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OK, since YOU started it… one more vicious animal story and then I promise I will shut up…More than thirty years ago, I was once forced to walk a very long way between the French towns of Calais and Boulogne, through the night, in the rainAs I turned off the autoroute, at a place called Wimereux, on the outskirts of Boulogne, I passed a scrap-yard, and heard the sound of several snarling mutts heading in my direction
I pulled out my Mauser Officers Knife, and prepared to defend myself as best I could, and then heard the sound of the dogs reaching the end of their chains -ching! - I was considerably relieved!
That's so cool
, share some pics when you get a chance and keep that GEC oiled 
Beautiful pics my friend
Thanks, Dan! Yes, I'm absolutely loving the trails through the foothills here. Your pics of Canada have convinced me I've got to visit at some point.Beautiful pics my friend
We lived in Chattanooga for 2 years and I totally fell in love with the area. That was a long time ago. I would love a chance to walk those southern trails again.
Your camping trip doesn't sound like a lot of fun Tom!OK, since YOU started it… one more vicious animal story and then I promise I will shut up…
I was on the Outer Banks of North Carolina off season one year in my late teens (mid 1980s), and spent one night in a mostly deserted drive-in campground. A wind storm came up and blew my tent over in the middle of the night, so I decided to go for a walk, and wound up getting chased by a pack of local dogs. They didn’t pursue me past what I assume were the limits of their owner’s property, but my way back was cut off. I walked several miles to the Hatteras lighthouse to watch the sun rise, hoping they would be gone in the morning. No luck! I wound up leaving the road, going over a fence and through a completely overgrown cemetery, and eventually got back to the campground just fine.
To bring all this back to knives, I fairly sure I was carrying a knife just like this one at the time:
It was one of just a few knives I owned at the time, and the original was with me until about ten years ago or so.
I was driving a 1967 Plymouth Valiant with the 170 cubic inch version of the slant six in it, for fans of that type of thing - clearly my tacky tastes extend to cars as well as knives…
I think I've had it easy, I've never been anywhere the wildlife have regarded me as food! 
He kept his eyes on me the whole time and showed NO signs of running away. I kept an eye on him too until I was clear of him…
I don’t use the word magnificent much, but that describes a proud buck. Beautiful pics.!For the past several months my free time on weekends has been broken up by 2 trips to my elderly parents house each day, to feed them and clean up a little. I still have a window of about 5 hours to take care of my own errands, and hopefully get outdoors a little. Yesterday it rained, but today I got a couple of hours to go for a much-needed walk in the park near my house:
Brought this, hoping recent heavy rains and high winds might have brought down something interesting to cut and take home:
Who me?
Yes, you!
For the past several months my free time on weekends has been broken up by 2 trips to my elderly parents house each day, to feed them and clean up a little. I still have a window of about 5 hours to take care of my own errands, and hopefully get outdoors a little. Yesterday it rained, but today I got a couple of hours to go for a much-needed walk in the park near my house:
Brought this, hoping recent heavy rains and high winds might have brought down something interesting to cut and take home:
Who me?
Yes, you!
Awesome. This time of the year, you are fortunate to have seen him with the rack attached.For the past several months my free time on weekends has been broken up by 2 trips to my elderly parents house each day, to feed them and clean up a little. I still have a window of about 5 hours to take care of my own errands, and hopefully get outdoors a little. Yesterday it rained, but today I got a couple of hours to go for a much-needed walk in the park near my house:
Brought this, hoping recent heavy rains and high winds might have brought down something interesting to cut and take home:
Who me?
Yes, you!
OOOOOOOOH lovely.
Thats a Stile fence Tom something like theseIf I recall correctly, there was some sort of public right of way on footpaths which crossed though privately-owned fields all around my grandmother’s village in Hampshire, and there was a sort of step-over arrangement at all the fences. I visited there 2 or 3 times as a young man and walked for miles and miles - thankfully without encountering any enraged livestock
Great pics. Seeing the river & canal boats was a treat!Just a little walk along the river again.its easy and I can get a coffee at the end from a choice of cafes.
I was standing on the bank watching a fisherman when, wham 2 beautiful glints of bluey silver flashed out from the bank under me to the other side of the river.
An absolute joy to see a pair of Kingfishers must be a nest nearby,it made my day,week year so far.
No picture to fast,you will have to squint and imagine them...
I have been going smaller and smaller with the outdoor carrys today I turned that around and took my Vic Farmer X which is the biggest Alox there is.
Its a pioneer with scissors and saw or a you could say a farmer with scissors ✂
You’re not so bad yourself.THE Blade Forums, has it's very own dedicated wildlife photographer, in JohnnyTheFox.
Very nice stuff Johnny. If nobody ever told you so, .......they should.
I'll see your kingfisher and raise you a squirrel and a female cardinal. I mean this in jest.
Thank you to blade forums for a letting us , do this.
Oh and on a side note.........the images posted on this website look far better than any photo forums, Facebook, or Instagram.. I do not know what you guys are doing, but it blows every photo forum off the map.
The image rendering, here, on this site..............IS, beyond shadow of doubt, " Spectacular.
