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What Have You Found Out Hunting That You Now Use #16613779 11/11/21
Joined: Feb 2020 Posts: 2,404 Likes: 1 EasternAZ AZmark OP Campfire Regular
OP AZmark Campfire Regular Joined: Feb 2020 Posts: 2,404 Likes: 1 EasternAZ	Just wondering what any of you have found out hunting that you put to use. I found this Solingen knife around 1977-79 while hunting north of Seligman AZ. I was stationed there while working for Santa Fe Railroad. The handle was cracked and partly missing so my brother who was pretty handy put the black epoxy handle on it for me. I still use it hunting 40+ years later. Life (and forums) is like a box of animal crackers----There's a Jackass in every box

Re: What Have You Found Out Hunting That You Now Use AZmark #16613786 11/11/21
Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 8,793 TX High_Noon Campfire Outfitter
High_Noon Campfire Outfitter Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 8,793 TX	Bud I went to AK with in '92, who ended up staying there, found a skank in the woods once. He fugged her in a tent for a week and then married her. Turned out she was the biggest skank in Skankorage and she ruined his life. Not surprising, knowing him. He moved back to TX to be around all the old crew and promptly broke the bro code in a big way, so he got the Heisman from all of us. Last edited by High_Noon; 11/11/21. l told my pap and mam I was going to be a mountain man; acted like they was gut-shot. Make your life go here. Here's where the peoples is. Mother Gue, I says, the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world, and by God, I was right. - Del Gue

Re: What Have You Found Out Hunting That You Now Use AZmark #16613820 11/11/21
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 17,231 Likes: 2 Arizona Sycamore Campfire Ranger
Sycamore Campfire Ranger Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 17,231 Likes: 2 Arizona	Originally Posted by AZmark Just wondering what any of you have found out hunting that you put to use. I found this Solingen knife around 1977-79 while hunting north of Seligman AZ. I was stationed there while working for Santa Fe Railroad. The handle was cracked and partly missing so my brother who was pretty handy put the black epoxy handle on it for me. I still use it hunting 40+ years later. Mark, if you started in Seligman, and ended up in Alpine, you won the Arizona Olympics! Sycamore Originally Posted by jorgeI ...Actually Sycamore, you are sort of right....

Re: What Have You Found Out Hunting That You Now Use AZmark #16613892 11/12/21
Joined: Feb 2013 Posts: 21,854 Likes: 10 Anywhere people are Less Stupi... C CashisKing Campfire Ranger
CashisKing Campfire Ranger C Joined: Feb 2013 Posts: 21,854 Likes: 10 Anywhere people are Less Stupi...	I found Jimmy Hoffa's wallet near the skeletal remains of some unknown dude. If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.

Re: What Have You Found Out Hunting That You Now Use AZmark #16614115 11/12/21
Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 17,729 Michigan, In , Boon S saddlering Campfire Ranger
saddlering Campfire Ranger S Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 17,729 Michigan, In , Boon	I found a old knife, that must have been used to dress out a deer. It was so old it started to come apart, I just layed it back down in the woods and left it. Deer Camp! about as good as it gets!

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Re: What Have You Found Out Hunting That You Now Use AZmark #16614134 11/12/21
Joined: Oct 2021 Posts: 2,870 S Strider1 Campfire Regular
Strider1 Campfire Regular S Joined: Oct 2021 Posts: 2,870

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Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 2,613 Ohio Ohio7x57 Campfire Regular
Ohio7x57 Campfire Regular Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 2,613 Ohio	A little spindly Ironwood (American Hornbeam) tree that I use as a walking stick when hunting steep terrain. Ron People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. Orwell

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Joined: Feb 2013 Posts: 6,457 Mountains of Central PA Terryk Campfire Tracker
Terryk Campfire Tracker Joined: Feb 2013 Posts: 6,457 Mountains of Central PA	Memories

Re: What Have You Found Out Hunting That You Now Use AZmark #16614399 11/12/21
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,172 Likes: 14 In the Swamps DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna
DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,172 Likes: 14 In the Swamps	8 point whitetail rack. Serves as a hat rack. I am..........disturbed. Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain

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Joined: Sep 2014 Posts: 21,862 Likes: 5 Clinging to our God and Guns Dillonbuck Campfire Ranger
Dillonbuck Campfire Ranger Joined: Sep 2014 Posts: 21,862 Likes: 5 Clinging to our God and Guns	Knowledge of how and where the deer move in the area. Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!

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Re: What Have You Found Out Hunting That You Now Use AZmark #16614456 11/12/21
Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,412 Likes: 3 West TN worriedman Campfire Regular
worriedman Campfire Regular Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,412 Likes: 3 West TN	That the TWRA is like a number of other LE agencies and far more concerned with revenue generation than protecting landowner Rights. I used that knowledge to change the TCA Code to make fence cutting and driving through crop land a Class E felony, took those actions out of TWRA's hands and put it in the purview of the Sheriff's Department. To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.-Richard Henry Lee Endowment Member NRA, Life Member SAF-GOA, Life-Board Member, West TN Director TFA

Re: What Have You Found Out Hunting That You Now Use AZmark #16614479 11/12/21
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 10,792 Likes: 1 Good Life Esox357 Campfire Outfitter
Esox357 Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 10,792 Likes: 1 Good Life	Found a knife, gave it to a young hunter. Found a rangefinder archery model. Still have it but don't use it.

Re: What Have You Found Out Hunting That You Now Use AZmark #16614509 11/12/21
Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 998 West of the Mississippi S shootsacreed Campfire Regular
shootsacreed Campfire Regular S Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 998 West of the Mississippi	Sat on a fallen log over a logging trail for lunch last fall elk hunting, looked down and found a Gerber multi tool. Someone else had the same idea as me. His misfortune my fortune! Experience is what you get, when you don't get what you want!

Re: What Have You Found Out Hunting That You Now Use Sycamore #16614519 11/12/21
Joined: Feb 2020 Posts: 2,404 Likes: 1 EasternAZ AZmark OP Campfire Regular
OP AZmark Campfire Regular Joined: Feb 2020 Posts: 2,404 Likes: 1 EasternAZ	Originally Posted by Sycamore Originally Posted by AZmark Just wondering what any of you have found out hunting that you put to use. I found this Solingen knife around 1977-79 while hunting north of Seligman AZ. I was stationed there while working for Santa Fe Railroad. The handle was cracked and partly missing so my brother who was pretty handy put the black epoxy handle on it for me. I still use it hunting 40+ years later. Mark, if you started in Seligman, and ended up in Alpine, you won the Arizona Olympics! Sycamore No, there was more than that, my migration around this state started in Eastern AZ towns of Morenci/Clifton and ranch/homestead in Alpine. Then working life took me on to Thatcher/Safford, Mesa, Flagstaff,/Williams for college, Seligman, Bagdad, Parker Dam (at the dam), Phoenix, back to my home in Alpine to help take care of elderly Mom who is now in assisted living in Eagar. Life (and forums) is like a box of animal crackers----There's a Jackass in every box

Re: What Have You Found Out Hunting That You Now Use AZmark #16614521 11/12/21
Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,388 Flagstaff, Az F flagstaff Campfire Regular
flagstaff Campfire Regular F Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,388 Flagstaff, Az	I was trout stream fishing with my Dad back in circa 1974-1975 when he found a knife along the creek and gave it to me. I was about a 12 year old kid at the time. It looked like it had been there a little while. I have carried it in my hunting pack and used that knife for hunting for the last 45 plus years. It has helped gut and butcher I don’t know how many elk, antelope, mule deer, Coues whitetail deer, and javalina. Maybe not the best knife I own, but he has been gone now for closing in on 20 years, and I think of him every time I use it. I cherish that knife. Attached Images 930331FB-BE82-4948-ACBB-32BABEFA5EF9.jpeg (9.63 KB, 484 downloads) "Successful is leaving something in better shape than you inherited it in. Keep that in mind, son." Dad

Re: What Have You Found Out Hunting That You Now Use AZmark #16614527 11/12/21
Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 4,969 Likes: 6 SE Arizona 4 45_100 Campfire Tracker
45_100 Campfire Tracker 4 Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 4,969 Likes: 6 SE Arizona	I found a Case fixed blade knife one day while riding looking for cows. Found a big mule deer three point antler shed the other day looking for cattle. Just one side. Didn't pick it up as we were gathering. Might go back and get it. Also found a mule deer skull with three on one side and four on the other. Find horseshoes pretty often and an old motorcycle tire yesterday. Quite a few car tires. I could go on.

Re: What Have You Found Out Hunting That You Now Use AZmark #16614528 11/12/21
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 201 M mjs3240 Campfire Member
mjs3240 Campfire Member M Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 201	Found a Pulaski with a broken handle at a small lighting strike burn on top of a ridge in Siskiyou Conty. Found a small cruizing ax in a thicket of white fir in the same area. Found a very nice butter knife in the Devils Pocket. I still have and use all three items.

Re: What Have You Found Out Hunting That You Now Use Terryk #16614556 11/12/21
Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 46,108 Likes: 6 Colorado S smokepole Campfire 'Bwana
smokepole Campfire 'Bwana S Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 46,108 Likes: 6 Colorado	Originally Posted by Terryk Memories That, and meat. A wise man is frequently humbled.

Re: What Have You Found Out Hunting That You Now Use AZmark #16614802 11/12/21
Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 10,978 Winchester, WY USA M memtb Campfire Outfitter
memtb Campfire Outfitter M Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 10,978 Winchester, WY USA	My findings have absolutely nothing to do with future hunting.....only use here at our home! About 20 years ago.....a wagon wheel steel outer rim and the wagon axle. It was placed among rocks as an accent to a raised flower bed on a 90 degree driveway turn in our yard! This past deer season, I found a dead, burn marked Juniper stump to join the wagon wheel axle and wheel rim as more accent! That stump was a “biotch” to load and secure in the back of a Polaris Ranger......all by my lonesome! 😁 memtb Last edited by memtb; 11/12/21. You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel “I’d like to be a good rifleman…..but, I prefer to be a good hunter”! memtb 2024

Re: What Have You Found Out Hunting That You Now Use AZmark #16614811 11/12/21
Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 17,246 Northern Louisiana JPro Campfire Ranger
JPro Campfire Ranger Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 17,246 Northern Louisiana	Now with even more aplomb

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