Super Salyan cont.

Rusty

Rusty

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The other thread is up to 45 posts, too much.

Mine got here this morning. I need time to comprehend the reality of it's actually existing.

It reminds me of a muzzle loading double barrel 4 gauge bull gun in the State Museum in Carson City. They called it a bull gun because it was either mounted on a yoke between two oxen or it was fixed onto a pintle on a boat's prow. A market hunter's gun. They had a list of times it was fired that it killed a hundred ducks or more with one shot.

This Salyan - it's beyond words.
 
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I can't even begin to imagine. I am like Uncle though and think it looks like a "stubby" knife.

The Salyan that Doc Z did a while back that was actual size at 22" printed out nicely on 3 pages. I cut the overlap off and lined everythng up and taped it neatly together and trimmed it nicely. I have it tacked on the door to my workroom and it is a beautiful well balanced knife that is 22" oal 3 5/8" wide blade that is 16 1/2" long. I would love to have one,but it is too big for me.

Rusty I got to hold and look at a shotgun shell from one of those 4 gauge shotguns. The gun itself had belonged to the mans grandfather and was mounted on a boat like you said.
these guns also were part of the reason the Passenger Pigeon was killed off. I was about 13 at the time and this was in a little town called Diamond Washington,just outside of Colfax if I remember right.I couldn't imagine the size of that gun.It must be awesome!


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The civilized man sleeps behind locked doors in the city while the naked savage sleeps (with a knife) in a open hut in the jungle.
 
That's a pretty good comparison, Rusty. And, Yvsa, the Salyan is too much knife for me, too. Cliff is getting one and I think he and his brother will have great fun with it.

Uncle Bill

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Yvsa said:
this was in a little town called Diamond Washington,just outside of Colfax if I remember right.
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Wow... another person who knows where Colfax is! I've never been to Diamond, though. Do you consider the Palouse country your ancestral homeland?

Fondly remembering the Pullman-Moscow Metropolitan Area,
Jeff Paulsen

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Tom. the thing about the salyan and the bull gun is that they are normal in length but collossal in the other two dimensions. You can picture 5'9" guys weighing 130, 160, and 190 lbs,- or an 18" Sirupati, WW2, & AK side by side. Then picture a 5'10" guy weighing 300 lbs. That's the putatively 18" Salyan.
To me it's less a using knife than an object of veneration.
 
WAZZOO Go Cougs!! Sorry, lived in Albion (a suburb of Colfax) 5 years while in grad school. I just couldn't help myself.
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Jim

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What? Another knife? Don't you have enough of those things already?
How many does one person need?

 
WAZZOO Go Cougs!! Sorry, lived in Albion (a suburb of Colfax) 5 years while in grad school. I just couldn't help myself.
Jim
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You are a funny man, Jim. "suburb of Colfax", indeed.
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What is it the UW Huskies say, "all dirt roads lead to Pullman"?

I am always looking for an excuse to go through Colfax, Pullman, Moscow, Lewiston / Clarkston. It's one of a handful of places in the world that would get me to move away from Scappoose (n-nw of Portland, OR). One of the others being the Methow valley up around Winthrop / Twisp / Omak.

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Rusty that is getting pretty close to me in size. I am 5'9" after 3 back surgeries.I also take a corticosteroid and I am down to 260 Lbs from 275.I can still say my waist isn't any bigger than my chest though.
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If I could have had the Osage leg length to go with the rest I would have topped 6'4" like my bro.

Jeff,Jim and Howard.I also lved in Pullman had a real good chinese friend there. His name was Su Dao.
Pronounced Sue Dow and I am not sure of the spelling of his last name. This was in 1953.I didn't live at Moscow,but I lived in Lewiston /Clarkston and Orofino. It was still pretty wild back in those days. It didn't get sunup 'till 9:00 a.m. and sundown was at 6:00 p.m.at Orofino because of the mountains.
I may have exagerated a little.I was bred and born in Oklahoma though. I was in 24 states by the time I was 13 and lived in most of them.
Nope,not an Army or Service brat.
My old man was an outlaw. Really.The worst kind too,but I won't get into that.

Rusty I guess I must be real close to the Salyan. You might call me stubby,but my feet are big and Wide and you know what is said about that.hehehe.

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>>>>---¥vsa---->®
The civilized man sleeps behind locked doors in the city while the naked savage sleeps (with a knife) in a open hut in the jungle.
 
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