All About Pocket Knives

This is so cool Mike. Thanks for sharing those. Looks like a bunch I would hang out with. That is a ton of pelts.

I assume the main purpose was the were hunter/trappers harvest mainly to sell the pelts?

May sound like a real dumb question but was any other part of the animal used? If so, what and for what? Very curious.

I love old pics like that. Great you have the knife that was part of those pics and memories.

Regards, Jerry

Thanks for the comments men!
Phillip I am not sure of the exact breeds of the dogs, perhaps one of our knowledgeable hounds men here will chime in with their assessment??
Yes, I believe those are hogs in the other pic behind the dog pens...
Jerry, yes the pelts were all sold for money or traded for goods and supplies...and mŕy grandma was known to have coon on the dinner table from time to time!

I grew up following the hounds up and down creeks in West Texas. I noticed the Walkers, or Treeing Walkers seemed to be the predominant breed. I saw one the was either a Black and Tan or a Plott. There may have been a Red Bone in the mix. I always favored Red Bones and Blue Ticks, myself.
Really nice photos and great memories.

Ray

313 Mike wrote:Thanks for the comments men!
Phillip I am not sure of the exact breeds of the dogs, perhaps one of our knowledgeable hounds men here will chime in with their assessment??
Yes, I believe those are hogs in the other pic behind the dog pens...
Jerry, yes the pelts were all sold for money or traded for goods and supplies...and mŕy grandma was known to have coon on the dinner table from time to time!

That part of what I was wondering actually as if the meat ever got eaten. I tried eating all sorts of regular and exotic games animals. You know the animals you never knew existed and can't pronounce their name. Never had coon. I would have tried it just never had the chance.
Is it good?

There are Walkers and Black and Tans in the pics!! Plotts are a little shorter and hairier.. John

Over the passed few months I have posted photo's of neighborhood deer. Thought you might enjoy seeing the boys all grown up. Taken this A.M.
moss

Beautiful pictures Moss. It's rare to spot bucks around here during the velvet phase of antler growth.

zp4ja wrote:

313 Mike wrote:Thanks for the comments men!
Phillip I am not sure of the exact breeds of the dogs, perhaps one of our knowledgeable hounds men here will chime in with their assessment??
Yes, I believe those are hogs in the other pic behind the dog pens...
Jerry, yes the pelts were all sold for money or traded for goods and supplies...and mŕy grandma was known to have coon on the dinner table from time to time!

That part of what I was wondering actually as if the meat ever got eaten. I tried eating all sorts of regular and exotic games animals. You know the animals you never knew existed and can't pronounce their name. Never had coon. I would have tried it just never had the chance.
Is it good?

.......I can remember my grandma talking about cold coon and collards!!!!............. ..................

So cool Moss! Thanks for sharing!

Had 2 of the 4 grandsons today.....Normal stuff, gather wood, start fire with matches, cook food on coals....normal boy stufff!!

Hey Scott:
Thanks for taking the time out for the boy's. Not everybody would do that.
moss

I always enjoy your pictures, Scott.

Thanks Tom.....Moss.

And btw the only person allowed to have a wireless device is me.

Was very lucky to capture this photo of Sandhill Cranes with landing gear down!!

Great shot Scott. The expanded view is spectacular. And these cranes are in your neighborhood?

Quick Steel wrote:Great shot Scott. The expanded view is spectacular. And these cranes are in your neighborhood?

Not my neighborhood, my daughters and sister in-laws, I live on the other side of the tracks.

I like that photo Scott.

KOOL pic there Scott!!! NICE!!! John

That is a great photo, Scott!
When I was a boy growing up in central Florida we didn't see Sandhill Cranes like we do today. I remember the old timers called them "Whoopin' Cranes". Some of us kids listened in school enough to know that the actual Whooping Crane was almost extinct back then. Some times you would hear them calling in the morning when we were out in the woods. It's a sound you wont forget. At times you could see them feeding in a pasture that was grown up in weeds and bushes. Some times we would have to do a double take on the cranes as they were feeding in a grown up pasture. With their heads down, their backs look almost like a deer feeding in the bushes. It is amazing how "domesticated" they have become over the years.
Treefarmer

Thanks fellas!

Sandhill Cranes are very cool birds guys. You are fortunate to see them up close. Out here I see them all of time it seems, but they are always flying over head making that unique Sandhill Crane sound Nice pic Scott!

It almost doesn't belong in an "outdoorsman thread" considering the photos were taken inside city limits, but in some of our well-shaded areas here we have peacocks. This is one that decided to take a lazy walk in front of my car as I was winding through the surface streets on the way to a park one sunny afternoon...

In 1976, Sarah and I had the opportunity to spend a weekend with some older cousins who owned an Antebellum home and farm in Georgia.

They had peacocks, which I had actually never seen or been around in my life.

The birds roosted in four gigantic live oaks that surrounded the house.

They had no air conditioning, but the house had very tall, almost floor to ceiling windows, most of which were open.

About two o'clock in the morning, I was awakened and startled by what I thought was a woman repeatedly yelling very loudly, HAAALP!, HAAALP!, HAAALP!.

I wasn't far enough removed from my time in Viet Nam that that didn't bring me out of bed and in search of a weapon of any kind.

Sarah knew it was a peacock.

I still get kidded about that.

Charlie Noyes

Ostrich and Emu farm located just outside Solvang Ca. We were lucky to get there just at feeding time.
My wife loves animals of all types and sizes.
I call her Ms. Dr. Dolittle.

I shot Ms. Dolittle Video from my iPhone. Video quality and audio is lost in transfer. Sorry.
https://youtu.be/0Rk9stJ-uww

Cool stufff Dan!!

Rainy, rainy day today....started out under a pavilion, then the other father decided to go find some fatwood after I explained how it looks and feels....

Then, the fatwood fellows showed up and extracted this fatwood root from the ground....all in, dirt flying!!