All About Pocket Knives

Mike, I see plenty of places for a tree stand in them pictures, especially that 1st picture, lookin' over the water and back into the woods. Bambi would be in trouble in that area come next season . Great pictures!
Treefarmer

Thanks for the kind words gents!

Nice spots for a tree stand indeed....the deer like to travel along those edges and bed down on the little points.....easy escape route out into the marsh at the first sign of trouble.

We took to the woods yesterday and I worked........................I worked the camera

These are my grandsons. By the way, there is a safe way to have kids use a hatchet......on their knees. If they miss they get a hatchet full of dirt, not leg or toe!!

Really good safety tip, Scott. I would have never thought of that.

What's the purpose of the fire in the Coke can?

Purpose? Absolutely none......just wanted to see if it could be done.

I used my GEC 78 American Jack to cut the hole.
Dropped in a couple pieces of bark (loaded with sap) and set fire with a match!

Purpose? Absolutely none......just wanted to see if it could be done.

I used my GEC 78 American Jack to cut the hole.
Dropped in a couple pieces of bark (loaded with sap) and set fire with a match!

When I was still at Ft. Bragg in early 1969, myself and about a half dozen other guys on our Team did an over night in the tail races and islands below a large dam on the Pee Dee River in North Carolina.

We fished and set out a trot line.

All this required a lot of wading.

Got a big loggerhead turtle on the trot line. Killed it, took it out of its shell, an interesting process, skinned it and cut it into chunks of both light and dark meat.

We hadn't brought ant pots or pans, so we cut the tops out of empty beer cans with a P-38, filled them with river water, put chunks of turtle in with some salt and stood the cans up in the coals of our fire.

Boiled into a quite tasty treat.

I wish I had pics of that, but there was no way I was taking my 35mm Yashica into that maze of rushing water and its myriad small islands.

Charlie Noyes

Home made hand warmer (not that you need it in Florida but nice to know you can).

Still campin'

Ruffin' it.

Charlie, I bird hunt off the west bank of the Pee Dee River, near the SC line in Anson County NC (a little south of where you would have been) - nice country all around the Pee Dee. I am leaving in the morning for a few days of turkey hunting along the banks of the Pee Dee just north of Darlington SC. Cutty, I like your style!

Had a great morning out early today - two of my deer hunting buddies have never shot a wild turkey - we went out on Saturday morning, hunted hard, no shots fired, but located five toms and where they are roosting. We set up three locations; two with blinds for Jim and Billy to shoot out of, and one shrub blind in the edge of the woods for me to watch the fields - and shoot one too if he came my way. We had tom's going to both blinds (about 500 yards apart and on different ends of the field) - one pair disappeared into the woods following hens, so Jim got no shot. However, a lone tom on the other end of the field followed five hens to his doom! Billy shot this one at 0923 (the first tree gobbles were heard at 0618). The tom was nearly 20 lbs, had a 10" main beard, a 6" secondary beard, and 7/8" spurs - nice bird, first bird - big celebration! Billy and I have been buddies for years at Church and VFW, but he just started deer hunting last fall and turkey hunting this past Saturday - I think he is ruined now! OH

Ps. Last fall he asked for advice concerning a hunting knife - of course I advised him to pick out a BUCK!

Good Stuff Old Hunter !! Double beard is interesting. I know your buddy is happy.
Treefarmer

RobesonsRme.com wrote:When I was still at Ft. Bragg in early 1969, myself and about a half dozen other guys on our Team did an over night in the tail races and islands below a large dam on the Pee Dee River in North Carolina.

We fished and set out a trot line.

All this required a lot of wading.

Got a big loggerhead turtle on the trot line. Killed it, took it out of its shell, an interesting process, skinned it and cut it into chunks of both light and dark meat.

We hadn't brought ant pots or pans, so we cut the tops out of empty beer cans with a P-38, filled them with river water, put chunks of turtle in with some salt and stood the cans up in the coals of our fire.

Boiled into a quite tasty treat.

I wish I had pics of that, but there was no way I was taking my 35mm Yashica into that maze of rushing water and its myriad small islands.

Charlie Noyes

Charlie where on earth did you guys find empty beer cans?

philco wrote:

RobesonsRme.com wrote:When I was still at Ft. Bragg in early 1969, myself and about a half dozen other guys on our Team did an over night in the tail races and islands below a large dam on the Pee Dee River in North Carolina.

We fished and set out a trot line.

All this required a lot of wading.

Got a big loggerhead turtle on the trot line. Killed it, took it out of its shell, an interesting process, skinned it and cut it into chunks of both light and dark meat.

We hadn't brought ant pots or pans, so we cut the tops out of empty beer cans with a P-38, filled them with river water, put chunks of turtle in with some salt and stood the cans up in the coals of our fire.

Boiled into a quite tasty treat.

I wish I had pics of that, but there was no way I was taking my 35mm Yashica into that maze of rushing water and its myriad small islands.

Charlie Noyes

Charlie where on earth did you guys find empty beer cans?

I'm sure the empty cans were more plentiful than the full ones

Cutty - you're killin' me bro! lol.....thanks for sharing!

Awesome stufff Bruce! Thanks bud!

We didn't take any empty beer cans with us when we waded the river and it was too far back to the cars to go get some, so we were forced to empty some of the still full, unopened cans that we did take in with us.

Make sense?

RobesonsRme.com wrote:We didn't take any empty beer cans with us when we waded the river and it was too far back to the cars to get some, so we forced to empty some of the still full, unopened cans that we did take in with us.

Make sense?

Improvise, adapt and overcome.

Bream are bedding,may try to catch a mess tomorrow. Larry

That's a fine lookin' pond! Catch us a mess tomorrow .
Treefarmer

Thanks TF, this picture is from my front door.

Knice view jlw! Hope you're fishing and tearin' 'em up right now!!!

Keep us posted!


TF

Great stories and pictures! Thought I'd post a few pictures from my last loner camping trip. My wife will have no parts of camping much less camping in the woods which leaves me to go on my own when I get the itch. The following pics are from a trip to the old family farm. It's a 100 acre farm in King and Queen Co., Virginia.

The pictures of the "pond" is a hideaway pond on the farm called "Root Swamp". I like to call it "Water Moccasin Lake". The first time I went I threw my line in to get 'er wet and I said to myself, "Wow, there sure are a lot of turtles in this pond". Look at all the "Turtle heads stick'n above the water. Wait a minute, turtles don't move like that...they don't swim that fast! What I then realized is I was fish'n in and around 'bout 8 to 9 snakes! Have I mentioned I hate snake? No, I really hate snakes! However I was will'in to share the turf until two of them became curious with my Mepp's spinner and decided to follow it back in to the reeler...me! I took a whack at them with the tip of my rod, which if ya didn't know you shouldn't do... it just makes them less curious and really aggressive! Well I snatched up my fear, 'er I mean gear, and ran as fast as I could right in to the arms of a raccoon who was try'n to do some early morn'in fishing as well. Scared him so bad He looked like one of those pictures of a Halloween black cat sitt'n on a fence, hunched back, hiss and all! Heck I didn't know they hissed! So I said to my self, stand still and don't move. Talk about being caught between a rock and a hard place, still wasn't sure I wasn't be'n chased by those dang snakes I pissed off! All in all the out come was good. After 'bout a 2-3 minute staring contest he decided to
mosey on along... and so did I.

The picture of the camp fire shows some tuna steaks I cooked for lunch,(I was go'in to eat some fish no matter what) and a good pot of joe. I covered the base of the pit with sand to reduce the "carbon footprint" thang.

The others are pics of my camp. iIt was a great time to renew, relax and enjoy the outdoors. I plan on a trip in a couple of months. And yes,I will be fishing at a diffrent pond this go round.

The picture of the bass is one I caught at Cherrydale lake a few mile from my house. And yes, I ate him too!

Great story and pics Rocky! Thanks for sharing.
I bet you were feeling a bit "squirrelly" sleeping in that open bottomed tent knowing all the snakes in the area! I remember when I lived in a tent in the backwater of Florida for a stretch I made dang sure my tent was sealed up tight whenever I stepped out for even a minute...and before I crawled into it each night I took my gear and sleeping bag out and gave it all a real close inspection! Sure wouldn't want to be cozying up to a curious serpent!

Thanks Mike, ya can't tell by the pic but she is zipped up tight at all times. Root Swamp pond was well away from camp. By the way plenty of rabbit, squirrel, deer and turkey to hunt. I only go after the rabbit and squirrel.

Rocky