Has anyone ever found a knife?

[scotteboy]

we were towing a boat about 300kms north of Whitehorse YT and got a flat. after we stopped I took a couple steps into the ditch for a leak and there was a hunting knife in the sheath sitting there. theres nothing but bush for about 100kms in either direction so very lucky to stop at that spot

 

[GaryPogueCustomKnife]

I found a large Buck lockback in the sand near a swing set. I was 10 years old so it was pretty cool to find such a large knife. Unfortunately when I showed my dad, he thought it was a little to big for a 10 year old to have and took it away.... he probably kept it for himself.

I remember it looked a lot like the 110, but the handles were more squared off than the current ones. It may have even been a little smaller than the 110. What model is a little smaller than the 110?

The knife probably fell out of their when they were having to much fun on a swing.

Could have been a 112. I got one but sadly dont have any pictures of it

 

[DedRok]

Could have been a 112. I got one but sadly dont have any pictures of it

You are right! I definitely think it was a 112 now. It looked a lot like this, more squared off handles than the current ones...

(The handles were more square like this than the newer ones)

 

[jobasha11]

What model is a little smaller than the 110?

Beat me to it.

 

[Bighaze51]

The handles were all square like that until 1983 on the 110's and 112's, I believe. They started rounding them over after that.
The two on the left are from the 70's. 110 on top and 112 on bottom. The two on the right are later. The blue one I bought brand new for Christmas and the finger grooved is a 1989. If you notice, the bolsters on the newer ones are rounded

I found these razors at my grandmother's uncle's house. They belonged to his dad. So they would be my great great grandpa's. No one has lived in the house for 20 years this month. I've cleaned them all up and honed them too. The bottom one is the oldest. It's a Wade &Butcher from around 1870ish. It's also my smoothest shaver.

 

[Bighaze51]

You are right! I definitely think it was a 112 now. It looked a lot like this, more squared off handles than the current ones...

(this may or may not be a 110 pictured, but nonetheless, the handles were more square like this than the newer ones)

That is an oldie Goldie 112 right there. A solid early one

 

[Unicorns.Are.For.Men]

I found a sharp finger when i was metal detecting today it was just in the tree it hadn't been there for i would say less than a month

 

[22-rimfire]

If you spend much time outdoors hiking or tramping around, you are likely to find a knife that was left lay or dropped from a pocket. I have found a few this way.

Rented a furnished house a number of years ago and there were about a half dozen slip joints in one of the chest of drawers that were left by a previous tenant. I still have those, but I can't remember what they were other than there was one Case Canoe pattern included with them.

I clean out houses from time to time (repo's) and you find knives or blades fairly often. They are usually cheap knives and I usually discard them along with all the other junk. I have found some fairly valuable things from antiques, pin ball machines, art work, motor cycles, tools, even a car, to small amounts of money in these houses. Most of it gets dumped in the trash as I have little interest in somebody else's junk.

 

[Uncle Timbo]

I found this old PAL Hunting knife back in the 70's and have hung onto her since. I had the blade professionally reground and the stacked leather handles reglued. Pommel was drilled out and reattached. This is one from WWII I believe. Complete with what most people call a blood groove. Others say the groove is for strength.

 

[Aerose91]

Its not exactly a cool knife but i work security at a club and we had to fight these gangsters one night and the guy i was on top of tried to shank me. I beat his ass real bad after that and stole his knife. Ended up being a tanto blade smith&wesson folder. I beat the hell out of that thing now

 

[22-rimfire]

I found old rusty guns in the foundation of a home that burned years prior to that. Most were German Lugers and a couple Colt single actions. They were mostly a rusted mass when I found them. They had been there for 30 years at that point. I was looking for silver dollars and gold coins for the most part there. Didn't find any of those. I was digging down about 2-3 feet and it was a lot of work.

Found what I believe to have been a stolen rifle along the highway tossed down over the bank when I was a kid riding my bicycle around.

 

[upnorth]

Yes, you find them and axe heads while metal detecting. I have found knives from 1700's fur trade scalpers to modern folders. I usually find more old spoons though from turn of the century pick-nick sites.

 

[Rusty_shackelford]

I found a kershaw leek at work about 6 yrs ago.
We were doing the piping at boiler house at the time. It was early in the project and it was a lot of open structural steel.
I was out on a beam for one reason or another and saw a half open kershaw still on the steel a few beams over.
I figured someone at the top of the structure was playing around, flipping it open, and dropped it. It was there for a while because it was covered with dust and rust spots from grinding sparks. It cleaned up well. Made my day.

 

[taldesta]

On Gullfeather Lake here in the crown lands in Muskoka, I canoed to a water access camp site. Known locally as a 'fishing lake', Gullfeather has forestry road (rough) access, and typically no other vehicles were parked at the lake and so I anticipated an undisturbed campout. The lake to myself.

I passed on the inviting landings around the lake where stop-offs were clearly evident. I chose an obscure campsite which enjoyed a little too much incline for my preferred tent site, but which was clean.

On a tree there were hung a cast iron frypan and a fillet knife. I thought - nice clean site, no discarded tp in view! Knowledgeable fishers' cook spot. I pitched there.

Early with the next dawn came a "hello" out of the mist from a docking canoe. I was groggy ... all they wanted was their knife and pan off the tree and so I obliged.

In the moment, I was sorry they could not use their accustomed cook spot and it was clear that they were taken by surprise by a camper there.

Knowing the nature of those who truly respect our natural surroundings here, I envision that same fillet knife likely presiding over tasty, dawn panfried breakfasts in the wild to this day.

To me, knives are tools of fluency in our natural environment ... yet I see the art, history, embrace of memory ... and more in so many posts here on BF.

I grow here.

 

[thefrenchconnection]

While out hiking as a kid, my dad found a Ruana fixed blade along with the sheath on a big rock near a river, to this day that knife is his most prized possession.

 

[Ulf Krogstad]

Found an old okapi.

 

[matthew krissak]

I've founds a couple of old SAK's. Nothing overly exciting.

 

[JBoone]

I found a gen 1 endura around 96 outside. Unfortuanely is was taken a few years later when my apatment was broken to along wit 4-5.firearms.

 

[wazu013]

I found this 15 years ago on the ground by Hectors Hardware in Amherst, N.Y.

 

[Coyote3855]

I found several but none as good as the ones I've lost.