Road Trip

tobyrogers

tobyrogers

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Headed to the mountains of west Texas for a few days and plan to look along the way for any Schrades that the rest have missed.Wish me luck its kind of out of the way so its either full of them or empty.Arnold
 
Good luck Arnold! No one knows what lurks in those old hardware stores in the off-the-trail towns. Be sure to ask them to check their back rooms and even in the backs of cases of other brand knives.

Michael
 
Good luck arnold I just picked up 4 897uh/gray box and a 12ot and 2,33 and 34 ot's in a hardware store an hour from my house so they are still out there, can I come with on the ride along.lol-Joel
 
Come on Joel,the more the merrier.Its the most beautiful place in Texas if you like desert mountains.Bill,out there the scorpions eat the dillos,and the javelinas eat the scorpions.Arnold
 
so I guess it's the javelinas you have to watch out for :D.

good luck Arnold find one for me while you're at it :p
 
Sure Kaleb, here you go.....

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:D :D

Canis Lupus
 
When I lived out there the yotes ate the pigs and the mountain lions ate the yotes and I trapped the lions.Kind of a food chain thing.My 152OT saw a lot of use.By the way there were so many lions they were killing almost all the deer.Arnold
 
I hate Illinois if it wasnt for construction being about the only thing I know how to do and union pay is pretty good near chicago I'd be down south or out west. I hate snakes too. Im still laid off arnold Im a great road trip buddy I'll take care of the music and snacks and I even have a portable dvd player. It will be like going on a snowmobile trip but warmer, and I wont be the only guy stopping at hardware stores to see if they have knives.-Joel
 
I guess it may be a little pointless to drive to texas to take a trip in texas. although I ve always wanted to go there. Half of the animals you mentioned Id never even heard of. Like I said Illinois Sucks. Except for the bears, Chicago bears that is. If I ever make it to texas Im gonna look ya up and you can show me all thoes wierd animals and maybe we can kill some snakes or something.-Joel
 
I was driving home one evening and there was a baby pig in the middle of the road.I stopped and picked it up.It still had the birth cord attached so I figured it was two or three days old.It squealed and I thought crap,here comes momma.When she didn't show I took him to the house.A friend took and raised it.They act like dogs only more protective.They called it Arnold.Funny name for a pig.Ever since the pigs and I have had a deal.I don't shoot them and they will walk up look at me and walk off.I like it cause if I'm in thick brush and they show up I know there are no rattletails to worry about.Hope to use my Schrades on wood this trip.Arnold
 
Arnold do you have anymore stories, I love hearing about stuff like that it must be 10 times more interesting out there than here. -Joel
 
haha! god i miss texas!! i am originally from copperas cove, near temple/waco area. i moved from there in 2000, had to give up ranch work to raise a young'n!! i remember going out in the brush one day just fiddling around and running up on 6 hogs. they treed me for about 2 hrs while they rooted around right under me. never seen but one lion there, he wasnt the biggest ever, but he had managed to kill a calf. seen hundreds of coyotes though, and plenty of deer. did see something funny once. i was at dana peak park, and had hiked a good ways up a horse trail to the top of a bluff. i could see the road leading into the park, and there was a guy riding a motorcycle. he stopped and jumped off running. i figured he had the "colorado quick trots", but he kept reaching down for something. turns out it was a armadillo, and the dang thing finally stopped, jumped straight up in the air and bust this guy in the nose, spltting his chin and busting his nose good. after that, i woulda left the damn thing alone, but he managed to grab it and put it in his saddle bags on his bike. he had to be from the city!! also, once seen something, dont know what the hell it was, maybe a chupacabra or something, but it was a dog looking creature, had rings on its tail like a coon, and a face colored like a badger. never seen anything like it. one of the guys at ft. hood said that there used to be game reserves there for generals or whatever during WWII, but i dont know. arnold, if u ever get a chance to get up to harker heights, there is a place called commanche gap, its a trail that leads b/w 2 high rock walls. the commanches used to attack people when they tried to ride thru. we found old iron arrowheads, old bullets, and my friend even found a badge of some kind, it was pretty worn, but i betcha it was a sheriff badge. alot of history out there, and alot of wild animals too. joel, if u ever get a chance, dont miss the opportunity to go to texas, its something that will stick to your ribs and make u smile everytime u think of it. but dont be so down on illinoise, ya'll have those big deer and turkeys there, and heck, ya'll had al capone!

kris

p.s.~ arnold, watch out for sassy bandits out there, almost got killed once taking my ex for a drive, run up on a drug deal gone bad or something, but had 6 bullet holes in my truck when i got home!!
 
If any of you fellers from Texas have any leg bones from a javelina, I would like to try and make some knife handles out of then, if they are big enough.

I thought that might be interesting. It is early here, maybe I just need more caffeine. :yawn:

Have fun on the road Toby.........."Happy Schrade Trails to you." (I think that was sung by Uncle Henry Rogers) :D :D

Dale
 
i dont have any, but it does sound neat! i seen a knife at a show once, the handles were boar tusks, and it looked pretty good, but as far as i know, the tusks are hollow, so i imagine they were either cut real thin or backed by something. javelinas are mean little suckers, dont make poor ole arnold have to go out and amputate one, he might end up on the losing end!

for those who dont know, javelinas dont grow tusks like a common wild hog, they have something more akin to fangs, large teeth made for knashing on anything!! a boars tusks breaks off fairly easily, but a javelinas dont! think of a little pig looking creature with the teeth of a lion.

kris
 
We aim to please.....or at least for a quick, clean kill.


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Arnold, sorry for the slight hijack of this thread. :o
Then again, if you're on the road, you won't know we're doing it. :D :D

Bill
 
Seriously guys,
If you have any deer, elk, cattle, moose, caribou, pig, javelina, even bear or mountain lion leg bones & you don't have a use for them, I would love to have some to experiment with. I want to jig & dye them for knife handles.
I am sure we can work out some sort of trade for some custom work or something.

With the cattle & elk bones, I would like to get the hooves as well. I am just looking for new & interesting things to make knife handles from. :D

Dale
 
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