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timberdog

Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 149

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 05 8:25 pm Post subject: New Kit!!

Well out with the Stinkers /Gun and Russell tommorow ,first time out in the season!!

My new kit nice little Buck Knife!!!

Seems like an internity when you havnt been since last year..Looking forward to Frosty Feild and Spider webs spread over Fileds and Hedgerows eh??

Morning mist hovering over Fields and just me an the Ferrits and Dog..what more could a man want?...Aurburn 26 - 32 -36?....mid 30s???

Na too much trouble....In trouble now..

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 05 8:41 pm Post subject:
Is that a gut hook on the top of the knife? I've often wondered what use it was for.

timberdog

Joined: 16 Jun 2005
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 05 8:43 pm Post subject:
yea it dont half come in handy once you made first cut to gut Rabbits or whatever turn round and pull ...hey prestoe one open carcass... Just have to be carfull on pulling well clear of vital fingers if ya know me

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 05 8:54 pm Post subject:
So you slit up the front of the fresh dead rabbit and what part of the insides do you grab with the hook? I've only helped with a home raised rabbit and the guts just fall out once opend up, taking great care not to cut into them.

timberdog

Joined: 16 Jun 2005
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 05 9:07 pm Post subject:
Yea i know that one the first time i skinned a Rabbit i did that God i puked!!!

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 05 11:16 pm Post subject:
Bit whiffy, isn't it?

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 05 8:24 am Post subject:
Oh Yes, TD, IIRC the knife is for ensuring a shallow cut that doesn't nick the guts, rather than a tool for actually removing them.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 05 5:15 pm Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

TD, IIRC the knife is for ensuring a shallow cut that doesn't nick the guts, rather than a tool for actually removing them.

Arh, that make sense. So you get your warm dead bunny, make a nick and insert the 'hook' bit and pull down. Hardly any danger of the guts getting caught. Seems obvious now, thanks.

Silas

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: Staffordshire

Posted: Thu Sep 08, 05 5:25 pm Post subject: Re: New Kit!!

timberdog wrote:

Looks like it is one that would be illigal in a public place.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 05 5:37 pm Post subject: Re: New Kit!!

Silas wrote:

Looks like it is one that would be illigal in a public place.

Ah, one of the daft laws that doesn't actually stop illegal knife use.

AFAIK, the law goes something like it's illegal to carry a fixed or lockable bladed or pointed article or a folding knife longer than 3 inches in a public place *without* good reason. I think a screwdriver could fall under the same law.

So, if you are going hunting you have good reason and it would be perfectly legal. Surely you don't think people should not eat humanely killed rabbit and people should be allowed to gut them in the most hygienic way?

There are also religious exceptions to the law.

Silas

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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 05 5:39 pm Post subject: Re: New Kit!!

Treacodactyl wrote:

Silas wrote:

Looks like it is one that would be illigal in a public place.

Ah, one of the daft laws that doesn't actually stop illegal knife use.

Not bothered either way, just pointing out the law regarding such weapons.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 05 5:47 pm Post subject:
I'd like to see some actual statistics about the new law to see what sort of people have been chaged and if 'knife culture' as the papers call it exits and has gone up or down. I simply don't understand the ban on locking knives. What ever happened to the idea of stopping the sale of long pointed kitchen knives?

Jan

Joined: 10 Jan 2005
Posts: 24
Location: North East England

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 05 11:27 am Post subject:
How did you get on?

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