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I was talking to Moose at the Becker gathering and he thought you guys might enjoy this story.
I brought a ZT 0200 with me to the Amazon Jungle in Peru in May of 2012. I brought it and several other hard use folders along as a companion to a machete. I wrote an article about the folders and the concept for Blade. I'm not sure when it will be in there.
I was down there with the Randall's Adventure and Training group. I found a lot of ways to use the knife. It was used to make cordage from palm leaf stems.
It cleaned a few fish and cut a lot of fruit. It was also used to make a spear for hunting wild boar and caimans.
The most important use I had for the knife was after I lost my passport. I did something really stupid and ended up losing my passport. It can be a little difficult to get by without a passport. I lost it in Iquitos, Peru. Unfortunately there is no US Embassy there. There are also no roads and the nearest embassy is in Lima. The only way out of Iquitos is to either get on a plane or to take the Amazon river out. The Amazon river doesn't run to Lima, so I had one choice.
The problem was that I had to be in the jungle during the week, and in order to get on the plane I had to file a police report and get it stamped by a judge. Some fancy footwork was needed to make that happen in my absence. Percy (shown in the photo below) knew some people and was able to make it happen with a little silver to help grease the wheels. As a thank you, I gave Percy my ZT 0200.
Shown in the photo are Percy, the ZT 0200, his spear and my lawnmower blade parang.
Eventually I got out of Peru and back to the states. I've been back to the Amazon since as part of the Amazon 5000 expedition. I was talking to Patrick Rollins, one of the R.A.T. guys, recently. He went back down for another class and saw Percy. He asked how the ZT 0200 was doing.
Percy said that he stuck a caiman with it and the caiman swam off with the knife. I'm guessing that the ZT 0200 may have ended up in a pawn shop or that it was traded to another local. I prefer to believe Percy's account of what happened to it.
Anyway I enjoyed the ZT 0200 when it was mine. If you're ever in the Amazon jungle and you see a caiman swimming around with my ZT 0200, snap a picture.
I brought a ZT 0200 with me to the Amazon Jungle in Peru in May of 2012. I brought it and several other hard use folders along as a companion to a machete. I wrote an article about the folders and the concept for Blade. I'm not sure when it will be in there.
I was down there with the Randall's Adventure and Training group. I found a lot of ways to use the knife. It was used to make cordage from palm leaf stems.
It cleaned a few fish and cut a lot of fruit. It was also used to make a spear for hunting wild boar and caimans.
The most important use I had for the knife was after I lost my passport. I did something really stupid and ended up losing my passport. It can be a little difficult to get by without a passport. I lost it in Iquitos, Peru. Unfortunately there is no US Embassy there. There are also no roads and the nearest embassy is in Lima. The only way out of Iquitos is to either get on a plane or to take the Amazon river out. The Amazon river doesn't run to Lima, so I had one choice.
The problem was that I had to be in the jungle during the week, and in order to get on the plane I had to file a police report and get it stamped by a judge. Some fancy footwork was needed to make that happen in my absence. Percy (shown in the photo below) knew some people and was able to make it happen with a little silver to help grease the wheels. As a thank you, I gave Percy my ZT 0200.
Shown in the photo are Percy, the ZT 0200, his spear and my lawnmower blade parang.
Eventually I got out of Peru and back to the states. I've been back to the Amazon since as part of the Amazon 5000 expedition. I was talking to Patrick Rollins, one of the R.A.T. guys, recently. He went back down for another class and saw Percy. He asked how the ZT 0200 was doing.
Percy said that he stuck a caiman with it and the caiman swam off with the knife. I'm guessing that the ZT 0200 may have ended up in a pawn shop or that it was traded to another local. I prefer to believe Percy's account of what happened to it.
Anyway I enjoyed the ZT 0200 when it was mine. If you're ever in the Amazon jungle and you see a caiman swimming around with my ZT 0200, snap a picture.
