Huntin with your Traditional Knives

[johnny twoshoes]

In the woods now with some venison medicine.

My bean field 243 got left at home as I am hunting woods tonight. Looking to see how my 30-06 does on deer.

I’ve had some great success so far this season and hope to share pics and stories soon. My #73 picture above has been used on 3 different deer now and so far I’ve onyl stropped the edge on my blue jeans and it’s still hair popping.

 

[Dan of Bazz Clazz]

Duck season opened this past Saturday.

Wabbit season! lol

 

[WolfyW]

The hunt

The food prep begins....

 

[Jsega51]

I had a new sheath made for my user Mamoru Shigeno Dropped Hunter. Claude Scott did a wonderful job on it. His work is really clean with nice crisp tooling and a great fit. Should look great after a few years of use!

As for the knife, the stag looked much better when it was new. Since I wanted to use this knife, I thinned, profiled and smoothed the stag to fit my hand better and get rid of the sharp edges. It lost a lot of character but oh well! In my defense, Loveless liked mismatched stag because he said it was like having two different knives in one! (Probably not as ugly as these scales are though haha).

I also gave the guard a satin rubbed finish vs the mirror polish it did have.

 

[Peregrin]

I'd be happy with that, Jake. Very nice! If it's going to get a lot of use, you might as well make it work for you.

 

[Jsega51]

Thanks Gary. I recently let a buddy skin and quarter up his deer with it and he couldn’t believe how well it cut. His eyes bugged out when I told him the cost but he’s not a knife nut, I just laughed and I’m sure he’ll ask to use it again.

 

[johnny twoshoes]

Looking for a doe, or two tonight.

 

[johnny twoshoes]

I had a new sheath made for my user Mamoru Shigeno Dropped Hunter. Claude Scott did a wonderful job on it. His work is really clean with nice crisp tooling and a great fit. Should look great after a few years of use!

As for the knife, the stag looked much better when it was new. Since I wanted to use this knife, I thinned, profiled and smoothed the stag to fit my hand better and get rid of the sharp edges. It lost a lot of character but oh well! In my defense, Loveless liked mismatched stag because he said it was like having two different knives in one! (Probably not as ugly as these scales are though haha).

I also gave the guard a satin rubbed finish vs the mirror polish it did have.

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That is one sweet knife! I like that you want ahead and made it your own, also made it a lot easier for use I’m sure.

I’ve been using a folding knife for the past five, or six years for all the butchering process until this year. I love the drop point on my #73, but having a fixed blade for quartering just seems smarter.

 

[johnny twoshoes]

This has become an issue in our woods...


I’ve killed nearly 50 ticks with the tip of my #72 so far this season. Waiting for GEC to come out with the #93 Tick Buster....

 

[Jsega51]

Thanks Johnny, it’s one of many that I carry. I switch it up if I’m not seeing anything, or just have a hankering to put something else on the belt, but I really want to give this one a chance to develop a nice used look.

Ticks have been an issue everywhere up this way I think. I’ve pulled plenty out of the dog, the preventative even seems to be a match.

 

[johnny twoshoes]

Fifteen minutes after daylight first broke over the horizon this buck entered the field for the last time.

Not a monster by anyones standards, but truly the trophy of a lifetime. For the first time ever I was able to hunt with my beautiful wife, she had never gone hunting before, she didn’t grow up with it, but it’s something I’ve always known since I was little. She was extremely excited to be there on the opening morning and having her there renewed the passion of a successful hunt that I sometime lose when the season is short.

My brother pulled his shot on this buck from a separate stand, his round hit the buck a little far back. The buck ran to us before bedding down, I could tell by the way he was moving he was hit far back, but after skinning him I found out he was hit far back and very low, it was a mortal hit, but it would have lingered. My beautiful wife let my brother know the situation and I got into position to take a shot. My 243. Barked and the deer lay still. I put the round through the ears in hopes of killing him quickly and not sacrificing any meat.
And just like that my tag was filled.

The work began, the dragging, hauling and cutting process is the most work, a sort of retribution for success. When it comes to the skinning and quartering that’s my time for reflection, not just on the season, but on the year, the year of my life and the deer’s life. I found a beautiful woman who made me the luckiest man in the world, did the buck get his doe as well? I got oil for the winter loaded in the tank, did the buck get enough calories in corn, acorns and soybean to have a good warm winter? These thoughts don’t humanize the deer for me, they do remind me of the sacrifice that has to be made though when taking the life of a living, breathing animal.

Hunting cleanses my mind from the everyday, it brings me to a place of thoughtful solitude and awakens a hunting mentality that many have abandoned in the wake of such abundance. My connection to this deer is one that a McDonald’s hamburger will never imitate.

Tools of the trade.

 

[tmd_87]

Fifteen minutes after daylight first broke over the horizon this buck entered the field for the last time.
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Not a monster by anyones standards, but truly the trophy of a lifetime. For the first time ever I was able to hunt with my beautiful wife, she had never gone hunting before, she didn’t grow up with it, but it’s something I’ve always known since I was little. She was extremely excited to be there on the opening morning and having her there renewed the passion of a successful hunt that I sometime lose when the season is short.

My brother pulled his shot on this buck from a separate stand, his round hit the buck a little far back. The buck ran to us before bedding down, I could tell by the way he was moving he was hit far back, but after skinning him I found out he was hit far back and very low, it was a mortal hit, but it would have lingered. My beautiful wife let my brother know the situation and I got into position to take a shot. My 243. Barked and the deer lay still. I put the round through the ears in hopes of killing him quickly and not sacrificing any meat.
And just like that my tag was filled.

The work began, the dragging, hauling and cutting process is the most work, a sort of retribution for success. When it comes to the skinning and quartering that’s my time for reflection, not just on the season, but on the year, the year of my life and the deer’s life. I found a beautiful woman who made me the luckiest man in the world, did the buck get his doe as well? I got oil for the winter loaded in the tank, did the buck get enough calories in corn, acorns and soybean to have a good warm winter? These thoughts don’t humanize the deer for me, they do remind me of the sacrifice that has to be made though when taking the life of a living, breathing animal.

Hunting cleanses my mind from the everyday, it brings me to a place of thoughtful solitude and awakens a hunting mentality that many have abandoned in the wake of such abundance. My connection to this deer is one that a McDonald’s hamburger will never imitate.

Tools of the trade.
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CONGRATS!!! You for sure spent a lot of time this season and it was all worth it!!! Was the hide redish? Our Blacktail deer in California can go from a light grey to dark grey depending on thier winter coat.

 

[johnny twoshoes]

CONGRATS!!! You for sure spent a lot of time this season and it was all worth it!!! Was the hide redish? Our Blacktail deer in California can go from a light grey to dark grey depending on thier winter coat.

The buck did have a slightly reddish tone to it, they range in colors as well, anywhere from a light tan, to red, to dark brown and almost a grey tone to them.

Here is my mom’s first buck from this season, I’ll share the story on that hunt a little later. This buck was a monster in mass weight, over 200 lbs which is pretty good for the farm.

 

[Jsega51]

Man, what a goofy rack that is! Always cool to see the weird ones. Looks like she put a good shot on. Congrats!

 

[johnny twoshoes]

Man, what a goofy rack that is! Always cool to see the weird ones. Looks like she put a good shot on. Congrats!

When we were deboning this buck out we found a round lodged in its right hind quarter. I’m guessing that’s why he had the goofy right side.

 

[johnny twoshoes]

Less then 20 minutes after I crawled into the stand for an afternoon hunt I got a text that a young buck and doe were paired up on a different part of the property. My brother called and told me he was getting ready to sneak on them to get a shot, within five minutes I heard the report of his rifle followed by a satisfying thump.


I should say the report of my rifle though as he had borrowed mine after leaving his in the “shack” a new stand we built this year. He has shot my rifle before for cases just like this so we know his aim is good.

2 minutes of cutting with a sharp knife and the entrails are out. Double lung on this doe and she dropped in her tracks.

It’s a great doe for a busy guy that puts his family first no matter what. I’m happy for him and the venison added to the family cache.

 

[Atepac]

Love this thread. Just spent 30 minutes reading great stories.

 

[t.a.h]

This is a great Sodbuster from Keith Johnson. I am using it for almost all my hunting and fishing. 4 inches closed. Strong spring, perfect blade shape and dark brown canvas micarta. Here in action on a roe deer here in Norway.

 

[johnny twoshoes]

Keith makes an amazing knife! I had one of his Lanny’s clips and it was perfect.

I was in the stand last night and had a medium sized doe come out. It got a little chilly so I kicked the heat on.

 

[tmd_87]

Late season black bear hunting in Northern California. We haven't had any weather in about a month. But decently cold nights. I went out this morning but didn't see anything.

My carry-

I did see a nice Blacktail buck though!!! He looked relatively young, and had a nice kicker coming off the back of his right side. Cool looking rack.

After hunt breakfast two backstrap steaks and some eggs I just collected from my hens.