First off today my brother got his sights on the BIG BUCK he's been after for YEARS! He shot and got solid hits and then started chasing it...and chasing it never letting it bed down to bleed out till it went in to the super impassible swamp...we are going to look tomorrow for it on the off chance the wolves didn't get it or another hunter "Bags" the monster no one believed existed around there. (That was fine with my brother as he was the one who was actively going after it!). Can you say literal Buck Fever?
Then the deer I finally got when one finally got in range with my new toy...er...hunting tool, I was getting the possession/carcass tag as he had the truck he was hauling it in. He GAVE it to my dad and STEP MOTHER! So we lost another deer we were going to share...
Then my little brother who was cutting up the deer along with another one my dad got at his farm...was using the knife he got as a kid to skin and cut some of the deer. He asked for my SP-51 to cut the heads off, but I left it at the farm and let him use the SP-53 I had hurriedly packed for going to get the BIG BUCK my brother shot to hack a way out for it. (Its ready to go for our check tomorrow morning.) So I gave him my RD-6 to use and...well he is a skilled deer cutter upperer. He asked for one this X-mass I just gave him the sheath on my belt and said happy merry early x-mass. That was the first time I had that knife in the field, so it was literally new. So I lost my RD-6 that way!
The RD6 in his hands I see is a very functional hunting knife. Its FFG and choil and good middling size. (the choil makes it a bit shorter cutting edge but it makes the knife more suited to deer sized game I see.
I was carrying the RD6 because my elcheapo RD7 sheath with the ONE velcro strap wigged out and I almost lost the knife in the field last week. Ontario don't seem to make a sheath that can fit an RD7 with out going RD9 size. So I took the next size RD6 as it has two snap hilt straps.
Can any one recommend a decent RD7 sheath. I have a kydex one but the kydex is just splayed out so wide it doesn't make for a nice clean carry.
Oh I had a LOCK BACK Gerber Gator Blade with Gut Hook made out of the steel the Black Bird is, and my brother who gave the deer away sure field dressed my deer fast with it. He was still coming down from his adrenaline rush from the over a mile or so he chased his deer through broken country. He was saying how he would of field dressed it like this and that and this...
Oh well live and learn.
To be fair I did miss once in a life time gift myself. MONSTER BUCK, 100 yards away broadside in the sun rubbing its antlers, not knowing I was there and I had a 300 win mag zeroed for that range. I was a bit cocky nailed an 8 pointer earlier that day and our party still had a few tags. I raised gun, targeted my usual area I would target at the time, waked through some brush on the lower side of a slope and got through 30 feet of brush came out and saw the big buck staring at me like it was mift I disturbed it! I lowered rifle a gain, shot just as it did the super high jump maneuver. I waited the 15-20 min to check the shot...clean miss. I was going for a spine hit as I did on big bucks back then if I had the time...I did hit it...but light graze as I inspected the bush it was working on slanted its back enough for making do a miss... after that it was always killing shots in common areas or pass on the shot. I had to tell him that deep dark secret I had...so he knew I understood!
I'm down to one RD 6 now! What ever can I do!
Edited Edit of Editing Edits: Deer not found. But the SP-53 is sure a great black spruce and alder brush thwacker and whacker! We used both of mine to get where some ravens where circling, but that was just a hunter's gut pile. Well a deer gut pile a hunter got that is. It started snowing again so all tracks where lost, we saw the circling ravens and checked that out...
Then the deer I finally got when one finally got in range with my new toy...er...hunting tool, I was getting the possession/carcass tag as he had the truck he was hauling it in. He GAVE it to my dad and STEP MOTHER! So we lost another deer we were going to share...
Then my little brother who was cutting up the deer along with another one my dad got at his farm...was using the knife he got as a kid to skin and cut some of the deer. He asked for my SP-51 to cut the heads off, but I left it at the farm and let him use the SP-53 I had hurriedly packed for going to get the BIG BUCK my brother shot to hack a way out for it. (Its ready to go for our check tomorrow morning.) So I gave him my RD-6 to use and...well he is a skilled deer cutter upperer. He asked for one this X-mass I just gave him the sheath on my belt and said happy merry early x-mass. That was the first time I had that knife in the field, so it was literally new. So I lost my RD-6 that way!
The RD6 in his hands I see is a very functional hunting knife. Its FFG and choil and good middling size. (the choil makes it a bit shorter cutting edge but it makes the knife more suited to deer sized game I see.
I was carrying the RD6 because my elcheapo RD7 sheath with the ONE velcro strap wigged out and I almost lost the knife in the field last week. Ontario don't seem to make a sheath that can fit an RD7 with out going RD9 size. So I took the next size RD6 as it has two snap hilt straps.
Can any one recommend a decent RD7 sheath. I have a kydex one but the kydex is just splayed out so wide it doesn't make for a nice clean carry.
Oh I had a LOCK BACK Gerber Gator Blade with Gut Hook made out of the steel the Black Bird is, and my brother who gave the deer away sure field dressed my deer fast with it. He was still coming down from his adrenaline rush from the over a mile or so he chased his deer through broken country. He was saying how he would of field dressed it like this and that and this...
Oh well live and learn.To be fair I did miss once in a life time gift myself. MONSTER BUCK, 100 yards away broadside in the sun rubbing its antlers, not knowing I was there and I had a 300 win mag zeroed for that range. I was a bit cocky nailed an 8 pointer earlier that day and our party still had a few tags. I raised gun, targeted my usual area I would target at the time, waked through some brush on the lower side of a slope and got through 30 feet of brush came out and saw the big buck staring at me like it was mift I disturbed it! I lowered rifle a gain, shot just as it did the super high jump maneuver. I waited the 15-20 min to check the shot...clean miss. I was going for a spine hit as I did on big bucks back then if I had the time...I did hit it...but light graze as I inspected the bush it was working on slanted its back enough for making do a miss... after that it was always killing shots in common areas or pass on the shot. I had to tell him that deep dark secret I had...so he knew I understood!
I'm down to one RD 6 now! What ever can I do!Edited Edit of Editing Edits: Deer not found. But the SP-53 is sure a great black spruce and alder brush thwacker and whacker! We used both of mine to get where some ravens where circling, but that was just a hunter's gut pile. Well a deer gut pile a hunter got that is. It started snowing again so all tracks where lost, we saw the circling ravens and checked that out...
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