This is a nice light duty chopper....

Runs With Scissors

Runs With Scissors

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The other day, much to my astonishment I found a shop in Alaska that carries a damn nice assortment of Striders, Busses, Emersons, Spydies and Swamp Rats. I'd been coveting a Battle Rat for quite some time...matter of fact since before I found HI, when I was lookin' for a heavy duty doomsday chopper.

So I gotmy hands on a Battle Rat, tested its heft a little bit, did a couple of slow snap cutting motions at the air and commented "gee, that's a really nice knife! That'd make a great light duty chopper, eh?"

The guy looked at me like I'd lost all my marbles. I might as well have been saying "gee whiz, I wonder if the six legged alien predator zombie bears will bleed purple or hot pink blood when I behead them with this...."

Then it occurred to me that I used to consider that to be a heavy duty end of the world reconstruction knife. Now next to my humble 18 inch WW2 it's merely a handy little chopper... :D (I still want one pretty badly though)

You guys are insane. your insanity is contagious. :D
 
Runs With Scissors said:
The guy looked at me like I'd lost all my marbles. I might as well have been saying "gee whiz, I wonder if the six legged alien predator zombie bears will bleed purple or hot pink blood when I behead them with this...."

You guys are insane. your insanity is contagious. :D
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It depends on if it's a male, female or mixed (the orange blooded ones)

Yeah...they make a nice light pocket knife.

:)

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Walking through the woods with sons and an 18" AK or WWll or Ganga Ram, you feel fine. Things are OK. There's a balance. Then the sound of a Quad comes through the trees, and as you cross a fireroad your little group encounters the machine and rider.

You've got this honkin blade by your side. To his eyes it's enormous. How big are the Cougars in Eastern Montana, anyway?

Sometimes I feel a little sheepish, but not often. He's riding around on a motorized tricycle/Quad; it's huge, fat, oversized with more power than the forest trails have any use for. He doesn't see much because it makes so much noise all the game for five miles knows where he is. They can smell it and him, too, as it belches spent gas and leaks oil. He doesn't see much because he's going too fast to take it all in. That's his wilderness experience. The only difference between a hotrod and what he's sitting on is the material he travels over, be it asphalt, dirt, water or snow. He's hotrodding through what's left of God's country and thinks your blade is ridiculous.

After some talk and pleasentries he's gone. You go back to the forest and your family. The khuk is right at home.

munk
 
munk, I agree. Those noisy, stinking damned things should be banned except for emergency use. At last, we have something we agree on :D ;) :rolleyes:
 
I thought we agreed about khuks, weapons, firearms, integrity, and you liked my stories?

Quads are fun and have a place. If you examine the human animal closely you'll find many things as seemingly preposterous and far less useful than that 'honkin knife'.

The more I think about this- do you know my neighbors are almost never on foot? The people in my little town don't walk through the woods.

When and if they ever see me on a Mt Bike, (they're not out in the country far enough to see me.) the question is why is he up there on that thing in the first place?

I remember when I started MT biking I almost considered it a sell- out. And for all the teasing I gave the walking sticks, at least they don't have an engine mounted on them. (yet)

Where are those darn sticks? I ordered them last week and they haven't come yet.

munk
 
munk said:
The more I think about this- do you know my neighbors are almost never on foot? The people in my little town don't walk through the woods.
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Now that's a damn shame!
I admit to preferring MTBing much of the time, but I love hiking, too. It's not all about going fast or covering the most distance.
 
There's a time and a place for everything...including ATV's. Used irresponsibly, yeah I hate the damn things (Believe me, I've had some interesting situations with ATV's and snowmachines lately....) But used responsibly, it's just another implement.

Khukuris are fine, dandy, and great when I use 'em to cut up the brush in my yard. They are a vile, horrible implement when used to hack my neighbors yard to hell or hack up the country side needlessly.

The problem doesn't lie with inanimate objects. It lies with personal responsibility.

Back to topic, considering the wonderful reaction from the Battle Rat, I think I'm gonna have to get a big a$$ 22 inch GRS or something now..... :D
 
I know Brian...and *that* counts as a compliment!

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Munk,

Here it depends on the area. In the private land around my house they logged and then 4 wheelers moved in on the logging roads and eroded it pretty bad. Then people started cutting down trees and posting the land. I have permission to walk wherever I want and hunt too on a lot but I just hunt our own land because I don't want to mess anybody up.

I'm fat but I don't have a 4 wheeler but it seems like everybody here has them, especially the people who don't work. How the heck can they afford them?? I have no roads on my land only footpaths except at the back of the hollow on the power line road. Just like you say I have watched people drive 10 feet, stop, drive 10 more. And I have watched them drive deer to me :rolleyes: It always amazes me that WV leads the country in fat people but ATV's are a favorite sport. Between 4 wheel drives and ATV's I think they have kind of messed up hunting in a lot of places. They spend too much time driving and not enough hunting.

In the areas we backpack it is wilderness. That means no mountain bikes. Then there are backcountry which is a step down from wilderness nothing motorized. I think ATV's are banned overall in the MON.

The Monongahela National Forest seems to strike a good balance between wilderness, backcountry and forest. In the areas we go I have only rarely even seen Mt. Bikers. The bike trails and stuff are kind of seperate. It's a really wonderful place and everytime I am there I am thankful I can be there.
 
I see the dirt bike and ATV riders out in the woods sometimes - typically when we're shooting. I've almost never had a problem with them. They stick to the logging roads and they're easy to hear, unlike the horse riders.

There's a little ritual that follows. No matter who was shooting, who was riding, it almost always goes the same way. It's almost a ceremony at this point:

Shooter(s) hears engine noise, declares, "Bikers, cease fire."
Other shooters repeat back, "Game off."
Shooters clear and safe their weapons, bring them to port arms.
Riders pass. Shooters wave. Riders wave. Riders depart.
Shooter observes them leaving, declares, "Game on."
Other shooters repeat back, "Game on."
Life returns to normal.

If only the folks at the mall were this polite.

The ones that cause the problems around here are the trash dumpers - once the couches and washing machines start showing up, Pope locks the gates and another area becomes off limits.

Of course, when the local yokels knock down a gate at the Camp and spend the weekend tearing sh!t up on our rifle range, or a drunken driver goes airborne off the side of the Seabeck Highway and clears out a section of our fenceline, I tend not to be so forgiving. :)
 
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