Traditional Knife and Gun Picture Thread

sf fanatic said:
I purchased this Python at the San Francisco Gun Exchange in the early 80s. It was previously owned but appeared to have never been fired. I think I paid $400 for her which at the time was a lot for newly married school teacher. One of the wisest gun buys I’ve ever made. Unfortunately the Exchange is long gone as are every other gun shop in the City. Hard to believe that the second Shot Show was held at the Cow Palace around the same time.
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A purchase of mine from the SF Gun Exchange…bought in early 90s to accompany me on projects in Alaska.
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I only recently started learning about pocket knives. Growing up hunting and fishing, my grandpa always had a knife for me to use. But, it was always a tool; never a brand name. The lone exception to this was my very first pocket knife which my grandpa hand picked with me in TN. It was a Case Peanut and he told me to take care of it because Case XX makes the best pocket knives in the world and it would be worth money someday. I kept it in my drawer and still have it to this day. The only time I carried it was at my grandfather's funeral.

When he passed I received the Schrade Uncle Henry 127UH we used to field dress deer and rabbit. This recently led me to start collecting Schrade Old Timers and to this great community. When I first heard of GEC, they were doing their Coon Skinner run and I was surprised that the one I liked the most (red onion micarta) was available as I had read how hard GEC's were to obtain. I made the purchase quickly and started reading posts about it here.

Turns out... a lot of people don't like the muskrat pattern. So, I bought two more 😝 A two spring 1980 Case in brown jigged bone with easy opens on both sides and a two spring Schrade Old Timer 77OT Improved Muskrat.

Here are the three knives pictured with my grandpa's Belgium Browning Sweet Sixteen he used rabbit hunting and his pride and joy that he gifted me to rabbit hunt alongside him; a Belgium Browning Superposed Over Under.

My aunt also recently passed; just a few months before my grandfather. The painted pheasant was a father's day gift from her to my grandfather when she was just a little girl. It has on the back, and in children's writing, "I love you dad" written inside of a heart. The Irish sign is, well... let's just say my grandpa had a lot of Irish blood in him and he could put down a drink or two 😂

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lithicus said:
I only recently started learning about pocket knives. Growing up hunting and fishing, my grandpa always had a knife for me to use. But, it was always a tool; never a brand name. The lone exception to this was my very first pocket knife which my grandpa hand picked with me in TN. It was a Case Peanut and he told me to take care of it because Case XX makes the best pocket knives in the world and it would be worth money someday. I kept it in my drawer and still have it to this day. The only time I carried it was at my grandfather's funeral.

When he passed I received the Schrade Uncle Henry 127UH we used to field dress deer and rabbit. This recently led me to start collecting Schrade Old Timers and to this great community. When I first heard of GEC, they were doing their Coon Skinner run and I was surprised that the one I liked the most (red onion micarta) was available as I had read how hard GEC's were to obtain. I made the purchase quickly and started reading posts about it here.

Turns out... a lot of people don't like the muskrat pattern. So, I bought two more 😝 A two spring 1980 Case in brown jigged bone with easy opens on both sides and a two spring Schrade Old Timer 77OT Improved Muskrat.

Here are the three knives pictured with my grandpa's Belgium Browning Sweet Sixteen he used rabbit hunting and his pride and joy that he gifted me to rabbit hunt alongside him; a Belgium Browning Superposed Over Under.

My aunt also recently passed; just a few months before my grandfather. The painted pheasant was a father's day gift from her to my grandfather when she was just a little girl. It has on the back, and in children's writing, "I love you dad" written inside of a heart. The Irish sign is, well... let's just say my grandpa had a lot of Irish blood in him and he could put down a drink or two 😂

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Great story and fine start to your collecting.
I have a Belgium Browning Liege 12 g and love the quality.
 
Rufus1949 said:
Great story and fine start to your collecting.
I have a Belgium Browning Liege 12 g and love the quality.
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Thanks!! He seemed to really like Browning as we had quite a few of them. The only shotguns we had that were not Belgium Brownings were 12ga Remington Wingmasters we used for whitetail. He got me a left handed one, which I much appreciated. I believe this is also why he gifted me the over under instead of his Browning A5 20ga 😅
 
lithicus said:
I only recently started learning about pocket knives. Growing up hunting and fishing, my grandpa always had a knife for me to use. But, it was always a tool; never a brand name. The lone exception to this was my very first pocket knife which my grandpa hand picked with me in TN. It was a Case Peanut and he told me to take care of it because Case XX makes the best pocket knives in the world and it would be worth money someday. I kept it in my drawer and still have it to this day. The only time I carried it was at my grandfather's funeral.

When he passed I received the Schrade Uncle Henry 127UH we used to field dress deer and rabbit. This recently led me to start collecting Schrade Old Timers and to this great community. When I first heard of GEC, they were doing their Coon Skinner run and I was surprised that the one I liked the most (red onion micarta) was available as I had read how hard GEC's were to obtain. I made the purchase quickly and started reading posts about it here.

Turns out... a lot of people don't like the muskrat pattern. So, I bought two more 😝 A two spring 1980 Case in brown jigged bone with easy opens on both sides and a two spring Schrade Old Timer 77OT Improved Muskrat.

Here are the three knives pictured with my grandpa's Belgium Browning Sweet Sixteen he used rabbit hunting and his pride and joy that he gifted me to rabbit hunt alongside him; a Belgium Browning Superposed Over Under.

My aunt also recently passed; just a few months before my grandfather. The painted pheasant was a father's day gift from her to my grandfather when she was just a little girl. It has on the back, and in children's writing, "I love you dad" written inside of a heart. The Irish sign is, well... let's just say my grandpa had a lot of Irish blood in him and he could put down a drink or two 😂

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Awesome and beautiful treasures.
 
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