. I use a Snow Peak and/or an MSR Reactor now for the convenience and speed, but if I wanted too, I could still cook a good back-country meal with the Svea.
The first is a 1970ish Orvis Battenkill 2-tip 5 weight fly rod. It was my dad's and now is mine. No fish but the lovely trout has ever bent this rod. The field bag is a classic British House of Hardy fishing bag.
The second photo is my Svea 123 stove. I bought this stove in the early 1970s along with a good quality goose down bag that I still use. I earned the money for the purchase by painting my grandmother's house. The bag was new, but the stove was refurbished because, at the time it was just too much money. The stove has worked great for decades. I use a Snow Peak and/or an MSR Reactor now for the convenience and speed, but if I wanted too, I could still cook a good back-country meal with the Svea.