What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

Stuart D Duckdog : I just showed the pictures of the can Possum Lite and the box of Squirrel Helper to my wife and my visiting daughter and they just could not stand even looking at them . :eek::eek::eek: Myself , I thought they sounded pretty good for a change . We have not had any Squirrel for a few years . Maybe it was just the thought of the Pasta in the Squirrel Helper that they did not like .
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Old Engineer said:
Stuart D Duckdog : I just showed the pictures of the can Possum Lite and the box of Squirrel Helper to my wife and my visiting daughter and they just could not stand even looking at them . :eek::eek::eek: Myself , I thought they sounded pretty good for a change . We have not had any Squirrel for a few years . Maybe it was just the thought of the Pasta in the Squirrel Helper that they did not like .
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I LOVE squirrel, it was a staple in our house. Either fried or in dumplings though.
 
Misplaced Hillbilly said:
I LOVE squirrel, it was a staple in our house. Either fried or in dumplings though.
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My late dad loved squirrel hunting. He would take me along when I was 5 or 6 (that's been over 60 years ago). Nothing makes a better still hunter than starting out a kid as a squirrel hunter with a .22 rifle. There was a chef in Mississippi that used ground up hot bacon rinds to coat the squirrel pieces and fry them, Lordy the little back straps were delicious.

I'll add that many a different critter has been on poor folk's tables in the South. Turn up your nose and you'd starve.
 
JB & 315, This weekend I’ve been cleaning up the final downed trees on my property from Hurricane Florence. Thank goodness that job is finally finished! Yesterday I had a huge Gray Squirrel watching me from an adjacent tree - he was so big I thought he was a Fox Squirrel at first. I laughed at him and remarked that he was safe, we are in the town limits so there’s no hunting. He’d made a nice stew all by himself. OH
 
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Fox squirrels are protected on the Game Management areas in the state that have decent populations. I've only seen a few scattered populations outside of of the Sandhills, the Lowcountry, and Piedmont NWR in middle Georgia. I used to see them all the time when I lived in Southwest Georgia in the 70's, especially on plantations managed for quail. I guess the habitat is vanishing.

I'd bet this one would work on a bushytail....

 
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Wow! Miss 4 days and get waaaayyy behind on this thread... carried this’un I purchased at the King Ranch saddle shop in Kingsville while treating a customer to a deer hunt on the King Ranch.... this was taken by the fire pit smoking the seegar it nipped and sipping Makers Mark.... maybe too much makers it is a horrible shot of a beautiful example of what Queen cutlery could put out.
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Hickory n steel said:
Beautiful knife there.
Now am I mistaken, or is this the same pattern which case currently calls the half whittler ?
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Not sure what Case calls the variations of the 08 pattern now, but the 6308 is a whittler and the 6208 is a pen knife - same frame. OH
 
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Not sure what Case calls the variations of the 08 pattern now, but the 6308 is a whittler and the 6208 is a pen knife - same frame. OH
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They're calling the 6208 a half whittler these days, at least that's what the code said on my 6208.

Great little knife regardless, I just wish they were available in CV or at least an as ground finish.
 
joeradza said:
D Duckdog Thanks Stuart. On that Primble. Is it possible the file was a mod added later?
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Thanks, Alan, and I have no idea. It is a mortised fit, so someone worked at it. Could have been a factory retrofit.

paulhilborn said:
19° above, with 30 mph winds, 0°:) Bloodwood #68 from 2012, love how this Bloodwood has aged:thumbsup: along with a FANTASTIC red Stag Hess fixed gifted from my friend Duncan Morgan:cool::thumbsup:
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Both are extremely handsome knives, Paul. Thanks for sharing. Really.

kai76 said:
D Duckdog What a classy pair of pens you’ve today! Btw, where can I buy canned possum? It’s the perfect Christmas gift for my vegan friends.
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Thanks, Nick. I don't know about finding possum products in stores today. My supply came from rural North Carolina and most was canned in jars (and few with coon gravy). we can occasionally get jar-canned woodchuck (whistle pig) in the Shenandoah River Valley of Virginia.

Old Engineer said:
We have not had any Squirrel for a few years . Maybe it was just the thought of the Pasta in the Squirrel Helper that they did not like .
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Old Engineer said:
Stuart D Duckdog : I just showed the pictures of the can Possum Lite and the box of Squirrel Helper to my wife and my visiting daughter and they just could not stand even looking at them . :eek::eek::eek: Myself , I thought they sounded pretty good for a change . We have not had any Squirrel for a few years . Maybe it was just the thought of the Pasta in the Squirrel Helper that they did not like .
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Misplaced Hillbilly said:
I LOVE squirrel, it was a staple in our house. Either fried or in dumplings though.
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Amir Fleschwund said:
It should be fine, though. I’ve got a good recipe.
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That would be a very helpful Helper. I worked with a woman, a wildlife biologist, who told me that on cold days she would stop and pick up dead raccoons from the side of the road if she knew that they weren't over a couple of hours dead and not too badly mangled. Threw them in the bed of her truck. I was her agency's lawyer and I came to trust everything thing she said, regardless of the party line.

JB in SC said:
My late dad loved squirrel hunting. He would take me along when I was 5 or 6 (that's been over 60 years ago). Nothing makes a better still hunter than starting out a kid as a squirrel hunter with a .22 rifle. There was a chef in Mississippi that used ground up hot bacon rinds to coat the squirrel pieces and fry them, Lordy the little back straps were delicious.

I'll add that many a different critter has been on poor folk's tables in the South. Turn up your nose and you'd starve.
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Old Hunter said:
JB & 315, This weekend I’ve been cleaning up the final downed trees on my property from Hurricane Florence. Thank goodness that job is finally finished! Yesterday I had a huge Gray Squirrel watching me from an adjacent tree - he was so big I thought he was a Fox Squirrel at first. I laughed at him and remarked that he was safe, we are in the town limits so there’s no hunting. He’d made a nice stew all by himself. OH
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Meat is meat, my grandfather said. Both James Beard and Julia Childs are said to have thought squirrel to be the best of wild game meat. When I was in an Advanced Officers Course at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, IN, I had the great opportunity to go south with a fellow classmate to his home in the Arkansas Ozarks. He was the first of his family to go to college, much less graduate and become an U.S. Army officer. The county was "dry" so we stocked up on beer. His family place was small, simple and very neat. We grabbed some .22s and went for a walk in the woods, collecting 5 squirrels along the way. His mom, who made me feel at home immediately, fried the squirrels and used the leavings (and some beer she made us promise NEVER to mention) to make a gravy that she served with dumplings and greens. I was at home! Later, I realized that, without our walk, dinner was going to be dumplings and greens.

315 said:
Headed for the hills today just to get out of the house.
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Those are some very gorgeous hills, so I can see why. Any squirrels?

- Stuart
 
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