HI Khuks versus Busse Battle Mistress

Also, you can get three HI Khuks for the price of a Battle Mistress! I persoanlly own neither, but hope to get both someday in the future!

Thor
 
Damn...I was off by more than 100 years...I guess that invalidates my comment about it's cutting ability entirely.

:-o
 
Thomas Linton said:
693 years. No obvious signs of sharpening when I got it 21 years ago and certainly not sharpened since.
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Let this be a lesson to all you guys who periodically get your khuks down and resharpen them. If you did it right the first time and haven't used it then leave the damned thang alone!!!! It's already sharp.:rolleyes: :p This also applies to the new modern stainless steel knives.:rolleyes: :p

The only knives that go dull in the drawer, closet, or safe is the cheap and old stainless knives and you shouldn't own such pieces of $hit anyway.:grumpy: :rolleyes: :p
Get rid of 'em. Tape a nickel to the damned thangs and send 'em to Pakistan!!!!:D :eek: :D

Tom, any way you can send me a pic of that sword? I'd really love to se it!!!!
 
Seeing alone doesn't do it for that sword...I know almost nothing and even I could tell it was something special!
 
images won't open for me because I'm not a member.

although a lot of the attachments to other posts won't open either.

I think I'm being punished for being beautiful. :rolleyes:


Kis
 
Ok,
I am curious, does anyone have a picture of one of these : Battle Mistress, AK, or khuk? I'm just a busy Chef weilding razor blades in the kitchen, never seen one of these stump busters. Share please?
Thanks,
Edward
 
Chef,

Welcome to the Cantina!

The threads currently on the face page should contain a few photos of khuks. Go to the Himalayan Imports web page for immediate picts.

edit- oops- go to the Busse forum. There has to be pics there or links to same.

munk
 
Chef ? Go to the top of the page where the three sticky posts are, one or more will have been started by Bill Martino. Click on that one, and underneath Bill's signature lines will be a link to the HI Khukuri FAQ's. Click on that link, and it'll tell you more than you want to know.

Have fun. And don't be shy - if you act shy, nobody will pay any attention to you. Ask dumb questions. ( The forumites have lots of dumb answers for you. )

;) ;) ;)

BTW: Welcome to the Cantina, grab a seat and set a spell.
 
Of course- why didn't I tell him the shortest way to a link? Rusty, how come you're smarter than I am?

I mean, is that like part of the Grand Design of the Universe?





munk
 
Yvsa said:
Let this be a lesson to all you guys who periodically get your khuks down and resharpen them. If you did it right the first time and haven't used it then leave the damned thang alone!!!!
If my grandad went shooting and the first two shots were dead center he put the gun away. Kinda the same principle.
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it's not quite the same principle- if your Grandad was like mine- raised a family in the Great Depression, then ammo was not something you could afford to just blast away with. My dad was expected to bring home squirrel or rabbit with each .22 bullet.

Maybe Grandad never learned another habbit.


munk
 
munk said:
it's not quite the same principle- if your Grandad was like mine- raised a family in the Great Depression, then ammo was not something you could afford to just blast away with. My dad was expected to bring home squirrel or rabbit with each .22 bullet.

Maybe Grandad never learned another habbit.


munk
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I took Yvsa to mean why waste steel and effort to sharpen something already sharp?

My grandad meant why waste ammo and ruin a couple of perfect shots by shooting again and possibly pulling one off to the side when you know the gun is on?

Other than guns and knives in what way is that difft :confused:
 
I was just thinking your Grandad probably didn't have much time or experience with the 'shooting sports' to send thousands of rounds downrange, that's all.


munk
 
That's about all he did was shoot varmint rifles and reload ammunition. Especially after he retired. He was a mega gun trader. He probably would have caught guff from the ATF for not having a FFL he did so much business. When I was a kid I could ask him for anything and he could find it. Two of my favorites came from him: A WW1 Gov't issue 1911 and a model 94 6.5X55 Swedish Mauser. I never see any 94's. Used to be everywhere.

He hung out almost all the time at the range and shop of this old gunsmith we knew. Maxie(the gunsmith) had one of the cooler varmint guns I have seen. I always wondered what happened to it when he died. It was a Short action Martini rifle rechambered to 218 Bee. Very cool.

Despite buying and selling guns and hunting I guess the Depression thing you mention affected him in that he didn't really collect guns.If he could make money selling one he did it. He only had a few for any period of time. He had a couple of 6mm Remingtons he deer hunted with one a very short bolt action and one a 742? carbine. 742's are the deer gun round here but I never see the 6mm model anymore.

One year I had $125. He offered me either a .30 M1 or a 30/40 Krag Winchester Model 95. I still have the Carbine but I kick myself now for not buying the 95 the value went up so much compared to the M1. :rolleyes:
 
You were lucky. How old was this Man during the Great Depression? I thought you and I were close in age- I'm 48. I guess that is still in the right time scale- my Grandad was a photographer nut when he retired, and I saw a lot of him in the 60's, 70's and 80's.



There was a Gun Digest article entitled,
".22 Short; we used to call it 50 rats in a box."



munk
 
I'm 44. My Grandad was born in 1908 I think. He died just a few years ago, but really had Parkinsons really bad last 10 years and couldnt' hunt anymore.(worked in a Chemical Plant all his life chemical exposure being a risk factor for Parkinsons)
 
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