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So, I'm getting ready to leave the desert and shipping a bunch of my gear home so I don't have to lug it. You have to take your parcels to the post office unsealed so they can inspect them and make sure you aren't shipping any prohibited items. It's total BS because most of my stuff is going through the military postal system, APO to APO, because I'm stationed overseas. I don't say anything because I know that nobody knows their rules and I'm not going to win this one. So the twenty something contractor starts inspecting my parcels. I'm expecting a cursory toss of the top layer, but that ain't what happens. This dude goes through the whole trunk top to bottom removing all sorts of stuff he says they can't ship--hand sanitizer, magnesium bar, firesteel, unopened gas mask filters, etc. I'm shaking my head and biting my tongue, thinking to myself "YGBSM." I know he's just doing his job (very zealously I might add), but Jeez, really? I'm trying not to be irritated as he's rifling through my cold weather gear now and OPENING THE POCKETS. I'm about to say something, when he holds up the large Voyager Tanto that I couldn't find before I deployed. He says, "if you want to ship it, it's okay." I say, "no, I'll take it."
So the desert knife adventure has come full circle (mostly). The lack of a large folder and needing recommendations for a new one brought me to BF in the first place. I subsequently purchased a benchmade Warn Tanto to replace the Voyager...then a TAK-1, an Izula, a JKoster WSS forum knife, A Ritter-Becker RSK Mk2, a full set of Camillus High Country Hunters, a Keen Kutter stockman and a Kniferesearch Legion. Plus an adze and a Keen Kutter hewing axe. I guess BF re-released my inner knife knut. Thanks everybody, you helped the time pass quickly. I'll try to post a pic of the collection when I get it all together.
Regards,
Dave
So the desert knife adventure has come full circle (mostly). The lack of a large folder and needing recommendations for a new one brought me to BF in the first place. I subsequently purchased a benchmade Warn Tanto to replace the Voyager...then a TAK-1, an Izula, a JKoster WSS forum knife, A Ritter-Becker RSK Mk2, a full set of Camillus High Country Hunters, a Keen Kutter stockman and a Kniferesearch Legion. Plus an adze and a Keen Kutter hewing axe. I guess BF re-released my inner knife knut. Thanks everybody, you helped the time pass quickly. I'll try to post a pic of the collection when I get it all together.
Regards,
Dave
