Let's see your Scout/Camp knives

Continued from the previous post, here is a list of the tang stamps!!
From the top;
>Schrade Cut Co - Girl Scout
>Shapleigh - D-E JR.
>Remington
>Cattaraugus - w.compass
>Robeson
>Ulster - A&F special
>Cattaraugus - Whittl-Kraft

Note, they all have nice Jigged Bone handles!!!
 
waynorth said:
At less than 3 1/2", I feel these knives qualify as Junior Camps or Scouts!! Most full size Scouts usually measure 3 5/8" or larger!!!
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Could they be Cub Scout knives, maybe?
Cub Scouts generally speaking do have smaller hands than Boy Scouts, since thet are several years younger?
 
waynorth said:
They certainly would serve Boy Scouts, Steve!! Did you notice the top knife is marked "Girl Scout"??? 😁
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I did. 😁👍
They needed the same 4 tools ... I never understood why the (usually green) Girl Scout knifes omitted the punch/awl/reamer.
Didn't the Girl Scouts do leatherwork, too?
At least make a leather sheath for their Old Hickory/Russell Green River paring knife and/or 8" "Butcher's Knife" ... and possibly a sheath for the large pointy sewing scissors the "average" 3rd grade to elderly she carried in their purse in the 1950's to 1980's or whenever her's switched to trousers with pockets (and a pocket knife if they quit toting a purse) from skirts and dresses for casual wear?
I know at least 97% the girls in my class from 2nd/d/3rd grade through high school graduation had at least a paring knife and sewing scissors in there purse ... most also had a "Official" or otherwise Girl Scout or Boy Scout, or other folding knife in there, too.
(At least 95% of the boys had at least one pocketknife on them. Pretty much all of us taking a shop/trade class also had a Buck 110 on their belt. Tho there was one I knew who carried a 110 size PUMA (yes, he was from a wealthy family) and a couple carried the older two blade slipjoint folding hunter. A few of the guys who lived on a farm, carried a leather grip Western hunting knife (I suspect most were a L66) or black plastic handle Imperial hunting knife, year round.
Some of the "city boys" carried a Western L66/F66 or similar during deer and waterfowl seasons. (I presume the ones with a car kept their shotgun, archery bow, (if they bow hunted deer) and a .22 rifle in their car trunk. Them who had a pickup or IHC Traveller/Chevy/GMC Suburban, or a Scout, like the "farm boys", kept their hunting arms on a rack in the rear window, or rear side window, as applicable. A few with a pickup may have kept their .22 and shotgun behind the seat.
If any had a handgun (under 21 could own one and buy ammo for them back then), It was kept in the trunk or locked glovebox.
We never had a school or other mass shooting, or a school knife stabbing or knife fight.
In the rare fights at school, the knives were forgotten in pocket and on belt. Fists (and sometimes feet and knees, and the rare head butt) were used. (I saw a guy head butt his opponent once. He ended the fight with that move ... knocked himself out cold. 🤣)
 
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