Recent content by CDFrom

ok Maybe for long pig

The knives from left to right, enlisted Kukri ( not for hunting) MKC stonewall skinner, MKC knock on, MKC speedgoat, MKC stonewall ceracoat, Officers issue Kukri ( not for hunting). The Montana Knife Company knives are 52100 ball bearing steel. Very sharp and durable edges. The ceracoat makes...

I have the kuiu and the marsupial. I prefer the marsupial for the one handed operation, fit and magnetic latches. Marsupial is well worth the cost. Pistol pocket can be added below or behind the chest pack.

Kuiu has a lot of gear made for the desert climate. I have a few different types and styles of their gear. Breathable and UV protection are a must. Kuiu seems to do their homework on field conditions and I have not been disappointed. Wish I could wear them to work. I can’t find my catalog...

Boiled linseed oil penetrates nicely and really brings out the character as well as hardening and sealing the wood grain. I finished my ‘03 with linseed oil and 600 grit sand paper. It brought out the stamp marks inside the stock as well. Took several coats and a few extra for good measure. I...

Antelope don’t like to jump fences or cross roads, that is a lot of discontented speed goats. Az is making areas for them to cross with wide staging areas open lines of sight and fences with no barbs on the bottom row. I personally hope it helps to bring the population up. I’d like to get...

I have several steel plates I have shot with many different calibers. On a machine gun shoot we had Auto ARs shooting green tip penetrators, M-60 , sterlings, mp5 and a MacTac .50. That shoot employed 1/4” and 1/2” plates at 200yds. All the 308 went through the thinner plates and a lot went...

I remember the bag phone, too rich for my blood. The ole rotary dial party line with 25’ cord worked fine, unless you had too many 8s or 9s in your #. Tried the pagers for a while until I was given a Motorola “micro-tac” with its extended run time battery. The fact I carried that exempted the VA...

Used my Kowa TSN 553 on my sons oryx hunt. Spotting around sunset I could see something with my big eyes (cheaper large scope) ranged at 1500 yds I put the Kowa up and saw the animal laying between bushes staring at me, his chest stripe clearly visible, horns jutting up between the crossing...

I have a decent scope in the huge non packable camp model and the kowa 553. While hunting oryx I put the big eyes on a suspicious spot at 1200m just before dark looked like horns but wasn’t certain. Tried with the kowa and confirmed saw the big boy look at me, then look away, ears flick etc...

I am on a hurry up and wait timeframe for developing cataracts, encouraging to read some of the results. I am looking forward to getting mine operated on, just not so sure about having on operation at the range. Punctuation matters! My dad couldn’t change elevation over 1k feet for a couple...

I am quite practiced at sharpening, had heard a story of my grandfather sharpening to the point a hair dropped onto the blade would split. I started trying to replicate the task and honed my skills as well as everyone’s knives in my company of Marines. K-bars, Gerber MkIIs, my own Buck 119...

There is a table in my dressing books recommending how long an animal needs to age by size, small deer are 3-7 days, elk/ moose 14+, keeping the meat dry prohibits bacterial growth. The animal needs to be kept below 40* but above freezing. Often times it’s difficult to get below 40*C in AZ, so...

I second the biscuit idea, if you have access to anyone with a biscuit cutter. Measure twice cut once, use #20 biscuits. I think I would use a slow cure epoxy for that procedure trying to keep the exposed edges as dry as possible. For finishing sand with boiled linseed oil and 400grit wet sand...

once it does swell and quit cleaning, will it become fried rice? :D No, but sew it into cloth bags and light it up on a tiki torch for a game of napalm cornhole