Introduction With the end of last year my brother bought himself a Mavic Mini drone. With my background as a security and conflict analyst, plus my interest in camouflage, you can imagine it did not take me long to start some air reconnaissance, testing out my camouflage collection. After initial flight tests, and learning how […]
Introduction As you can see, I have decided to give Patreon a shot. With your support I want to maintain work on and with Pine Survey. Providing you with quality content and not merely superficial quantity requires time and resources. For 6 years now, I have been writing, taking pictures and doing reviews on several […]
Eine deutsche Version dieses Reviews kann im Tacticalforum nachgelesen werden Introduction Like so many other visitors to IWA, I was completely surprised by the impressive booth of Acta Non Verba Knives in Spring 2019. Feeling as if it came out of nowhere, the booth was an inviting attraction with a multitude of knives in the […]
Introduction In comparison with other blogs I am quite late to the whole PHANTOMLEAF topic, even though I regularly mentioned it after my regular IWA visits in Nuremberg. My late entry to the topic is even stranger since the developer of PHANTOMLEAF (Florian Lenz) was introduced to me by Dom Hyde of PenCott several years […]
My fellow contributor Alzwolf took the time to take a closer at ITW Gear’s new and upcoming line up of EDC pouches. Below you will find his observations on these little helpers. Introduction There is a German saying: “order is half of your life”. Who does not know that. When you are on the road, […]
Introduction This year I did not only have the opportunity to get my hands on an Ibex-26 by Vanquest Gear, but also an Envoy-13 messenger bag. Being now the 4th generation of this bag, I was curious to see what the design department of Vanquest came up with, knowing fully well that they never run […]
Introduction It’s been a while since I wrote a knife review here on Pine Survey. Even more so a review about the Russian knife company Kizlyar Supreme. If I recall correctly, the last one was about the Survivalist, so this review will be a nice change in topic. As you can see I got a […]
Introduction In my first review on ConCamo Green (CC) I promised to provide you with additional footage, comparing CC with other available camouflage patterns. Given the fact that at that time plenty of similar articles were being published, I put it on hold and focused on different reviews. With some time gone now, I think […]
Introduction This year Tasmanian Tiger released two very interesting velcro based camera accessories. On the one hand the TT Modular Digi Cam VL Insert, and on the other the TT Modular Lens Bag VL Insert M. I have both of them in use for several months now and am now able to give you my […]
Introduction Earlier this year I was able to get an IBEX-26 backpack for review. After already talking last year with Michael and Alex about the Vanquest backpack lineup, I was eager to take a closer look at one of the Ibex models. The reason for this is quite simple: even though the design might look […]
