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- Feb 18, 2005
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Ok, I finally had a chance to get out in the backwoods last night to test out some of my new gear. It was a perfect night to camp and I had a couple of buddies with me. I used my BK7 and built a nice little snare trap for fun. Wasn't wanting to really catch anything, just practicing my skills. The BK7 didn't do too bad at all. I'd say for the price, this is a great camp knife that handled moderate chopping with no problem. I also got to test my ECOTAT freedom shelter for the first time. I will say that it will take a while to get used to the limited room, yet once I was settled, I had no problem being comfortable and sleeping. I still think the ECOTAT would be great accompanied with a tarp. There just really isn't much room inside for gear so if it was raining, it would really be tight trying to store gear inside.
After a fun evening, i was preparing to hit the sack, and being in an unfamiliar environment wanted to keep the BK7 close by for safety. I had my BK7 and sheath neatly attached to my Gregory pack and really didn't feel like taking the time to remove the sheath from the pack. I thought I'd be fine laying the BK7 in a concealed area in the ECOTAT. It was placed in the very front on the floor which ended up being about a foot to foot and a half away from me. You can already see where this story is going. So at about 4:00 am, as usual, I needed to get up and drain the weasel. Looking back I wish I had an empty bottle in the tent. Half awake, half asleep, I went to zip open the ECOTAT so I could get out. the ECOTAT also has Velcro points which must be broken loose to open up the tent. When one of the Velcro attachment points broke loose, i felt my hand hit something.
I reached over with my other hand to feel a lot of liquid and was somewhat confused because I still wasn't totally awake. I turned on my head lamp and then realized what I had done. Three fingers had been cut pretty good. It has been quite some time since I have had a dripper like that. I must have hit a few vessels. I made my way over to my pack, opened my spec-ops assault pack to get out my Otterbox PSK. I opened it up, got out some of the gauze pad and put it on the cuts. I took our my strips of black electrical tape to secure the gauze on my fingers. One of my buddies had left a white under shirt laying out so I cut some strips to wrap up my fingers. I finally got to go do my business and then returned to the ECOTAT 
(mad as he!!) to try and get back to sleep. I knew when I got home I was going to hear it from my wife who is a surgery nurse. She helped clean me up and the cuts weren't as bad as the bleeding made them seem.
I wanted to go out and test some new gear, I had no idea I'd be needing to use my PSK just to get me through the night.
I've learned that no matter what, I'll be keeping those knives sheathed from now on!
Soup
After a fun evening, i was preparing to hit the sack, and being in an unfamiliar environment wanted to keep the BK7 close by for safety. I had my BK7 and sheath neatly attached to my Gregory pack and really didn't feel like taking the time to remove the sheath from the pack. I thought I'd be fine laying the BK7 in a concealed area in the ECOTAT. It was placed in the very front on the floor which ended up being about a foot to foot and a half away from me. You can already see where this story is going. So at about 4:00 am, as usual, I needed to get up and drain the weasel. Looking back I wish I had an empty bottle in the tent. Half awake, half asleep, I went to zip open the ECOTAT so I could get out. the ECOTAT also has Velcro points which must be broken loose to open up the tent. When one of the Velcro attachment points broke loose, i felt my hand hit something.
I reached over with my other hand to feel a lot of liquid and was somewhat confused because I still wasn't totally awake. I turned on my head lamp and then realized what I had done. Three fingers had been cut pretty good. It has been quite some time since I have had a dripper like that. I must have hit a few vessels. I made my way over to my pack, opened my spec-ops assault pack to get out my Otterbox PSK. I opened it up, got out some of the gauze pad and put it on the cuts. I took our my strips of black electrical tape to secure the gauze on my fingers. One of my buddies had left a white under shirt laying out so I cut some strips to wrap up my fingers. I finally got to go do my business and then returned to the ECOTAT (mad as he!!) to try and get back to sleep. I knew when I got home I was going to hear it from my wife who is a surgery nurse. She helped clean me up and the cuts weren't as bad as the bleeding made them seem. I wanted to go out and test some new gear, I had no idea I'd be needing to use my PSK just to get me through the night.
I've learned that no matter what, I'll be keeping those knives sheathed from now on! Soup
