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A retrospective look back.
- Thread starter jackknife
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Great read. Always interesting to get a lens into a possible future for ourselves. In this one, it looks like it turned out for the best. I hope to do so well.
Half way through, and following the same pattern. Already mostly back to where I started, with a SAK or small folder getting the every day stuff, and a smallish fixed blade for woodsy and hunting tasks. I just have 10 choices for each, despite needing only one.
Half way through, and following the same pattern. Already mostly back to where I started, with a SAK or small folder getting the every day stuff, and a smallish fixed blade for woodsy and hunting tasks. I just have 10 choices for each, despite needing only one.
Great read as usual. I'm 63 and in the middle of thinning out a life collection of guns,knives,machetes,axes,hatchets etc. You just get to a point where you only use such a small portion of it all. Like you I'm spreading it out to my young relatives first. I sold a collection of over 100 traditional style slipjoints a while back and it didn't hurt at all!
. Just kept the best dozen or so. Now it's time to thin out the gun safe to the 10/22, the Remington 700 in 30.06 and the old 870. Do ya really need much else?.==KV
. Just kept the best dozen or so. Now it's time to thin out the gun safe to the 10/22, the Remington 700 in 30.06 and the old 870. Do ya really need much else?.==KVThank you for this! I'm blessed in never having developed a knife fetish. However I did find a SAK Spartan in the grass 51 years ago and promptly tossed the Official Boy Scout pocket knife I carried before that. Half century later there's still a Spartan in my pocket. They're no good for skinning moose but they'll do darn near anything else.
silenthunterstudios
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Carl, I'm going the other way. Getting rid of most of my knives, and using those funds to focus on custom slipjoints and vintage ones, like the Remingtons I go nuts over. I really think that after the four I ordered this year (two too many but I am committed), I am going to hang up the spurs. Except for old timey knives, especially those old Remingtons that I pretty much fall into (thank God not literally), I need to cool my heels for a minute. I was looking at getting a few old Blind Horse knives, some LT Wright knives, some Bark River knives, some Helle knives etc etc etc, I thought about the knives I had, and the bushcraft/woodcraft skills I need to hone (no pun intended). I'll still trade to my heart's content, but I realized that the only reason I had any skin in the game is because of the hunt. Whether a trade, a good deal or just hunting for that particular model, it went in my knife drawer/cabinet and stayed there. Sure, I'm keeping the peanut you gave me, that's my daily carry. I'm keeping the Gossman Tusker that was carried by a SEAL team in Afghanistan that I won at Scott's Gosstoberfest, and a trapper by Scott that a mutual friend offered to me at an unbelievable price. Other than that, everything in my collection is fair game. And I've DRASTICALLY cut down.
All you need is that Nessmuk trio. Fixed blade, axe, folder, throw in a good centerfire rifle like a .308 or .30-06 or .30-30. Hell, you could get by for the rest of your life with a .22 on the east coast, further inland, you need to worry about bigger critters.
When you can sell your collection and put a good down payment on a car, you might have a problem. Guessing that's why I'm driving a 2003 Silverado.
All you need is that Nessmuk trio. Fixed blade, axe, folder, throw in a good centerfire rifle like a .308 or .30-06 or .30-30. Hell, you could get by for the rest of your life with a .22 on the east coast, further inland, you need to worry about bigger critters.
When you can sell your collection and put a good down payment on a car, you might have a problem. Guessing that's why I'm driving a 2003 Silverado.
Hey, I'm still driving my 2001 Tacoma, and no plans anytime soon to retire it. Till the wheels fall off it!!
But yeah, any of us could get along nicely with a Nessmuk trio, but what fun is that? some self indulgence is fine, just moderation in all things. :thumbup:
My first knife I ever bought was a buck 309(1987) when I was about 18. I bought it for the sole purpose of keeping it in my tackle box to cut the extra bit of fishing line when you tie on a jig. My first knife I bought to carry was a Bucklite 422 probably around 1988. After the 422 was lost or stolen, I went a good 10 years without even carrying a knife, then the last 4 years i've been spending too much money and buying too many knives. Lately I've been carrying a modern one hand opener, but the last month or so, I've gotten back to carrying a buck 112 ranger(what the bucklite 422 was based on), so I'm pretty close to back where I started. Oh, and 2 weeks ago, went camping and wouldn't you know it, with all the knives I own, I went camping and forgot my big modern folder I was planning on taking for my main knife and all I had on me was that same 1987 309 in my pocket, and I survived. Luckily the bears were still hibernating, or I would have felt more naked with just the 309.
silenthunterstudios
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Those Toyotas last forever, until you wrap them around a tree
...Edited to add, I hope and pray you don't get rid of your truck the way I did mine...