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The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is$300$250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
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Here's one I was thinking about, I had one even better scaled than this one and gave it to a nephew. The polished bone had a more brown tinge and looked more like ole time jigged bone. This is just slightly too red for my taste. You will have to find one somewhere where discontinued knives are sold. 300
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USA made you say? Yea! Now I have a reason to start going by the knife case again while during my weekly runs by the ammo display.
Speaking of which you wouldn't happen to have a cubical next to the ammo buyer would you. Pass a note. More 22 please.
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USA made you say? Yea! Now I have a reason to start going by the knife case again while during my weekly runs by the ammo display.
Speaking of which you wouldn't happen to have a cubical next to the ammo buyer would you. Pass a note. More 22 please.
Good luck on that. I hear the ammo makers are running at full capacity, 3 shifts a day, over ten MILLION .22LR cartidges PER DAY, and there is still a shortage. (WHY does HUD need .22LR ammo?)
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Housing and Urban Development. The Federal Gov. agency. They and other non-military/non-police Gov agencies are buying .22LR ammo faster than it can be produced, from what I've heard.
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I have not heard the one about Gov't buying. But to hopefully keep this 'knife' thread from going south. I have personally talked to a Remington big shot and he said and I quote " we had large military contracts, it is expensive and time consuming to set up or move loading machinery. Rimfire loading is done at a much slower rate and requires much different machinery. Because of this we keep our rimfire operation in one location running the same machinery all the time." I also know from being in the stockroom of a gun shop that some ammo is getting shipped. To keep reselling from occurring they keep it in back and only put a few boxes at a time on the public shelf. If I need some I can go in now and am handed a 525 box.
Lets don't go off track and talk knives not gov't action or inaction.
300Bucks
Humor part - maybe its a election year rat shooting program.
Lets don't go off track and talk knives not gov't action or inaction.
300Bucks
Humor part - maybe its a election year rat shooting program.
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Ah, gotcha on the HUD.
Yeah sorry 300Bucks didn't mean to intentionally take it in that direction. Just trying to have a little haha moment.
Again, it'll would be real nice to see more USA Bucks in my favorite section of the big W.
Been a Buck and Schrade USA fan since the 70's and since 2004 can only rely on Buck now for satisfaction in that area.
Yeah sorry 300Bucks didn't mean to intentionally take it in that direction. Just trying to have a little haha moment.
Again, it'll would be real nice to see more USA Bucks in my favorite section of the big W.
Been a Buck and Schrade USA fan since the 70's and since 2004 can only rely on Buck now for satisfaction in that area.
300Bucks is pretty much spot on. The ammo buyer is actually my boss. Rimfire ammunition in general is very time consuming to manufacture and uses a totally different production process than centerfire ammo. No manufacturers are willing to build out new production capacity because they barely even break even on rimfire. The moment they add capacity, they run the risk of bursting the bubble and then having idle capacity that isn't paid for and can't be used for anything else.
The main reason that there still appears to be shortages is that the .22LR supply swings between different accounts. Since the manufacturers can't make money on the ammo itself, they use it to sweeten the deal for their customers... "If you buy this (insert obscure wildcat caliber) that we've had in our warehouse for 18 years, we'll give you more .22LR." There's plenty of .22LR in the market, but if Retailer 1 doesn't have any, it's probably because Retailer 2 got Retailer 1's .22LR allocation for the week.
The main reason that there still appears to be shortages is that the .22LR supply swings between different accounts. Since the manufacturers can't make money on the ammo itself, they use it to sweeten the deal for their customers... "If you buy this (insert obscure wildcat caliber) that we've had in our warehouse for 18 years, we'll give you more .22LR." There's plenty of .22LR in the market, but if Retailer 1 doesn't have any, it's probably because Retailer 2 got Retailer 1's .22LR allocation for the week.
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Found the 375 in pakkawood at the local 'mart. Had to pick one up. Didn't realize until I got home that it's actually smaller than my peanut.
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Aaarrgghh..........The local Walmart had one and I bought it.
And then I bought a Sears 95419 stockman accidentally on the bay.
And then I bought a new Buck 301.......all in the span of 24 hours!
I am supposed to be a Model 110 only type of guy and the wife shut me down on buying any more of them for "awhile".
Awhile = time period to be determined (by her).
When she sees these new-to-her type of knives arriving, I am afraid "awhile" is going to be a lot longer. :-(
Quick side story:
Early on in my marriage, some 34 years ago, I was still young and didn't always make it home from work on time (well like many hours and many beers later). For those of you young enough to remember the sound that toy friction motor cars made, that's sorta what her berating me soundedlike for the first 30 minutes after I arrived home from these escapades. One day, after promising not to go out with the guys anymore...yeah right...I arrived home about 10 PM. I braced myself and went inside to find her sitting calmly on the couch. She barely even looked up and said "Dinner is in the oven." I thought, "Wow!..this isn't going to be so bad after all." She had silverware, napkins and iced tea set at the table for me. I grabbed my plate and opened the microwave to find my dinner:
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a Milk Bone dog biscuit!
Ruh Roh!
Well, I no longer drink and the advent of cell phones keeps me in line and never out of her reach.
However, I think I may be in for another of those "friction motor" butt-chewings and it's all the fault of DeSotoSky!
And then I bought a Sears 95419 stockman accidentally on the bay.
And then I bought a new Buck 301.......all in the span of 24 hours!
I am supposed to be a Model 110 only type of guy and the wife shut me down on buying any more of them for "awhile".
Awhile = time period to be determined (by her).
When she sees these new-to-her type of knives arriving, I am afraid "awhile" is going to be a lot longer. :-(
Quick side story:
Early on in my marriage, some 34 years ago, I was still young and didn't always make it home from work on time (well like many hours and many beers later). For those of you young enough to remember the sound that toy friction motor cars made, that's sorta what her berating me soundedlike for the first 30 minutes after I arrived home from these escapades. One day, after promising not to go out with the guys anymore...yeah right...I arrived home about 10 PM. I braced myself and went inside to find her sitting calmly on the couch. She barely even looked up and said "Dinner is in the oven." I thought, "Wow!..this isn't going to be so bad after all." She had silverware, napkins and iced tea set at the table for me. I grabbed my plate and opened the microwave to find my dinner:
.
.
.
.
a Milk Bone dog biscuit!
Ruh Roh!
Well, I no longer drink and the advent of cell phones keeps me in line and never out of her reach.
However, I think I may be in for another of those "friction motor" butt-chewings and it's all the fault of DeSotoSky!
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Go with the sudden spasm routine where you accidently hit the Buy Now button. Worked for me...yeah right...friction motor sounds