The Survive! Never Say Die! Chat Thread

No matter how many times I look at this thread title, I still think that it is a Diet chat thread :D
 
Man these Survive! knives really spoil their owners! My TOPS BOB knife which is a very good knife by all accounts in the woodcraft community (that Scandi grind bites very nicely into many wood types and I certainly preferred it over my past ESEE 4 varieties) feels like a kid's knife in my hands after I have handled the GSO 5.1 in person!

Admittedly, I am not being entirely fair as perhaps the BOB is in the same size range of say a GSO 4.1 (maybe close enough?) but the weight feels wrong now as it feels butt heavy. This darn GSO 5.1 despite its weight and heft is perfectly balanced as compared to that smaller BOB. I am seriously thinking that I keep both GSO 5.1s I bought, yank my current listing after tomorrow and just dump my cheaper mid-sized knives as I am almost tempted not to use them any more!

With all that said, I still ordered an ESEE Junglas just because I was really sulking that I missed on the GSO 12 offering by sitting on my hands. With the ESEE Junglas, I am planning to strip its cr*ppy coating, sanding to smooth finish and then forcing a patina on it. The kind of fun experimentation / customization which I dare not do to any Survive! knives ;)
 
Casinostocks said:
Man these Survive! knives really spoil their owners! My TOPS BOB knife which is a very good knife by all accounts in the woodcraft community (that Scandi grind bites very nicely into many wood types and I certainly preferred it over my past ESEE 4 varieties) feels like a kid's knife in my hands after I have handled the GSO 5.1 in person!

Admittedly, I am not being entirely fair as perhaps the BOB is in the same size range of say a GSO 4.1 (maybe close enough?) but the weight feels wrong now as it feels butt heavy. This darn GSO 5.1 despite its weight and heft is perfectly balanced as compared to that smaller BOB. I am seriously thinking that I keep both GSO 5.1s I bought, yank my current listing after tomorrow and just dump my cheaper mid-sized knives as I am almost tempted not to use them any more!

With all that said, I still ordered an ESEE Junglas just because I was really sulking that I missed on the GSO 12 offering by sitting on my hands. With the ESEE Junglas, I am planning to strip its cr*ppy coating, sanding to smooth finish and then forcing a patina on it. The kind of fun experimentation / customization which I dare not do to any Survive! knives ;)
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I loved my BOB, so much I had several variants of it....sold em all after getting into survive....
 
Some pictures of the mounts at the Cabelas in Sidney NE





Ole Bullwinkle was my wife's favorite.







They had a pretty good knife counter, too, although no S!Ks in sight :)

 
Love that place, if I hit the powerball it would be one of the first stops for me.
Interesting they had some ESEE's,, priced high but they had them.
 
rcb2000 said:
Love that place, if I hit the powerball it would be one of the first stops for me.
Interesting they had some ESEE's,, priced high but they had them.
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I'd definitely drop some coin at the Cabelas, and Home Depot on the way home. Every time I go in either one of those places I see more stuff that I think I need than what I came in for. I'd never come home with a paycheck if I worked there...
 
rcb2000 said:
Love that place, if I hit the powerball it would be one of the first stops for me.
Interesting they had some ESEE's,, priced high but they had them.
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We've got a small Cabela's in Boise, and I noticed they've got some Esee Knives in their counter, too. Like you say, a bit pricey, but in stock if a guy had to have one.
 
TRfromMT said:
I'd definitely drop some coin at the Cabelas, and Home Depot on the way home. Every time I go in either one of those places I see more stuff that I think I need than what I came in for. I'd never come home with a paycheck if I worked there...
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What's sad is that Home Depot gets more of my money than Cabelas. Twenty year old me would have never worked on the house more than he would have hit the hills!
 
Been to the NE Cabelas once after a turkey hunt. Best Cabelas I've been too. Seeing those mounts and hunting season being so far off is heartbreaking.
 
Absolutely. We do have a pursuit season for bear coming up, so that helps tide me over, but ya I'm with you bud. The off season is brutal.
 
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