All About Pocket Knives

Ripster wrote: ↑Tue Nov 09, 2021 12:37 am

cudgee wrote: ↑Mon Nov 08, 2021 10:53 pm Found this in an email from the online True West magazine.

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Looks like Paradise
What a great Scene.

cudgee wrote: ↑Mon Nov 08, 2021 10:53 pm Found this in an email from the online True West magazine.

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cudgee wrote: ↑Mon Nov 08, 2021 10:53 pm Found this in an email from the online True West magazine.

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1967redrider wrote: ↑Tue Nov 09, 2021 3:05 pm Awesome, John. Sweet Bark River too!

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Tue Nov 09, 2021 3:53 pm

cudgee wrote: ↑Mon Nov 08, 2021 10:53 pm Found this in an email from the online True West magazine.

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The theme of the December issue of True West magazine is the Mountain Man. Included is an article on the art of David Wright and his attempt to accurately portray his old west mountain man subjects, including studying the work of artists from the era and living the life himself. He hunts with old flintlock rifles of their day “in freezing weather wearing 18th century wool and brain tanned buckskin leather clothing”, has built his own log cabin, and hunted on horseback and in a birchbark canoe. Interesting fellow and an outstanding artist as you can see from the picture cudgee posted of one of his paintings.

Another interesting thing is the article dispelling “myths of the mountain man”. Contrary to today’s image most did not have “ZZ Top” beards. Instead most were clean shaven or shaved often, the reasons being “to cut down on dirt and lice, and to stay on good terms with Indians”. “Dog Faces” were not welcome in tribal societies, and last but not least “bad hygiene” was a turn off to Native American women. Soap and razors were hot trade items at rendezvous.

All in all another great issue of the magazine.

Ken

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Tue Nov 09, 2021 3:53 pm

cudgee wrote: ↑Mon Nov 08, 2021 10:53 pm Found this in an email from the online True West magazine.

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The theme of the December issue of True West magazine is the Mountain Man. Included is an article on the art of David Wright and his attempt to accurately portray his old west mountain man subjects, including studying the work of artists from the era and living the life himself. He hunts with old flintlock rifles of their day “in freezing weather wearing 18th century wool and brain tanned buckskin leather clothing”, has built his own log cabin, and hunted on horseback and in a birchbark canoe. Interesting fellow and an outstanding artist as you can see from the picture cudgee posted of one of his paintings.

Another interesting thing is the article dispelling “myths of the mountain man”. Contrary to today’s image most did not have “ZZ Top” beards. Instead most were clean shaven or shaved often, the reasons being “to cut down on dirt and lice, and to stay on good terms with Indians”. “Dog Faces” were not welcome in tribal societies, and last but not least “bad hygiene” was a turn off to Native American women. Soap and razors were hot trade items at rendezvous.

All in all another great issue of the magazine.

Ken

jmh58 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 9:14 pm
Big boy there John.
John

Quick Steel wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 7:55 am Handsome looking buck redrider. A bit of trivia: about 400 persons are killed by deer in the U.S. annually. Making them the single most dangerous animal.Many are due to car impacts but some are attacks.

cbay wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 1:57 pm Beautiful animals there Ripster, congrats to your family.
Something about them big bucks... "Unlucky" seems to happen a lot when chasing them with a bow and arrow.
Yesterday was oh so close, memory for a lifetime, would have been my 2nd biggest.
Until we meet again

1967redrider wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 2:24 pm That's awesome, JP! Does Caribou taste like Elk, do you know? I think Elk tastes the most like beef, in my opinion.


Sorry to read about your near miss, Chris. I've never tried bow hunting, but several of the guys who hunt our farm property do and are usually successful.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 2:24 pm I think Elk tastes the most like beef, in my opinion.

jerryd6818 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 2:45 pm

1967redrider wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 2:24 pm I think Elk tastes the most like beef, in my opinion.

We share that opinion. I had occasion to be in Forsyth, MT 20 some years ago when Elk was on the dinner table. Whole hair of a lot better than venison or Antelope. The Antelope was as dry as a popcorn fart.