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You can field dress a Dinosaur with that knife:D, I have two of those Woolrich coats and they are my all time favorite pieces of clothing for cold weather. Spent many a day from sun up until sun down in my PA Tux suits hunting snowshoe Hare with Beagles on snow and temps in the teens and always stayed warm and dry.

Good luck on your hunt.

Al

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I love the Woolrich outfit.  My grandfather (on my mom’s side) was a pretty small guy.  His old one fit me ok, until I outgrew it in my later teens.  For 40 some years, I have been struggling with various other modern material bibs and jackets.  All of them were bad,  compared to the old Woolrich.  
 

I  didn’t realize just how bad that modern stuff was, until I tried out this one that my wife got me from a friend of hers from work, whose father had recently passed away.  Besides no longer fitting me, my grandpas old Woolrich stuff was very well used, when I inherited it.  
 

This “new” one seems to have been hardly used and it fits me just right (size 50 jacket while grandpas old one is a 40).  All the button holes in grandpas were badly worn and most of the pockets had holes in them.

 I still have grandpas old one and maybe, if our daughters ever have boys, I’ll give it to one of them. It’s also a little moth-chewed along the lower edges of the jacket.
 

 I cut the sleeves off of another old one that my wife had found for me at an antique store (about size 45).  It was a little too tight on the arms for me, but now works ok, as a vest.  I used that wool vest, under my modern-material outer jackets, when it was rainy out.
 

  I’ll get her to patch the lower edge of grandpas old one, with that cutoff sleeve material from it(which I saved), if any grandkids ever want to wear it.  She could probably also sew up the worn out button holes and holey pockets while she is at it.
 

I grabbed that big knife today because it was new and stainless.  I’m sure I’ll be missing my Shrade Sharpfinger and its little notched “belly opener”, if I need to gut one with it. As big as it is, it’s still lighter to carry than my other stainless Gerber hunting knife.

I’ll probably change out to that one for the rest of the rainy days this week.  I don’t like its heft, but it has a waterproof nylon sheath, and a belly opener notch.  
 

57 minutes ago, airedale said:

You can field dress a Dinosaur with that knife:D, I have two of those Woolrich coats and they are my all time favorite pieces of clothing for cold weather. Spent many a day from sun up until sun down in my PA Tux suits hunting snowshoe Hare with Beagles on snow and temps in the teens and always stayed warm and dry.

Good luck on your hunt.

Al

 

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On 12/26/2023 at 9:23 AM, Northcountryman said:

Was the knife a birthday present? Nice!! Happy birthday!! :D

The knife was a Christmas present from my brother in law.  He’s the main reason I’m still hunting so hard.  I’ve got enough meat in our freezer for my own immediate family, but I’d love to get another one mostly for him.

He makes the best jerky from grind using 1/2 venison and 1/2 beef.  He does not hunt but he does raise beef cattle.  
 

I feel especially obligated to try and get him some more ground venison because he also gave me about 5 pounds of that premium 50/50 mix jerky as a birthday present.  
 

That likely used up most of the (6) packs of grind that I gave him earlier this year, to try and pay him back for the fresh “leftover” rr corn seed he recently gave me.  I haven’t got to try much of that yet, but our (2) daughters have been devouring it.  
 

The hunting has been tough for me so far this Holiday season, mostly because of my lack of standing corn, warm conditions, and full moon.  All of that seems to make the deer  most active in the middle of the night.  
 

I’m trying to minimize the pressure on the approximate 100 acres of family land that I have sole access to hunt.  There are a total of (11) stand locations so I’ll have to do at least (3) “repeat” hunts.  
 

I am only (4) hunts into the (14) I had planned for the week and no repeats yet.  I’m hoping the heavy rains of the current stretch will wash away any traces of my presence in a few of those stands, so the later “repeat” hunts might be a little more effective than they would have been without the rain.  
 

I thought I was going to be able to avoid any “repeat” hunts this week, because I had planned on (3) down at my buddies southern tier camp.  Those plans fell thru, when his aunt died and the wake got scheduled for the day we were to go.

 He also informed me that his rr corn crop also failed this year (my own old seed went bad -taking out mine), so those (3) hunts likely would not  have been productive.  He has not seen a deer on his place since opening day of gun when he was able to fill his only doe tag.  

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