Please excuse my absence. But I's be back!
Dave O sent me this Yellowstone Park souvenir Bowie knife!
"Living off the land" is the way Dave likes to put it, as he builds his own lento for shelter,
fishes for lunch, and bow hunts small varmint for dinner while camping in the forest.
Legend has it, Dave O was doing some camping in the Yellowstone Park several years back.
While on an afternoon hike, Dave O heard a commotion off through the underbrush.
Dave rushed to find the root of such a disturbance.
Emerging from the brush, Dave had come upon a group of hikers, stunned and panicking, as
they watched with terror as a LARGE grizzly scampered off through the foliage with a young boy
clinched be his jacket, in his teeth.
Instinctively, Dave lurched forward after the beast, grabbing it by the tail, while socking it in the
nose. The bear, in a bit of sock, dropped the child, and made way into the heavy thicket, not to
be seen again.
Dave O, being the modest man he is, simply shook it off as if it were nothing - just another day
with nature.
Of course the group tried to compensate Dave with anything he requested. Dave simply said
"I didn't do anything anyone else wouldn't have done."
Later, the same evening, the boy approached Dave an gave him a BIG ol' hug, before the group
departed back to civilization.
It wasn't until Dave returned home that he discovered the young man had slipped the souvenir
knife into his pocket!
I will take pride in preserving this knife and story for you, Dave O!
...... Joe
I've got a camouflage knife, but I can't find it.......
..... cardboard addicted.....
"The old timer's concentrated on making knives; not keeping records!!" ~ Bonfire bob
I never set out to collect them
The one from NewHampshire I got on a Y.M.C.A. trip to Benson animal park 
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Joe Dirt thats nice.My visit to Bensons was in the the mid 60's I've had it all these years 
Any truth to that??
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