Standing On Your Own Two Feet by Gary Benton
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I had only been in the arctic bush for three days, but as I looked down at my feet, I was shocked. The skin was white and looked like I had been in the bathtub for hours, the skin was that wrinkled. I knew the problem was a result of wearing the “bunny boots” or arctic rubber insulated boots during my survival training and, I had not removed my boots in days. I knew I should have, but I didn’t have to worry about my feet, or did I? While my problem was not serious, I simply dried my feet, applied some foot powder, and placed clean dry socks on. I was going to be fine. However, if I had continued ignoring my feet, I would have had serious problems.

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Tracking And Stalking Deer by TR Michels
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I first picked up the deer tracks on the south side of a 120 acre wood lot. I was fairly sure the tracks were made by a buck because they were on a rub route, not on the more heavily traveled trail the does used. The rub route paralleled the doe trail but wound through heavier cover and kept to lower ground. After it had begun snowing late last night I decided to wait until just after daylight before hunting the next morning. The light covering of fresh snow on the ground was just what I needed. By the crisp outline of the tracks I guessed the tracks were not more than two hours old. I went back to the Suburban, pulled a Scent Lok suit over my polypropylene underwear, took my Total Snow camouflage out of the protective charcoal impregnated bag where I kept all my hunting apparel, slipped it and my LaCrosse pack boots on, grabbed my Mossberg 500 12 gauge and slipped quietly into the woods.

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A good sharp cutting instrument has been the desire of man since the dawn of time. Far and away are the tools of prehistoric civilizations from what is available today. Refinements in metals and edge technology allow a sustainable sharpness that has never before been available. Sleek designs and molded to fit grips shadow traditional shaped buck knives in durability and aesthetics.

Like most avid outdoorsmen, my collection of dulled down knives is substantial from years of use seeking just the right knife for a particular application or type of game animal. Add to the pile, knives gifted during the holidays by well meaning people who had no real clue as to what else to get an avid outdoorsman and the collection becomes as I said, “substantial”. Having teethed in the whitetail woods of the upper Northeast, a traditional buck knife did the trick for many years. However, upon arriving in the western states and being faced with much larger game to deal with, all new specialty types of knives were needed. Thus the collection grew even more and I felt at that point that I likely had a knife for most any application.

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