I had a camp this weekend 09/07/11 - 10/07/11 it was at Pottern campsite with Night Hawks ESU, Devises ESU, Devises scouts, we did climbing, archery, air rifle shooting, and pionnering, all of which I do outside of scouting, in the pionnering we made a tower by making two tri-pods and turned one upside down inside the the other both tripods had supports around the base of them to keep them triangle, we then put poles on the base of the upside down one to make a platform, and I stayed up on it and helped some explorers one at a time onto it, we were about 15 - 20 ft up then the other two groups who had made catapults started fireing tennis balls at me and they got very close, as in a caught one in my hat and another hit me in the head :-P
Archery we had an instructor come down and basicly he did a quick safety brief gave us the bows and let those who had shot before coach and help the others, it was good, we were just useing recurve bows and i really wish I had my longbow with me but we were just shooting over 10M so it wouldn't be smart.
Air rifles, the instructor is ex-forces and ex-armed police and now a ballistics engineer so if anyone knows about guns it's him, he had a .177 and two .22 air rifles which were scrap and he fixed for use in scouting activities, that was good, we were shooting at targets, knock-down rabbits and birds and disks, one of the .22 had a scope and was under lever which was cool, I've never used an under lever before.
Climbing again had a specalist instructor, because I've done a climbing course I could belay which meant two people could climb at any one time, I did get to climb too, I did all 3 climbs on the wall which was only 40 ft tall but i was wearing magnum boots so it wasn't as easy as normal but still doable, he wouldn't let me climb barefoot which would have been ideal but it was good.
Our explorer leader took some frisbies with him and we were playing with them in our free time and they were good ones, they flew great and one got stuck in a tree so I just had to climb up to get it because I could :-D
For this camp I slept under my Basha and had a great night sleep, was up to 03:00 sitting by our dying camp fire trying to make a spoon, I've never made a spoon before it wasn't that good, it accidently got thrown on the fire we used to cook breakfast so I'll have to try make another one soon.
The devises scouts had the option of sleeping in emergancy shelter, a large bin bag and string, only four of them did.
Thats just a quick over view of what happened on the weekend and some of the highlights, don't want to make you to jealous now do we?? :P
Andrew (whitewolfbushcrafter)
Sunday 10 July 2011
Monday 4 July 2011
Country music festival
Hey all
This is a post about what I did this weekend, I spend all of Saturday and Sunday morning helping out with the scout catering tent at the country music festival near Calne.
The scouts used to do the catering there every year for about 20 years, then 4 years ago we stopped, the leader who was normally in charge left scouting, so after a 4 year break we had to go back and try to regain our old reputation, but unfortunattly we didn't know exactly what we used to do, so we changed the menu to chillie with jacket potatoes or rice, naturally we also did our standard burgers and sausages and the likes, I personally think the weekend went well, costumers we slow comeing but being a first year you do tend to expect a worse year then normal.
The festival it self was great, they did say that foot fall through the door and ticket sales were down from previous years due to the economic downturn, being a country music festival there were cowboys and indians (I like indians, I could deffinatly see me dressed in skins and with a tomahawk on my side), also there was music and stalls from that era.
I brought a loverly ornamental skinning knife with a painted blade and an antla/ bone style painted handle and I also got a pipe hawk which is a tomahawk with a pipe in the back and you smoke through the handle, it came with a fur handle sheath with a leather belt loop, the leaders had a great joke when they saw me walking back acroos the field after my break in my bush hat with a tomahawk on my side, all in good humour :) Both items are going to go up on my wall with my other ornamental weapons.
I enjoyed the weekend and I think we will as a scout group go down and help again next year, I personally will be down the festival just for the fun of it.
Stay Safe
God bless
Andrew (whitewolfbushcrafter)
This is a post about what I did this weekend, I spend all of Saturday and Sunday morning helping out with the scout catering tent at the country music festival near Calne.
The scouts used to do the catering there every year for about 20 years, then 4 years ago we stopped, the leader who was normally in charge left scouting, so after a 4 year break we had to go back and try to regain our old reputation, but unfortunattly we didn't know exactly what we used to do, so we changed the menu to chillie with jacket potatoes or rice, naturally we also did our standard burgers and sausages and the likes, I personally think the weekend went well, costumers we slow comeing but being a first year you do tend to expect a worse year then normal.
The festival it self was great, they did say that foot fall through the door and ticket sales were down from previous years due to the economic downturn, being a country music festival there were cowboys and indians (I like indians, I could deffinatly see me dressed in skins and with a tomahawk on my side), also there was music and stalls from that era.
I brought a loverly ornamental skinning knife with a painted blade and an antla/ bone style painted handle and I also got a pipe hawk which is a tomahawk with a pipe in the back and you smoke through the handle, it came with a fur handle sheath with a leather belt loop, the leaders had a great joke when they saw me walking back acroos the field after my break in my bush hat with a tomahawk on my side, all in good humour :) Both items are going to go up on my wall with my other ornamental weapons.
I enjoyed the weekend and I think we will as a scout group go down and help again next year, I personally will be down the festival just for the fun of it.
Stay Safe
God bless
Andrew (whitewolfbushcrafter)
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