My Afghan kukri is here

I was woken up early this morning with a package from Nepal. In it the current issue kukri for the Gurkhas serving in Afghanistan.

I used to use a similar knife while I was in the marines and carried a Multitool to go with it and between the there wasn’t a cutting job you could not do. This Afghan model in particular attracted me for its handle as it looks more like a bushcraft knife, but I was also concerned that the traditional style horn handle might be easier to hold than the square western version.

I will obviously do a review of it soon but early cutting tests are more than just good and at the moment I am just getting to know the knife.
The blade is 11 inches long and nearly 1/2 inch thick along its spine. I have already cut a rock that was hidden in the undergrowth and expected to see a ding in the blade but there wasn’t even that, nothing!

Quick Travel Tip – Conflict Countries

If you are having to stay in a county where conflict has broken out and you are in a hotel or similar try moving or getting a room on the first floor, it’s less further to jump if you need an emergency exit.

However make sure the view from your window is of a side street as less  fighting and large artillery is often less intense on smaller streets
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Your Cell Phone is Not Always Your Friend

English: Two women text messaging on their cell phones in a coffee shop on the campus of California State University, Fullerton. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In February, journalists Remi Ochlick and Marie Colvin were killed when shells struck the press center that they and other journalists were using to transmit their stories; the Syrian army may have used satellite signals from the center to target it.

This is quite a useful guide in the way it shows how cell phones or Satellite phones can be tracked, and although written for journalists, it applies to any one who is being hunted
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Quick Update – Khukri on its way

I have been busy behind the scenes, and have some kit to review, and I am also about to purchase a Gurkha’s Khukri a tool that I haven’t used in quite a few years and actually miss I prefer big knives over the smaller 4 inch bladed bushcraft knife. It goes back to being in the forces and having to work quickly, and the need to be able to make shelters, clear woodland, and a mammoth evasion tool etc. I have been looking at quite a few videos about the khukri and I am amazed at how much information is wrong so ill correct a few points on that in a video review