WV Get-Together?

MacHete

MacHete

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We're trying to gague interest in a get-together in Charleston for the WV Hunting and Fishing show. The dates are Jan. 30, 31 and Feb. 1 (Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday) at the Charleston Civic Center.

What would you think about meeting Saturday morning for breakfast or coffee and then heading to the show?

Anyone is welcome, as are ideas for participants. :) I'll be posting details in the WSS forum.
 
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Ed and I would have LOVED to gone but with school just back in full swing....

Maybe well have to do the south east in warmer weather.

Willow & DocH
 
I usually go on Friday evening because I work only a block from the Civic Center.

You should just meet me at my house some day for coffee and chopping stuff;):thumbup:

I did find a nice GB Hunters axe there one year but my complaint against the Hunt Show is it is mainly outfitters and canned hunting places have booths.

Occasionally there are 2 or 3 knife makers but most are all 440c and hollow ground stuff. I wish there was more hunting gear like guns, knives, packs and clothing, stuff like that. There's lots of ATV dealers but mainly it's people with game farms or outfitters.

I go every year though because #1 it's close to work and the wife and I meet up there.(she works about a block in the OTHER direction) and #2 besides the exhibitors listed above there are usually 5 or 6 booths selling gourmet jerky and we usually buy about 50 bucks worth to take on our various backpacking trips!
 
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I won't rule out Friday evening for me yet. It'll depend on how my recovery goes. I should be back to work by then, which means I couldn't make it because I work nights.

I hope to know more tomorrow after I wake up. ;)
 
Is it too off topic to ask how many sharks hail from WV? I'm a bit surprised that any do. I myself am a native of Wheeling.
 
Nothing is ever too off-topic in the Cantina. ;)

I know there are several BF members from WV, but so far as regular posters to HI and the Cantina, these are all I can think of:

Hollowdweller
WVHills
MagenDavid (You)
MacHete (Me)
KatClaws (My wife, Kathy)

You are warmly encouraged to join our Social Group- the "West Virginia Wielders of Wild and/or Wonderful Steel". :) Just click on the "user CP" tab on the left of the toolbar and find "social groups". We are not very active right now, but we hope to be changing that. :o

BTW- Why do you find HIKV sufferers from WV to be surprising?
 
Well, for one, the khukri is fairly obscure. When most people see it, they automatically see sword. Of course, I think most people see a sword when looking at a bolo or machete, too.
But Wheeling dwellers, just the same, tend not to have much use for any such tools, so there's not a whole lot of exposure to large utility knives. I tend to forget how different Wheeling is from downstate, since Pittsburgh exerts a good bit of influence on the locale.
I guess this means I need to infect a few friends with HIKV. Assimilate the Wheelingites.
 
I dunno. I'm not sure environment really has much to do with susceptability to the Khuk bug. I grew up in the suburbs of greater Cincinnati, but fell in love with Khukris from pictures in a book as a kid. Their appeal is visceral, if not universal. Once I got my first Khuk, I had to go looking for ways to use it. It didn't fill a practical need in my life at that time- but OH!- how I needed that knife. ;):D:cool:
 
Yes. This is true. I have very little practical use for a khuk, being that I live in a suburban neighborhood. My brother mocks me for using it as a potato knife, and the people at my work stopped asking questions and just began giving me their used plastic bottles. Although a friend of mine who is in the business of felling and disposing of trees sees much beauty in the khuk. I'll end up likely giving him one of mine to infect him with HIKV.
Plus, infecting others just helps out the kamis. Win-win scenario.

edit: Where did you avatar (is that the right term?) come from? What breed of dog is it?
 
My Khuks have found most of their use performing storm-damaged tree-clearing duties in suburban Cincinnati, slightly more rural Kentucky and here in my West Virginia hills. Of the 12-20 that I own, probably only 5 or 6 have seen real, hard use, and I probably could have done it all with just one or two of them.

That is not a reason to not have more of them. ;)

The avatar is my best bud Code at about age 9-10 months. He is now 7 years old and holding up well- although yesterday he went to the Vet because he was carrying his right rear paw. X-rays showed no damage, and no wounds were found, so a mild non-steroidal pain killer and some antibiotics were prescribed. He's walking better already, but doesn't care for the pills he has to swallow. I have no idea what breed he is. He came from an animal shelter (as the better dogs do) :thumbup: where their best guess was "Husky/Sheperd mix". Many who see him, including a couple Veterinarians and breeders, insist he must be part wolf. I could go either way on that, but it doesn't matter. All I know is that he is the most awesome dog ever- at least to me. :)
 
I love the shepherd/husky mix. I've seen a couple around town and they seem like they'd be fun to have. You combine the Teutonic efficiency of the shepherd combined with the indomitable will to survive of and hardy Cossack spirit of the Husky. How can you go wrong? Kind of makes me miss my massive Great Dane. She combined Teutonic efficiency with massiveness. Never had a door-to-door salesman stick around longer than the, "No thanks. We're not interested."
But I digress. I was intrigued by the ears, also. Are they cropped?
And, not to exclude Voodoo, the spirit of West Virginia is to welcome newcomers and passers-through. I think that was one of the billing points Joseph H Diss Debar mentioned when marketing the land back in the latter parts of the 19th century. Can't speak for the other West Virginians, but I say welcome.
 
Speaking of Huskies, and WV, I actually got mine from a breeder there in WV back in July.
 
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