[strick]

Thanks fellas for the comments about the deer.. including yours spider crab. It's an honor to have you reply to one of my posts. We busted our butts up there. Backpacked about 8 miles into the Trinity alps wilderness. We had to pack water 2 miles to our campsite which was situtated 5 minutes from the two canyons we hunt. That enabled us to get to our hunting area well before daylight. Only other people we saw were on horse back. Got snowed on which was a suprise but made hunting conditions easier. The buck was killed well within the boundries for pure blacktail deer. The Alps are known for their pure high quality black tail gene pool. He scores 129 6/8 points which is 6 2/8 points away from making the all time B&C Records of North American Big Game...which is why one may be inclined to mistake him for a muley hybred.

Old Blue- I dont really know much about all this technical stuff bond strength difference's etc...Like I said in an earlier post I'm used to using epoxy for the most part. I've been making sure that the area that I'm laminating to has been rough sanded so the stuff stick's when I put it down. So far no problems. The vinylester is very easy to work with. Easier then epoxy. It wets well and the pot life is long enough for getting the job done. I've been mixing 1-2 quarts at a time. Everything seems to be holding together so far. No progress tonight.... drank two beers and just stared at it for a while trying to get ideas.

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