I wish I still had the hatchet I took on my trapline for many years but I lost it through the ice in a muskrat swamp around ‘62 or ‘63.
It was a shingler’s hatchet with half the handle painted red. There was a nail-pulling notch in the bottom edge of the blade that was perfect for bending and twisting wire.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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