Are the yardkeepers gone for good or will we see more of them like they do over at the swamp store? [censored], I logged in last night at 4:05, saw it listed in the store then by the time I was ready to order (a matter of minutes) it was gone.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" />

Hey SB, I think those puppies are gone for good. Judging by how quickly they went, I suspect that we will end up seeing many of these blades being offered for sale in the usual places. Wish I could help you out, but all I could afford was one.

I think that's the reason I goofed up on the shirt/hat offer - I was in such a rush to get my order placed that I didn't wait for my extremely slow server to get the offer posted. Thank goodness Patti provided for us! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

I hope they are. I was not able to get one either! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

I don't know, but typically from what I've seen in the past, SY puts an entire production run up for sale all at once. Dan has posted that they're all gone, so my guess would be that other models will be released before more YK CGs are made.

As best I can tell, neither Eric nor Skunk get much prior notice about what's coming in or what the delivery schedule will be. I've asked about Bandicoot LMs several times, but haven't been able to get a definitive answer about if/when they'll come out. They both appear to be licensed distributors with little or no connection to the actual production operations.

Scrap Yard seem to handle both production and distribution themselves, so sales have (at least in the past) been more coordinated. Of course, the BC site also sells knives, but they seem to only do pre-orders -- I like the Yard's way of selling only what's on-hand, although the pre-order sales model is probably much more efficient from a production standpoint. I just don't like "buying" something and then waiting months for it to be delivered.

silverbullets, sometimes you can e-mail Dan and Patti and ask them if they have anybody who cancels an order or what have you that you would be interested in one. Sometimes one may pop up if someone backs out or what have you. You never know unless you try. It never hurts to ask..

Thanks J33ps, not too big of deal, i just landed a DMLE so that covers that sized blade, I didn't think they would go nearly that fast...oh well, I will wait til Dan's next release and plan on being a little more on my game.

Long story short, I had to stay at work a little longer then expected. When I got back, gone! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" />

Some might show up being offered in a mini dog bowl offering in a couple of weeks or so. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" />

That's just a guess though. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" />

I hope so, for the sake of the ones who missed out. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

or at a knife show.

Mmmmm, I guess that's always another possibility. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I hope Dan makes more of them down the road. I'd like to see the DF, S6, Urban Mutt, and YK as regular offerings. I expected to see more S6s offered again, but I guess not. I sure am glad I scored one of the new Yks.

+1 on the DF, S6, Urban Mutt and YK as regular offerings.

+2
thoe are the best scrappers, and represent what scrapyard stands for.

Being out of town for a weekend turned out to be tragic!

I hope that this one will come around again soon... or a Skelly, I'd be happy then.

I have a feeling that I missed this one though. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" />

haha, I was wondering why I havent seen you around Dan

Yeah - there's that one weekend per month that I'm gone. I've never seen a Scrapper announced and the sold out all within a two day window before.

haha, thats why I'm joining the navy <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
hopfully there's a computer on the boat <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
how did it go this time, you didnt get a cracked window agian right

Same window, still cracked. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

lol, thats life ehh...
you should have joined the airforce, with their money they would have paid for the window, bought you a new car, and put you in a hotel suite for that "one weekend a month"
sorry, I'm going through a airforce hating phase right now <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

The Air Force would be the branch that I would recommend as they generally take better care of their people!

The Army was/is good to me though. For the most part. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Forget that if you want to join an army join Blackwater! Get paid and if you don't like an order you can quit. No MP's ,cool uniforms pension plans.
Who wouldn't want to be a merc ,oops sorry "private contractor".

I don't think Blackwater is taking too many 18 year old recruits. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I'll confidently guess that 90% of them came from Army Rangers/SF, or one of the other elite units from other branches.

Let me think I belive I heard that to jion you need to have atleast 5 years in special forces and most of the people are between age 35-45 or something like that!

Of course they want the government to pay for all that expensive training.
I love how Cheney's idea to save money was to have a private company steal all the best trained at very high cost to the taxpayers soldiers then pay them 5 times as much plus millions in profit to the company. Having all the truckers and cooks be
from a for profit company that has to pay them enough to work in a war zone as well. I am SHOCKED it did not work.

I would have done things differently but no one asked me.

I would have had everything done by the military ,rebuilding ,trucking everything.
No extras like icecream or fast food etc. All that stuff needs to be brought in on covoys which is at risk and takes lots of manpower. Instead I would have it very rough but rotate them out a lot more often. Now that they are letting the military rather than the neocon politicians run the Iraq war the US is kicking [censored].

The pay would stay how it is but the equipment and especially the medical and care for the families while guys are overseas would be so good it would be almost silly. The conditions in the green zone would not be nearly as nice but you would not be there as long and when you talked to your wife and kids they would tell you how great they are being treated by the army.
Medical care for wounded soldiers should be the best in the world with an eye to getting them back as a useful member of the service. Maybe they could not rejoin their unit in the field but they should be give the option to retrain for units and specialities where their injuries are not a issue.

I would set it up so that instead of giving a multiple amputee a motorized wheelchair we hook him up with a 50 ton battle tank. You could hook in up in ways you could not do with a healthy soldier and it would be a much better life still being in the army and doing something cool rather than being a invalid.
People with more minor wounds could be armourers drivers etc. The soldiers should be treated like family. If something happens they can't do their old job ,you find a new one they can do.

Sorry for the rant this has been on my mind recently as there was just a guy o the news the last couple nights from the J2 unit(Canada's SAS) who quit because of how incredibly badly his wife was treated by a clerk while he was in Afghanistan.

I know that this won't be popular, but I would extend deployments rather than rotate troops home during actual combat operations. I remember seeing an interview with a high ranking Vietnamese officer, possibly even General Giap, where he explained that one of the biggest advantages that they had was how quickly the US forces were rotated out. By the time they learned what to look for, they were at the end of their tours. It would seriously suck for the ones deployed, but your casualties will be much lower if your line troops are veterans.

That being said, we are well beyond what I believe should be considered "combat operations" -- there is no opposition army to fight. Once the Iraqi military was defeated, the US should have redeployed to secure the country's borders and make the Iraqis police their cities. Our armed forces should never be used as police or for "Nation building". That line about, "We expected to be greeted as liberators" indicates that US leadership had no clue about attitudes toward Americans in that part of the world. I don't know if they're lying when they say things like that, or if they're just dumber than rocks.

It is always worth a try. Just send Patti an email so if she has anyone change their order you could be in line. I suspect that this wont happen as fast as these went but I have been wrong before. There realy is no down side to sending a PM...for what its worth

Dan