Got my Western 71

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Amos Iron Wolf

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Okay, so it isn't a cool custom or even a high end production piece, but I had one and missed it once it was gone so I finally found one for only a few dollars more that the first one I bought out of a pawn shop. It arrived today. Just something to share.

The Western 71 is a later, stainless steel version of the old Seabee L71. To me it fits into the classic camp knife catagory. It feels good in the hand and is really quite light in either the hand or on the belt.

I'll attempt my first direct image posting that I scanned in.
 

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A. Ferrous Lobo...:D

Well done!!
Is there a letter of the alphabet in, Caps, included with that tangstamp? If so, it would help with dating the knife.

Bill
 
Double :D Sometimes I think I should change it from iron to rust. heheh.

Nope, Bill. No W, just Western over U.S.A. 71. At least it doesn't say Coleman Western.
 
Image came through perfectly, Rusty! (Heh heh!)
One nice knife, Amos; great condition! Minty!
 
I would then surmise, (not using assume :D ), that the knife was made before the alphabetical (A='77, B='78...etc.) dating system went into effect.
Probably before the use of 420HC. Sooooo, if it doesn't patinize ($.75 non-word) like a carbon steel, (but kinda looks like it??), most likely a 440 series steel.

Colonel Mustard, in the study, with the candlestick.

Canis Lupus
 
Thanks fellas. And, thanks Bill for the info. Nope, doesn't react to the vineger treatment, but has the look. Kind of like the Camillus made Rem DB which is 440A, and still going strong. I can be happy with pre-77 and 440.

Maybe it was Colonel Coon in a holler in Tennessee with a slippie he's makin for Colonel Mustard. <g> for grin or for groan. Reader's choice.
 
Okay Amos, now you've really done it.

Seeing that knife brings back so many more of the memories of my youth. That was back when every "hunting knife" had a stacked leather washer handle and a carbon steel blade. Remember the official Boy Scout sheath knife? Of course, that was back when the Boy Scouts carried a sheath knife. I hear times ahve changed.

Looking at that knife brings back the smell of canvas tents.
 
.. fat lighter pine, cedar and oak burning on our southeast southern campfire and very soon after the aroma of fresh specks(speckled perch) just scaled and filleted and browning over an open flame,, man I miss those days..:cool:
 
Yeah, I earned a genuine Boy Scout utility knife as a cub scout when I tied with another cub for selling the most tickets to a Jamboree one year. Man, you can bet I wish I had that knife still.

Woods runnin as a kid with an old Savage 24 in .22lr over .410. Fishing the old pond. Camping in, ayup, canvas tents. Eating from my official Boy Scout mess kit and drinking from the canteen. Our Boy Scout leaders weren't as active with woodsy things as I wish they would have been. Fortunately, I lived on the farm with the woods out my back door. I sure would like to have a nice set of hardwoods I could run in out my back door now.

I was gonna sleep with that knife in my PJ pocket <g>, then thought not only would it hurt when I rolled over, but I don't...ahem. Never mind. :D I put it on the stand by the bed, next to the Blackhawk. It seemed right at home there.

'Member now, we ain't gittin old, we're Vintage! I just hope I ain't an Edsel.
 
Amos Iron Wolf said:
'Member now, we ain't gittin old, we're Vintage! I just hope I ain't an Edsel.
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I don't know about Edsel, but sometimes first thing in the morning I feel like an old flathead Nash.

Movin kinda slow.:(
 
Amos Iron Wolf said:
.. Fortunately, I lived on the farm with the woods out my back door. I sure would like to have a nice set of hardwoods I could run in out my back door now..

.. 'Member now, we ain't gittin old, we're Vintage! I just hope I ain't an Edsel.
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I really enjoy all you old boyz..

Thanks,
Tony
 
.. I'm 46 and counting. I want to through a party when my body is pain free, which is mostly never, or very, very rare!
 
Just a whippersnapper!! Being 62, I'd advise you to throw that party now!!
 
waynorth said:
Just a whippersnapper!! Being 62, I'd advise you to throw that party now!!
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Whippersnapper,, damn,, never been called that before..:cool: FEELS DAMN GOOD THOUGH!!( AS HE IS ALL PUFFED UP)THANK YOU Sir!..:cool:
 
To adjust a fellows signature quote on here. If I'd known I was gonna hurt this much when I got older, I'd have done all the things I didn't so I'd have a good reason to hurt!

Well now, I'm on the mid side of 49, but about a dozen of those were Army years and they're kinda like dog years, 1 = 7 regular years. I kept getting asked at one eatin place if I was a senior about three times in a row. I was wondering if they'd card me if I said yes. Then at an IHOP I'm groaning as I get out of the booth and my wife says, "Don't worry, honey, we'll get you that senior discount yet." At the register I was wondering what all that fella was writing on the clipboard, when he says, "I just need you to sign here for your Senior Discount." I worked hard to keep the grin off my face as I signed it and took the discount. Heck with it, if they can't tell the difference, neither can I.

I have been told since I shaved my beard off I look a lot younger, but there ain't been no cute fillies playin up to me. Personally, I'd rather have my beard and be an old fart. What is it about outfits that have uniforms that don't want you to have a beard anyway. :p

We sure are a nostalgic bunch. Of course, we're the only ones who understand what the sam hill we're talking about too. Good somebody does.
 
What are we talking about, Amos? Where are my slippers? :D
 
Amos Iron Wolf said:
Well now, I'm on the mid side of 49, but about a dozen of those were Army years and they're kinda like dog years, 1 = 7 regular years.
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I hear that!

I enlisted in 1962, spent 10 years in the engineers before getting my right ankle and foot broke up in a construction accident at Ft. Sam Houston. Was in Brooke Army Medical center for a while, then sent up to Walter Reed Army rehab center for more orthopedic work and rehab. I tied them up for another year and a half trying to stay in, but they mustered me out on a medical discharge. I think I got some age put on me over that. Been limping around on a blackthorn stick ever since. Only up side of it is I can tell you when its going to rain without turning on the TV or radio.

The heck with the slippers, just let me have my Peterson with a full load of good burley, and a glass of Evan Williams black label. :)
 
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