Ohio Rifleman
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Must be rough, getting knives and blankets confused. Hope you guys have lots of bandages. 
Why Do We Love Knives?
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The Cultural Woodsman
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One of the best memories I have of my dad was when he gave me my first knife. He was killed at a young age and somehow that little Swiss knife made me feel very safe at night since I was the "man of the house" at age nine.
Something changes a boy when he gets his first knife....I got to see it in my oldest son a couple years ago and I got to see it this morning when my youngest unwrapped his very first slip joint. He was more proud of that little knife than any other gift and I cant help thinking how much money I threw away this year when that was all it took to get a big grin out of him that he was still wearing when he went to bed.
For me I guess I love knives for the memories....first deer I couldnt tell you what gun I was using but I still have the knife I gutted it with. Fishing, camping, hunting...knives can build a lot of things but the memories are the best imo.
Something changes a boy when he gets his first knife....I got to see it in my oldest son a couple years ago and I got to see it this morning when my youngest unwrapped his very first slip joint. He was more proud of that little knife than any other gift and I cant help thinking how much money I threw away this year when that was all it took to get a big grin out of him that he was still wearing when he went to bed.
For me I guess I love knives for the memories....first deer I couldnt tell you what gun I was using but I still have the knife I gutted it with. Fishing, camping, hunting...knives can build a lot of things but the memories are the best imo.
Speaking for myself, I don't view knives as some "gateway" hobby into the gun world, as knives are their own seperate universe. I like knives way better than firearms as a hobby.
I add to the voices that view knives with more satisfaction than guns because knives can and are used daily and in my best years financially, guns are used way less, when I have the time to go to the range, when the weather is cooperating, or during defined hunting seasons.
Additionally, only a comparative handful of industrialized nations produce firearms whereas knives are a truly global pursuit. Off of the top of my head I have knives from the US, Canada, Brazil, Costa Rica, Honduras, Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Russia, Japan, Taiwan, and New Zealand. That representation can mostly be done with firearms, but it'd probably only be doable via a C&R. And the knives don't need funky ammo either.
Knives have a better reselling market than do firearms in that you have a far broader pool of legal buyers, again going all the way overseas if one is into high risk internet selling. This makes a knife collection far easier to acquire and/or turn over if one wants to raise cash for different pieces.
I get far more satisfaction using a puukko and axe in the woods to make a fire in a downpour than I do pulling the trigger on a buck--the only thing that has made the latter from getting old is the thought that I'll get to try a different knife to dress the game.
One last thought, knives can easily be as expensive as most firearms commonly bought and sold since the custom market in knives has a lower entry point that still isn't cheap. I am spending about $375 on my next folder after optioning it up a little.
I add to the voices that view knives with more satisfaction than guns because knives can and are used daily and in my best years financially, guns are used way less, when I have the time to go to the range, when the weather is cooperating, or during defined hunting seasons.
Additionally, only a comparative handful of industrialized nations produce firearms whereas knives are a truly global pursuit. Off of the top of my head I have knives from the US, Canada, Brazil, Costa Rica, Honduras, Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Russia, Japan, Taiwan, and New Zealand. That representation can mostly be done with firearms, but it'd probably only be doable via a C&R. And the knives don't need funky ammo either.
Knives have a better reselling market than do firearms in that you have a far broader pool of legal buyers, again going all the way overseas if one is into high risk internet selling. This makes a knife collection far easier to acquire and/or turn over if one wants to raise cash for different pieces.
I get far more satisfaction using a puukko and axe in the woods to make a fire in a downpour than I do pulling the trigger on a buck--the only thing that has made the latter from getting old is the thought that I'll get to try a different knife to dress the game.
One last thought, knives can easily be as expensive as most firearms commonly bought and sold since the custom market in knives has a lower entry point that still isn't cheap. I am spending about $375 on my next folder after optioning it up a little.
Don Gwinn
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Knives are truly ancient tools. They predate steel . . . iron . . . bronze . . . . and copper. Put my Cuda Maxx in a cave-dweller's hand 20,000 years ago, and he would have no idea what it was made of, or how it was possible to make such a thing. But cut a plant stem or two with it and he'll be able to take it from your hand and use it.
It's perhaps not as profound a link as my brain makes it feel like, but my brain is the only one I have and I am hostage to its whims.
It's perhaps not as profound a link as my brain makes it feel like, but my brain is the only one I have and I am hostage to its whims.
Fosbery
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As Sal from Spyderco said: before man was making fire, he was using knives.
i love mine
I think that there is something primal about knives. They are probably one of, if not the first, tools that Man ever made. They can be used for just about anything, although they shouldn’t. I know that my favorite, a Benchmade CQC7, is always on my person, and over the last 10 years, has been used for almost every task under the sun. I think that when you use a “tool” every day, it becomes an extension of your body.
I think that there is something primal about knives. They are probably one of, if not the first, tools that Man ever made. They can be used for just about anything, although they shouldn’t. I know that my favorite, a Benchmade CQC7, is always on my person, and over the last 10 years, has been used for almost every task under the sun. I think that when you use a “tool” every day, it becomes an extension of your body.
James T Thomas
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knife culture
My young brain was ingramed {Ingramed} when I read Jungle BoyKipling., in our gradeschool library. I too, wanted a "large fang" to defend myself against "Keershahn" the tiger.
Then came the first TV sets and caveman and dinosaur misadventures. I loved that stuff too, and thought just how lucky I was to have an old steel bladed hunting knife from my dad; compared to those stone artifacts that the cavemen had to survive with.
After that was Davy Crockett by Disney; loved Fess Parker in that role, Daniel Boone, Yancy Derringer, on and on.
Why do I love knives? Well it's like this.. .
My young brain was ingramed {Ingramed} when I read Jungle BoyKipling., in our gradeschool library. I too, wanted a "large fang" to defend myself against "Keershahn" the tiger.
Then came the first TV sets and caveman and dinosaur misadventures. I loved that stuff too, and thought just how lucky I was to have an old steel bladed hunting knife from my dad; compared to those stone artifacts that the cavemen had to survive with.
After that was Davy Crockett by Disney; loved Fess Parker in that role, Daniel Boone, Yancy Derringer, on and on.
Why do I love knives? Well it's like this.. .
JJE
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Because they're pretty:
(photo downloaded from G Ingram's website)
My Gene Ingram #7!
(photo downloaded from G Ingram's website)
My Gene Ingram #7!
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