My Cousin and I both filled out tags on opening day. I still have plenty of meat left over from last year vacuum sealed in the freezer so I wanted a nice young Doe to fill the little bit of space that I have open. I ended up with a button buck, took it with the bolt action 44 mag with the SiCo Octane 45 on the end, shot was 173 yards. Deer ran 30 feet and crumbled.
My Cousin said to me in the morning “ let’s go shoot a big buck, oh I hope we see one. I want to shoot once and drop it”. He’s been after a buck for the 4 years that he’s been hunting.
It was his lucky day. Big 6 strolled in, he made his best shot ever, and I mean ever. He hit it at 175 yards with my 44, broadside in the bottom of the neck, and it collapsed where it stood.
It was a 400 yard drag to the truck for both deer and since I’m disabled and he’s even worse I got right to work field dressing them both to make them lighter. It was a bit more than I should’ve done and I’m still paying for it physically, but, the jerky has been worth the pain.
I used the FK2 for both deer. It started out looney tunes, hair splitting sharp. It ended up ever so slightly less so but still shaving sharp- very impressive!
Left it covered in blood and fat, wrapped up in a bloody latex glove, for a day. Slight black spot under the scale but otherwise held up as well as S30V did when I did the same to my CRK Nyala.
The 3V is a very interesting steel. Now if Nathan would just make me an FK2 with a 3.75 inch blade for deer processing id buy 3.
Thank you to CPK for such a fine tool to take into the woods.