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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
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He definately needed removing from the gene pool. Glad you found your knife, too. And Happy Birthday!
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Congrads Gee and Happy B-Day! Love the Pics!
Deer Camp! about as good as it gets!
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Happy Birthday. As always, great pics and assortment of cutting instruments.
The owners of White River are making some nice stuff. Doing some collaboration with some really good makers. They are just a couple miles from me. They bought the business that was the parent company of "Orion Knives" when it went belly up. If the owner would have not killed the parent company, maybe I would have ended up with something. Their most prolific sales pattern was my design that got absorbed into the bankruptcy sale. Oh well.
Back a few years ago I sold some knife kits here on 24hr from "Orion Knives".' Kit included blade, guard, pin, and handle with some assembly instructions from me.
Small world. I have one of those Jerry Fiske blades unfinished.
Again, Happy Birthday GW. Tim
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Good stuff as usual Gee’.
Congrats again.
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Glad you found it Gee, it seems from your post here you use it a lot.
Happy birthday
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I’m liking that knife!
Gee - is that the smaller model (3.25” blade ) or larger one (3.6” blade)?
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Geeduba has the best knives AND hunting!! Very cool
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Happy Birthday, Geedub.
I ground some sausage and burger last evening out of a similar buck while sipping single-barrel Jack.
Good Times!
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Happy Birthday, Geedub.
I ground some sausage and burger last evening out of a similar buck while sipping single-barrel Jack.
Good Times! Mughty fine! BTW, I forgot to mention another B-day serendipity! Birthday morning I was running my snares. I was at a place I call the creekbed when I was walking between sets and saw a very bright glint/reflection of the sun. Sometimes water on a depression on a flat rock will throw off a reflection, but this looked more like bright steel or glass. I walked over and lo and behold what did I spy. It was my favorite EDC that I purchased from VinceM here on 24hour campfire when he did a group buy. I carried that knife and took pictures of it in 5 northeastern states. I lost it out of a cross draw sheath two years ago at my deer lease. We've had numerous floods that move 200 lb boulders along that creekbed. I was Jazzed. I called Vince today to tell him the story and asked him if he had any cocobolo. He said that if he remembered correctly he had a piece that was from the original. I'm sending it back to him next week and have him rescale it. As it was in October of 2014. This photo was taken near Lebanon NY, across from Pittsfield Mass. where we were staying. and after two year in the elements ya! GWB
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Geedubya What is the rifle, CZ?
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VERY COOL STORY.. GLAD THIS ALL WORKED OUT..
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Geedubya What is the rifle, CZ? No, it's a custom Steyr Classic Mannlicher that a friend of mine owned and decided to part with. I cajoled him into letting it follow me home. It is chambered for the 6.5 x 55 SE v Select wood, set trigger, Recknagel mounts. it is a sweetie-pie and a shooter! ya! GWB
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Damn nice rifle gee dub... I love how you ain't ascairt too lay em low.....
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That is a beauty for sure. I like the cheekpiece.
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You got the entire family! :-) In my best Homer Simpson voice "Mmmmm..... PORK!" By the way, a fine-looking rifle, GW! John
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Like knives, they were meant to be used. I don't abuse them, but the "character marks" on my wood stocked rifles are not typically from sitting in the safe! ya! GWB
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Happy Birthday, Geedub.
I ground some sausage and burger last evening out of a similar buck while sipping single-barrel Jack.
Good Times! Mughty fine! BTW, I forgot to mention another B-day serendipity! Birthday morning I was running my snares. I was at a place I call the creekbed when I was walking between sets and saw a very bright glint/reflection of the sun. Sometimes water on a depression on a flat rock will throw off a reflection, but this looked more like bright steel or glass. I walked over and lo and behold what did I spy. It was my favorite EDC that I purchased from VinceM here on 24hour campfire when he did a group buy. I carried that knife and took pictures of it in 5 northeastern states. I lost it out of a cross draw sheath two years ago at my deer lease. We've had numerous floods that move 200 lb boulders along that creekbed. I was Jazzed. I called Vince today to tell him the story and asked him if he had any cocobolo. He said that if he remembered correctly he had a piece that was from the original. I'm sending it back to him next week and have him rescale it. As it was in October of 2014. This photo was taken near Lebanon NY, across from Pittsfield Mass. where we were staying. and after two year in the elements ya! GWB Definitely a very Merry Christmas!
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A happy ending, on several different levels. Beautiful rifle too.
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GW just has toooooo much fun. Probably could use a couple more guns and knives though.
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