What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

Spent the afternoon in the woods with these two sharp pointy objects. GL Drew fixed blade with stacked Micarta and stag. Ace standard broad head mounted on bamboo arrow shaft. Wasn't much moving around out there but me. I did manage to walk up within 20 yards of three wild turkeys but they saw me before I
saw them, game over at that point. Too bad, they are good to eat and their feathers make the best fletching for arrows.

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afishhunter said:
Please forgive question concerning the last picture:
Plastic flat wear?
do the troops bury or pack out their trash when on patrol?
I am guessing they burn the paper and not aluminized packing materials ... presuming they are allowed a fire to heat their MRE''s and boil water for the instant coffee.
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I expect nowadays it’s all recycled.
 
5K Qs said:
Stag/Horn Knife of the Week is a Rough Rider stag medium stockman:
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Work Knife of the Week is an Imperial BSA knife (thanks, Rachel):
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- GT
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There's an Imperial BSA that I don't have. In great shape too.
 
Big shout going out to our friend sf fanatic sf fanatic 😍 This zipped across the seas and snow to arrive here yesterday, a really great and wonderfully unexpected gift :cool: Fits the bill, I like Micarta, Spears, and the 15 is a tidy frame, plus ALL STEEL :thumbsup: Many thanks to Dan's thoughtful altruism- rare quality on the street these days- this is out of Monsters of Rock !

Won't be this shiny new for long as I see Lemons & Limes in its future ;) I don't drink Gin drinks in winter, only summer, but I like a Kentucky Mule alright and think this will help straighten me out after a sapping bout of influenza for over a week.

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Case Knife of the Week is this chestnut jigged bone CV Sodbuster Jr. that I won in a GAW the late BigBiscuit hosted in early 2015 IIRC, asking us to keep him in our thoughts and prayers as he had his first cancer surgery. It's one of the 4 knives I carry literally every day.
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Colonial/Imperial/Schrade Knife of the Week is a 1936-52 Imperial camp knife I found in a junk/consignment shop in Cedarville, MI during the first summer of COVID. First photo is the knife as I found it in the store.
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I followed the advice of the price tag and gave the knife some TLC (it could use more). I also did some research on the knife. This style of knife, with the pen blade instead of an awl, is what Imperial made for the Navy during the later years of WW2. (I think it replaced the clip/pen EO jack knife with bail that the Navy used early during WW2.) The can opener is an "eagle beak" one-piece version for which Imperial applied for a patent in November 1944; they received the patent in December 1945. In the intervening 13 months, they made this model knife with the can opener marked PAT. PEND. After the patent was issued, the can opener no longer had the patent pending stamp. Mine does NOT have the patent pending stamp, so I'm concluding that mine was actually made 1946-52 (and is probably a civilian knife?).
(This thread has lots of useful info about and photos of engineer knives made during WW2; Post 22 is where I found the info I included above.
https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/199375-engineer-pocket-knives/ )

Here are a couple of pics of the current state of my knife:
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- GT
 
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