I'd suggest looking at the Tour harness as well...about 1/3 the price and not much weight difference...Save the money on the harness between the two and invest in some Rock Exotic Omni Block pulleys instead. I know there are a ton of FB Groups and I'm sure there are some on REDDIT but I'm not as familiar with that platform. YouTube will have a bunch of stuff too. Riggin a 3:1 for boat/paddler extraction is a vital skill for technical creeks... I've seen it used and used it a number of times....once I THOUGHT I would need it as I was vertically pinned in a Class V rapid and had to hang out a bit till I got lucky and washed out...not fun. When it comes to Swiftwater it's hard to beat Slim Rays books and also the National parks service Swiftwater manual (Free on the web)
I’d much rather have a Grigri+ to that and it’s much cheaper too. But for his user needs a Munter hitch would be just fine.
I found an Altitude to borrow for this coming weekend. As long as it keeps raining it should get a good workout up on the Tennessee/Kentucky line. Thank you @shaneadams90. I'll stop taking this thread off topic now. But also, where are those ESEE Shuriken I asked for earlier in this thread? One Junglas blank would make like ten of them.
JG3 in S35vn. The JG3 is my favorite knife but wish the blade was a little harder with better edge retention.
I rolled with the orange and got a bright orange sheath for mine. It does deserve some high end options, I hadn't thought of stag but I could visualize it right away, that would be the schit.
I'd go for orange, just not black and orange striped. It is still a great knife though. Ohhhh, stag, that would look good! Of course stage would look good on a pump handle.
Saw a glimpse of a James Gibson knife with a warncliffe blade. Looked somewhat like the JG3 and about the same size. I think someone at Esee should give James a call. Hint... Oh, and in S35.
Ok here is a mahsup of my favorite small fixed blades. They are great in their own way but each has something I would like to change in some small way... please forgive my non artistic ability, and of course this is my ideal edc so may not make sense to others. Blade thickness would be same as CR2.5 flat or short sabre-ish grind Blade length 3-1/4" or close. The CR2.5 is great... but when fishing it will not quite cut through a larger fishes body. The Handles would be roughly the same thickness as CR2.5 or AGK with the same textured G10 flat scales. The flat sides keep the knife from rolling in the hand, rolling off an animal you are skinning or down/off whatever you set it on (LT Wright Bandit and Battlehorse knife do this). The shape is not quite what I envision.. but I cannot draw, basically the small down turn at the end acts as a counter to the forces applied to blade when carving. By gripping the tail end you have a bit of leverage to push back on the blade (due to less than full size handle). It should also help with the blade rolling, in hand and on deck. Ill take one in AEBL and two in 1095 ha ha ha. CR2.5 For size.
I'd like to see one with the rb3 handle profile and the jg3 blade. Or an rb3 with a high saber grind instead of scandi.
