My Big Yeller Trapper

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TheSharpStuff

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Hey knife nuts just felt like sharing a little bit.

Why is it that out of all the knives I have its that big 'ol case yella cv trapper that finds its way into my pocket? I have been on a knife buying splurge these last month, I have bought a buck 112, a sway back jack in cv, buck stockman, and of course the trapper mentioned above. I guise I have a simalar story to jackknife but with I guise a obese version of his yella peanut. I dont even know why I find myself using it so much, I have $70 spydercos a hundred dollar benchmade, and some nicer case knives of course. And not to mention I have several smaller traditionals (such as the barlow) that are way more practical and usefull to me and their lighter and easier to carry.:confused:

So tell me guys/gals are there any knives/patterns that you just love AND carry alot that are not even that practical but they still dig their way into you pockets? Hope this makes sense I am still kind of dazed at this "Big Yeller Trapper
 
I've always thought that being practical comes second to being happy. If keeping that trapper on you puts a smile on your face then it's doing its job! I know what you mean though, I just made a sheath for by Buck Vanguard and have been wearing it around lately. When I get funny looks at the grocery store for having a hunting knife on me I just take it to mean they are admiring the polish. I really need to make a belt sheath for my stockman so I can be a little more circumpect.
 
Don't you have a single strange feeling. In my 3/5ths of a life's journey, I have seen REAL cowboys, REAL lumberjacks, backcountry lawmen, old time forest rangers and farmers with dirt on their hands that could easily buy a small town bank, use those big ole yellar knives. I think that is why I seem to always have one around nearby. Lots of them were two blade trappers, some in carbon, and a few were big yellow stockmen. That history is a part of why they seem right.

300Bucks
 
I feel the same way about 4x4 trucks, 300Bucks, If i get a 4x4, i personaly want it to feel like a TRUCK, not drive like a car, not ride like a car, like a truck, i dont like this "auto matic everything" that some trucks have, i like crank windows manual locks and a standard transmition. And that defenatly translates over to my knives. I like them to to not mind getting dirty and taking a beating, but they still clean up nice enough to bust out in a formal occasion.

Hope this rant made some sense. lol
 
I've got two Rough Riders in yella that I use all the time, even though I have hundreds of nicer, more expensive traditionals to use. I'm not sure why they have wound their way into my heart, but it's probably the "diamond in the rough" syndrome-- they are cheap, but oh so good!

Locking Wharncliffe Trapper, #822
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Reverse Eureka Stockman, #890
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The yellow handle Case Trapper was the best selling knife in our family store in North Florida, back in the 80s'.
The last Fall we had the business, we sold over 400 yellow Tappers during the Christmas season. :)
 
Ditto on your transportation choice SharpStuff ! I drive a Jeep Wrangler for kinda the same reason. My wife calls it my "mid life crisis car". I really only wanted one since I was 12 years old and finally bought it when I was 42.
Trappers to me are one of my personal favorite patterns to carry and Cv, well that's just icing on the ol' cake. A pocketful to be sure, but those long blades.....Sharp!
 
I can trace my love for the trapper to a couple years ago, I hadn't bought my first case knife yet and was trying to find what pattern I liked best. i saw the trapper on some youtube video and that was the end of it, but I didnt like ordering knives over the internet so I went to an outdoors store close to where I was camping and saw they had a bunch of case knives. this allowed me to hand pick one, But they didnt have any trappers so I ended up with a humpback stockman in harvest orange. Several months later I was at a gun show and saw an old man with. well... A whole buncha case knives. he had some of the neatest patterns I didnt even know existed, saddle horns, tuxedos, clasp knives, cheetas. (keep in mind I still didnt know alot about traditional patterns yet) but no trappers that where in my price range, so I bought a barlow. Fast forward to 2011 I was at a random outdoors store hoping they would have some fishing bait. But as I walked around I saw a small selection of knives. Two of them yella scaled, a mediam stockman and a big yeller trapper in cv. Needless to say a big gap in my pocket was filled!
 
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