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For charity, I've done a great deal of dove, pheasant and quail hunting. Since you have to walk the field, it's always best to carry only what you need. I remember once hunting in South Dakota with my good friend,
Ray Kelly, who is a world famous artist of cowboys and wildlife and the American West. Since there are more pheasant in South Dakota than people (there's more of most anything in South Dakota than people, actually!), there is no limit to your day's "catch". I must say that my hang-bag behind my hunter's vest was getting ridiculously heavy, and the sharp claws of the birds were digging into me, as if they were getting their revenge! Ray told me that sometimes they cut off the legs to make it easier to carry and so that your back doesn't end up looking like you've slept on a cactus all night! But that was a messy business, and it was hard to find just the right kind of knife and surface to do it clean.
Thus the "Bird of Prey" was invented. I found it not only worked amazingly well in the field for bird hunters, but I ended up using it for all kinds of things, like cutting away tangled fence wire, stripping electrical wire, slicing easily through twine wrapped packages… and on and on. And with the compact "sheep's foot" blade, this really became a jack of all trades kind of knife that I carry with me everywhere. I've finally made one for my collection in the "Sportsmen Series"… full functional and still a work of art.
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