“I don’t know why started doing it, but I kept track every year,” Baxter said, adding he would like to remember each outing. In addition to the 68-year-old journal, Baxter continues to use the same red wool hunting suit he bought in 1943, which is in outstanding condition. “It’s good and warm,” he said, adding he also uses a knife of the same age to clean the deer. “As long as it’s workable, I keep it.”Yup. Experience is more valuable than "stuff."
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December 01, 2011
My Kind of Hunter
The gear worked in the 1940s, and it still works.
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If it works...
Cheers.
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