Gerber has Bear Grylls, we have?

rkmoore said:
I kinda see where you're coming from on the close association with fish guts etc. But I don't think it would be that much of a problem. Doesn't he do adds for Ford now?
Anyway, who knows maybe he could do a new show where he follows some bushcrafter, hillbilly, or wilderness survival expert out into the boonies and gets it done or not. Could be great!!!
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I'd watch the HECK out of that show!!
 
Please confine politics to the political forum. (Word to the wise.)
 
your sigline sucks... :D

i thought BF had limits on the sizes of these things? :)
 
How about jump on the Zombie bandwagon. Nothing kills the undead like 14.6oz of 1095. Insert Pic of BK2 with brains dripping off it.
 
whereismyclock said:
Don't sell yourselves short. Gerber has got one guy. We've got a legion of beckerheads...and we are many. We've got soldiers, fathers, sons, and wild animals. We span countries and continents. No one can stop us. With our biscuits, diesel weasels, and lady cap'ns we have carved, battened, and chopped our place in this earth. Hold your machaxen and weird beards high chaps. You've earned it.:thumbup:
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Right on. We're like an army of Avon ladies of the tactical/survival knife world. Roaming the countryside showing off our wares. :D

For example: I'll have cookouts where I'll cook for 20 to 30 people and always have my cutlery hardware in tow. I show people the Umnumzaan I was carrying at the time and was a bit surprised by the yawns of the mostly gun folks in the crowd. I go to my back pocket carry as I worked by the fire and hear, Wow what is that? It's a BK11 it's called a Becker Necker, I say. The BK11 was one of the coolest knives they have ever seen.

If we know it or not, we are not only the Ambassadors for the knife brands that we like, but also for our cutlery hobby as well. Sharing with others a chance to try knives that we carry everyday, and sharing our knowledge about how they are used and about the materials used in them, goes a long way for promoting knives that we enjoy and helps tear down stereotypes about people who carry knives, we not only carry a knife, but we are educated in the subject as well.
 
Les Stroud? Of course, Angelina Jolie would be good, too. I'd like to see her model a neck knife with a wet white tank top on.........
 
Bobthemotorcycle said:
Mike Rowe is really not a outdoors person. The TV kind of makes him look like one in a way but I have seen him on some other programs and he is just a college guy trying to break into TV, he is a city person and not a country boy. Being an Eagle Scout really does not make a person an outdoor person even if it is a great achievement which being a Eagle Scout is.

A calendar is something that keeps on giving. It last more then a 30 second commercial and a calendar is good for years. I know of snap-on calendars that are from the 80's that are still hanging on walls giving out free advertisement for all those years.

I remember that at the AG Russell knife show two years ago Ka-Bar had a really pretty woman manning the both and I look back and realize that I probably spent more time at that both asking questions than I did anywhere else.
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Mike Rowe is 50 and has been in television since the early 90's.. far from a college kid, trying to get a break.
 
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We need contact with lots of people and with few people seen in garages and the outdoors, the only answer is, Mall kiosks all across the country. :D

That's right the Mall kiosk. A place where, I believe most of us will not venture and there is a lot of contact with people. :D

Now, will someone be kind enough to cover my shift at the kiosk for me, I'm taking the weekend off. :D
 
There is only one real answer to this dilemma. I know he's old now but..he has gone to places where only Becker's could survive. He has journeyed to places most of us wouldn't dare go (green women) and has come back in one piece. The one and the only...

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only if he brings Nofee along with him on the Becker commercials!
''Beckers...the only knife Nofee can't break!''
 
Bobthemotorcycle said:
Mike Rowe is really not a outdoors person. The TV kind of makes him look like one in a way but I have seen him on some other programs and he is just a college guy trying to break into TV, he is a city person and not a country boy. Being an Eagle Scout really does not make a person an outdoor person even if it is a great achievement which being a Eagle Scout is.

A calendar is something that keeps on giving. It last more then a 30 second commercial and a calendar is good for years. I know of snap-on calendars that are from the 80's that are still hanging on walls giving out free advertisement for all those years.



I remember that at the AG Russell knife show two years ago Ka-Bar had a really pretty woman manning the both and I look back and realize that I probably spent more time at that both asking questions than I did anywhere else.
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Not being a great outdoorsman is a plus in my book. It would invite people who aren't already a part of our community to learn more about camping and hiking and all manner of bushcrafty stuff. With the right spokesman to make the introductions I can't imagine how much Kabar and Becker could grow in just a year or two.
 
Bobthemotorcycle said:
Mike Rowe is really not a outdoors person. The TV kind of makes him look like one in a way but I have seen him on some other programs and he is just a college guy trying to break into TV, he is a city person and not a country boy. Being an Eagle Scout really does not make a person an outdoor person even if it is a great achievement which being a Eagle Scout is.
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Actually, for quite a while, the Camping Merit badge (yes, very original name) has been an Eagle Scout required badge, and it has always included at least 20 days and nights of camping for one of it's core requirements. Camping being defined as sleeping outside, in a tent, hammock, or anything else outside, even some cabins count towards BSA camping nights.
 
oXide said:
Actually, for quite a while, the Camping Merit badge (yes, very original name) has been an Eagle Scout required badge, and it has always included at least 20 days and nights of camping for one of it's core requirements. Camping being defined as sleeping outside, in a tent, hammock, or anything else outside, even some cabins count towards BSA camping nights.
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Yeah my buddy was an Eagle Scout and I could have sworn that some outdoors activities and overnighters were required. Sure, he may not be Ray Mears or Dick Proenneke, but I'm sure he can find his way around a campsite.
 
RogueBowie said:
Yeah my buddy was an Eagle Scout and I could have sworn that some outdoors activities and overnighters were required. Sure, he may not be Ray Mears or Dick Proenneke, but I'm sure he can find his way around a campsite.
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When I say quite a while, I mean since they started requiring specific merit badges to reach the rank of Eagle Scout. Back in the very early years of the BSA (Boy Scouts of America, for those that don't know), only 21 merit badges were required to obtain Eagle, any 21, and the first Eagle Scout rank was awarded on August 21st, (correct me if I'm wrong on the exact date) 1912.

Now the requirements for getting the Eagle Scout rank (from beginning to end) cover everything from basic knot tying, I mean like tying your shoes basic, up through camping/outdoor/swimming/first aid skills, then going on to giving back by teaching, leading, and serving, and beyond merit badges and basic skills of the aforementioned categories, you have one ultimate requirement, planning, leading and carrying out a service project of your own design, which is generally some sort of outdoor visual/functional improvement of something for a charitable organization, and those requirements haven't changed to much in the last 60 something years, aside from wording changes.

So at the very least, Mike Rowe has enough outdoor/bushcraft background to get himself into trouble without getting himself or anyone else seriously hurt, as does any other Eagle Scout that earned it (there are some troops that exist to "manufacture" Eagle badges for resumes, so it goes without saying that not all Eagles are created equal, but most are).

Sorry for dragging on, but I needed to type something that people would read and tell me to hurry up and get my butt in gear before I turn 18. And I also have all this knowledge that is completely useless to most people that just spills out when my hands are moving.
 
emperorvince said:
There is only one real answer to this dilemma. I know he's old now but..he has gone to places where only Becker's could survive. He has journeyed to places most of us wouldn't dare go (green women) and has come back in one piece. The one and the only...

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I'm sorry to burst your deflector shield, friend, but Kirk has already travelled to a different movie universe and been turned to the Dark Side.

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Doesn't that Mantis look like it would be marvelous as a pocket-model bat'leth?

If Clint Eastwood makes another Western before he croaks I definitely want to see a stripped BK7 in it. Why not? There were automobiles at the end of The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, which was set in the Civil War, so anachronisms are not a big deal.
 
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