I love it! Maybe a step-by-step tutorial? It's pretty straightforward. In this case I just cut off the length I desired from a tip of horn and bored it out, using bits of decreasing size towards the tip end. The plug and stopper were just scrap pieces that were ground to fit the resulting holes. Ho...

These are cool, but aren't any of you a bit concerned the danger they might pose should you fall upon one in course of adventuring?
They're a tad pointy for something worn so close to the chest/head/neck region...

I for one would love to. Sadly, I don't really know of anyone who would be willing to go a-trekking with me, and therefore couldn't really document the experience in pictures. One needn't have someone else take photos, nor are photos a requisite at all! The OP suggests that any number of records ma...

I always took cram to be hardtack as it or a variation of it dates to at least the romans(Bucellatum). Agreed, but as it is implied that cram is sufficient as a staple food source and sustaining (but not entertaining) I would imagine that it had a bit more nutritive content than flour and salt alon...

Go out and do something? Bedlam! Truly you are an optimist!

I am of the opinion that you word your challenge in too polite a tone. Perhaps we should be more accusing and profess doubt as to how many will actually rise from the beckoning glow of their monitor and take up the call.

I have always thought of "Cram" as being like a real thick soda cracker or saltine, do you feel "Hard Tack" is it's equivilant or something alike, but entirely different? (if that is not a complete oxy-moron) When I first read The Hobbit ('round about age 12) I took cram to be c...

So something I cooked up for the recent Indy Moot was a bastardized version of a traditional (?) native recipe involving the "three sisters" - corn, squash and beans. I've not been able to locate a first hand source for this particular concoction but used the info on this site as a startin...

Thank you all. Just a couple additional photos.

Peter Remling wrote:How did you tack it so the horn didn't crack ?

Simply pre-drilled through the horn. They only need to bite into the wood of the plug.

Oftimes, whilst traveling through the wilds, one comes upon an inn or tavern whose food may be lacking a certain quality, or perhaps you wish for some cure for the bland corn meal boiled up while on march? If so, you may be in need of a conveyance for that universally appreciated and life-giving min...

After meeting Odigan I realized that he has a lot of experience with the outdoors and also respect nature more then most anyone I have met... I'm sure Odigan appreciates as much as I do the numerous complements to he and I's skills and experience. I do indeed! I didn't feel it appropriate or necess...

Fantastic!

We have a similar project here in the US: http://ozarkmedievalfortress.com/

Thought I'd share an archery target competition I've witnessed on a few occasions, which would serve well for our purposes in training and be enjoyable otherwise. There are six targets, spaced at some appropriate distance from the firing line. Usually this is 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70 yards or 15, ...

I like the place you started the fire don;t you think that you may burn the forest ? In future be more careful If we thought we might "burn the forest" we wouldn't have bloody well lit a fire. In any case I'm always careful to maintain a full bladder so as to keep manifold pressure up ove...

Not to dissent merely for the sake of it, but they look rather like a ground down garden spade.
If they thrown fine, as you say, then that's great for competition, but I find them rather grotesque in appearance.