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Fun Giveaway - Trifecta of Manliness

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Okay, this is a fun give away. No particular reason, other than when KGD establishes a give away he usually gives away something cheap :D :D. No difference on this thread. Its cheap, but I like it and it needs a new little home. Here is the prize:

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A little Buck Diamond back guide. Great little blade that is as sharp as any in my collection. Rubber handle removed and double paracord wrapped. There is a bit of excess krazy glue on the end, but this is a comfy little knife. Great little back-up blade to throw in the tackle box or hunting bag and forget its there. It'll be a little trooper when called to duty.

So here is the contest. It is called the TRIFECTA OF MANLINESS. Think about those Dosequis commercials, the manliest manly of men. In order to win the prize of truly manly, you need to do and demonstrate three things.

1) You need to kill your meal. This can be hunting a squirrel, killing a deer or fishing a fish. But it needs to be you who done the kill'n. We need a photo of your kill.. Not limited to the three example. If grasshoppers is your kill, so be it!

2) You need to cook your meal. Oh, but there is a hitch. A manly man doesn't use ovens. A manly man doesn't use matches and lighters. A trifecta of manliness man doesn't even use a firesteel. A trifecta of manliness man uses EITHER Flint & Steel or Bow Drill to start his fire. He then cooks his meal on his fire. Manly men are allowed to use a grill to facilitate their manly cooking. Don't forget to get a shot of your glowing charcloth or your coal.

3) The Trifecta of manliness cooks his meal and eats it too. Last picture is your meal on a plate. Presentation is part of the manliness exercise. I don't want to see a mountain of vegetables and a dollop of meat. I want to see a pile of meat, charred to goodness. Last picture is your plate, ready for eating

So who is in? Who among you is going to claim the title of TRIFECTA OF MANLINESS and "Be it resolved that the winner of this giveaway contest can self-identify themselves with honour and widely acclaimed acceptance in the W&SS community, the Manliman Trifecta Winner and freely use such earned and esteemed title in their signature"

I will let the contest go for awhile. I know, I'm asking a lot more than a random number. First five entries with the trifecta of shots and I will pull a random number.

Special Note - to cheat with out of sequence photos on the trifecta of manliness title will undoubtedly lead to gonadal shrinkage and premature trigger difficulties. This serious medical condition should be avoided by following the rules with honesty and integrity. Afterall, the title of TRIFECTA OF MANLIMANESS only comes from honest and earnest applications. It is afterall an atribute of a true manly man.

Final note. Should a female like to enter and ultimately win this manliman of men contest, she will have full bragging rights to the title. She can either use the original sig line or replace her sig line with 'I won the Trifecta of Manliman contest on Bladeforums, apparently there are no real men here'. To make matters a little more interesting, I'm going to coach my most girly of girlygirls wife into competing. You don't want to lose this title to my wife. She will surely lord it over you!.

Last bit of business. The Trifecta of Manliman needs to show off their title in their sig line. If you don't have the appropriate membership, I will upgrade yours to the lowest membership that will allow a sig-line to be entered.

Lets see who becomes the Trifecta of Manliman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Very cool idea.
I wish I was home so I could get in on this but alas, in my truck hiding from this freezing rain, there ain't much manliness going on.
 
I got an entry for this one. Me and a friend went on an overnight backpacking boar hunt and I managed to pop a nice grey boar while it was eating mangos with the 30-30. I like bucks, and have a nice piece of koa wood to throw on it for a handle. Looks to be a handy little back up knife to my Bark River. We seasoned the backstraps with pepper and oriental top ramen soup mix. It turned out suprisingly well slow cooked over a bed of guava coals.

Frozen Alaskan ling cod and purple Okinawan sweet potato accompanied our main course.

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I have another one too, but since I don't have a trophy shot it will disqualify the entry. Cool photos though.

Shot a small nanny with my bow 6 miles from the trail head. Slow smoked her with coffee/guava and ended up eating all 20lbs (unsmoked) of meat before I made it out of the trail. Turned out amazing! The photo of the trees shows the nanny down from where I shot it. You can hardly pick her out though. Shes dark brown.

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That is VERY manly Evobouret!!!! You are the 1st to be considered in theTRIFECTA OF MANLINESS Contest....How did you start your fire?

(This was asked by my girliest girly of wife who wants to be the manliest man of W&SS)
 
yikes, both fires were started with a firesteel and scraped guava. I didn't see the charcloth requirement. Oh well, hope you enjoyed the photos anyways.
 
Evbouret, if you can get me a picture of a glowing ember - charcloth or from firebow, we'll let it go. Manlimen have other primitive methods outside of flint & steel and bow drill. They might use a fresnel lens to help them in this endeavor :D
 
This weekend, I'm taking my girly girl wife out fishing so she can teach you not-so-manly men how to be manly :D :D :D

Almost a week and not a single trifecta of manliness....We've had a duo-fecta....but duo-fect ain't cutting it....Lets go manly men, are you men or are you mice???????
 
This weekend, I'm taking my girly girl wife out fishing so she can teach you not-so-manly men how to be manly :D :D :D

Almost a week and not a single trifecta of manliness....We've had a duo-fecta....but duo-fect ain't cutting it....Lets go manly men, are you men or are you mice???????

This is such a cool contest. If it was the middle of summer, I would be all over it, and pictures of trout, fillets, fire, and food would ensue. Alas, it's the middle of fall, and I'm stuck in the urban jungle (not much food to be found). The neighbour has a rather annoying cat, mind you ...

If inspiration doesn't strike me soon, I think I will look into purchasing a live lobster, cooking it in the back yard, and using my Wave to crack into it, Les Stroud style. ;)

All the best,

- Mike
 
1) You need to kill your meal. This can be hunting a squirrel, killing a deer or fishing a fish. But it needs to be you who done the kill'n. We need a photo of your kill.. Not limited to the three example. If grasshoppers is your kill, so be it!

If inspiration doesn't strike me soon, I think I will look into purchasing a live lobster, cooking it in the back yard, and using my Wave to crack into it, Les Stroud style. ;)

Manly men are known to find the loop holes in the rules. The only rule to #1 is that you do the kill'n and I never spelled out the catch'n part too good. So Mentor - you are only exploiting your inner manliness by finding the loop hole. Go with your gut.....Kill'n time is here!!!
 
Just in case some of you tender foots need some re-acquainting with your inner carnivore. Here's doc's buddy showing you some kill'n...

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p.s. that moose kill with the izula blade thread was a wonderful example of manliness - I hope they can complete the trifecta!
 
Except for the kill'n, don't real manly men make their womanly women do all that?

We sissy boys like guess-the-number give aways. :o

This will be a fun one to watch! Cool idea!
 
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I'll compete. This weekend I'll go out to the river, fish me a trout, and cook it up right on the bank! (Using only a primitive method (Probably bow drill)) I'm confident in my Manliman-ness! :D :thumbup:
 
p.s. that moose kill with the izula blade thread was a wonderful example of manliness - I hope they can complete the trifecta!

Hehe I'm glad to be considered of manliness! lol
Although I dont think I will complete the trifecta. Sadly the heart and liver were shot, which is what we usually eat "the night of". We also eat the filets right away, but this was our first moose, and had we pulled the filets, we never would have been able to eat everything... those things are huge! Plus the 2 other guys were leaving before supper that night. So instead of wasting, we left them in there. I'll have all the meat I could ever want in a week or so. If this contest is still running... I'll give it a shot. Heck I might have deer heart/liver to cook up... ;)

Goodluck guys!
 
eaten a few bugs over the years. grasshoppers, beetles, grubs.

ate the dogs food on the White River when we lost our trout.

always made my fishin' pals step back when i roasted bluegills on the bank.

lots of eyeball and tongue eatin' in "THE FRIENDLY ARCTIC"

looking forward to seeing what gets eet during the contest

excellent concept

buzz
 
This Manliman is eating corndogs tonight.... Went fishing for an hour and a half, cold front blew in, no fire made because of that. Caught one really nice rainbow, but didn't want to try my bowdrill skills in the crazy ass winds. Oh well, I'm going to a different place tomorrow. If I get hungry up there, I make a fire and cook some trout. By the way I killed and prepared these rare, and delicious corndogs before they went into the very primative fire device I found in my kitchen. I think it's called an Ooven? :D :jerkit:
 
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