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Made up a new sheath for the Klecker. I'll add a leather wrap and possibly fire steel loop to the original kydex for a horizontal carry.

cmknight, I tried to go as far upstream as possible, hoping to reach the fairly large waterfall that's visible from parts of the valley, but the east bank road ends where my H3 is parked in the 8th pic down, and the west bank road ends at a very old washed out bridge. I believe that both spots are still a few km from the falls and the headwaters. The falls are just visible almost dead centre in this photo, appearing as a vertical white line in the dark green trees. Try zooming in. I thought I had saved my Gaia maps track of this trip, but it's not on my phone, so i guess I didn't push the right button at the right time. It showed my progress up both sides of the valley very clearly.

^^^^ When I was on the BFRO expedition we got to play with the "R2D2" unit on a night drive. The driver sat in the front seat. 2 people, one operating the unit and one holding a TV, sat in the back seat. Had to be careful not to blind the driver with the TV screen. It was a whole lot of fun. We were able to see little tweety birds .. night birds .. in the road ahead of us, see them get up and fly to a bush and sit as we went by. Saw deer on the hillsides. One of the other groups saw a bear. I'd like to borrow it for a few nights to drive a particular area I think should be active that has a 30+ mile rectangle you could drive in good locations the whole time.

I wouldn't say I make them, just tinker. Picked up a good sized piece of veg tanned a while back, have been whittling it down for projects here and there. Drop leg looks great, puts the handle in a more accessible location and I assume but don't know that sitting with a pivoting sheath is easier too. Sweet knife! I like a stacked leather handle.

One of the issues, especially nowadays, is the availability of ammo and the cost thereof. The larger the caliber, the more the cost, generally speaking. In order to be proficient with that particular firearm, you have to practice until handling and firing it is second nature. It helps to reload so your can control the power factor. A softer round for when you practice helps because firing full-power rounds from a big-bore revolver isn't always fun. A side benefit to reloading is the significant reduction in cost/round especially in light of today's ammo prices. For those who wish to begin reloading, there is a scarcity of equipment. @NorthWind Sweet gun. I looked at the DE 44mag in a 47oz handgun. 8 rounds and it would probably feel like shooting a 9mm from the DE.

That looks really good. I like the color a lot.

Made as in you made the leather sheath yourself? That's a beautiful sheath and knife. Kudos.

I carry mine on the front brushbar.

Love the old buildings and equipment, @BlackRockBigfoot. Although BC has fur trading and gold mining history going back 200+ years, not much survives in the wet coastal area where I live and explore; there is much more of what you show in the drier interior plateau. Monday, the 11th, was our Thanksgiving holiday here in Canada, and since my family did our big dinner on the Sunday, I was free to do a day trip. I chose the Mystery Valley/Eagle Creek region due to it's distance off pavement and number of reports of sightings and footprint finds over the last few decades. The start of the gravel FSR is about 45 minutes from my home, and it's about 40 km on the main logging road to reach the Mystery Valley turn off. Once I was headed up that road, I explored every branch line off it, most of which were deactivated, with cross ditching to prevent the whole trail getting washed away in our fall and winter monsoons. I saw no big game sign, and no sasquatch evidence, but did manage to bag a nice plump grouse for a future dinner. After crossing Mystery Pass into the Eagle Creek drainage, I turned upstream on the east side of the creek to a bridge about 5 km in, then headed downstream on the west side, hoping to reach Chehalis Lake on that side, but eventually reached a washout that was a bit too challenging to attempt, so I backtracked to the east side and reached the lake that way. The weather was great all day, and I sat for an hour in a camp chair during my lunch stop, with a great view of most of the creek valley below me. There were a few campers still at the north beach, where Eagle Creek feeds the lake, and lots of human and dog tracks all over the beach, so no chance of locating extra large tracks on the pebbly beach. Near dusk, I headed back towards Mystery Pass, exploring one more side branch before dark, then it was back onto the main FSR, and a bumpy 40 km back to pavement and then home.