5000 coming - one for the newbies

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kgd

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Okay, my 5000 post is coming up. I'm a cheap stingy one and haven't even gave a give away yet :D Better late then never. I have benefited quite a bit from W&SS and this is a time to give back. However, I want to open this one up to the new comers over here. A gesture to the guy or gal who is still learning. So, I'd like to keep this contest open to those with <500 posts.

The treasure......A Buck 119 special and a Laminated SS mora #1. (Sorry I need the diamondback for something else)

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Okay - so it ain't the Gunny like J. Williams is posting....But the Buck 119 is special to me, more so because of the word 'special' in its name. When I was a teenager and in Tae Kwon Do, my instructor used to take me out hunting and camping. He always wore a buck 119 and it was ingrained in my mind as 'the knife to have'. It was and is always 'a man's knife' for the woods. Well, I could never afford one of them buck 119s as a teenager, and it wasn't until I had a job later in life that I bought it. Second, when I bought my grail knife I wanted to learn more about how to take care of it and sharpen it. So that led me right to the Blade forums. So this very buck 119 that I am posting and passing along represents the spirt of my wilderness Mentor of my youth and also the blade that brought me here and got me started into knives. It has good karma and I'd like to pass a little bit of that off to somebody else.

The mora#1 doesn't have as much of a back story - but I did buy it on advice of W&SS members. The handle has been modded by sanding down and it has some varnish on it.

---So the rules.

1) You must be at least 18 years old for legality.
2) You must have less than 500 post count. Why 500 - because it is 5000 dived by 10
3) You must introduce yourself and tell us what brought you to W&SS.
4) You should provide a little story - e.g. a paragraph or so about one of two options: A) who was your outdoor mentor growing up OR B)a skill that you learned from W&SS and practiced to mastery. Pictures wouldn't hurt either.

Judging: I will compile the 10 best posts meeting the above qualifications. I might enlist the help of my wife in reading the stories. After the top ten are narrowed down, I will make a random draw.

Due to timing - I'm teaching a field course beginning next week. This thread will close on July 20 where a winner will be announced. I might throw in a little surprise with the two knives.
 
Awesome gesture, Ken. I certainly qualify as a newbie (I learn something new all the time :D) but I'll leave the contest open to somebody who needs a good knife more than me. Just wanted to say thanks for thinking of us little guys. :thumbup:
 
great givaway,. Im a bit of a newb here and I really enjoy learning new things and reading a looking what others have to say. I love all the great pics of knives, nature and animals. I check this forum almost everyday and it has helped me decide on buying my bravo 1--I love this knife very much:).

I feel others deserve the knives more than me as I havent mastered any skills yet although I have learned how to baton with a knife which I think is really a lot of fun. I find myself batonig wood whenever I get the chance. I just wish I could get out to the wilderness more:)

Thanks for the very kind gesture and I hope whoever gets your knife uses her well:)
 
1) i am 26 years old.
2) i have just over 100 posts (nearly all in W&SS) though i did a 1ooth post giveaway just last week for a nice little necker.
3) My name is Russell, i was raised between the laurentian mountains of quebec, and the bush west of timmins. Family troubles had me move to southern ontario to help out a couple of years ago. Feeling a little claustrophobic here i began searching for ways to discover places i could be alone outdoors in southern ontario. Furthermore, much of my grear at the time was left behind with friends and family, so i began searching for both new gear and new places to bum around. this is how i found BF and the W&SS. I never posted for almost a year, but i found some comfort in the pics and convos about places i was missing. i'm not sure if it lists this on BF but for a year i came on here atleast 5 days a week but didn't post. i just liked seeing it all and hearing ppl talk about it. plus i am young and felt a little intimidated at first.
4) The major skill i have learned from W&SS is how to buy woods gear online haha thanks a lot guys....My mentor is a man i call an uncle but isn't. he's a maritimer ex-coast guard guy, who now runs a hunting and fishing camp in the north three seasons a year and is a trapper fur trader through the winter. since i've moved here i try and get up to his place as much as possible. he's been everything you could imagine in the outdoors from diamond miner to salmon flyfishing guide and EVERYTHING in between. Times being as they are now (spring bear hunt has been eliminated, american dollar not being the strongest, new passport requirement for americans to canada, fall moose hunt ended!!!! this is new news for most of you i'm sure, the TERRIBLE pay given for furs as of late and so on and so forth) it's near impossible to earn a living off of the bush without exploiting it (lumber, mining) but he'll stay there, running camp until the day he dies, whether he makes a cent or not. i am now stuck deciding. i sent my papers in to join up like my brother and uncles, Medtech and try for SAR eventually with benefits and a pension, or go back to the bush where i'm from and earn a paycheck to paycheck living. i have no wife or children so i could, but i'm scared it would stop me from ever having them.
that's my story. here are some pics of me and Richard from just last week when i managed to get up there...
thank you for the chance.
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very cool giveaway Ken...:thumbup: i'm sure that Buck and Mora will serve someone well...
 
Very thoughtful gesture on your part, k. It's time us noobies get a break. :thumbup:

goatariba, I take it that is Horwood Lake. Looks beautiful right now.

Doc :D
 
Awesome idea! :) Good way to get the newer folks into the forum more.

As you can see by my "Join Date" I'm far from new and just over your post limit. I just keep my fingers idle and type only when it's necessary here! I post more than enough at my own forums to keep people reading! :) http://plainsmanscabin.yuku.com/

Thanks!
 
I'm in.

1. I'm 23
2. Def. less than 500 posts...I'm fairly new and haven't dug in deep on posting yet.
3.I'm Alan. I live in a small farm community in the bootheel of missouri. I'm ten minutes from Arkansas, and 15 from Tennessee. I've always been into outdoors. While my family may not have "roughed" it (we had pretty nice campers), we did go camping everyweekend from March till December my whole life. Now that i'm grown and have a family of my own, i'm trying to get in a sitation to take my childeren camping as much as we went. While we don't go nearly as much as i'de like we still get out every so often and go to the river/lake/woods. I won't say i'm an outdoorsman but I can hold my own. I stumbled over here somehow....to bladeforums i mean. I think it was a link from ar15. I've skimmed over stuff and I tend to gravitate towards the W&SS forums just to read what everyone here has to say. I love the fact we can learn so much from each other. Everyone has a different way of doing things, and each is just as well as the next just with a little more flare. When i get to thinkin about how i want to do something, i just skimm W&SS and eventually i find what i'm looking for. I love it.
4. I've gotta say my mentor would have to be my father. He's no survivalist, he's not the best in the world at anything, he's nothing special. To anyone but me that is. My dad taught me so much growing up. When i was really young i used to get so mad b/c we "had" to go camping and hunting everyweekend, so i didn't get to play baseball or whatever. Then when i started getting a little older i realized, wow i'm the lucky one. While my friends were riding a bus to the next zipcode over for a game, i was riding atv's down loggind roads miles from civilization. While they were running sprints, i was sitting in a treestand trying to figure out if i could hit the deer at 45yrds with my bow. I had it made, and it was all thanks to my dad. My dad taught me to hunt, fish, build a fire (we used gasoline). He taught me to field dress animals, he taught me to aim just a little high with a bow when all you have is a 30yrd pin on your bow and the deer is 45. He taught me so much more about life than i could realize at the time. Now that i have kids i'm thankful for him working his ass off everyday just to be able to take us kids and do the things we did. I'll never be able to repay him but i just hope i can pass the things on to my children that he did to me as a sort of tribute if you will.
 
Alanp said:
I'm in.

1. I'm 23
2. Def. less than 500 posts...I'm fairly new and haven't dug in deep on posting yet.
3.I'm Alan. I live in a small farm community in the bootheel of missouri. I'm ten minutes from Arkansas, and 15 from Tennessee. I've always been into outdoors. While my family may not have "roughed" it (we had pretty nice campers), we did go camping everyweekend from March till December my whole life. Now that i'm grown and have a family of my own, i'm trying to get in a sitation to take my childeren camping as much as we went. While we don't go nearly as much as i'de like we still get out every so often and go to the river/lake/woods. I won't say i'm an outdoorsman but I can hold my own. I stumbled over here somehow....to bladeforums i mean. I think it was a link from ar15. I've skimmed over stuff and I tend to gravitate towards the W&SS forums just to read what everyone here has to say. I love the fact we can learn so much from each other. Everyone has a different way of doing things, and each is just as well as the next just with a little more flare. When i get to thinkin about how i want to do something, i just skimm W&SS and eventually i find what i'm looking for. I love it.
4. I've gotta say my mentor would have to be my father. He's no survivalist, he's not the best in the world at anything, he's nothing special. To anyone but me that is. My dad taught me so much growing up. When i was really young i used to get so mad b/c we "had" to go camping and hunting everyweekend, so i didn't get to play baseball or whatever. Then when i started getting a little older i realized, wow i'm the lucky one. While my friends were riding a bus to the next zipcode over for a game, i was riding atv's down loggind roads miles from civilization. While they were running sprints, i was sitting in a treestand trying to figure out if i could hit the deer at 45yrds with my bow. I had it made, and it was all thanks to my dad. My dad taught me to hunt, fish, build a fire (we used gasoline). He taught me to field dress animals, he taught me to aim just a little high with a bow when all you have is a 30yrd pin on your bow and the deer is 45. He taught me so much more about life than i could realize at the time. Now that i have kids i'm thankful for him working his ass off everyday just to be able to take us kids and do the things we did. I'll never be able to repay him but i just hope i can pass the things on to my children that he did to me as a sort of tribute if you will.
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You really have to reread your own post. By your own words, your dad is very special and the best in the world AT BEING YOUR DAD! There IS nothing more important! :thumbup:

You're a lucky guy!!!!!

Doc
 
DOC-CANADA said:
You really have to reread your own post. By your own words, your dad is very special and the best in the world AT BEING YOUR DAD! There IS nothing more important! :thumbup:

You're a lucky guy!!!!!

Doc
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