Favorite past times or hobbies....
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Favorite past times or hobbies....
I like to fish when Iam not busy. I also like to collect knives and airifles. I was just wondering what some of you like to do???
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- streetsoldier
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BUD wrote:Some of the knives I collect are ones from, Ruger, Columbia River, Boker, and my favorite ones are from Benchmade. The rifles I collect are expensive!!! My wife even has a rifle!!!
Most of mine are military-issue knives from all countries...I have one Czech knife that is particularly utilitarian, w/o being "overheavy", and am looking at a Russian 1940 combat knife (the Moisin-Nagant bayonet was little more than a long spike, so "Uncle Joe" had these made up).
My rifles are also mil-spec, mostly from the WW II era. However, I did restore an 1842 de Chatellerault .75 smoothbore musket years ago; cut down for Confederate cavalry use, and one of 940 that made it through the Union blockade.
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BUD wrote:To StreetSoldier, How long have you been collecting? As I said my rifles are airfiles they shoot with pellets.
This is my seventh collection (for one reason or another, I had to sell the previous ones in turn)...I've been at it for about 36 years.
I used to be a member of the Antique Arms Appraisers Association and the Knifemaker's Guild, years back; and, lately, I'm advising some of my son's Tae Kwon Do fellow practitioners in the selection, care and storage of suitable Oriental edged weapons (katana, wakizashi, naginata, etc.).
My first rifle was a Czech pre-war VZ-24, soon followed with a Gewehr 88 "commission rifle" (black powder cartridge) and a 7.35 Carcano carbine. It's all downhill from there, but the ONE rifle I have never had the pleasure of owning is the one I wanted first of all...a DWM pre-1935 Karabiner 98K, Weimar proofed.
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