Coleman Lantern Mantels

Someone once told me that you could track a wounded animal in the dark with a Coleman lantern because it would make fresh blood (not dried out yet) glow in the dark. Does anyone know if that's actually true? I've always wondered about that one...

Won't glow in the dark, but it is easier to see with light. UV light will fluoresce blood, but not a Coleman lantern.
 
Someone once told me that you could track a wounded animal in the dark with a Coleman lantern because it would make fresh blood (not dried out yet) glow in the dark. Does anyone know if that's actually true? I've always wondered about that one...

Take a black light into a motel room. You'll be sleeping in your car.
 
Found this old Coleman cooler at a large antique fair this am and had to have it for $35. Beautiful patina!

In doing a little research (I’d never seen this model) I found that this is the first model cooler that Coleman ever offered - in 1954.

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Here’s the reference ……

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At my first duty station, one of the guys in my section (Artillery) burned down our tent with an Army Yukon (gas) stove one night.

after that every time we went to the field our section signed out a Coleman Propane stove from MWR. We also signed out a camping cook set, including a coffee percolator.

At night we put the stove in the center of our Hex tent and turned it on for about ten minutes to warm up the tent then turned it off. If it got cold at night someone (usually me) would fire it up for a few minutes and turn it off again.

We always had hot food and we ALWAYS had hot coffee.
 
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