I Hit a Deer and Didn;t Know What to do

GreatwhiteNorth

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my gf lives up in maine, i've bee driving up to about midcoast now for idk, 8 years or so.. i've yet to see my first moose, it's a big mission of mine, so of course thus far they've been awol.. the only ones i've seen so far were out in front of the cabella's store we went and visited, that me and the gf sat on and took pictures of.. a big steel thing. oh yeah, they have another big steel statue at the one rest stop.. i've been so bummed over not seeing one yet..
my gf said the first one she saw when she moved up was on i95 of all places..
Here's how not to see one.

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GreatwhiteNorth

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they get big. what's the heaviest you've seen? fuckers are massive!

i remember reading the novel 'hatchet', and how he was attacked by a cow, nearly killed him...
I've never been able to weigh one as they get turned into boned out meat in the field.
Best guess is around 12-1400 lbs on the hoof.

Funny story:
Was moose hunting & sitting on a couple of cows waiting. Sure enough a nice 55" wide bull shows up & I drop him and the cows just sorta mill about not concerned about the shot at all.
My partner and I drive our 4 wheelers over to the bull with the cows only 75 yards away (out in the wide open above tree line on a mountain range) and for fun I started grunting like a bull.
The bigger of the two comes running right up to me - I had to dodge around the wheeler to get away. She hung around for 15 minutes or so acting pretty threatening, looking back I can see it was an asshole thing for me to do to confuse her like that.

And besides trying to satisfy a gal like that will really take the starch out of a guy. :wink:
 

twostrokenut

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twostrokenut

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They are, and a bit fragile as well when you get into the knee joints etc they can break pretty easy - but they are stupid cheap and it only takes seconds to change one out * poof you have a razor sharp scalpel again.

Havalon knife.
Pretty cool. I remember when those utility folders came out too. I like my US schrade old timers with a "wicked edge". I'm pretty good on the tri stone too and the slack belt sander is nice for a convex edge. I don't hollow grind though, that's the sharpest, and frailest.
 

twostrokenut

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After using a havalon for a couple of years I have come to realize I kinda suck when it comes to wet stones.
I've come to grips with it though so it's good.
LOL ya they can be a biach if your muscle memory is off. I still have a tri stone I keep around by Norton. Kitchen knives and such get the belt sander around 400 grit then stropped with a leather belt.

I been sharpening on a tri stone for a LONG time...over 20 years. I never use the fine, same as using a steel imho. I grind the shit out of the sides on the coarse, if the edge is in bad shape I sharpen on the coarse, then on the medium, then done. I like to hit about 10 degrees on both sides to get 20 degrees inclusive. Tip to heel so best cutting is on the pull. Steel OFTEN. Light touch on the steel, weight of the blade on the steel.

My Spyderco's, Old Timers ect get the Wicked Edge....check this fucking thing out:
 

GreatwhiteNorth

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LOL ya they can be a biach if your muscle memory is off. I still have a tri stone I keep around by Norton. Kitchen knives and such get the belt sander around 400 grit then stropped with a leather belt.

I been sharpening on a tri stone for a LONG time...over 20 years. I never use the fine, same as using a steel imho. I grind the shit out of the sides on the coarse, if the edge is in bad shape I sharpen on the coarse, then on the medium, then done. I like to hit about 10 degrees on both sides to get 20 degrees inclusive. Tip to heel so best cutting is on the pull. Steel OFTEN. Light touch on the steel, weight of the blade on the steel.

My Spyderco's, Old Timers ect get the Wicked Edge....check this fucking thing out:
Pretty cool - I've got a large Norton Tri-stone professional & am fair with it but still not satisfied so I ordered one of these with a leather stropping belt, it should be here next week.
 

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Chunky Stool

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Personally, when it comes to big game, I preferred carrying a couple of small Shrade blades. The same kind I used to skin squirrels when I was a kid. Not sure if they make em anymore, but they held an edge great. Not stainless, so you had to keep em oiled.
 
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