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I've hunted this guy for two years. A cull we call "The Claw". I have always at least three game cameras set out 27/7/365. Sometimes 5. I have pictures of him over the last two years. Almost always at night. Only one game cam photo in daylight. A couple of my buds have night time game cam photos of him about a mile apart in each direction. I was able to close the deal yesterday on my 66th birthday about 15 minutes before dark, when he stuck his nose out of the scrum, at a location I'd never seen him before.



This Jerry Fisk/WhiteRiver collaboration knife made short work of unzipping the "Claw".








This forged "hunter" by Mike Williams worked well for liberating the "Claw"s backstraps.




and this Joel Clark made short work of the celebratory rib-eye steak........




BTW,


after all was said and done, I could not find the Fisk/WR knife. Talk about being heartsick.



When I get up in the AM at the lease, the first thing I put on is my pants with this rig! I don't always skin with it, but other than my Boker Kalashnikov, it is the knife that I use most when hunting.



I was devastated. JF was kind enough to put a convex grind on this knife before he sent it to me.

I looked for multiple minutes all over the area where I skinned the "Claw" to no avail. I caped out the "Claw" and dumped the guts in a 55 gallon garbage can lined with a heavy duty plastic bag. When I went to the bone yard to dump the guts I used the toe of my boot to separate the offal. Lo and behold there was the Fisk.



Needless to say, I was jazzed!

ya!

GWB