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They come in various sizes. Use utility knife to cut to fit.
Water, snacks. Three knifes: Wyoming knife (this makes it easy to open the body cavity), a Chicago cutlery 6” utility (this is to remove the glans from the inside rear knees of a buck) put this knife in a zip lock bag and use for nothing else wear latex gloves. Another hunting type knife. A shoe...
There is a bi metal thermal that makes sure the pilot flame fired before adding gas. Turnoff. Take a piece of sand paper, form a strip and clean the wire probe.