Hi Hghvlocity,

Congradulations on getting your buck, I am packing right now to go deer hunting at my camp next week. My son is an Apprentice Hunter (14 years old) which means that we use one firearm and he does the shooting, Dad does the instructing/supervising. It has worked out great as a training and father/son bonding technique over the past 2 years.

I have another use for pine boughs. When I hunt moose out of my wall tent camp we heat it with a small tin wood with a 5" chimney pipe. When the stove is rocking in the evening it can get so hot in the tent that you have to strip down to your shorts, but let the fire go out and it gets cold in a hurry. The wood be burn in the stove is just scrap left over from logging and often it is not the best, producing a lot of soot and cresote. One night it plugged the spark arrestor and filled the tent with smoke, the smoke alarm woke us up. Now when soot starts to build up we take down the 3 pieces of pipe and run a bushy pine bough through them a couple of times, it cleans them very well.

Mike