Geoff has a background as a professional game and deer manager. He has put his years of experience to good use and now lectures at Hartpury College, one of the UK’s leading providers of land-based education.
He specializes in training game and wildlife managers who will work in professional game management, conservation, and other outdoor professions. He's been teaching at colleges for eight years and, in that time, has worked at some of the most prestigious land-based colleges in Britain.
While there are many knives I could recommend for you to use for ‘bushcraft’ because bushcraft is a relatively new word it’s hard to define exactly what a bushcraft knife is. For such an old and traditional set of skills, it is very strange that a...
There is a popular saying; “the best survival knife is the knife you have on you.” It is true that in a real-life or death survival situation whatever knife you have with you is going to be the best knife available, even if it’s just a bread knife...
The Bottom LineThe CRKT M16-10KZ is an excellent affordable choice for a folding EDC knife that you can confidently use every day from a very innovative manufacturer. From the non-slip Zytel grip to the 8Cr13MoV steel, CRKT has opted for quality...
It’s simple to assume that the origins of the tomahawk lie with Native Americans, but stone axes, many of which resemble tomahawks much more than they do modern axes, have been used as far back as 35,000 years ago. The first of these were simple...
Tomahawks are iconic of the conflicts between Native American’s and settlers on the North American frontiers. But while it might be interesting to see these artifacts in museums and movies, there is also plenty of modern-day uses of tomahawks, and...
When choosing your “bushcraft knife,” remember that not all knives suitable for bushcraft will have the word “bushcraft” emblazoned. Just as when Nessmuk and Horace Kephart were designing their knives, they didn’t call them...
Golden Colorado is home to what has become one of the most recognizable EDC knife brands; Spyderco. As with many great success stories though Spyderco began under much humbler circumstances. In 1976 Sal Glesser and his wife Gail began to sell its...
As survival kit’s go credit card survival tools are some of the very smallest, but I generally find these pocket tools to be rather difficult to find a use for. There are very few ‘card tools’ that I think are worth carrying or using...