BrotherJim
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Sunday Night: Coffee and Indian River Jack

The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
It’s great you still have that treasure. It’s amazing how things used to be compared to how they are now. When I was the archery director at summer camp and during the Order of the Arrow Tapout Ceremony, I shot flaming arrows into the lake when they called the names of the Ordeal Candidates. Can you imagine doing that now!Check this out~ my Dad’s Handbok for Boys, printed June, 1946. Amazing all the fun things they did without putting their eyes out or ending up in jail!
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I thought of you when I saw a graph comparing this one to Katrina. This one has sustained winds 25 mph higher. Of course, what made K. so bad was how it just sat there and rained. And it’s surge.
Here’s hoping this one blows right on through without stalling...
GOOD LUCK!
Thank you sir, I’m very lucky to have a great brother! The .44 Henry is a excellent rifle even with magnum loads. With the heavy hexagon barrel it’s a great shooter.That’s a wonderful display. I really like that Henry rifle; been wanting to pick one up myself. Your brother is very generous!
Yep Silver Fork has given me a ton of great memories fishing with friends and my dad. Strawberry is just beautiful or was beautiful it’s a miniature Yosemite…I hear that!!!
It's currently ripping through my 4x4 club's adopted trail in Strawberry.
I helped re-open that trail after years of neglect and being forgotten by the 4x4 community.
Also, Silver Fork is one of my Go-To spots for fly fishing... not to mention an absolutely beautiful spot.
I made it to First Class... and then just enjoyed the learning, camping, and games... I kind of forgot about advancements after that.I’m an eagle too.
Same for me. One of my few regrets in a very blessed life. My troop wasn’t strong, but man did we have fun!! One of my favorite memories was being at a jamboree during the height of the ‘streaking’ craze. One of my idiot Troop-mates decided to ‘liven’ up the opening campfire by streaking through the circle of about 150 campers. Unfortunately, he ended his adventure in a patch of poison ivy!!I made it to First Class... and then just enjoyed the learning, camping, and games... I kind of forgot about advancements after that.
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Totin’ this whittler as we ride out Hurricane Ida. At this point, the eye of the storm is only about 25 miles to my west! I have the horses and dogs bedded down. It is going to be a long night! I love Louisiana, but this place is not for the faint hearted. At least it is never boring!
Thanks for the good wishes Yann and Andrew, @Corto_Malt ,NewBlades16 .
Awesome…Another Salsa Canning Day. This is a Peach Mango Salsa, with enough jalapenos to keep you awake.
That elk handled thing is a kitchen knife/vegetable chopper that I ground out of a mower blade.
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Cool tools.This is my camp equipment from back in the day; I never had an official BSA knife, but I still have this Imperial Kamp-King Knife, Bridgeport Official Scout Ax, and BSA Official Match Safe as well as most of my other BSA equipment. It brings back a lot of great memories from my youth.
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I hope everything ends up okay for you. Stay safe.View attachment 1629948View attachment 1629951,
Totin’ this whittler as we ride out Hurricane Ida. At this point, the eye of the storm is only about 25 miles to my west! I have the horses and dogs bedded down. It is going to be a long night! I love Louisiana, but this place is not for the faint hearted. At least it is never boring!
Thanks for the good wishes Yann and Andrew, @Corto_Malt ,NewBlades16 .
We’ve been watching that fire grow every day. One of my family’s favorite spots is the Carson Pass area. I’m hoping it doesn’t make it over there but it’s not looking good. Also hoping where we ski at Sierra gets spared, but also not looking good.These two! Caldor Fire continues to be a threat locally. It’s going to drastically change the landscape in some of my most beloved places in the mountains.
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Indeed it has!Cool tools.That camp axe has seen some use!
I hope everything ends up okay for you. Stay safe.
We’ve been watching that fire grow every day. One of my family’s favorite spots is the Carson Pass area. I’m hoping it doesn’t make it over there but it’s not looking good. Also hoping where we ski at Sierra gets spared, but also not looking good.![]()
Yep Silver Fork has given me a ton of great memories fishing with friends and my dad. Strawberry is just beautiful or was beautiful a miniature Yosemite…I hear that!!!
It's currently ripping through my 4x4 club's adopted trail in Strawberry.
I helped re-open that trail after years of neglect and being forgotten by the 4x4 community.
Also, Silver Fork is one of my Go-To spots for fly fishing... not to mention an absolutely beautiful spot.
Yep we Love Silver Lake and Caples. Was actually up there last weekend watching the bombers drop retardant towards the north. Looks like it’s about a mile from Sierra and 3 miles to Silver lake.Cool tools.That camp axe has seen some use!
I hope everything ends up okay for you. Stay safe.
We’ve been watching that fire grow every day. One of my family’s favorite spots is the Carson Pass area. I’m hoping it doesn’t make it over there but it’s not looking good. Also hoping where we ski at Sierra gets spared, but also not looking good.![]()
Totin this Schrade Fire & Ice Trapper today as we go by the sister-in-law's house to drop off her birthday present and then head out to the Brass Rail for their Sunday Brunch Special "Steak & Eggs". If I cut the steak up in itty-bitty pieces, my swallow can handle it.
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Check this out~ my Dad’s Handbok for Boys, printed June, 1946. Amazing all the fun things they did without putting their eyes out or ending up in jail!
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A pair of super slicers for your Sunday, Jack; love the gnarly stag covers on your SFO lambsfoot!![]()
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Thank you very much JJ, that's a great-looking Puma, and the stag is stunning
These two! Caldor Fire continues to be a threat locally. It’s going to drastically change the landscape in some of my most beloved places in the mountains.
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That's very sad gentsI hear that!!!
It's currently ripping through my 4x4 club's adopted trail in Strawberry.
I helped re-open that trail after years of neglect and being forgotten by the 4x4 community.
Also, Silver Fork is one of my Go-To spots for fly fishing... not to mention an absolutely beautiful spot.
Sounds like a great little canoe!Thanks! I got it here on the exchange in a bundle. I’m very happy with it. Good finish, surprisingly strong pull, especially the secondary blade.
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Laguiole La Clef des Champs for this Saturday. Have a nice day.![]()
Your Laguioles are such slender, elegant knives when open!
Your stag Churchill is superb!GEC#35 in Stag.
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3 Es to live by, Rachel: Ebony Equal End!!
Your big stag clip point looks fantastic by the stony squirrel, Jeff!Schradurday or Stagurday?
Yes.
2138, and 881Y
Have a fine day
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Have a safe and enjoyable vacation, Bruce; mighty fine collection of knives you're taking with you!Heading out the door in a few minutes for vacation, have several knives in the car to rotate around (all car knives) but I have a 6318 in my pocket. OH
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A few of the car knives - from a penknife to a folding hunter - think I'm covered.
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Congrats on your new gunstock and Bullet, Steve!Two new ones today, a 44 and a Baby Bullet
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Cool photo!
Maybe not entirely innocent, but it's complicated. She usually has a list of 4-6 quilt/knitting/fabric stores she wants to visit on the trip out or the trip home. But we started so late on the first day that all but one of her shops were already closed by the time we got to them, and many weren't open yet when we passed them on our race home (still managed to stop at one quilt store on the way home, though).Well, Gary, given that your lovely wife knows of your KAS (knife acquisition syndrome), that timing thing might not be entirely innocent.
Thanks for the Voos comment as well as the photos!
Three satisfying knives!
Thanks, John; having grown up on a dairy farm, I'm drawn to a knife with a bovine etch, even though Angus isn't a dairy breed.Cool Sodbuster... I love the name and the etch.![]()
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That cattle knife is charismatic!
Yeah, a carbon steel MAM would be cool, but I kind of appreciate the "easy care" aspect of my stainless knives.I got my first MAM last year and I like it a lot. I just wish they did a carbon steel version like Opinel.
Those AG Russell spearpoint lockback Barlows are pretty sweet, Mike!AG Russell
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Stellar stag!Some stag for Saturday.
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Thanks, Todd.Great pictures Gary, the one of the upper Tahquamenon Falls caught my eye. My wife and I visited those falls almost 30 years ago!
Love the bigger Alox SAK. I can’t get over how snappy it is and it feels great in the hand.![]()
Thanks for the interesting info about the Black Angus sodbuster, Jack.Some interesting new acquisitions GaryPapa Andi contacted Klaas for me, in relation to those Black Angus knives, about a decade ago, and Klaas made it clear that they are nothing to do with them, and that they simply took some cash to allow their name to be used
Hope everyone is having a great weekendCarrying one of my Lambsfoot SFOs again today, and Charlie's outstanding Black Jack
Have a nice Sunday folks
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Less than ideal IMHO!Yeah. At one point my nurse had to dash off to recieve an ambulance, leaving me with a tray piled with needles and ampoules to contemplate.
Thanks for the kind words my friendI still enjoyed the chilli, but I needed to take a shower, get changed, and drink a lot of beer after!
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