Huntin with your Traditional Knives

[johnny twoshoes]

That's Mr. Lloyds famous red stag!

A buck I took.


A different kind of Buck.


Loaded for bear.

 

[johnny twoshoes]

Beavertail vs cottontail.


Here is Hawk, he hunted up more bunnies then I'll ever see in my lifetime.

 

[jmarston]

A photo of my wife cleaning one of our grouse. Her and I enjoy going grouse hunting in the evenings after supper together. My GEC 72 Cody Scout at her side. Sadly I broke the back spring trying to loosen it up.

 

[jec88]

Here are a few shots I had in my photo bucket. I like traditional bows as well as knives.

 

[Chris Montgomery]

Very nice stuff jec88. Nice knives! Really like the bow in the first pic.

Chris

 

[Guitarist7.62]

Too bad it nothing but coyotes are in season here, you guys make me wanna hunt.

 

[Jsega51]

Nothing wrong with a hunting related pic to get everyone thinking about fall time....

 

[Jsega51]

It's that time of year!! Getting cooler at night, some leaves are turning yellow already, birds are gathering up and preparing for migration....it's hunting season! Time for a thread bump.

Here's a hunting knife that I just ordered today actually. Model #1 Semi Skinner by the late George Herron in ATS-34 and Cocobolo

 

[black mamba]

Here is a nice mouflon/black Hawaiian cross that I shot at around 9000 ft elevation in the rain forest atop Mauna Loa on the big island of Hawaii.

My guides skinning the sheep.

We used my Blackjack 125 to help in the butchering.

 

[Chris Montgomery]

Jake, our season for archery starts next Saturday and I haven't even started getting ready other than regular practice with my old recurve. Seeing your posts, wonderful knives, got me to feeling the itch.

Great ram and knife Jeff. Will you be making the ICCE knife show in Kansas city?



This one should get to see some use this fall.

Chris

 

[black mamba]

No plans to, Chris. I've done a lot of traveling lately, gonna take it easy until November deer season starts.

Congrats on the Bose!

 

[Chris Montgomery]

Thank you Jeff. Perhaps you can make Little Rock in February.

Chris

 

[Jsega51]

That's a nice little ram Jeff! Do they mostly live at that elevation or are they only that high at certain times of the year??

Chris, congrats on the Bose from Kris, those are sweet knives for sure. Good luck on the upcoming season! I'll have to plan to attend a show sometime and meet up with you guys.

 

[black mamba]

Jake, I'm not sure. The landowner has a cabin at the top of the mountain, around 9,000 ft plus, and we stayed there and hunted down from it. We saw sheep constantly, but mostly the black Hawaiians, which are a little chunkier than the mouflon. This was the only cross between the two that we saw, and it was within a quarter mile of the cabin, at just slightly lower elevation. This one was with two other rams, both black Hawaiians, in this more open patch. Most of the country was very thick, with low visibility due to the fog and mist.

 

[johnny twoshoes]

At almost exactly 7:00AM this morning, my mom took her first doe and with a crossbow no less! The doe stopped at about thirty yards and that was it. The doe traveled maybe fifty yards before piling up. Quick and clean just how we like it!

I field dressed the doe with my #73L.


And JR (my brother) skinned her out with the Buck 118 that his wife got him for Christmas.

 

[VCM3]

 

[black mamba]

Lookin' good, Johnny and Vince!

 

[johnny twoshoes]

Thanks Jeff, that ram is something else.
What is your rig?

Vince, MR. Lloyd knows how to make a perfect hunting companion doesn't he?

Well, my stag #73L got put back to work this evening. Right before dark my mom's husband got his first die on our farm. He has killed a ton of deer in his time, but this one was special. Hours earlier my mom killed her first ever deer and then Michael killed his first deer on our farm. Truly a special day!!!

And a pic of my hard working #73L.

 

[Chris Montgomery]

Good stuff Johnny and Vince.

Our archery season starts next Saturday. I won't be hunting the season opener though, I will be in Kansas city at the International Custom Cutlery Exposition.

Chris

 

[Cambertree]

Great pics guys, I've really enjoyed seeing your hunts and rigs in this thread.

We have some of the best and most varied hunting in Australia down here in Victoria.

Open season on declared feral pest animals like foxes, rabbits, hare and some game animals like sambar and fallow deer. We have seasons on duck, quail, red deer and hog deer.

Here's some pics of a hunt for sambar deer my bro and I went on in a mates hound crew a couple of weekends ago. We took three does.

Here's the ridgelines we hunt on this property. You can see the camp and farm buildings if you zoom in.



Gear shots: Browning X-bolt .308, GEC 53 Stockman and Leica rangefinder which doubles as a monocular.





Mountain snowmelt creek with wild watercress and deer browsed blackberry canes on the bank.



The mornings work: three gutted does cooling back in camp.