dbHunterNY

happy birthday!

i'm trying to just use the whole stone. it's a combo stone so you don't have as much material for each side. everything i have is softer steel so it shouldn't wear as much if i do my part.

it seems like it's 25. all my Smith stuff just have one pair of carbide and ceramic V's. they all seem to be the same angle.

glad you figured it out.

we'll see how it goes. i have wondered how sharp it'll get my broadheads too. just have to make sure not to mess up the stone in the process. i don't see the worksharp used for broadheads.

forever we've always mowed hay on the farm as a primary ag use. always have hit fawns. since we started doing QDM it seems to be better. later born fawns are less and maybe more fawning cover than the hay fields are now used. idk... haven't really been able to put my finger on why. just an observation not really so much commenting on your situation. much of our 1st cutting is done later in the season, as we start with closest fields first by the time some 2nd cutting comes in we're still doing some first.

wife bought me a whetstone for early fathers day. she was worried i'd go out and just buy it before then. i've definitely been looking at local stores but seemed to be only available online. I'll leave the worksharp sharpened knives be but ones that i haven't i'll test out with that. it's J1000/J6000 grit. should work well for all my knives between the worksharp for some and whetstone for the others. on the smith stuff they don't seem to list the angles. i'll be able to figure it out on the stone though. i don't think exact angles are as critical as maintaining them when resharpening or as your sharpening.

hard to say. it did throw a few right together. plenty good enough accuracy if you do your part. i'd just burn what you've got for now and if you come across something else buy it and try it. i wouldn't rule out lighter bullets than 180's despite the twist. on paper and theory everything makes sense. in the real world you just accept a good outcome if you stumble across it.

looks promising.

still seed left for those interested out near rensselaer or washington county.

happy birthday man. make it a good one.

the problem with the carbide and ceramic angled Smith sharpeners is there's too much range is coarseness. takes a long time with the ceramic to get rid of imperfections left from the carbide or whatever coarse material it uses. also you have to keep those slots clean and dry which is difficult. i haven't had one with carbide that hasn't started rusting at least a little. they're very user friendly though and serve the purpose of getting a blade functionally sharp. not polished like using the worksharp, wetstone, or something else.

true story... wife and i went back to same beach destination for our 1 year anniversary. at Coyote Ugly we had a hot perky girl in practically see through beach attire hanging all over us. then we noticed this significantly older guy who was obviously well off $ wise, hanging around in the background. come to find out they were married and met on his honeymoon. he was using her for some night fishing. no boat required. how she couldn't serve his needs i have no idea. another couple that was there looked at us and we both were like "oh hell no!". haha

last night i had broken clock minute man ipa last night from a coop in the midwest and Voodoo Ranger Juiced IPA by Flat Tire. I didn't think of taking pictures at the time. (High jacked pictures below).

when you see hot chicks in bikinis on a big boat.... remember who owns the boat. always loved the meme. don't have the ambition to go find it to post though.

grampy google deer excursions. some of us create deer utopias. yet the deer still leave at times and sometimes it's during the season. it seems to be an instinctual thing to travel outside their home range but some might have a home range that big too. a deer will never survive on much less all year with great resources the next valley or mountain over.

if you hunt a property right so you're not getting busted over and over by deer to "burn out an area" you don't need a lot. it also helps to do habitat type of a work to create separation of your access from the deer and ensure a likely hold of where the deer will likely travel through the property not in a straight line. by NY DEC definition you need 1,000 contiguous acres to be recognized as a QDM Cooperative applying for DMAP tags. I run the second largest QDM co-op in this state that hovers at just under 12,000 acres. we've got almost 100 landowners with most properties well under 80 acres. i have ties to more that add up to around 40,000 acres and the same property sizes apply. your average buck's home range is several hundred acres and not in a nice circle with a radius of so many miles. also multiple times throughout the year instincts have all deer go on what's called excursions, traveling a ways outside their home range to simply know what resources are out there. anyone i know simply buys or leases what they can afford. you can't worry about getting enough land to keep deer indefinitely safe from your neighbors, because it can't happen.

I totally ground off the micro serrated edges and reprofiled half dozen large chef knives and the belts are still plenty fine. Start coarse and work til you get a burr then move to next. Not bad. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

how it goes.

@Culvercreek hunt club was Mike E. with you guys? i saw he got a Bear. Seeing Johns post he must have been.

it's very realistic to see a lot of deer top out around 140's at peak age with some being much smaller and some being much bigger. 140" buck is considered to be big by most. if they live a while it can be an awesome site to see. i know of one similar that got taken up this way right in the "city". this old lady didn't want it eating her garden everyday. lol

will still probably keep most of my hunting knives traditional flat beveled. that way i can touch them up without trying to recreate a convex edge by hand without a belt or good wide and flat stone. this will just be for the kitchen knives and butchering knives i think. it does adjust from 15-30 degrees for angle on a side. once a i get them sharp i really don't need it often. just can straighten the edge to touch it up without really taking more material off.

yea had wood but mostly use plastic cutting boards for deer and then smaller thin sheets of it for in the kitchen. glass just sounds like a bad idea for a knife.

i don't know if your version has finer grit belts but they helped a lot.

no bikes here. have kids now. i think it's all of the above. idiots take all forms, sizes, and ages riding any kind of bike. "crotch rockets" can carve a clean back country road handling like a wet dream compared to a hog/traditional style motorcycle. i've had badass harley guys do similar dumb stuff though like weave in and out of traffic, riding bumpers. rush isn't worth it as often anymore and i'm only 34. i've seen deer severed in two with halves in either ditch. i've seen someone wheelie over backwards on a main street and send the bike past us and into a crowded sidewalk. harley burnouts that got grip and had riders learn to fly like a bird. known of some sending it into a jersey barrier. even see a bike get rear ended at a stop light. i don't care who you are on what bike either. it's easy to "cruise along" and then have an oh s*&^ moment realizing how fast you're going. all that said it's just enjoyable despite the risk driving one. even a smaller 600cc displacement higher performance "crotch rockets" can go way over 100 mph and fast enough to make your fingers tingle.