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Have you uploaded them to a host yet? Such as photobucket. If not shoot me a pm.

Keith

Got them on Shutterfly.

Here are a few of the pictures Perry send.

Congratiolations and a hearty Weidmannsheil to you, Perry, on what looks to me to have been a great hunt.








I enjoy seeing the knife in action like this. Thank you for taking it with you.

Enjoy the pics - and I hope P. will indulge us further with some tales.

The trip began on 1/6/12 in Tulsa with myself and a friend, Chad Compton, driving his loaded Tahoe with a loaded trailer to Nogales to meet our friend and outfitter Rodrigo Gamboa so he could help us clear our guns. We then drove to Hermosillo to meet the 4th member of our party who was flying in from Tulsa. All 4 of us then drove to Empalme to pick up the outfitters truck so we could all drive to the ranch. It was a very long 2 days on the road.

The ranches we hunted were very green this year. This coupled with adequate water holes and the full moon the first week of our trip made for tough hunting conditions. My friend Dale managed to kill a decent Coues on the forth evening. Unfortunately a few days later he missed a mule deer that was estimated to be a bit better than 30 inches wide.

The mule deer above was killed on the 8th day of a 12 day hunt on a place named Agua Caliente. I had a bad sinus infection and high fever that day that caused me to have to visit a Mexican doctor and spend the next three days laying around trying to recover. I still managed to spot and kill the buck while he was bedded. I was shooting my M-70 30.06 loaded with Hornady factory 165 grain Interbonds. I shot the buck in the neck and the bullet exited his off shoulder. He never got up after the shot.

The snake was killed by my friend Chad after a too close encounter in the bush.

The Coues buck was killed on our base ranch called Huichori on the last day after I finally recovered enough to hunt again. The kill was the end result of one of the best tracking jobs I have ever taken part in. A mexican cowboy they call Chui Loco tracked the buck up and down 4 different ridges before I could finally close the deal. I was shocked it was the same buck we had jumped just after daylight that morning, was not going to waste the fine tracking effort and considered the hunt the trophy, especially on the last day. Plus, the meat was needed for the next group of hunters who were due in the next day. The shot was taken with the same rifle and was offhand at about 150 yards while the buck was running up a steep canyon wall. The shot was nearly straight away and hit the buck in the spine between the shoulders. It was not as difficult a shot as it sounds. That rifle and those loads have never disappointed me in nearly 10 years of hunting whitetails, mule deer, pronghorns and coues from Wyoming to Mexico.

I also shot a coyote and a cull buck for meat for the workers at one of the ranches we were hunting.

The knife worked great on the trip, kept a nice edge and cleaned up easily. Chui really liked it. Thank you Carl for allowing me to take it on a great hunt.

Perry

Perry why didn't you take your damascus knife???

Great pics and story Perry!

hmmm how long is the blade, maybe kill a hog with it.

3 and a 1/4 inch blade might be a little hard.

I will take the knife to Zimbabwe in August if there is room in its schedule.

Mike,

That knife is one of my most prized possessions and I didn't want to risk theft or damage on this trip. I carry it every year during deer season and it still gets a work out on hunts here at home. I need to get a photo of that knife posted so folks can see you have been building great knives for many years.

Perry

The knife arrived today. It "feels" like much more of a working knife than when I first handled it.

I'm leaving for GA hogs in T-minus 8 days. Pics & stories (some of which might even be true! ) to follow.

FC

Why limit yourself to just one knife.....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/memiller/?saved=1

Perry, thank you for keeping this flowing so flawless.

Joe, we is rooting for you. The 7x57 going or you going faithless?

No 7x57 this trip. I'm trying to re-bloody my very first rifle, now that Mickey Coleman has turned it into a 7mm-08. Also, 300jimmy set me up with a gorgeous Remington 722 in .300 Savage (not that I'm smitten with retro cartridges or anything... ) , so I'd like to draw blood with it, too.

Waiting these last few days is the hardest part of all!

FC

FC-That is because I sent it to you sharp and ready for work.

Perry

I noticed it returned sharper than when it left. Did you use a steel, or did it require a stone?

Touched it up with CrockStick and a strop.

Perry

Back from the GA hog hunt. It was really dry down there, & we had our toughest hunt ever. Those pigs had been hunted hard, & were far more wary than we've ever seen them. This was our 5th annual trip, & it proved to be a much needed break for all of us. The weather was unusually warm (up to 80 degrees), and it ended up being quite a test of (and lesson in) both perseverance and patience. We ended up hunting nearly 'til the last possible moment, and while we didn't limit-out, we weren't skunked, either.

Here's the one I managed to catch unaware. (A shout-out to 300jimmy for setting me up with that beautiful Remington 722). Also, while this picture doesn't show it, a 130 grain TSX launched from a .300 Savage at 15 yards, will totally obliterate the cervical portion of a hog's spine. My buddy took some shots of the damage, & I can PM those if you're really interested.







The knife doing its business to start a hole for the drag rope:





A "perspective picture" with a young boar's... boar-ness:




And my buddy putting the knife to use on his own boar:




Let me know where to send it next.


FC

FC,

thank you for the pictures and the story.

The knife is next on its way to Benin and Cameroon - so far the parties using had great luck.

Here is hoping for much of the same for our friends down there for Savannah Buffalo, Roan, Eland and possible (!) Lion.

After that - Spring Brown Bear in AK followed by Roe Buck in Germany.

Fascinating. keep it going.