traditional knife sightings in the city....

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I was in Las Vegas all last week for the PBR World Finals, and spent my time mostly with the different guys who brought bulls out there.

Almost all of them were carrying a pocketknife, and most of the knives I saw were traditional slipjoints - trappers and stockman patterns. I had a Case stockman with me, and put it to use a couple of times opening feed sacks and bales of hay and shavings.

Interestingly, more guys had trappers than stockmans, and a several of those were riding in nice tooled leather belt sheaths.

Fun week, and nice to see a lot of folks still carrying traditional knives.
 
Nice to see you, Slade. Sounds like you had a good time. Hope the knee is fully recovered. :cool:

Can't go wrong with stock knives or trappers. :thumbup:
 
I didn't realize Pabst Blue Ribbon held "World Finals". Wow, that must've been a heck of a week! :thumbup: (hic!)

Just funnin' with ya... Cool news!

-- Sam (ex-of Colo Spgs, home of the Pro Rodeo HoF)
 
Sounds like ya had a good time. I always wanted to go to Vegas.
I like watchin the bulls but I really like the team ropin..
Used to do a little ropin when I was younger but definetely not at that level :D

Ya can't get much better endorsement for a knife than from guys that use them everyday... Nice to see some things in life haven't changed.
 
Just out of curiosity, where were the stock contractors out of? Most of the ranchers I've known around here carried trappers and I wonder if that's common.

James
 
Zip7 said:
I was in Las Vegas all last week for the PBR World Finals, and spent my time mostly with the different guys who brought bulls out there.

Almost all of them were carrying a pocketknife, and most of the knives I saw were traditional slipjoints - trappers and stockman patterns. I had a Case stockman with me, and put it to use a couple of times opening feed sacks and bales of hay and shavings.

Interestingly, more guys had trappers than stockmans, and a several of those were riding in nice tooled leather belt sheaths.
Fun week, and nice to see a lot of folks still carrying traditional knives.
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Thanks for the update on the PBR finals and its nice to see you back in here again, Zip. Trapper's are popular down here too amongst some of the locals I associate with but most carry Stockman knives of one sort or another. I have been riding rangelines for my friend part time in exchange for his permission to use a good portion of his property for my playground and have got to know most of the men and women that work the ranch. Small fixed blades and Stock knives are most prevalent. Trappers next, then a slew of multi-tool knives are carried mostly by the younger crowd. The veterinarian does carry an old Doctors knife that she got passed to her by her father.

Personally, I carry a Trapper in a belt sheath along with a Stockman most every day. I recon I always knew I had a little cowboy in me.. :cool:

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Zip7 said:
I was in Las Vegas all last week for the PBR World Finals, and spent my time mostly with the different guys who brought bulls out there.

Almost all of them were carrying a pocketknife, and most of the knives I saw were traditional slipjoints - trappers and stockman patterns.
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Very cool to read this. :thumbup: I had been under the (gladly, mistaken) impression that the ranch/rodeo set these days mostly tended to cheapo, one-hander, serrated knock-offs of Spyderco and the like.

I took my wife and kids to the 2007 Labor Day rodeo in Okeechobee, Fla. We had a great time. Didn't see any knives in use, however.
 
sunnyd said:
Small fixed blades and Stock knives are most prevalent. Trappers next, then a slew of multi-tool knives are carried mostly by the younger crowd. The veterinarian does carry an old Doctors knife that she got passed to her by her father.
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That's what I recall from southern Colorado area. Alot of stockmen, and some trappers, all in brown leather sheaths with a brass snapped flap closure, for the older 40 something cowboys. Among the 20 something crowd, the ubiquitus Buck 110 was a popular item on the belt. Iteresting thing was, that even with the stockmen in 3 7/8ths size, they preffered to carry in a belt pouch instead of pocket in jeans. Brands ranged from Buck, Case, Schrade, and a smattering of Eye-Brand.
 
In Massachussetts everyone seems to have a Wave strapped to their belt. There's not many sheeple around and the people that carry knives are usuallly stockmans or some sort of modern linerlock with a clip. There was one insident where a guy in my department who carries a 110 got stopped by the security guard because someone complained he was carrying a big weapon. The guard took it out, looked at the blade and thanked him and gave it back. The blade was smaller than the palm of her hand, hence it was legal to carry.
 
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SunnyD... that's a beautiful belt sheath ya got there, who made it?
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Gary W. Graley right here at bf.com or as he is known sheath wise "G-2". He makes a fine sheath for the money and his integrity is beyond reproach. Custom fit to any knife you send him.
 
sunnyd said:
Thanks for the update on the PBR finals and its nice to see you back in here again, Zip. Trapper's are popular down here too amongst some of the locals I associate with but most carry Stockman knives of one sort or another. I have been riding rangelines for my friend part time in exchange for his permission to use a good portion of his property for my playground and have got to know most of the men and women that work the ranch. Small fixed blades and Stock knives are most prevalent. Trappers next, then a slew of multi-tool knives are carried mostly by the younger crowd. The veterinarian does carry an old Doctors knife that she got passed to her by her father.

Personally, I carry a Trapper in a belt sheath along with a Stockman most every day. I recon I always knew I had a little cowboy in me.. :cool:

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Sunny, where did you get that sheath?
 
sunnyd said:
Gary W. Graley right here at bf.com or as he is known sheath wise "G-2". He makes a fine sheath for the money and his integrity is beyond reproach. Custom fit to any knife you send him.
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Here you go Carolina River Rat.
 
As far as around town, I've been carrying this for a while now,
Nice Equal ended folder;

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Steve, do you mind contacting Gary directly and privately to discuss this? We've gotten pretty far off course from the intent of this thread.
 
Nope, sorry. I have an Ulster scout and a Camillus cub sitting below my monitor at work. The two big bosses were looking at them one day and asked about them. I just said people give knives to me occasionally and that was it.There was one guy in the department that thought I was a sicko or something.Asked me if I was going to go postal or something. I told him they were scout knives and try not to be afraid. He shut up after that.
 
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