The Sunday Picture Show (August 25, 2024)

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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)

On This Day August 25 to September 2, 1921 The Battle of Blair Mountain
The largest labor uprising in United States history and is the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War.
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This YouTube video is 22 minutes long but gives the best explanation with historical context if you are interested.

Buck model 314 Trapper. "Coal Miner" limited edition. 1 of 1,000.
Not indicated on the box or knife but I'm thinking this might commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United Mine Workers of America 1890-1990 even though the blade etch says 1991???
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Thank you, Roger. I love this weeks history lesson. I am proud to say I am a hillbilly, born in southern WV. My family once lived in McDowell Co. near the Blair Mountain.
Most people have the wrong understanding of what a red neck really is.
Thank you. I love your collection of coal mine knives.
 
Good Morning Gents. Getting ready to head out on the Illinois this morning to do a little catfishing. Many Thanks to all who participate in today's show.

This 112 caught my eye at the Gateway Knife Show yesterday. It's a BCCI 35th scaled in black linen micarta...............

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A month or so ago I bought two sets of new old stock 073 throwing knives from Copper and Clad. One was listed as open box - meaning new, un-used, sheath and papers, but no actual box. Well, yesterday being National Knife Day, that set isn’t new and un-used any longer. :)

The kids and I spent a good while learning to throw them. My 17 year old son especially took to it and stayed out there practicing long after the rest of us were done.

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When I got out of the military in 1970, I drove a truck for a while. One of the routes was delivering canned goods to small grocery stores in the PA & W VA coal regions. I delivered to some pretty desolate places. Some of the towns that were way back in had main streets barely wider than one lane. Hard times. Good people.
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I had a friend of mine who has passed but in his younger years he was a coal miner in West Virginia, when he passed his wife gave me his old trusty model 10 S&W, he carried it daily, it is a beater but still shoots beautifully
Also a great compliment to a couple of my 119's, Thank You all for the SPS Enjoy Pete





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Thanks everyone for supporting the Sunday Picture Show. It’s always nice seeing everyone’s photos of their Buck knives.
Melon time here in the garden. Here’s a Buck 110 Slim Select sitting on top of a 14 pound melon! Hope everyone has a good afternoon!

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My coal connection is a 2X great uncle who was a coal dealer. He delivered coal by boat to communities on Loch Lomond.
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OFF TOPIC—Today's coal theme made me think of "Uncle Bill", so I'm giving a little more information. Bill Russell lived on his boat which he kept docked at the south end of Loch Lomond. Apparently Uncle Bill enjoyed his time at the pub, and when my grandfather was young his job was to make sure Uncle Bill got safely on board after he left the pub. Here are a couple of articles about Bill Russell and a photo.

"On the 26th March 1851 four Glasgow engineers were invited down for a sail on the loch, and in the company with Robert Walker a local engineer experienced as a Loch Lomond oarsman and one William M'Lean, the six proceeded up the western shore, but when off Auchintully Bay a gusty blast came sweeping down Glen Finlas and upset the rowing craft. All the occupants were thrown into the Loch, the four visitors being victims of the calamity. The two local men only were saved and that through the gallant and daring assitance rendered by Bill Russell and his brother, two Loch Lomond scowmen. Bill Russell's name deserves to be remembered for having saved 17 lives from watery graves in different periods of his life."

“One of the best known of the gabbert men was Bill Russell whose little boat, Rob Roy, made regular trips up the Leven to deliver coal to the big houses on the Loch side. Bill was born in Renton in 1830 and died in 1906 and his obituary in the Lennox Herald in December of that year makes interesting reading. …. His mother was Mary McGregor whose father, Alex, a boatman from Kirkintilloch was a great grandson of Rob Roy himself. Bill was quite famous for his knowledge of the Loch and was a famous duck hunter.”

I'm sure if Buck knives had been available when he lived they would have been his EDC.

Bert

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