Texan pocket knives.

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So, it's been two and a half years now since Karen and I fled The Peoples Republik Of Maryland for our now adapted home state of Texas. It's been a trip. Mostly a wonderful trip with almost every day giving me reason to say, "Thank God I'm in Texas. " Sometimes it weather with some friend from the old country sending us a pic of the snowstorm, or some news story of the latest leftist shenanigans of the people who are supposed to represent us in Annapolis. Sometimes it the fact the we are able to practice ALL of our rights to include the 2d amendment.

But one thing I really love is the Texas trait of freely expressing yourself with something of beauty. I've finally got used to the BBQ gun thing. Your best gun in a very nice hand tooled holster wit a matching belt. A lot of 1911 patterns with some nice old Colt or Ruger single action magnums thrown in. But out and about I've noticed an upswing of the hand tooled folding knife sheath on a matching belt. About 8 times out of 10 it's a trapper pattern by Case, Moore maker or even Eye-Brand. Texans seem to really love the trapper pattern. Of course I find that a little strange in itself as there are so many cattle ranches outside of town, I'd have thought the stockman was a shoe in. Nope. The trapper seems to reign here. And the fancier the belt sheath the better.

Oh, theres still the pocket clips I see around, but mostly the young guys in their teens and 20's. But I see a lot of the 30's and up crowd with the belt pouch carried trapper. The older the person the more time smoothed bone I see.

I guess I'm gonna have to go get a nice tooled sheath for my knife so's I can say I've fully adapted to Texas.
 
But, are you going to re-retire your Buck 301 Stockman and get a Trapper pattern? :)

(Personally, I'd stick with the 301, I like the Stockman pattern a little more than the Trapper.)
 
There is a story about a bond trader from New York City who retires to a little ranch in Texas (if there is such a thing). Probably not appropriate for this forum, however.
 
Well I’m a 6th generation Texan. The first generation of my family was born here in 1832 during Mexican rule. My first knife was a buffalo horn stockman. I carried it daily up until this year. It took a lot for me to carry anything else.

Just remember this is Texas. You can carry a Bowie down congress and the only thing we will judge you on is if it’s sharp.

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Mitt said:
Well I’m a 6th generation Texan. The first generation of my family was born here in 1832 during Mexican rule. My first knife was a buffalo horn stockman. I carried it daily up until this year. It took a lot for me to carry anything else.

Just remember this is Texas. You can carry a Bowie down congress and the only thing we will judge you on is if it’s sharp.

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My admiration for you just went up about ten times. I met my wife in Texas, met two of my best friends in Texas, and my in-laws (whom I love and amire) still live in Texas. It is a great state.
 
JTB_5 said:
My admiration for you just went up about ten times. I met my wife in Texas, met two of my best friends in Texas, and my in-laws (whom I love and amire) still live in Texas. It is a great state.
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In 1970, I was out at a shooting range called "A Place To Shoot", in San Antonio, where I was stationed at Ft. Sam Houston. I met this girl there. We had a date, then another one. We've been together ever since through kids and grandkids, a life in Maryland and then back to Texas.

 
Yep trappers are "the cowboy knife" not a stockman. Do know some trappers that use a stockman, go figure. Know what you are talking about. Took a trip to AZ recently from Kalifornia and the first thing we did is stop at a gun store in Kingman to breathe some free air.

BBQ rigs are a southwest deal not just TX. We built this one for a fellow BF member and a neighbor of yours in OK.

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JTB_5 said:
My admiration for you just went up about ten times. I met my wife in Texas, met two of my best friends in Texas, and my in-laws (whom I love and amire) still live in Texas. It is a great state.
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I know to some we may seem to be a litte to boisterous. We are a proud, independent and generous people, grateful for what we have in the place we call home.
 
jackknife said:
In 1970, I was out at a shooting range called "A Place To Shoot", in San Antonio, where I was stationed at Ft. Sam Houston. I met this girl there. We had a date, then another one. We've been together ever since through kids and grandkids, a life in Maryland and then back to Texas.

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San Antonio girls are some of the best this state has to offer. I was lucky enough to find one of Polish heritage and now call her my wife.
 
Mitt said:
San Antonio girls are some of the best this state has to offer. I was lucky enough to find one of Polish heritage and now call her my wife.
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Ha! Same here. A Polish-German (with a smidge of Russian) gal from San Antonio.
 
JTB_5 said:
Ha! Same here. A Polish-German (with a smidge of Russian) gal from San Antonio.
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Let me guess if you had a polish wedding you had Songas BBQ. My wife has a joke saying that the parents sign a contract when a daughter is born to have Snogas at their wedding.
 
Thankfully, no! Her Dad is full German and her mom half Polish so we avoided the cultural niceties.
 
We Okies like the trapper also. They are sold in most farm and ranch stores around here. Our local western outfitter sells boker and them fancy belt sheathes.
 
I use to cowboy with a Texican. He always carried a Texas Jack and one of my small fixed blades. Miss ol Montyious. Bout had him converted to a Californio before he had to move away.
 
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