From One Lost Scout To Another ;)

I had the good fortune of having a great Scouting program where I grew up. Camping, canoeing, survival campouts, winter camping in the mountains.

I was able to complete my Eagle.

I just finished abut 9 years as a scout master.

It can be a very rewarding program.
 
Great knives...... just great knives!!! and two absolutely fantastic guys - I am proud to call both of them good friends!!
 
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Wow Jack those are some very special gifts. I'm sure you'll give them their due reverence. Very thoughtful Paul.
 
I have to ask again, while we're on the subject, does anybody remember a cub scout knife with four blades and no linerlock? I swear mine was like that but all I see since is the linerlocks.
 
I had a Camp King, with the thin black covers (Made by Imperial if I recall). It was a bit of a cheapie, but it was a good knife for a 10 year old Cub Scout. I don't think it had a lock on any of the blades.

Wish I still had it, but it is long since gone.
 
I finished Cub Scouts and had just advanced to Boy Scouts when I quit. At the time we had moved from Georgia to Texas and the Scout Pack/Troop I'd been in was not good at all. So when my folks asked if I wanted to continue in Scouts I said No. Both my boys are now in Boy Scouts, with my wife & I helping as Scout leaders. Are Cub Scout Pack was awesome, and are Boy Scout Troop use to be. Both my boys are talking about earning their Eagle. I really hope so, but it gets hard when they get older and get that scent of perfume/gasoline distracting them.

As for Scout Knives, I always lusted after the Camillus version as a kid. I'd drool over it in the Scout catalogs & show it to Mom for birthdays & Christmas. Growing up poor raised by a single parent at the time though it was not going to happen.
 
GlennH said:
Aww jeeze, I'm gettin' all misty here. You guys are just too much. When I come here, I almost feel as if I've stepped back in time to my younger days in the old neighborhood where everyone looked out for each other, lived by the golden rule, and generally carried on with common courtesy rarely ever seen these days. I am really impressed with the way you guys send each other gifts and carry on as if you've known each other since childhood (maybe you have, I don't know). It's really cool!

It is an honor to be welcomed here (at least I hope I am!). I know I'm still a newby, and takes time to really be welcomed, but I feel welcome here. I like that.
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GlennH summarizes my reaction to Jack's post, and he does so more articulately than I could!
Very thoughtful gifts, Paul! :thumbup:
Thanks for starting this thread, Jack, and enjoy those magnificent new knives. Happy Holidays.

- GT
 
Thanks for all your kind words guys, and for sharing your experiences, they make for fascinating reading :)

meako said:
How I survived my childhood is still a mystery to me.
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Great stuff Meako, sounds like you had a fantastic time as a kid. I think this is a common thought though! :D There was an old quarry behind our house when I was a kid, 100ft of old crumbling sandstone. I remember scampering up it before I was old enough to start school, and many years later as a rock-climber, I'd look at it and shake my head! :D

scrteened porch said:
Maybe we lost scouts should form an international band of Ernest Thompson Seton's Woodcraft Indians.
Here's my stainless scout knife, and a German fb similar to your new one. Maybe my first mod- it had a crossguard with ball finials that dug into my knuckles.
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Excellent my friend :thumbup: I have a PDF copy of that work, but when I was a kid, the book I loved most was Bernard S Mason's Woodcraft & Camping :)

singin50 said:
What a wonderful bunch of stories and just speaks so highly of your relationship with one another! Friendships are so hard to make and even harder to keep these days. But we all should read this and go and do likewise. The older I become, the more I lean on what was taught to me by my parents, it is more blessed to give than to receive, but when you receive, well it makes you so much more appreciative of your friends and the fact that someone out there really does care about you. That is a gift you can't put a stamp on, or a bow around, it is the ultimate prize we all strive for. Kudos to you both!

Perry
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Thanks for that Perry :)

singin50 said:
Don't feel too bad guys, I only got this far.
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Nice pic :) :thumbup:

Bigfattyt said:
I had the good fortune of having a great Scouting program where I grew up. Camping, canoeing, survival campouts, winter camping in the mountains.

I was able to complete my Eagle.

I just finished abut 9 years as a scout master.

It can be a very rewarding program.
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Well done T :thumbup:

I used to take city youngsters out hiking, camping, and kayaking when I was a youth-worker. Many had never been out of the city before. I found it very rewarding work :)

Maybe we can keep this thread going a while as a place for folks to share pics of their Scout knives and recount their experiences?

Here's a few pics of a Camillus BSA Whittler I won in r8shell's generous giveaway a while back. As you can see the book I've used as background is pretty old :)













 
5K Qs said:
I've never been a Scout, but that's excellent advice for me as I leave in two days to visit my daughter in Spain! :D
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Yes, definitely don't be like The Cheeky Scouts! :D








Hope you have a wonderful time in Spain GT :thumbup:
 
I had no idea how cheeky they were until you added the captions! LOL :D
Thanks, Jack.

- GT
 
Oh that's made my day that 'as.
If caught trespassing unintentionally..
Run like the wind before that John Bull character gives you a taste of that nulla nulla he's toting.:D
 
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