So Gus and Call call - what slipjoint do you take along?

Unfortunately, the OP restricted this ones we currently own:grumpy:

Otherwise it would be that I*XL lockback that K-H recently exhibited in the Old Knives section:D OK it's not a slipjoint...right era though!

Well, it's a toss-up between my Schatt Harness Jack carbon/Greenbone punch blade seems useful here:thumbup: OR Queen Cutlery Teardrop, OK you can remove the liner lock and it will still function as a slippie.

Just wish I could exchange horses for motor-bikes, the former is a beautiful creature but I have little experience with riding,the latter is a beautiful ride:D
 
Will, that was really a long way to go to not answer the question... ;) :eek:
 
comoha said:
I have been thinking the same thing as I read the excellantly written This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig. Its about growing up in the 30's, 40's, 50's in the Montana ranching life. In the book they are always performing chores with their "jackknives".
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Thanks for the tip ..... I just bought a copy on a popular online auction site. :)
 
willgoy said:
Just wish I could exchange horses for motor-bikes, the former is a beautiful creature but I have little experience with riding,the latter is a beautiful ride:D
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Horse is way better than a bike. I love the bikes, rode them for 35 years, but fo the back country give me the horse. He'll go where a bike can't, refuels himself everynight when picketed out, and if he breaks down, you can eat him.:D

Plus a bike won't give you warning of something 'out there'. Watch you horse's head and his ears, he'll be aware of trouble long before you will.
 
jackknife said:
Plus a bike won't give you warning of something 'out there'. Watch you horse's head and his ears, he'll be aware of trouble long before you will.
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Well...my last motorcycle trip through Montana found my wife and I going up the Gallatin River Valley toward Bozeman when the bike gave us a warning in the form of a snapped throttle cable. I then issued my own warning to my wife before I ended up hoofing it 'out there'. ;)

On the whole I'd have preferred a horse that day. :p
 
Great book - great mini-series. There's a temporary exhibit of the Lonersome Dove props, knives, guns, hats, boots, etc. even the famous "We don't rent pigs" sign at the Witte Museum in San Antonio this fall - I've seen the permanent one at the University library in San Marcos.
I'd agree with the large Moore soddie from Dish Boggett's Matagorda, Texas...but has anyone thought of the Laguiole knife that Xavier Wanz, the frenchman who ran the Dry Bean, presented to his good friend Gus upon his departure from Lonesome Dove?

By the way, I had a beer-bet contest between an off-road biker and myself on horseback in Arizona nearly 40 years ago. He kept right up with me to the point where I swam that old Navajo mustang out into a lake...
Cheers and best wishes to y'all,
"Bloody Bill"
 
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