Anyone else gearing up for the Wisc. whitetail season??

[Coyboy]

Dave, bring warm clothes! It's been well below normal here for most of the fall. I'm in Pittsville (central forest) flurries been coming down all day.

I have an area of county land south of me, it's a very large tract, alot of wetland and mixed timber. I canoued in saturday down one of the canals. Found a very good spot exactly one mile from the nearest road. Only problem is canal will be froze, hopefully the ice will hold. I have not hunted this area before but have been scouting it for 3 years. Every year we had soft ice that wasn't safe. Beavers are in there now so that could add more ice danger. Canoeing
out a deer would defenetally be better than dragging. If I make it there this year I hope to catch a big boy looking to hide out the season. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[SamSpade]

I will be in the Eagle River area where I have hunted for 40 yrs or more!

[Len Backus]

Samspade

Good luck, neighbor.

[SamSpade]

Thanks Len, you too!!!

[Buffalobob]

So Dave

Are you going to run off to Wisconsin before posting your Whack-a-mole bear story?

[Dave King]

I've been so busy I forgot about the Whack-A-Mole bears.

I may get a few minutes and post something about it... it's probably not what you think but it was a fun time trying to catch them, made the evenings go fast and enjoyable.

I'm making my Wisconsin hunting trip knife today, a ~ 5160 steel leaf spring, I'll use some clear Lexan, black Delrin and leather washers for the handle with both ends brass, stainless 1/4x20 nut for compression (J-B weld for glue). It'll be a nearly straight drop point with a slight Kukri "S" shape to the blade. (I've already burned myself twice, so I figure I'm about half done shaping the blade!)

[Dave King]

Here's what the knife looks like so far.







I can't find my brass stock so I'm going to use aluminum instead, it's going kinda slow... I should have it ready for the hunting.


Here's what it looked like before I starter the grinder.