Equipment with good life expectancy

[404Shooter]

Leatherman tools
Swiss Army knives
Paramo clothing (marmite, I know, but I it works well for me)
Buffalo clothing
Keela clothing (relatively new to me but the Munro jacket seems impossible to mark or tear)
Alt-berg boots
Viper-flex quad sticks

 

[Mr Tree]

Stahlwille Socket sets, Atorn socket sets, Pecar Riflescopes, Britool spanners,
Any antique spades, shovels, forks that you can buy dirt cheap at car boot sales, made with decent Sheffield steel.
Antique carbon blade carving knives, Sheffield or Birmingham.

 

[Iamtheferryman]

Left field here but my 2010 VW Passat estate.

Over 200k miles on the clock and she is still a solid comfortable motor.

Hope I haven't jinxed it

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Facom spanners.
Millers Falls tools.
Starrett measuring tools.
Cast steel Sheffield chisels, getting shorter though each year.

 

[Tazz]

Ogdens roe sacks
Leupold and zeiss optics
Swedteam clothing
Viperflex sticks
Mora knives

I have all of the above except Zeiss and I would add to that list

Ogdens rifle slip with pocket
Swarovski optics
Schoffel shooting suite
EKA Swingblade and Swede 8
Meindl Dovre Extreme

 

[Overlay]

Aim gun bags /slips, had 3 and they all went down with faulty zips, love the material but Aim dropped a real clanger on the zips
Have since gone with harkila and they have been faultless

Faultless suppliers and materials
Ogdens
Harkila
Danum
3 suppliers proven through using their gear in not easy workloads and not had a problem

 

[Jagged77]

Aim gun bags /slips, had 3 and they all went down with faulty zips, love the material but Aim dropped a real clanger on the zips
Have since gone with harkila and they have been faultless

Faultless suppliers and materials
Ogdens
Harkila
Danum
3 suppliers proven through using their gear in not easy workloads and not had a problem

AIM drag bags are a funny one. The zips seems to be a common problem and it’s such a shame as they are brilliant bags. I think I’ve lucked out as I’ve 4 of them for 10 years plus and no issues. Not treated them with kid gloves either. The AIM shooting mat is excellent.

TAB gear make great slings and accessories, worth including.

 

[Heym SR20]

Well built firearms from 100 plus years ago. Side by sides of all qualities from 100 years ago are still in regular use. I use a 1930’s Webley 16 and a 1921 Alex Martin 12.

Rifles to, although many rifles of yesteryear were rendered obsolete by legislation. A 100 year old 7x57, 303, 30-06, 270 etc perfectly capable of taking deer.

My 7x65r was built over 50 years with a 6x42 Zeiss in claw mounts. Shoots better than I can.

Ross and Grays stalking scopes. Lense quality was superb, and the still hold their own - and a joy to use.

I have one pair of binoculars 7x42 BGAT*P* which the then young Mrs Heym bought me on our honeymoon at the end of the last century. Can’t see me needing a new of binoculars any time soon.

 

[Klenchblaize]

Jumpers for goalposts.

K

 

[old keeper]

Miroku MK60.
Hilux
Sako A2 243
Archer NV still going strong after 20 years
Me, still going (fairly) strong after 88 years!

 

[bakereloadprune]

• A 196X Anschutz match 54 1413 22lr - currently setup for the nsra benchrest and proving its still more accurate than I ever will be
• Altberg defender boots - with regular leder gris application
• Casino Gshok solar multi band - if feeling flush, imported to the uk from Japan for a special jdm (japanese domestic market) version...so I can bore anyone I meet that mine has a screwback case, not screw plate
• Loake formal and semi formal shoes - regular wear and regularly resoled, but the cost with them back at the factory is getting extortionate... I go to the local cobbler now. I got married in one pair and I hope one day to wear them to my children's weddings
• Musto fleeces - I have the full zip gilet and long arm, worn daily 3 seasons of the year plus flights and indestructible
• Tumi briefcases and backpacks - heavy, at one time overly show-off but I think it's passed, again bombproof
• Olight aaa pocket flashlight - use it way more than any other bibblybob I carry
• Renapur leather balm - probably 15 years old from the ideal home show and I'm yet to get through 50%, really good job on all shoes

 

[Cyres]

Should add Ellwel hand tools. I have several brushing hooks, slashers and hedge laying tools. All are a delight to use and well over 100 yrs old. Also have some Ellwel spades and garden forks.
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[Stover Rover]

Leupold scopes never had one let me down.
Barbour half leather Tarras bag 30 years and still going strong.
Victorinox Alox Swiss army knives.
Leatherman Wave
M&S thermal underwear and socks
Nikon superior E porro prism binoculars

 

[Rutland lad]

• A 196X Anschutz match 54 1413 22lr - currently setup for the nsra benchrest and proving its still more accurate than I ever will be
• Altberg defender boots - with regular leder gris application
• Casino Gshok solar multi band - if feeling flush, imported to the uk from Japan for a special jdm (japanese domestic market) version...so I can bore anyone I meet that mine has a screwback case, not screw plate
• Loake formal and semi formal shoes - regular wear and regularly resoled, but the cost with them back at the factory is getting extortionate... I go to the local cobbler now. I got married in one pair and I hope one day to wear them to my children's weddings
• Musto fleeces - I have the full zip gilet and long arm, worn daily 3 seasons of the year plus flights and indestructible
• Tumi briefcases and backpacks - heavy, at one time overly show-off but I think it's passed, again bombproof
• Olight aaa pocket flashlight - use it way more than any other bibblybob I carry
• Renapur leather balm - probably 15 years old from the ideal home show and I'm yet to get through 50%, really good job on all shoes

I second you on Loake shoes - I’ve worn them for many years. I wore a pair for my son’s wedding and lent him a pair to wear too …

 

[Klenchblaize]

K

 

[udderlyoffroad]

Faultless suppliers and materials
Ogdens
Harkila
Danum

Can’t speak for the last one but the first 2, but at the prices they charge, so they bluddy well should. Obviously most of the kit listed in this thread is firmly in the “buy once, cry once” box, but equally some really do charge strong money. I *assume* the OP was after middle of the road kit that holds up well, rather than premium stuff that is, well, premium.

I second you on Loake shoes - I’ve worn them for many years. I wore a pair for my son’s wedding and lent him a pair to wear too …

Interesting, but office culture appears to have changed so much that “formal” shoes really only get broken out for hatchings, matchings & despatchings that I really would struggle to justify upgrading from my m&s 10 year old pair…this is not, as the kids say to “yuck your yums”, but i do wonder how many people will be purchasing such things going forward.

 

[sikasako]

Pulsar over HikMicro IMHO.

 

[Cyres]

I used to wear Jones Oxfords daily to work. Rarely worn now. One pair barely broken in one brand new pair. Paid £70 for the last pair. Cheeney brogues on 2nd vibram resole.
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[Rutland lad]

Can’t speak for the last one but the first 2, but at the prices they charge, so they bluddy well should. Obviously most of the kit listed in this thread is firmly in the “buy once, cry once” box, but equally some really do charge strong money. I *assume* the OP was after middle of the road kit that holds up well, rather than premium stuff that is, well, premium.


Interesting, but office culture appears to have changed so much that “formal” shoes really only get broken out for hatchings, matchings & despatchings that I really would struggle to justify upgrading from my m&s 10 year old pair…this is not, as the kids say to “yuck your yums”, but i do wonder how many people will be purchasing such things going forward.

I’m not one to spend recklessly ( many of my friends will testify to that) but good shoes are an absolute in my world. Or they were, before I retired. I always lusted after a pair of Church’s shoes but couldn’t afford them, Loakes were achievable and I wore my first pair daily (work) for over 10 years.

Polished shoes are something that people remember and can in certain circumstances start a conversation. They also help give a first impression of your outlook, professionalism (?) and general competence.
I’m not so sure of someone’s competence when I look down and see scuffed unpolished shoes. I’m not saying they can’t do the job I expect them to do, just that I haven’t got as much confidence in them as I could have. That might be mad, but it’s how I was brought up and conducted myself through my working life.

I do find it a bit sad that people no longer dress well for work, I see it and I don’t like it.

For years my train ride to London Bridge was enlightened by the fairer sex who dressed well for work. And some of them dressed very well.
Thankfully I’ve still got the memories……

 

[Keith Edmunds]

1.) Anything made by Phil Ogden
2.) Brandecosse Brontolare boots
3.) Country Covers clothing
4.) Gary Cane riflestocks
5.) Sealskinz socks
6.) Danish Endurance socks