Erbswurst
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For hiking I usually recommend lighter civil equipment, but without any doubt army surplus usually is a good and cheap option to buy long lasting clothing and camping equipment.
Which British army stuff do you recommend for civil bushcraft use ?
What do you like and what don't you like?
And why?
If possible use your kitchen scales please and tell us the weight of your recommended equipment, so it becomes easier to compare it with equipment from other armies and civil products, and please tell us the size from the clothing if you tell us the weight.
Please try to explain what belongs to what. Usually the military stuff is part of a well thought through complete system, which not everybody who reads it can know.
And please tell us, which parts of the issued stuff you replaced in your civil equipment and why.
Please let us keep this thread clean and don't mix surplus stuff from other armies in between, because that often is part of a similar but different working system and doesn't necessarily fit to the british stuff.
I expect, that even not every british stuff fits together with all british stuff from other decades, so that alone will surely become complicated enough for everybody who didn't serve in the British army.
Please try to give us as much as possible own photos, links and external explanations, that this thread will get the high value for everybody who reads it, that you all together can reach without any doubt.
I know most British equipment only from the shop because in Germany it had been always relatively expensive compared with Bundeswehr stuff, and so I didn't try it out.
That's why I ask this questions and will not give any answers about it.
Thank you!
Which British army stuff do you recommend for civil bushcraft use ?
What do you like and what don't you like?
And why?
If possible use your kitchen scales please and tell us the weight of your recommended equipment, so it becomes easier to compare it with equipment from other armies and civil products, and please tell us the size from the clothing if you tell us the weight.
Please try to explain what belongs to what. Usually the military stuff is part of a well thought through complete system, which not everybody who reads it can know.
And please tell us, which parts of the issued stuff you replaced in your civil equipment and why.
Please let us keep this thread clean and don't mix surplus stuff from other armies in between, because that often is part of a similar but different working system and doesn't necessarily fit to the british stuff.
I expect, that even not every british stuff fits together with all british stuff from other decades, so that alone will surely become complicated enough for everybody who didn't serve in the British army.
Please try to give us as much as possible own photos, links and external explanations, that this thread will get the high value for everybody who reads it, that you all together can reach without any doubt.
I know most British equipment only from the shop because in Germany it had been always relatively expensive compared with Bundeswehr stuff, and so I didn't try it out.
That's why I ask this questions and will not give any answers about it.
Thank you!
