Bow hunting!!!!

ARMYOf1

ARMYOf1

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Archery season opens up this weekend!!! I am stoked!! I got all my gear loaded up! Are there any other hogs headed to the hills or Mountains for a chance at an Elk, mullie or white tail?
I have an either sex mule deer tag and my buddy has an either sex elk tag!! :eek:

Last year I didn’t have any small Busse, so I used my spyderco mule and a buck gut hook knife. This year I have a SARS le or a game warden that I am thinking of using.

What is your favorite Busse hunting and skinning knife??? What have you used in the pass, and what kind of results did you get?

Edge retention would be the number one plus in my mind!
 
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Man that's awesome. I think we have almost another month before we get to get at it. :( Best of luck to everyone heading out this season. :D

By the way, I have used my Custom shop Active Duty with snakeskin handles for the last 4 years in the field and have never had a problem.


Go get em,
Garth
 
Happy Hunting Man - Here in GA I would rather sit out the early season, even though I live to shoot a bow - seed ticks suck :eek:
 
Leaner Meaner or an old Mean Street, both have served well:

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Good Luck!
 
I just got back from a successful elk hunt just south of the Mongollon Rim here in AZ. I got lucky and bagged a pretty big cow. I saw no bulls, but I did hear some of them. One that was particularly close sounded like it was about the size of a bus, but unfortunately, I never saw him.

My knives on hand were two customs (no Busse this time :foot:), my Kyle Royer hunter and another by Joe Cordova (my first custom ever). Both performed very nicely.

Good luck on your hunt. Please keep us posted.
 
I will update this post after I get back. Here in Colorado the Archery season runs 30 days, so if I get skunked this first weekend I will go up for another trip. My hunting grounds are about an hour away!!!

The active duty or meaner street has a nice long skinny blade profile that I can see would be good for processing game! I am going to have to put one on my wish list!

Congrats on your Elk hunt Chris! This year I am after Mule deer for Archery Season, my Elk tag is first season Rifle in October, for either sex!! …. This year I am bringing up my 45/70-guide gun it should be a blast!
 
This year I am going to get a OTC cow as well as a Mule deer tag... and I already picked up my wolf tag. :D
 
Well I FINALLY filled my tag this weekend. I took a few shots the opening weekend went home empty handed, last weekend I had family business to attend to and didn't make it up.
I had been staking out a trail in the forest where I have seen a few Five pointers(that's ten points for you southern boys!). This morning I set a mean stalk up on one but he bolted before I could get a shot off. Around 8:30 I cam upon three nice does and decided I wanted to take one home. The stalk took about thirty minutes. I got a perfect hit on the largest one. She ran about 100 yards and feel down dead. I hit her through the lung and my arrow hit her far shoulder and broke up into three pieces. The broad head and part of the shaft exited and two shards about 3inch long stayed in her burner box. As she ran they must have chewed her up because she didn't last long. My game warden and ZT 350 made short work of skinning and gutting her in the field. Then I carried her back to the truck which was about a mile out. I spent the rest of the day butchering her and packing the meat. For processing her I used my CGBM, my TK11, and my Spyderco catcherman.....I love using my knives for the purpose that they where intended for!!! All in all a great weekend! Unfortunately my CGBM took a nasty edge roll when hacking through the leg! The head came off so easy I figured the big knife would make a snap of the legs and it did, Though it took three chops! I think a strop will pull out the ding no problem, we'll see ......if not I guess it adds character.

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Good luck this season guys!!!
 
ARMYOf1 said:
Unfortunately my CGBM took a nasty edge roll when hacking through the leg! The head came off so easy I figured the big knife would make a snap of the legs and it did, Though it took three chops! I think a strop will pull out the ding no problem, we'll see ......if not I guess it adds character
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I would hate to speak out of line but this could be covered. I mean unless the rolls were caused after you got through the bone and burried it in the tailgate of your truck
 
Armyof1, Nice and Congrats!
A steel rod and some stropping should take that out. I had a HHFSH that took that kind of damage pretty regular and I took it out every time. Good luck.
 
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Nice deer..I didn't think deer bone would mess up an edge that bad, especially on a FBM.
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It is a CGFBM, and the edge has been thinned down a bit....I have had many a mistress and this was by far the sharpest...NOT a Busse factory edge
Not that there is anything wrong with the factory edge. This is the only knife that I have cut myself with ever while just holding it...and I have handled allot of knives! I bought it used and will keep using it but will be sure to give her edge TLC as needed!
 
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Congrats on your doe. Any idea what she likely weighed?

I don't think there will be any issue with your CGFBM edge looking as good as new with a little work. I used to do the knife thing when going through bone, and still do if that is all that is available to me, but I have come to prefer a small bone saw blade in a hacksaw frame. Works great!
 
Glad you got one especially with a bow there is nothing like archery! I cant wait till Oct. when gun season rolls around here in GA.
A friend of mine taught me a cool skinning trick, he used to trap, he said take the leg or any other joint skin down to it then pull it one way slice the cartilage in the joint work it back the other way and slice in the joint again. It only takes a couple of slices to remove a leg and you dont ruin your knife edge.
Paul
 
Bone is much harder than wood. A tree doesn't have to withstand the forces exerted in running and jumping. Bone is notoriously hard on knife edges. The blade likely went between vertebrae when lopping the head off, however, there is no easy out when chopping through leg bone. I wouldn't be surprised to see some amount of deformation to a factory edge grind when chopping through bone.

+1 on the bone saw.
 
Congrats on the filled tag.:thumbup:

Thanks for sharing.

My bow has years of dust on it :o yet my O/U is full of scratches.:D

Small game and bow hunting opens here Sat.. Radar and I will be stomping the north woods for grouse all weekend, can't wait.
Luckily for me MN firearms deer opener is on my b-day again so I'm locked in.:thumbup:

norcalblacktail said:
Dam...Ive chopped through alot of bone and never have had that happen. How thin is the edge?
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I was thinking the same thing.

I even froze some and diced them up with no issues.:thumbup:

No worries though that will fix up nicely:thumbup:
 
The doe weighed around 130lbs!
30 steaks
4 roasts
15 table chop paper wrapped ziplock bags full of bits of meat for the grinder!
That is a project for next weekend though............
 
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