What would you rather carry?

buzp said:
Spartan, easy choice. Try opening a bottle of wine with a peanut.
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You do make a point here !!! Stranded in the wild with a bottle of wine and no corkscrew is a horrible situation. I'm serious ! I love the Peanut but I always have a corkscrewing device in my pockets (might be a SAK, gosh...). I'm a cheater... discovered, defeated...
 
herisson said:
You do make a point here !!! Stranded in the wild with a bottle of wine and no corkscrew is a horrible situation. I'm serious ! I love the Peanut but I always have a corkscrewing device in my pockets (might be a SAK, gosh...). I'm a cheater... discovered, defeated...
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Just push the cork into the bottle, done it many times.

Pete
 
Sloppy, sloppy... You could also drive the Peanut's main clip blade delicately wiggling through the cork then work the cork out with a slow unscrewing motion... Skills, skills... And boring as ever. The smallest SAK has a corkscrew, put one of these in your pocket and forget about it. If you're motivated about wine in open nature, that is... The SAK wins, somehow. But the Peanut is the greatest EDC ever, and if you follow my User Manual, you could even get it right with wine bottles, given you are patient, delicate, thoughtful and understanding. By the way, these qualities could even get you to win over way more than wine bottles...
 
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C_Becker said:
But then you'd have to drink it all.
Come to think about it, maybe I'll leave my SAK at home next time :D
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Wasn't that the idea?

Or maybe try this. Take your P-38 or Sear's 4-way, and look through all your stuff to find a phillips screw in or among your gear, or where you're staying. The long wood screw from the wooden thwart on an Old Town Camper canoe is good, as is one of the screws from the butt plate of a wood stocked rifle. Use P-38 to drive the screw down into the cork almost all the way. Tie one end of a piece of line or wire to the head of the screw, the other to a branch of the nearest sapling, and pull. Desperate measures sometimes called for. Karen once brought a nice bottle of wine on an outing, and I didn't have a corkscrew on me. Improvise and overcome. The screw from the canoe and some jute twine did well. A poplar sapling was a help. Karen was impressed.

If not, just shove the whole cork down and drink it all. Bottoms up!:thumbup:

Like Jay Leno says, "They'll make more."
 
You Sir are a creative artist ! Love the canoe screw with jute twine and poplar sapling installation. True art ! And a happy ending ! In this kind of situation I always felt the wine to be much better tasting ! Is it just me ?
 
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