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knifejunkie1928 said:
I heard talk of shooting earlier. is this a gun friendly zone? haha
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According to my wife and daughter it is...thanks to Hawk590, while I was playing in the shop. Took me a min to realize they were gone lol. Ya get a little geeked out in the there heh...
 
Planning on pistols. How about the kids, is it ok for them to shoot also as long as there is supervision?
 
Great weekend! Thank you Ethan for all you do and having us crazies on your Mountain. Thanks to all the folks who work really hard to make this happen. It was awesome seeing everyone again and meeting others for the first time. M'ladies had a ball, time went by too fast.
 
Yes, To back up what NCSlice said The weekend on the mountain was great. This was the first trip for my son and I so we had to learn a lot. It was great getting to put some faces with the names we see on the forum and talk to them in person. Great weather, great food, great people I hope we get to do it again. And in closing Thank you Mr. Becker for putting on this event.
 
Yeah. I had fun. Too much fun. I feel guilty for having such a good time. Saw some BEST friends, turned good friends into great friends, and made new ones. It was definitely time well spent. The shame is... we don't get to see each other enough. I didn't get nearly as much video footage as I wanted due to battery life, and memory space (part of it was enjoying myself). Next time more cameras. For those that I let down by not teaching bow drill, I'm so very sorry. I think we all got carried away with fun, fellowship, and those pesky try-sticks. Next gathering I will be dedicating time for that class, and a knife skills/safety class for those that want to learn. Also, Dex, and I, have some plans to team up, and put our culinary skills together. Who knows what we'll come up with, but believe me when I tell you it will be good.

Ethan, as always, it was amazing. Thank you for your generosity, hospitality, and your company. I always enjoy our walks, talks, and laughs. I'll have that video done as soon as I can, boss. Thanks for sitting with me.

And many thanks to KaBar for the box of awesome Becker goodies. The spread was way more than expected.

Derek, you're right... she's wronger than she looks.


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Those Beckerheads, they carry Beckers but will heat and beat any iron or steel into a blade!

It was a blast watching folk working with the forge and the anvil.
 

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Like everyone else, I had a great time. Many thanks to Ethan, and pretty much everyone else present. I have a few pictures to get posted up as soon as I get a chance.
 
Even though I have owned Beckers for many years, having never been to a gathering before, it could be a bit intimidating coming into such a tight knit group. I should have known I needn’t have worried. You fellows may be rambunctious, but thank you for welcoming all of us first timers! The conversation and knowledge that everyone was so eager to share was indeed memorable.

I am terrible with names, and even worse with connecting names to forum screen names, but please know it was a pleasure meeting every one of you.

The try-stick competition was fun. I may not have won, but it was the best one I have carved to date, and that progress is its own reward. Besides, I was lucky enough to take home the American Knife Company Denali knife so you won't hear me complaining! Many thanks to Jim Nowka and to Dan Eastland for throwing some knives into the prize/giveaway pool!

Above all, thanks to Ethan for letting me park my carcass next to your fire! Your wisdom and friendship are humbling sir. I can’t thank you enough for insisting I come out and bring my Nordsmith knife prototype, and I can’t thank my fellow campers enough for the good food, camaraderie, and feedback that I received. Until the next time new friends!
 
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Hey all, made it home late last night after taking an especially scenic route home.

It was an excellent event even among gatherings and I had a simply stupendous time.

Big thanks to the Boss and every last one of the usual suspects. And it never ceases to amaze me how so many people from just about everywhere can nearly instantly become fast friends with this common interest of ours -- and a little fireside cuisine. So thanks to every one who attended as well as Ka-Bar for the outstanding time.

And to whoever snuck a little of Benton's best into Sunday's breakfast pile, thanks bunches! It's an essential flavor of the gathering that I'm glad we got to share with the first time attendees.
 
CM_Rick said:
Derek, you're right... she's wronger than she looks.
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I said it before and I'll say it again... if there's a world where that monstrosity makes sense, I want no part of it.

But maybe that genuinely disturbing chunk of just-plain-wrong served a very important purpose. Maybe it was required, simply to stand in contrast and point out how much better pretty much every other piece of gear that surrounded us was. The karmic exception that proves the rule, perhaps. It certainly inspired a great deal of discussion and comparison. ;)

As for the weather... great googly moogly. You couldn't dial up a better weekend if you tried!

I have rambled and lazed about and slept under the open sky after dark one or two hundred times before, and there are various reasons I still stubbornly insist on doing so whenever weather permits. But rarely have I been privileged to admire such a truly beautiful, remarkably clear night sky as I enjoyed Friday night on Becker Mountain.

While happy lunatics and some of the most talented whack-jobs I've ever met jostled and laughed and told stories bold and tall around the fire, I watched a near-perfect half-moon meander leisurely along its path from before sunset until pre-dawn, while the stars just kept getting brighter and more numerous as they danced effortlessly in their own slow, timeless patterns.

It got a bit breezy late in the night... or early in the morning, depending upon how you look at it. There was much rustling of leaves and rattling of branches and flapping of rain-flies and tent flaps. And some of those weird, deep, creaking sounds that only come from very tall trees being flexed and stretched close to their limits. A person in a borrowed lounge chair, wrapped-up cozy in a couple wool blankets, can't do much at that point but watch and listen and tug a corner of blanket around his noggin to keep the wind out of his ears... so that's what I did.

It got sort of exciting for a bit. But most folks seemed to sleep right through it and I didn't hear anyone sing out for help... and the number of miscreants at breakfast was no less than the count at last light, so I reckon it all worked out OK.

Thanks so much to Ethan and everyone for a wonderful weekend of belly-laughs and good clean fun and silliness! And the quieter conversations, too.
 
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