Drinking coffee in the forest and looking at some "new" knifes.

300Six thank you for the interest in the rifle and kamagong Im impressed of your memory.

I also think that this rifle is a she.

I was a teenager aking to get my own rifle. In the village vere I come from is hunting and fishing important things to do so some gear is nesisarry. We can by rifles here in sweeden from age 18 but i started looking thouroghly already years before that. As Im a lefty as you saw 300Six I had just a few to shoose from like Heym, manlischer, or remington 700. Out of theese the Heym spoke strongest and the remington not at all. This Heym is chambered for 6,5X55. I now its considered a little weak over in Amerika but here the heritage from almost 100 years of an army caliber gives it a glans of its own. I have seen hundreds of mooses shot and mostly by 6.5X55, 308 or 30-06 and I see no differense in aktual use.
I desided on heym because it has a sweet triggerfunktion and for me perfekt balance. Nowadays it looks a little oldschool but I still get good performance out of it. Shot 3 kompetitions this summer and won 2 of them and got 4th in one. (Yeaa, I now bragging is bad :o ) The scope is a leopold 3-9X44.
I have trained to shoot with righthanded rifles also and thats no problem but Im faster with this one and its now this rifle that sits in the backbone.

The Scoutknife in the picture is a gift from kamagong and I love a knife of this sort with caraktere and soul.
The Brusletto is in this picture also but that is because I almost never hunt moose without it.

I come back in this thread with pictures of my coffeecontainer to show construktion and I thing I have a knife or two to accompany that. Actually Im avaiting one of my most desired patterns to come by post.

Bosse
 
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That little knife is great, I love the shadow patterns. I wish they were more common to different makers. And that coffee cup, I now have a woodworking project when I have more time to do it! I'm just dreading the idea of sharpening my hook knife. I bought one that came exceedingly dull and while I know I would have had to sharpen it eventually I'm now realizing what a pain it will be to sharpen. Anyways, I'm making one of those coffee cups when I've got more time. Fantastic. Your pictures are always an inspiration.
 
Thanks Bo. I remember her because she is unforgettable. Beautiful walnut and she has that classy Schnabel fore end. I have been thinking about getting a fine hunting rifle for a while. The only ones that had really caught my eye are the Winchester 70 Featherweight (also with a Schnabel fore end) and the Sako 85. I've added the Heym SR21 to the list. Iron sights and a lack of lateral play with the bolt has me daydreaming. Unfortunately Heyms are very rare here in America. You hardly read about them on the forums. I've never seen one in person.
 
Here is a picture of my coffecontainers backside to show how its linked together and the two lids of to show its 2 compartments.
The map is my huntingmap over digerberget. The final edition Puma prospector from the 90ties is pointing my houses in the little village and the original Puma prospector from the early 80ties is pointing the moosepost millarya that is written about in the thread. This is only a tiny part of the huntingarea. We hunt over 3200 ha with a mainroad of 15 km and dirtroads of another 50 km. This is good for the hunt. The roads is in the pure wilderness but makes acces to posts, huntingareas and transport of mooses easyer. We always hunt with loose dog and posts. As the most we are 11 men but most often we are around 3-6 hunters out.

Bosse
 
i like very much your selection of knives :thumbup: ,but i'm interested in making similar birch bark container,is it some kind of punch die used to cut this connecting parts,and is it glued or sewn,or something else?
 
I don't know how exactly Bosse's container is made, but here is a tutorial on how to make a similar one.

- Christian
 
Let me show you a little more woodwork in this thread about knifes and other beautiful woodcarpentary.
The big woodbox is for bread and used in our home for round hard bread. The little container is the one I carry my sugar in when Im in the forest. Originally its a gift to my grandmother on my stepfathers side. I still remember when she got it as a birtdaygift probably 40 and a few years back in time. It was her sisters husband that was a carpentar who have made it. Quite often I carry it together with my coffee container and kåsa to the forest.

The knife is a new for me EKA little swede from around 1975. very simular to EKA 38/45 but smaller. I consider it a score since Im been looking for one a few years now on good kondition.
The other one is a medium stockman in cv from case. It is the first stockman I realy liked and the knife that opened my eyes to that pattern and I also deer say that size of Amerikan traditional patterns. I was gifted that knife from SunnyD that used to make very nice and interesting posts here ofter a few years ago. Dont see him here anymore but hope hes good.

As for the turtial Kamagong showed its a good strong way to do. My coffee container is made different but my mother do containers that way. She makes them in twoo layers though and say its important that its the inside of the bark that face bouth to the inside and the outside of the container and that the outsides of the 2 layers is facing together in the middle of the laminat.

A last word about the kåsa. The round botom of this old kåsa makes it very easy to place on the ground and in vegitation without falling over making the beverage to spill out. Its a bad form on flat hard things like a table.You see it best in post 29 page 2.
Most more modern kåsas has a flat part underneath making it possible to put them on a table like an ortinary cup.

Bosse
 
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thanks for additional photo,container that your mother makes is something different,and i would like to know the way she does it :thumbup:

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couple i made from birch burl and olive wood.
 
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