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I thought it would be fun to note that I have been using my khukuries at work. I have a contract with the "county" to replace the river channel markers. We have to go through lakes, rivers and tributaries to change the navigational signs. It is / was a blast.

We had to hack through the vegitation to get to the signs from the water. I could have "played" and brought 5 or 6 khukuris, but I / they used my 16 2/2 inch Chiruwa AK, and my 16 1/2 inch WW11. They worked great bending over in the boat. Not too heavy, or awkward. I only wish I could have used my other ones too.

:D

Some people don't like the snakes, alligators and wildlife. They [ the workers] thought I was loosing it when I spoke to the animals and apologized for intruding in their home. I asked for their forgiveness and tolerance on my intrusion. No one was bit or attack.;)

It was / is a great time.
 
Always good to see khuks gettin' used! As for talking to the animals, you're only crazy if they talk back. :D
 
Any rust issues in the wet enviroment? What did you use on the blades?

:( Yes very much so. I asked and receved good replys on this forum on what to do about rust.

I have a Baldor Buffer, but try not to use it because I might get hurt. I use straight carnuba wax on my collectors. I don't care about my users. I just keep them sharp.;)
 
Originally posted by sams
I asked for their forgiveness and tolerance on my intrusion. No one was bit or attack.;)
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And rarely would anyone be bothered when the critters are asked, nicely that is.;) Doesn't surprise me at all, the crittere are seldom, if ever, remembered.:(
You did very, very good!!!! And for what it is worth, my approval.:D :rolleyes: ;) :D
And would be very welcome in my home and Sweatlodge.:D
 
Originally posted by sams
...apologized for intruding in their home.
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Doesn't everybody do this? :confused:


I once landed a stingray big enough to wrap it's arms around me. I looked him square in the eye and he "told me" he knew it was his time to go and that he knew I would not waste one iota. I agreed and we had "stingray nuggets" for 3 months.

It was definitely a mystical experience that changed me forever. I'm grateful for it.
 
One of the neighborhoods north and west of Austin had a big thing going a while back about the deer in everybody's yard. They wanted professional hunters to come in and shoot them. There was enough noise made about that they decided that it would be best to tranquilize them and move them way out from the area.

Why shoot all the poor Bastids they were here first. I don't think any one should feel bad about talking to animals. I've done so off and on all my life. Besides, sometimes I find myself in a better class of company.:) :D
 
I don't have a 16'5" AK but I know you are right about the WWII. It is sure a work horse. Enjoy using it when I'm able to get out and about.

I'll be back at things again prtty soon.:)
 
I used to work 2nd shift in a metal shop. There was a drainage ditch not 15 yards away from the shop door and every late spring/early summer we'd get alot of toads that would come into the shop. We'll the funny thing to do for most of those drunk/druggie a-holes I worked with was to take a toad and put it on the plasma burner and VVVZZAATTT! no more toad. Well I'm a bit of a softy for animals and don't see the need to kill something solely for the purpose of killing it either, so I rescued many a toad from the burner table and one time after such a rescue I put one of the toads back in the drainage ditch, I swear the thing said "thank you".
 
Taking an animal for food is one thing, just killing it is another. Sometimes I do end up talking to a hog before I butcher it, my uncle talks to deer while it's dying. Those are a whole 'nother thing, seems like you also make the most of every scrap of meat after you tell them they aren't going to waste and that you're thankful. I also talk to my cats. Sometimes, I do feel strange while doing it.
 
I think people who kill without regret are the exception rather than the rule. If you look at almost any religion/culture even way, way back to primitive times there was always some sort of an atonement ritual to animals or plants, especially the principal food source for the particular group. This to me shows that our consciousness, our ability to identify with another species goes way back.
 
“Unless ye must,
Bruise not the serpent in the dust,
How much less wound a man.
And if ye can,
No ant should ye alarm,
Much less a brother harm." -----'Abdu'l-Bahá

Compilation: Animals
 
I think it was Robert Ruark that commented on harvesting a "trophy" in it's prime meant it would never grow old and feeble and ill. It would stay frozen forever in your mind in all it's glory, and even more so if taxidermied and mounted.

His The Old Man and the Boy is worth finding and reading. At one point he talks about idiot and trashy hunters, but lets them off the hook a bit by saying "... but they never had the Old Man as a teacher!" ( referring to his grandfather ).

Not the same think as Sams and Yvsa are talking about, which is far more mystical and with which I agree as far as I dimly understand it. Just pointing out Ruark also had his way of valuing and honoring game animals, and not allowing himself to take their lives lightly.
 
Trophy hunting does have it's place. I've heard of other people shooting stuff that was out of season and leaving it there, which is another thing in my mind. Shooting for the sake of killing something with no other intent other than to kill it (different if protecting life and limb of yourself or someone else, or keeping population in control) is disrespectful and wasteful at the least. It's different to shoot racoons destroying stored grain from your hard earned crops, than to shoot a 6 point buck and leave it there to waste. Almost like those poachers who'd shoot elephants in protected areas, take the tusks, and leave everything else.
 
Originally posted by Don Rac
I also talk to my cats. Sometimes, I do feel strange while doing it.
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We have all noticed that it seems to have the same effect on your cats:D
 
CATTITUDE: the attitude of disdain with which a cat regards all less than feline creatures ( especially improperly trained and unrespectful humans ). Witness the look on the grey striped cat in ( Mark or Don Nelson's? Whomever's ) avatar.

And Don Rac: the strange feeling you get is the cat's way of letting you know you are being impertinent in speaking to the cat without first receiving permission to address your betters.
 
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