How I learned to like the peanut.

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jackknife said:
Hang on, hang on, I did say I love the peanut. It just took me till a certain stage in my life to do it. I still think a soddie junior is a great knife, but for me right now, the peanut is better. It's a great suburbia pocket knife for 99% of what we need.


As far as a good .22 rifle, it's hard to go wrong with most of them. How much do ya want to spend? Bolt action or semi-auto? Synthetic stock or wood?

If you can find a clean used old model Marlin 39 in any of its variations, they are a fantasitic gun. Old fashioned, but extremly accurite, and with three moving parts in a take down receiver, its reliable as a rock and easy to clean. Both of ours have the Williams Fool Proof peep sights, and are target rifle accurite.

Of the new guns, the bolt action Savage is a good shooter, as is the bolt action Marlin rifles. The CZ is also a great shooter, and priced very competitivly.

There is no comparison of the old pre-war Colt woodsman to the standard model Ruger. The Colt was in a class by itself in fit and finish, while the Ruger in a side by side comparison is a bit crude. The Ruger is more reliable with a wider range of ammo though. The old Colt was a little finicky with ammo it didn't like. From the 1950's on, the Ruger was the better shooting gun for somebody who didn't care about looks, just preformance. My old standard model back from when they were 39.95 shoots anything I stuff in the magazine. If you can find a used Ruger MK2, you'll have a very nice gun without the d--m magazine saftey they put on the MK3.

Okay, now you give us a good report on peanut use you encountered while you were gone.

We want to know.
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Well, I got to shoot a couple of Rugers. One was a standard MkII, the other 2 were bearcats (revolvers). Boy there nifty little guns. I wonder if being a revolver their more or less of a pain to strip?
 
jpvjr said:
Well, I got to shoot a couple of Rugers. One was a standard MkII, the other 2 were bearcats (revolvers). Boy there nifty little guns. I wonder if being a revolver their more or less of a pain to strip?
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Let's please try to take these off topic discussions to email and return to the discussion of traditional knives. Thanks to all for their cooperation.
 
Thanks in part to Jacknife's threads, I ordered a Case CV Peanut in yellow delrin. I got it Friday. Man that thing is sharp! My alterior motive is that it falls within Army regulation for when they send me to something official(yes they do check). Anyways, thanks Jacknife. It seems to be an outstanding knife.:cool:
 
Good for you, rex. The cv yella peanut is one I've been missing since I gave mine away. When I heard Case was laying off, I pulled the trigger on two more 'nuts. A yella cv, and a Chestnut bone cv, both from Shepard Hills.

You're gonna love the cv. Sharpens easy, cuts great, and holds it for a good amount of time.

Just watch your fingers.:thumbup:
 
I guess now I've stopped biting my fingernails I have no excuse not to try out a peanut... oh, the hard life of a knife nut. :)

Thanks for the inspiration, jackknife!
 
NirreBosse said:
That is the true told:barf:
This also is true for most wathever traditional american slipjointpattern there is. We have no market for slipjoints. SAKs is easy to get but me for example that would like a traditional Scout faces big tubble. The folders we have is taktikals and a little segment of mostly lockbacks. Good knifes are not easy to find. Fixed blades of scanditype is easy to by. Bouth factory and handmade.

Bosse
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Nirre, I live next door in Finland and I have to say that using e-bay (so far never been burned,touch wood) has proved excellent for getting American cutlery. Delivery has been generally fast and the exchange rate between Euro and Dollar good ( Nej , du här kronor i Sverige förlåt!)

Peanut is a very good small knife pattern, but there are others too, the Pen-Knife or Equal End and the Baby Butterbean also offer compact cutting power.

mvh W
 
Ice Tigre said:
I hate to admit it, but the peanut will do 99.999% of everything i need a knife to do... I just can't seem to let go of my moose, and let the 'nut do its thing.

:thumbup: Thanks again for the insight, and thought provoking post jackknife!

G.
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Well, I've done it...

Almost 3 weeks now with the peanut as my only knife. Was out of town for 2 weeks and not having access to my collection meant that the 'nut had to be used... and it was used a lot! Perfect performance! So, for all of the almost a week that I have been home, I have not rotated it out... Why fix perfection? :thumbup:;)

A bit of old time improvising ala Jackknifes' Dad(and mine) fixing trucks, and tools... Was a great comfort having a trusted knife on me for the 400 mile drive home through the Alaskan outback.


G.
 
Ice Tigre said:
Well, I've done it...

Almost 3 weeks now with the peanut as my only knife. Was out of town for 2 weeks and not having access to my collection meant that the 'nut had to be used... and it was used a lot! Perfect performance! So, for all of the almost a week that I have been home, I have not rotated it out... Why fix perfection? :thumbup:;)

A bit of old time improvising ala Jackknifes' Dad(and mine) fixing trucks, and tools... Was a great comfort having a trusted knife on me for the 400 mile drive home through the Alaskan outback.


G.
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Wow, I'm impressed!

Across the Alaska outback with a peanut. I'd have thought nothing but a bowie and an ax would do. But then, I grew up reading Jack London stories.

I've never been north of the Canadian border, so I'm curious. Tell me what kind of pocket knives the regular Alaskan working Joe carries? And what kinds of use did you put your peanut to in the northan wilds?

I have a friend who went on a guided fishing trip up there some years back, had a great time. Of course it was during the summer. I beleive thats between July 1st and July 7th?:D
 
Man! that must have been through one of our long summers, thats like 3 days generous! :p :D All kidding aside, this was in mostly dry late spring weather, but we hit snow in the mountains. ( a side note; yesterday broke the record high at 74F... but it was 92F here at my place..)

The regular AK working Joe ranges from spyderco to bucks to super-knife, and SAKs, to a great deal not carrying anything day to day.. Don't see many trad. folders unfortunately. Hunting/outdoor knives are just as varied.

I should clarify... not exactly in the wilderness on that trip... The 400ish miles is from anchorage in the south to my place just north of fairbanks in the interior... 2 lane ancient blacktop.. but still ''through the middle of nowhere'' and un populated for a long ways.

Honestly, that drive is a piece of cake, although it does have one 200 mile stretch between gas/populated areas... We did it without a major hitch, and the only task I needed the 'nut for along the way was opening the bag of jerky half way... ;)

But I know the 'nut and have puttered around some outdoors stuff with it, and know I could have done fire prep, or emerg. shelter if needed had we broke down bad etc.. wouldn't have been fun with those little blade but I'm confident it would do the tasks needed.

Twas a lot of cutting hoses and ropes prepping one truck for the drive, and the tool mod was cutting up a rubber bushing in a spark plug socket to make it fit the plugs we had.. There was another shade tree modification but I can't for the life of me remember what it was now....

Kinda boring but life usually is. But that was my whole point, IF things had gotten ''interesting'', I do trust the peanut to work, and work hard.

My buddy had a SAK classic on him but kept asking for the 'nut, since I got it so laser sharp. He kept saying "THATS a nice knife!" Funny coming from a guy that used to swear by the 110. ;)


G.
 
Took the plunge and picked up a Peanut today. It is a Case brand, I believe in Amber Bone. The number on the smaller blade is 6-5220.

It just disappears in the pocket. Handles a little small, but for everyday chores and such, I think it'll be fine.
 
Did I just resurrect this awesome thread? Really? I left the house today with just a Peanut in my pocket, and I survived.
 
Ice Tigre said:
Nope, your not the only one, there's at least 2 of us. :thumbup:

I hate to admit it, but the peanut will do 99.999% of everything i need a knife to do... I just can't seem to let go of my moose, and let the 'nut do its thing.

:thumbup: Thanks again for the insight, and thought provoking post jackknife!

G.
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Nope, at least three....

Now, I have 5.
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As always, great story Jack, I have 3 or 4 Peanuts, a Queen in Winterbottom Bone, an Old Timer, a and I believe 1 other brand and every time I read one of your posts I tell myself I gotta put one in my pocket.

Like many here I've always felt it was too small of a knife for ETC but like you I've evolved or should I say devolved from big monster tactical foldin' sharpened prybar to a more appropriate non lockin' traditional pattern so it shouldn't be a far stretch for me to go nuts, (peanuts that is) so thanks to you Jack I'm throwin' the Queen Winterbottom Bone Peanut in my pocket today.

BTW we should have subforum for stories all in one spot, we could call it the Courthouse or maybe the Front Porch, no wait, we could call it Porch Musin'(g)s and Wood Chips ;) a single place for the collective writers in our community to post their stories and we got lottsa story tellers with lottsa stories.
 
T. Erdelyi said:
BTW we should have subforum for stories all in one spot, we could call it the Courthouse or maybe the Front Porch, no wait, we could call it Porch Musin'(g)s and Wood Chips ;) a single place for the collective writers in our community to post their stories and we got lottsa story tellers with lottsa stories.
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Hey Ted, That's kind of what "Carl's Lounge" was started for. We do understand that folks like to start a new thread sometimes to tell a story. Frank and I have been ok with that, as long the forum doesn't get swamped with story threads. If folks start seeing their stories getting moved to the lounge, that would be the reason.

Groove, We'd also prefer to not have old threads resurrected, as the guidelines state. Here's an excerpt from the guidelines relating to both these items;

"Thread "necromancy" is frowned upon. Please do not resurrect dormant threads simply to say "nice knife" or the like.
If you have something substantive to add to the discussion then by all means do so, otherwise move on and let sleeping dogs lie.

A thread titled "Carl's Lounge" is available for discussion of off-topic subjects by forum members as well as sharing short traditional knife related vignettes.
Please keep the discussion respectful of the values this forum has come to represent."

I figure you gave me a opening for a "teaching moment", so I took it.:D

Thanks,
 
That's a great story, Carl. Thank you for sharing. :)

EDIT: Didn't realize this was a four year old thread...
 
Got out my Callimus 21 peanut and carried it to Church today. Got a RR peanut coming for Christmas and hope to get another one after the first of the year this time a CASE.
 
Peregrin said:
Groove, We'd also prefer to not have old threads resurrected, as the guidelines state. Here's an excerpt from the guidelines relating to both these items;

"Thread "necromancy" is frowned upon. Please do not resurrect dormant threads simply to say "nice knife" or the like.
If you have something substantive to add to the discussion then by all means do so, otherwise move on and let sleeping dogs lie.

A thread titled "Carl's Lounge" is available for discussion of off-topic subjects by forum members as well as sharing short traditional knife related vignettes.
Please keep the discussion respectful of the values this forum has come to represent."

Thanks,
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What Gary said, four years ago.

OK to enjoy Carl's old stories. NOT OK to resurrect them for no particular reason.
 
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