Recent content by Boreal Birch

Hey Jim….. Have you got an update on the Whelen Lean-to in action along the canoe trails. Wanting to know how it fits into your tripping style. I just used mine on a fishing/grouse hunting trip in the out laying fringes of the BWCA. A open faced tent is great for an older guy with a weakening...

Guess you never traveled or camped on a salmon spawning stream. I was required to have with me and be proficient with an issued firearm by my employer, State of Alaska Department of Fish & Game. Never fired a shot, but it was comforting to have it handy many times. Just like a PFD, may never...

Very nice outfit for moose hunting, the meat wagon will save your heart from exploding. Back packing moose pieces is a young person’s job. When I was young, inexperienced (strong like bull, smart like chicken) I killed a moose five miles from the nearest navigable water. Wake up, pack as much...

I have seen the rat and he is us! We got a rat problem. I had a job that entailed counting salmon. Walking up a stream counting them. I saw lots of bears doing this, never felt in danger. I also got to sit in the back seat of a Super Cub aircraft counting salmon flying low and slow up rivers...

Good on you!! I have some stuff that will live long useful lives, after I’m gone. I’ve told the history of each and every person that I have earmarked these treasures for. I have typed up, printed, laminated and attached the history of each one also. I have also did the same to some other stuff...

Scrolling keeps my index finger in shape for canoe tripping.

Glenn…. You carry a police billy club on a canoe trip, but not a axe? ……BB

Get a nice axe for splitting wood, batoning wood is for YouTube guys living in their mother’s basement’s filming in the back yard. Sharpening a Scandi-grind is the easiest grind to sharpen.

Gotta kiss a lot of frogs before one turns into a Prince!

I really like the Mora 106 model laminated steel carving knife. Very light weight, no guard to get in the way, with a comfortable birch wood handle that fits well in your hand. Comes from the factory really sharp, is easy to keep that sharpness, if needed it can be honed to razor sharpness with...

The tang of a knife is the part that is inside the handle, basically a continuation of the blade. I have never heard of a double tang. Full tang, stick tang hidden tang are the common tangs. I think Samsam must have meant double guard. Bear spray and 12 gauge 870 Remington pump shotgun with...

Way back in time Athabaskan hunters hunted Grizzly Bears with a spears, with birch shaft that they would brace the butt against the ground to absorb the force from a charging bear, the shaft was equipped with a cross piece to keep the impailed bear from sliding down the shaft and getting to...

I had a bunch of Buck Knives at one time. Once I discovered hand forged Puukko knives from Finland, I gave all my Buck knives to a guy I didn’t particularly care for. He had a bunch of kids that looked like they each might be in need of a knife, that their father was never going to be able to...

Guide is just a word that is used to sell stuff, just like Silverado, Tundra, Forester, Outback or Wilderness, depending what what the geniuses at marketing are trying to to sell to the target audience. LL Bean will sell you a a “Guide” shirt, boots or underwear. I would think any registered...

May the Oncorhynchus nerka be with you!!