Stockman Sunday picture show

Recently acquired this Frontier Imperial Ireland. I wanted a knife made in Ireland and while inexpensive it's quite nice for the price! I guess Frontier was the higher end line by Imperial, likely made with Schrade's equipment.



 
Frontier was the higher end of Imperial Knives in the modern era (1970's and up until the merger with Schrade). They were equivalent to the Old Timer pocketknives. I bought this Medium Stockman in sad shape from a pawn shop years ago (cheap) and spent the evening in my hotel room watching a ballgame on TV and working on it until I got the snap back, then I edged it back up again. The last stop for the Frontier line was in Ireland and I don't know much at all about the Irish Imperials. OH

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Old Hunter said:
Frontier was the higher end of Imperial Knives in the modern era (1970's and up until the merger with Schrade). They were equivalent to the Old Timer pocketknives. I bought this Medium Stockman in sad shape from a pawn shop years ago (cheap) and spent the evening in my hotel room watching a ballgame on TV and working on it until I got the snap back, then I edged it back up again. The last stop for the Frontier line was in Ireland and I don't know much at all about the Irish Imperials. OH

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Your taste and knowledge about pocket knives always impresses me Old Hunter Old Hunter . Very nice knife you have there!
 
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Kentucky Hunter, that has got to be one of the best Case bone color/jigging/shield combinations in the last 25 years. If you keep teasing me by showing this beautiful 47 over and over I'm going to be forced to go footlocker diving and find mine. IIRC it is still in a dark blue metal box that it shipped in - I cut myself pretty good the first day I owned it and after pictures returned it to the coffin and buried it in a footlocker. I see how nice yours looks, and realize I am treating mine poorly, even though I have a bad track record carrying a 4" Stockman anymore. OH

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Old Hunter said:
Kentucky Hunter, that has got to be one of the best Case bone color/jigging/shield combinations in the last 25 years. If you keep teasing me by showing this beautiful 47 over and over I'm going to be forced to go footlocker diving and find mine. IIRC it is still in a dark blue metal box that it shipped in - I cut myself pretty good the first day I owned it and after pictures returned it to the coffin and buried it in a footlocker. I see how nice yours looks, and realize I am treating mine poorly, even though I have a bad track record carrying a 4" Stockman anymore. OH

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Honestly just recently started carrying it. I traded a stag mini trapper that I didn’t like the stag on about 12 years ago over on another forum. In that 12 years it’s been sitting in a display case that’s not even sitting up. I think I might have carried it 1 day in those 12 years.

I was looking at the display recently I thought “why not”. I figured I would get more enjoyment out of slipping it in my pocket than just keeping it in the display. Ive done that with several knives lately. It’s almost like Christmas.

Honestly when I first got it I wasn’t crazy about the color. At the time I preferred a more even distribution of color.

That’s a nice one you have.

Picture cross posted in “what are you toting “, just trying to help out.👍
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kyhunt said:
Honestly when I first got it I wasn’t crazy about the color. At the time I preferred a more even distribution of color.
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I honestly prefer bone dye like the one you have pictured! The sort of gradients out to the edges. The darker jigging. The way the sunlight catches it providing depth. Such a gorgeous knife. Thank you for sharing!!
 
lithicus said:
I honestly prefer bone dye like the one you have pictured! The sort of gradients out to the edges. The darker jigging. The way the sunlight catches it providing depth. Such a gorgeous knife. Thank you for sharing!!
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Thank you.
 
Will Power Will Power that is a seldom seen BF Porch knife, nice stag. This old, pre-model number, Buck 307 was my waterfowling pocketknife for a number of years. Pictures from a hunt in 2013 - which was a pleasant day, a Bluebird Day, but productive. I gifted the Buck Knife to a good man who posts on another knife forum, but I did keep a newer one for myself (one with the model number stamped on the tang). Haven’t been waterfowling this year, and doubt I will go as all my partners are getting old and don’t like the conditions anymore (some days I kind of agree with them!). OH
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Old Hunter said:
Will Power Will Power that is a seldom seen BF Porch knife, nice stag. This old, pre-model number, Buck 307 was my waterfowling pocketknife for a number of years. Pictures from a hunt in 2013 - which was a pleasant day, a Bluebird Day, but productive. I gifted the Buck Knife to a good man who posts on another knife forum, but I did keep a newer one for myself (one with the model number stamped on the tang). Haven’t been waterfowling this year, and doubt I will go as all my partners are getting old and don’t like the conditions anymore (some days I kind of agree with them!). OH
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The 307 is a great knife. I picked one off eBay a few years back. I don’t carry it often but love it.
 
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