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I think my days of running out to a WT deer stand in the morning or evening are over as all my spots were "leased". Can't blame the owner that I am cheap.
So the one knife idea just dosen't fly. So, this mess goes with me in the truck. In the hunting pack a couple might get left behind. Lets say its a day in a tree stand then I would likely take the Selector and one of the skinners. Would also take the red thing, as it has "history". It was the one I left sticking in the ground by the CO elk at 8,900ft. My buddy walked by the spot on the second Nov. it was lost and there it was still 'sticking' it out waiting for our return. Only the sunny side scale was faded a little, butnot bad as it likely sat under a couple of feet of snow for 6 months twice. And besides you never know when you will be attacked by a wild Zinfindel.
Also in that day pack would be a small hatchet. Sorry, not a Buck but a stout little Swedish model.....or more likely I might throw in the light folding saw, Buck had some of those. Much easier to build a shelter with a saw than a hatchet. You old BSA's remember the triangle cut joint........I drilled a hole in the back end of the handle and epoxied a broadhead in the hole, if I got up in a stand and a branch was in the way I would take my junk 'flingin'" arrow and screw onto the saw and reach out and cut the branch.....probably would'nt work with todays carbon stuff.........
Sky, that little curved blade on the SAK will open a deer belly like its a ziplock bag.....
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So the one knife idea just dosen't fly. So, this mess goes with me in the truck. In the hunting pack a couple might get left behind. Lets say its a day in a tree stand then I would likely take the Selector and one of the skinners. Would also take the red thing, as it has "history". It was the one I left sticking in the ground by the CO elk at 8,900ft. My buddy walked by the spot on the second Nov. it was lost and there it was still 'sticking' it out waiting for our return. Only the sunny side scale was faded a little, butnot bad as it likely sat under a couple of feet of snow for 6 months twice. And besides you never know when you will be attacked by a wild Zinfindel.
Also in that day pack would be a small hatchet. Sorry, not a Buck but a stout little Swedish model.....or more likely I might throw in the light folding saw, Buck had some of those. Much easier to build a shelter with a saw than a hatchet. You old BSA's remember the triangle cut joint........I drilled a hole in the back end of the handle and epoxied a broadhead in the hole, if I got up in a stand and a branch was in the way I would take my junk 'flingin'" arrow and screw onto the saw and reach out and cut the branch.....probably would'nt work with todays carbon stuff.........
Sky, that little curved blade on the SAK will open a deer belly like its a ziplock bag.....
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