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it's around 220 grit now. Next step is to get the lock bar into its sprung position, then grind the lock face, set the detente ball and finally shape the handle. I'll start working up into the grit progression and top out around 600. At that point, there will be an edge and she's good to go!
 
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Ken H> said:
You talk about a "pigsticker" - don't tell me you're one of those guys who hunt pigs with catch dogs, then run up to stick that live fighting pig with a knife? I'm WAAAY too old for that!
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Not me Ken, that would be a rush! This is the for exsanguination after making the porcine critter insensible with a carefully placed projectile.
 
I've got to tell you a good story.
Back in the 70's, my brother-in-law was taken on his first deer hunt. To keep him out of the way and not have him shoot one of the others, they sat him along the road against a fence completely overgrown with blackberry vines. They said that if a deer got past the others in the woods it would run down the road. They gave him an old single shot 12 gauge and two shells. He loaded it and dropped the other in his pocket. Nothing happened all day and when the guys were coming out of the woods a nice buck was spooked and took off down the road toward Ron. Ron tried to aim and fired just as the deer ran right in front of him and jumped the fence. There were all sorts of noises and crashing around, so, filled with adrenalin, Ron climbed the blackberry covered fence and found the deer with a hind leg shot out ... rolling all over the place. Ron first took out his hunting knife and was going to cut its throat. Despite the high adrenalin, that did not seem like a good idea, so he waited for the right moment and started clubbing the beast to death with the shotgun. It broke the stock, of course, but eventually the deer succumbed. When the others finally got there, they said it was a really nice deer for a first kill. Ron showed them the broken gun and apologized, saying he would get it repaired. They all said it was an old gun and not even worth fixing. Finally one of the old guys said, "Probably never crossed you mind in the heat of the moment, but you could have reloaded and shot him again!"
 
Along those lines I've a funny story on my Dad when I was 10 to 12 yr old. A buddy had shot a deer that ran a ways, then lay down. I don't remember all the details but they decided a .22 to do a head shot and not mess up the meat was needed. Dad and a couple others stayed with deer to keep watch while I rode with one guy back home to get .22 rifle. While we were gone after rifle Dad decided he'd just sneak up on deer and cut it's throat with his stockman's pocketknife. Dad's pocketknife is not very sharp and short blades. Thinking the deer was about dead by now, Dad sneaked up, grabbed around neck (or tried to). I wish I could have seen that - they said that deer jumped up, kicked Dad loose and ran about 30 yds or so and lay back down. Deer has hit hard thru lungs, but taking a while to die. I found out later first shot was with a M1 carbine with hardball mil surplus ammo. No expansion - luck that deer didn't run off completely at start. When we got back with .22 rifle a couple of head shots and it does DRT. Now he could cut the throat.

Dad got kidded a lot about that deer and him sneaking thru the woods thinking he was going to cut a throat. That was a LONG time ago - Dad was perhaps 30 yr old and in good shape.
 
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