When the going gets tough the tough go shopping

[lt632ret]

First let me wish everyone a good holiday whatever you celebrate. I do not personally like the holidays the days of children and weeping while watching It is a wonderful life, and all the other things that go with a family ect are no longer an option for me. Although I must say that I have it pretty good and know it. A friend at 58 just fell over in the shower with an anyurism ( spelling ? ). The funeral is next week. He was a great fisherman. Many young familys are separated and either one or both ( husband ,wife , mother, father )are protecting our way of life, in harms way, many will never come back. They are the flowers of our country and i will miss them all, and never forget there sacrifices, for all of us. So I do realise what i have may not be perfect but, it ain't bad. That being said this year I said what the HE-- . I think I will buy a few knives since I only have a couple. As you know Domestic pre 1958 automatics ie switchblades are my favorite frankly there are not many variations of these that I do not have, my book The Collectors Guide to Switchblde knives is mainly a pictorial guide and I own everything in the book. Also the book has been out 5 years and as you may have guessed, my collection has not gotten smaller. I really usually, unless I get something when i buy a large collection, seldom buy automatics unless it is a high end piece that I do not have an example of, I am glad to say there are not to many of these. So I said since one never knows when we might shuffle off this mortal coil and since I was a bit depressed . I bought a couple of pieces one is a KA-BAR baby Grizzly in celluloid ( I already had a winterbottom stagged version.) The other item was a full card of Jumbo Jack shursnap automatics on the original candy store card. Which probably cost about 2 dollars a piece when they sold in the 40tys and 50tys. Now the empty cardboard card brings 500. The cards especially this one with the original jumbos on it is super rare. What the heck like i say when I play cards when in doubt throw in more money. So these were my Christmas presents to the nicest person I know ( or at least the nicest one who still talks to me) Myself. ( Yes I do talk to myself. ) . So for the price of a fairly decent second hand automobile here are my Christmas presents to me. I wish me a merry christmas I wish me a merry Christmas. LT PS Please if any of you receive special presents especially knives or female undergarments ( just a joke ) please share them with us kind of like opening presents together. Damn I am getting maudlin in my old age . In any event here are my presents to me.

[orvet]

At least you got something you wanted!
I will post what I get for Christmas. My wife got a at least one knife I wanted. I showed her the one I wanted on ebay & she won it. But, she made me promise I wouldn't talk about it until after Christmas.
I know I will like it though.

I wish you all Happy Holidays!
Dale

[sunburst]

Merry Christmas to you LT,

There are lot's of reasons out there that makes the Christmas season, one of those is actually getting what you wanted...And it sure looks like you got what "YOU" asked for...

The only problem for me though is now you have me wanting what you got for Christmas and I cannot afford a decent second hand automobile at the moment so there goes my chances...

I love your automatics and really appreciate you taking the time to share them with us..

You have a Merry Christmas and God Bless,

Sunburst

[muskrat man]

Hey LT, never hurts to buy onesself a gift every now and then. I talk to myself alot too , I don't have much anyone else to talk to, other than my parents, and I get on here and bother you fellas as often as possible. You have yurself a good holiday Rich.

[Rusty1]

Nice presents there LT, really like the switchbaldes on the original card, nice catch. great to see them complete,

have a nice one, whatever you may be doing,

Rusty1

[relodr36]

LT,
Glad to see some pictures of knives that I couldn't afford when I was a kid.Thank you!
Those were the days before kids got allowances and money was hard to come by.
Two bucks would have gotten me 10 boxes of .22 shorts.My interest in knives was limited to having a good pocketknife and all of my money went for ammo or more muskrat traps.A good rat shipped to Sears or Taylor,would bring a buck apiece if the pelt was well-handled.
Dale,
It's good to see you posting.Apparently that big storm left you with power.
Here's wishing you all a Merry Christmas and good health!
Ron

[orvet]

Thanks Ron. We huddled down and let 'er blow! Didn't even loose power, though 5 of my 6 kids did.
That will show 'em how dad grew up with out electricity.

We did have some problems with the phone though. Thank the Good Lord everyone has cell phones.
Merry Christmas,
Dale

PS Ron- Did you get a nice buck?

[lt632ret]

I remember those days I remember a store in OKlahoma outside of muskogee ( where my grandad lived ). You could buy 22s at a penny a piece . I got a nickle a week 3 squirrels meant another nickle next week. 2 meant you had a week off unless you used birthday money. I gave my old single shot away many rears ago. I had a hound who made sure if they hit the deck they did not get away. I have not thought of that for many years. it helped my shooting years later I shot well enough to have been on a NYS sniper team . GRANDAD WHO WAS A CHEROKEE ( NORTHERN MOUNTAIN TRIBE) . chief was a state 22 champion he managed to get the first Drought relief for OKLA farmers and was given the job of a state elector ( electorial college ) as kind of a reward they wanted him to run for senator. However when he explained that he had once shot the Sheriff of Tulsa when the sheriff had gotten drunk in grandpas speak easy during prohibition they gave him the electorate job instead. He taught me what noodling was about the scairiest type of fishing in the world. You bait a 55 gallon drum under the water and then reach in and grab what is hopefully a catfish and not a snapping turtle or a Gar ( which is kind of a fish with teeth that should have died 50 million years ago). If there was an air pocket you could get a water Moc, once in a while you might find a guy who got to drunk on Saturday night and fell in. Big cats were a real food source during the depression. That was before me . I still remember breakfast at his house Fresh Honey comb. Fried Frogs legs gigged and shot the night before cornbread and fresh eggs that I went out and brought in . A bit different than todays poptarts. I could not afford those knives either but I can now and as Bobby Bare ( a country singer ) Used to sing in an old song of his ( I used to know him ) one line was I guess that makes me the WINNER??? LT PS obviously I have to much time and to many memories I must admit I really do not care for the holidays. I better get out tomorrow . At least to go to the liquor store. PPS Dale I am really glad you got through how bad did it get? How was the surfboarding on those breakers?

[muskrat man]

Glad to see you came through things alright Dale.

That is a great story LT, brings back memories of simpler times, which I am sad I was never able to see, had to have been better than todays society.
Take it easy Bud

[orvet]

Thanks for asking LT.
The highest gust recorded in the storm that I heard of was 114 MPH on Mt. Hebo. But that was on the top of a small mountain with a 3,174-foot summit. They have a weather station up there.
I think WB told me they had close to 100 mph where he lives up where the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean. I live down in the mid Willamette Valley with the Coast Range between us and the ocean, probably 40 miles as the crow flies. I think we had 60 – 70 mph gusts here. My son had to go out in the storm and he saw transformers flashing like lighting. He said he saw 10 or 12 transformers blow in his immediate neighborhood. He lives about a mile from me.

Speaking of .22’s… …..my Dad recently gave me the .22 I grew up with. A Remington pump that they stopped making during the Depression. That .22 had put a lot of meat on the table of the Vincent family. I think my Great Granddad bought it used, in the early 1900s. My Granddad of course got it, then my Dad. It has served 4 generations of my family. Dad once told me that it had probably put more meat on the table than any other gun in the family. There are a couple other guns in the family that go back into the early 1900s. As a kid I could hit a Grey Digger (Ground Squirrel) running full tilt at 40 – 50 yards. I used to kill Silver Grey Squirrels & Pine Squirrels for an old trapper that lived close to us. I think .22 long rifle's were $.25 then.

The old trapper would make squirrel stew and just reheat it every day & add to the stew. He said it was pretty tasty after about a week. He didn’t have electricity, neither did we until I started my senior year of High School in 1968. We lived at about 4000 feet East of Ashland, OR, where the Coast Range & the Cascade Range meets the Siskiyou Mountains. We were the last year around residents out of Ashland, heading toward Klamath Falls on Dead Indian Rd. There were 8 houses between us and the outskirts of Ashland. Today there are hundreds, many of them beyond where we liked. This info is included for those of you who know the area or really care or who are Mountain Folk.

I spent many happy days wandering through the woods with that .22 rifle.

‘Yall have a Merry Christmas.
Dale

[Grizzly_Dog]

Happy holidays everybody. I think everybody should get a knife for christmas, even if he has to point it out to his wife. I'm fairly new to collecting so I've been reading all your posts (new and old) and generally just creeping in the background. But I am learning a ton so keep up the pics and history. Thanks alot LT for all your help and pics, as you know I love the Schrade.

[upnorth]

Well, my family has gotten tired of getting me knives and cutlery items for Christmas. I'm not complaining too hard, as they are very generous to "daddy/grandpa", but I picked up my first ever push button knife in my 62 years, from the post office today, so Christmas will be a little knifely after all.
It works real good, and following LT's advice, I will store it in the open position. AFTER I'm done playing with it, of course!!
Merry Christmas to all!

[upnorth]

Hey LT, I forgot to complement you on your "unmolested" card of switchblades. You musta been a good boy this year (although you probably won't admit it!)! Nice find! You deserve it!!

CC

[orvet]

Nice Cut Co, Charlie!

Merry Christmas!
Dale

[upnorth]

Glad you like it, Dale! I always wanted to have a switchblade designed by Schrade.
Have a nice Christmas!
Charlie
P.S. Did you go to the Oregon mini-show? Also, did you ever send me your mailing address?? Please send it!!