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Had this posted in the custom knife forum and NORCALBLACKTAIL suggested I post it here
Got back yesterday and man moose hunting sucks climb big hills walkon mukeg and push thru willow thickets lots of fun. All kidding aside it was a tuff hunt got alot of snow and climbing up in the snow and musgeg to spot you would get sweaty and then sit for hours glassing was rather cold and hard on the joints. Calling worked on small bulls but the big boys did not come a running so spot and stalk was the order of the day. Spotted this Bull on the 7 th day and due to snow and fog did not get on him till a day in a half later. He is old and even though he is not that wide his palms went up instead of out he had great daggers and was very heavy with large palms. With one day to spare put the knives to use and the fun part began by packing out the god knows what it weighted My knees will never be the same. As for Teds knives I did not take the big bowie due to weight and being told there where hand saws and axes in my drop camp. Sorry Paul for making ya hurry for nothing but I did use the MMHW Persian for most of the skinning and butchering. Ted puts in my laymens terms kind of a thick edge on his knives and before I left I kinda thinned it out and was very happy with its performance no need to have to touch it up during the work . I also used a little Greco Lile caper for fine work. My buddy in the pics is Darwin he had a very nice custom that I wish I would have taken a pic of with a lovely patinad carbon blade that performed well also.
Well here we go with the pics hopefully I will not offend antone
We did alot of this
Which got us this
Butchered
Then we started packing out
A happy ending. Well I guess not for the moose
This is what the area I hunted looked like from the air
This is the knife that got the most use
__________________
JP
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Last edited by JParanee; 10-04-2008 at 12:49 AM.
Got back yesterday and man moose hunting sucks climb big hills walkon mukeg and push thru willow thickets lots of fun. All kidding aside it was a tuff hunt got alot of snow and climbing up in the snow and musgeg to spot you would get sweaty and then sit for hours glassing was rather cold and hard on the joints. Calling worked on small bulls but the big boys did not come a running so spot and stalk was the order of the day. Spotted this Bull on the 7 th day and due to snow and fog did not get on him till a day in a half later. He is old and even though he is not that wide his palms went up instead of out he had great daggers and was very heavy with large palms. With one day to spare put the knives to use and the fun part began by packing out the god knows what it weighted My knees will never be the same. As for Teds knives I did not take the big bowie due to weight and being told there where hand saws and axes in my drop camp. Sorry Paul for making ya hurry for nothing but I did use the MMHW Persian for most of the skinning and butchering. Ted puts in my laymens terms kind of a thick edge on his knives and before I left I kinda thinned it out and was very happy with its performance no need to have to touch it up during the work . I also used a little Greco Lile caper for fine work. My buddy in the pics is Darwin he had a very nice custom that I wish I would have taken a pic of with a lovely patinad carbon blade that performed well also.
Well here we go with the pics hopefully I will not offend antone
We did alot of this
Which got us this
Butchered
Then we started packing out
A happy ending. Well I guess not for the moose
This is what the area I hunted looked like from the air
This is the knife that got the most use
__________________
JP
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Last edited by JParanee; 10-04-2008 at 12:49 AM.
that place looks amazing...
