First off, righteous beasts in those pics, boss. Sorry you didn't find it.......yet. Like Matt says, its there, and as long as you didn't skid a log over it and bury it, you can find it. If I may, I suggest two methods of searching. First, a back pack blower. get all the loose litter off all the places you think it could be, then blow the litter off of everything else too. Second, a metal springtooth leaf rake. Same method. Both of those have helped me be successful on searches like yours when throwing in the towel seemed to be the easier option.
Second,
Nathan the Machinist
, I have had a DEK1 end up on the forest floor once as well after I rolled an ATV down a hill with me on, over, under and beside it. After being thankful it didn't end up inside me, and short but frantic search for it ensued, I was thinking I wished I had brighter scales on it. Mike has touched on the same notion. Could we get something like blaze orange or toxic green micarta/G10 as regular offering for at least the smaller knives in the series, if not all of them? I realize they will not be the hottest selling materials, but those of us that could appreciate them would be willing to pay a premium like we do for other offerings. What a minute, why am I asking you, you don't actually do anything around there, lemme run it by the boss........
Hey
@Jo the Machinist , can we get some hi viz scale materials as a regular offering to help jackasses like me and
@Mendoman find our knives when we do dumb stuff like flip ATVs and use lanyards?