We’ve been given a £400 donation to use to purchase fieldcraft kit. We currently don’t have anything other than cam paint so looking for basha kits etc, has anyone bought anything recently, places to recommend or avoid?
we bought some Bergens, clothing, daysacks, sleeping bags and bashas etc… from Feild Textiles. it comes in bundles and there will be the odd item which is unuseable/unreparable, but we got a 95%+ (ish) success rate…
having someone who is handy with a sewing machine is, if by no means a prerequisite, then certainly useful.
we are pretty happy with our experience, others may have different experiences, but we’ve used them three times in the last few years and we’ve not found better…
I get most field kit from field textiles, or random ebay sales. One piece of advice: Only buy the issue bashas, not the copies. Most of them are pretty naff,
Agreed - get lots of used, but decent, issue kit.
It’ll be better than any copied stuff, and as and when you acquire random bits through the system you can rotate them into the same pool without worrying about compatibility issues.
Avoid the ‘all arms’ bergens though, they’re terrible.