Gig in a bag

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texascarl

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I haven't seen anyone else mention these, but something I include in my 'BOB' is a $2 frog gig head and the screws needed to attach it to the nearest greenwood 8 foot pole. Weighs about 2 ounces, this one has 4 sharp prongs and might save me a bit of improvisation on the creekbank someday. Fire-hardening spearpoints and making a gig using locally common black locust thorns is dandy...but for $2 and 2 ounces, I say let's just get this gig on the road.

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I should have mentioned this in the first post...I make this ready to store in the BOB by laying the head on one strip of duct tape, I fill in the gaps between 'prongs' with 8-10 finish nails and put another piece of duct tape over all. The tape protects us from the points on the gig head, the finish nails may become additional gig heads, arrowheads/dart heads or drill bits, etc....as needed.
 
Great idea about the tape & nails! I thought that one could also wrap the hollow head portion with some snare wire, covered by duct tape...
 
Good idea...I've got snare wire in the BOB already, but you can't have too much scattered around in the bag. I picked up a couple of x-acto blades today that I was going to stick in the bag somewhere...I may just lay 2 of them, a pair of needles and a couple of 3 fish-hooks on top of the existing tape, add some more duct tape to cover them, wrap some snare wire and twine around the whole shebang, and tape over that to 'seal'. It's starting to weigh more than 2 ounces, but it's still a heckuva lot of useful ironmongery for not much space and weight.
 
Hey...while you're at it, fill the handle with 'goodies' - like Cold Steel suggests one may do with their "Bushman" survival knife/spear. I'm thinking that a plastic bag filled with tinder would be a good light weight filler for it...
 
Great idea! I can't believe I left that socket empty. I don't know if I can get a plastic bag full of tinder in there...but I think some vaseline/cotton balls and the needles, a scalpel blade, a few more brads and fish-hooks will fit, or a batch of shortened strike anywhere matches. Add a slip-on rubber crutch-tip that slides over the end to hold it all in waterproof fashion. Tape would work as a cap...but I like those rubber crutch tips on a walking stick/frog gig. They quiet things down a lot on rock, and the walking stick/gig doesn't slide around on wet rock, either. Around here, creek bottoms are limestone. Having your walking stick not slide around is important when the top has sharp prongs on it. ;)

This little gighead is getting to be a pretty useful kit all by itself. I may make a few more, these would make decent presents to a few friends and relatives who know a good thing when they see one.
 
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