Traditional Hunting

digitalurbancamo

digitalurbancamo

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*This could be posted in 3 different places so I took my shot here. Because I am singling out "Traditional Knives" I thought this would be the most appropriate spot. If I am wrong I am sorry*

Warning: This thread may contain photographs and stories that some may find disturbing. If you find blood, guts, animal processing and other types of cleaning and gutting (IE field dressing) disturbing please feel free to exit now.

So I have been gearing up for this years start to the trout run. So while preparing my gear that has been laying dormant for the last few mouths I decided I wanted to switch things up quite a bit this year as far as cutlery goes. I made the stern decision that I will be going "traditional" for all hunting, fishing, camping, backpacking and outdoor activities, excluding only the applications that require me to watch my weight (IE the back-country).

I made a few purchases that have not arrived yet, but it got me looking around the interwebs an subforums. To my dismay I found little here on BF. So I thought this would be a good spot to start such a thread. So let us band together and show off are classics doing what they do best. If you have a story or better yet a picture showing your traditional at work cleaning, gutting, processing, butchering or simply performing some tasks that encompass the world of hunting, fishing, ext, let's see it and/or hear it.

I really can't wait to see what everybody is using out in the field and stream. Please note I am not excluding the campers, backpackers. If you have a picture or story that involves any of the following I would love to see it.

I will post some of mine as time goes on. So let's start.
 
Here ya' go.Randall Model 26 resting on the headgear of the critter it just field dressed and skint.
 
Yes its an Old Timer thats a real one....Fantastic wee knife but when it comes to caping (after the initial cuts) i use a teaspoon around the eyes ,along the lips ,nose etc...........Fes
 
Great thread! This is making me want to leave the house and go out into the woods. :thumbup: Kudos
 
Zemapeli said:
Great thread! This is making me want to leave the house and go out into the woods. :thumbup: Kudos
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Thanks brother. Hopefully we can get some more discussion in this one too. Perhaps you would like to share what traditionals you like to use in the great outdoors?
 
Loving that deer man, nice to see the old traditional knife patterns being used for what they were designed for:thumbup: Great shots.
 
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Do you see what I see? This guy didn't hear me coming at all. I think he has other things on his mind at the mo as Fes said. He was on my way home from walking son to school in the morning. The playground noise may have muffled my approach although I like to think I move quietly. Its steep and heavy timber and thick undergrowth. After I spooked him I followed his track which was easy because of all the rain we've had. After disturbing him twice more in the next half hour on the way home he finally found the rest of his harem right near my back gate.I've had this on me since I got it and it cut my apple up while I sat and listened.
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Cheers good thread.
 
This is the duo that has worked well for my for many years Schrade Woodsman and Sharpfinger. Except in this shot, instead of my usual Schrade Sharpfinger, I am trying out the short production Camillus Gran'Pa GP152. I found it to work and handle exactly the same as the Schrade base pattern.

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meako said:
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Do you see what I see? This guy didn't hear me coming at all. I think he has other things on his mind at the mo as Fes said. He was on my way home from walking son to school in the morning. The playground noise may have muffled my approach although I like to think I move quietly. Its steep and heavy timber and thick undergrowth. After I spooked him I followed his track which was easy because of all the rain we've had. After disturbing him twice more in the next half hour on the way home he finally found the rest of his harem right near my back gate.I've had this on me since I got it and it cut my apple up while I sat and listened.
Cheers good thread.
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I can see something there in the undergrowth but i cant make out what it is...any clues?
 
festerfromnzed said:
Yes its an Old Timer thats a real one....Fantastic wee knife but when it comes to caping (after the initial cuts) i use a teaspoon around the eyes ,along the lips ,nose etc...........Fes
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A custom teaspoon caper with stag handle slabs jumped into my mind. Do you sharpen the edge on that teaspoon?

Ed J
 
TLARbb said:
A custom teaspoon caper with stag handle slabs jumped into my mind. Do you sharpen the edge on that teaspoon?

Ed J
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No....The fact that its blunt and curved both ways is why it works so well...more of a tearing action?..very good for doing around the eyes....taxidermists here will pay $300 for a good stag headskin, so i take my time....Headskin usually pays for food and gas etc...................FES
 
Excuse the poor pics...This is the first stag that ever got the teaspoon treatment from me...Ironically this stag won (ugliest head for the new millenium)...Its headskin now graces my mentors head which is unbeaten for symmetry since 1957..................FES





 
Yes down in thecentre there is a large young Rusa buck.not fully antlered yet but by the sound of its honk his "voice is dropping."
These are a feral deer that are plentiful in my region.they are heavily hunted although its illegal in this particular part.this is suburbia.
 
Tis a great pic Meako of said Rusa,s (good size)backside.....Our Rusa live in vertical country (Galatea Faces)and are smaller than yours.I believe they are a different strain and ive never harvested one..Suburbia = compound bow or you know the sheriff......

This pic is not of Rusa,but of Samba that live in the same place.....My good friend shot through the knee with .270 in pic ...................FES


 
Digitalturbancamo,yes it is Sambar stag it just had not been rinsed off yet and is covered in blood.
 
Rusa and Sambar are closely related .Javan and Moluccan Rusa were let go in Sydney in the 1880s. There is nothing that preys on them and are now as far as NW Victoria where it is rumoured they have interbred with Sambar populations down there. Mt Keira and the Illawarra escarpment is home to 1000s of them. National Parks service employs shooters to eradicate them. Word is they shot 300 last year -many of which are destined for the Tigers at the zoos. They breed quicker than that so the population increases slowly. Just up the road from me an old lady found one with its leg caught in a wire fence. She managed to free it don't ask me how as they are large flighty beasts, it was a doe.It then thanked her by entering her house and doing lots of damage in its freaked out state. The police were called and had to put a couple of slugs into it. They dragged it out in to the street and left it for the council to pick up. My back garden is a thouroughfare for them to the street where they browse peoples gardens late at night early morn.They are also a big traffic hazard.
 
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