All About Pocket Knives

Thanks everyone for the kind words...........it means a lot to me!

Joe i took an interest in outdoor photography about four months ago. It has been a learning experience for sure! The camera is a beginner level Canon 550d.

Jerry these were taken at a local lake here. It is very convenient, about five blocks away.

Phil i love the last pic!

Some great pictures guys !!!!!!!!!! Always enjoy the sharin' from the outdoors & knives !!!!!

Good looking spot there Bro. Phil. And like the others, I suspect your brother and I would get along right well.

With a view like that, I hate to ruin the peace by having a deer intrude....(jk )

Phil - I really like that creek. First photo appears to show it flowing over layers of slate. Very nice! Looks like a fine place to hunt and enjoy nature.

Tim - those are some beautiful photos. When I am out in my kayak I often try to photograph birds, so I know it is not easy. My favorite of those is the cedar waxwing, followed by the heron lifting out of the water.

Dinadan wrote:First photo appears to show it flowing over layers of slate.

It's probably limestone. That seems to be the native bedrock in Kentucky.

tjmurphy wrote:

Dinadan wrote:First photo appears to show it flowing over layers of slate.

It's probably limestone. That seems to be the native bedrock in Kentucky.

Limestone it is. We do have some pockets of slate not too far from where I live however.

Mel i can only imagine how hard it is to get a good focus from a kayak

Temps were in the low 60's yesterday so I grabbed my boys and headed to the park!

I opened the hatch on my Yukon to grab my backpack and walking stick (it's actually a garage tool you fellas up north would call an ice scraper! I figure it'll give me an outside shot if a snake or wild boar arises - but it probably wouldn't. Anyhow.)

I searched the back of my truck, sent one of the boys in deep looking for it and it was not to be found. I was beside myself.....where could it be? Obviouslty the King of Missions (as named by one of the other boys who wasn't with us today) couldn't, wouldn't and most definitely SHOULDN'T have left it in the woods!! But did I?

Amazingly, my boys (actually my grandsons) hunted down our last spot like blood hounds, and proclaimed as they approached the downed tree.....THERE IT IS POPPY!! No I said, serious? You gotta be kidding me. I proclaimed them as awaesome trackers!!

We had a snack later and took a pic.....

My God, Scott. Those boys have already surpassed you.

Scott, I love reading your stories! I sure hope to have a grandson one day (before I'm too old) so I can teach him woodsmanship, shooting, hunting and give him one of my Winchester deer rifle's and Buck skinning knives for his own. I went deer hunting this morning, it was cold - the temps stayed between 27° and 30° - when you're up a stand with the breeze blowing it chills you down after several hours. Nice, heavy frost in the woods this morning - I saw one doe but didn't shoot her - still looking for one big old boy I saw back in there before Thanksgiving. Stopped at Abram's and had a cup of coffee and a cheese biscuit. Out again in the morning. OH

Old Hunter wrote:I went deer hunting this morning, it was cold - the temps stayed between 27° and 30° - when you're up a stand with the breeze blowing it chills you down after several hours. OH

Wimp!
I would be in shirt sleeves if it warmed up to 27

Thanks Bruce.....that means a lot!!

I hope you do too pal....life doesn't get any better than sharing your love and respect for the outdoors with a young'n especially when they "grasp" it.

Much respect my outdoors knife buddy!

Ken - guilty as charged! I stay until I'm cold, then head to Abram's in Pinetops or Ray's Drive-In on US301 in Wilson for breakfast.

Scott, the respect is mutual - and thank you!

I meant to post this pic as well....
Here's the fatwood find of the day, a solid gold nugget of fire breathing potential!

^^^^^ Hey Scott.. Don't suppose you wanna box that up and send it NORTH!!??!! Nice find!!! John

Old Hunter wrote:Ken - guilty as charged! I stay until I'm cold, then head to Abram's in Pinetops or Ray's Drive-In on US301 in Wilson for breakfast.

I was just ribbing you. I'm all for your idea, I'm sure more than once I've told buddies "lets get the heck outta here and go get some breakfast!

jmh58 wrote:^^^^^ Hey Scott.. Don't suppose you wanna box that up and send it NORTH!!??!! Nice find!!! John

We busted that up into some knice chunks.....if anybody wants some I'll trade ya for it, just let me know!!!

Had a good morning yesterday, my buddy Mark shot two deer and I shot one. My young buck was chasing a doe, both running all around a beanfield - she ducked into the woods and he put the brakes on at 212 yards - that was his mistake - one round from my Winchester M88 and it was over. All the deer were shot very early, had quite a tracking job on Mark's doe, she cut through a swamp and into an adjacent block of woods - you loose the blood trail wading through water (love Muck boots too). Spent the next four hours skinning and butchering the three deer; my Buck's laid out to begin and Mark with his Buck 103 skinning. I'll take my nephew deer hunting over Christmas weekend, then I'm done for the season. OH
Ps Mark retired from a full-time career with the ARNG and Army Reserve a few years ago - his wife gave him a Remington 30-06 SPRG for his retirement present. I started him deer hunting last season, but he got no deer (missed one) - he shot three while hunting with me this year! Off season range practice pays off.

Yeah buddy! Congrats Bruce!!!

Col. congrats to you and Mark. Looks like you two enjoyed one very productive morning.

Thanks gents, we did have a mighty good morning. Look close under Mark's hat - he is still learning - crawled the scope and it bit him. Funny, but he didn't realize it until I asked why he had blood on his forehead. OH

Nice hunt, Old Hunter! dLooks like it was a great morning except for the swamp part.

This morning I headed out fishing with my kayak. Launched at a local bayou where there is quite a bit of commercial fishing and shipbuilding. As soon as I hit the water it started raining, so I put my poncho on. Then within a few hundred feet of the ramp I started seeing hundreds of dead pogies (a small fish in the menhaden family) on the water. I paddled out of the bayou into the bay to try to get out the fish kill zone, but the dead fish were spread further than I wanted to paddle. I talked to a commercial crabber and he told me the whole bay was covered with them. Red tide, everyone thinks. Of course nothing was biting, and even if it had been I am not too sure about eating any fish from a killing zone. Just about when I was ready t give up it started lightning not too far away. Definitely time to head home!

So I had my outing. It was not one of the best, but unique it its own way.

Mel,
Red tide has been lingering around the panhandle a lot longer than usual this year, seems like from St. Joe to Panama it's still a news item about once a week .
Treefarmer

Mel, bad to hear about you being in a red tide kill zone - sounds pretty nasty. Hope you find some good water to land some fish in. Merry Christmas gents! OH