Khukuri in The Wild

mohd

mohd

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Pakcik Bill & Fellow Forumites.

I just want to share my weird thinking while reading this article:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/336296.asp?bt=nm&btu=http://www.msnbc.com/tools/n ewstools/d/news_menu.asp

  1. A Khukuri of course is very usefull in the process to …
    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">… find shelter …</font>
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  2. A Khukuri might be very usefull in your effort to…
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  3. Your Khukuri is very usefull to protect you from sort of …
    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">… Snakes, rodents, scorpions and …</font>
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  4. Use your Khukuri to cut …
    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">… Cat-tails and dry grass … good blankets …</font>
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  5. Chakma is claimed can be used as a …
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  6. A Khukuri of course can be used to dig a pit …
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  7. The shining Khukuri blade …
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    … to give signal to a Pilot.[/list=a]What do you say? One of you might have experience lost in the wild! Yvsa? Rusty? Anybody?

    NEPAL HO!

    [This message has been edited by mohd (edited 02-08-2001).]
 
Look at me ... I*m lost, I*m lost ... but I have my UBE !!
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Thanks for the link, Mohd. Nice pics, Kurdy. Does your UBE have a carved handle?

Bob

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The Milk Snake: Beautiful, harmless, good-natured, eats venomous snakes for lunch.
 
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Mohd I have never been lost, just didn't know exactly where I was a few times.
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A lot of people don't realize the complexity of Oklahoma's country side.
One of the things that can confuse a person here is that the terrain can all start to look alike much like any other part of the country.
But there are no mountains here to take a bearing from. And moss doesn't always grow just on the north side of trees or rocks.
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"VEGETARIAN".............
Indin word for lousy hunter.
 
Hey Yvsa,
I've never been to Oklahoma, though I'd like to someday. All my wife's family on both mom and dad's side are from there (Burnsflat:no longer a town, and Enid(spelling?).
The woods in Maine have a way of looking the same in every direction too. Especially if your in thick forest. I was lost for a few hours while hunting once. Was getting dark too, and in winter. I'm not ashamed to say I was scared out of my A**! I had no fire making tools, or even(stupidly) a knife of any sort. Good thing someone upstairs was watching over me cause I got back to camp somehow.
Rob
 
Rob...

For shame no knife?!?
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I thought you had more than one khukri. Just tzn. Well I hope that you have learned your lesson well, and always carry a K with you now.

I am glad that the great spirit shined on you that day.

 
A bad decision on my part while trail riding left me stranded once in the Panamint Mountains, the range that borders Death Valley on the west. After a day and night in the mountains the search and rescue folks came looking for me, saying I was lost. I wasn't. I knew exactly where I was but nobody else did.

A search plane stopped me when I signaled by flashing the sun at them with the mirror I'd taken off my bike. An hour later a jeep picked me up. The motorcycle stayed where it was. The bad decision cost me my motorcycle but not my life.

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Rob I have found that no matter where one lives if you get off the beaten track all terrain looks the same, but Expecially the Deep Forest!!!!
And the Deep Forest around here although Deep isn't usually very high, but it can be very thick.
A few places here have the large trees, but that's usually along a creek and looks much like a natural park.

I remember the 1st time I got lost and it wasn't much,but it did frighten me for a moment.
I was about seven I think it was.
It was when we 1st moved to Melbourne FL.
We actually lived in a real house there and there was about 3 huge vacant lots right next door that were very heavily wooded.
I went exploring and got turned around and didn't know at all which way to get out.
And being an avid reader I knew about walking in circles when you aren't familiar with the country.
I climbed way up a tree and marked a couple of landmark trees as I could make out the roof of the house.
And even being so young I knew that I was going to have to be careful in the woods there. It wasn't long however and I was all over in there and back along a creek along which wild bananas grew. Snapping turtles like wild bananas and I caught my share of them too. (We lived right on Indian River and the little creek ran into it.)
There were also some of the biggest Mulberry trees I had ever seen. Then I found out about Guavas, Mangos and Papaya(sp?).
One of the good times in my childhood.
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I have always been interested in wild foods and tried to find out what I could eat when we moved to a new place. I sure wouldn't get fat in this part of Oklahoma, but I wouldn't starve either, at least most of the time.
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I can't hardly believe you were in the woods without a knife!!!!
That's gotta be a story in itself doesn't it?
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And this guy in the article Mohd posted is discussed (cussed?) a bit in the wilderness forum I think it is.(VBESEG)

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"VEGETARIAN".............
Indin word for lousy hunter.
 
Yvsa,
That part of FL. you lived in sounds like it was paradise for a kid! I spent alot of time at my uncle's house in Augusta, Maine as a kid. He lived on a lake that had a small stream running into it. We also caught turtles in it as well as frogs, snakes, crayfish. That place was so important in my childhood that often when I read books and imagine the scenery (doesn't even have to be a wilderness book, even done it with books on fuedal Japan)if I think about it too much I realize that I'm mentally "redecorating" the surrounds of those places at my uncle's lake where I played so much. Weird huh?
As far as the knife(or lack of one) goes my only excuse is that I was even younger(16) and dumber than I am now(29)!
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Now I'm equipped with a good khuk collection, as well as a cold steel tanto, a kershaw Ken Onion folder, a gerber folder, and a SOG Pentagon Elite II folder, which is a beast of a folding knife at about 10.5" OA(which I carry all the time).
Live and learn. Sounds like Uncle Bills adventure was quite a bit more exciting at any rate!

Rob
 
Seems to happen in the wilderness at least once every year. Usually during an overcast cast day when the sun or stars are not visiable. Fortuantely a compass put things back into order. Now I use have a GPS as well at getting lost does not happen much.

Yvsa is quite correct people start walking in circles. I have done it. Now I pick landmarks and head towards them.

A compass is not always correct. Take multiple readings. In some areas there is enough background ore to affect the reading. The first time that happened was interesting.

Don't rely on a GPS completely. Cold, shock, and water can do funny things to them.

Getting lost while driving seems to happen to me a lot in new cities. I seem to be O.K. on the highway.

Will



[This message has been edited by Will Kwan (edited 02-09-2001).]
 
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