Hobbies Other Than Knives?

What hobbies do you guys take part in aside from knives?

Woodworking with hand tools, Ham Radio, coffee roasting, flintlock rifle building, Asian cooking and straight razor shaving.

Food eating and Beer Drinking

^^^ Right on! I also like to make my own sheaths, fish on my pond, target practice in my back yard, work on survival/preps, and chase my wife around the house.

Tom, you would be just like the dog that chases a car. IF you catch her you wouldn't know what to do with her.

Nothing about "Cats"?

Cats and dogs. Both taste equally nice when sauted or just made into a stew. Yeah, I spent 3 years in the Philippines.

You cannibal!!!

CANNIBAL! Nah, They weren't American animals.

I once looked into CB radios. The guy I talked to had a 3 story building and only used the first floor for buisness. The reason he wanted a tall building was so he could set up a 30ft antenna on top with little to no structural interference. He was also talking about how once he was talking to a USA soldier on a aircraft carrier off the coast of Japan with one of his radios. Pretty impressive.

What type of fish is your pond stocked with and do you eat what you catch? How long is your shooting range?

This is a life mission I can get behind.

S/S, my pond is stocked with bluegill, catfish, and largemouth bass, which is pretty standard for S/W Missouri. I live on 165 acres, so my shooting range is limited to that. When I shoot in my backyard it is only 70 yards.

WHY would you stock bluegill and not Crappie!?? Oh the shame of it all.

OH BTW, If you ever see a red 2010 Escape or a white 2011 Jeep Patriot, PLEASE don't shoot. Just come on down and I'll fry you some nice fish.

Randy, the Conservation Department recommends the bluegill instead of crappie.

Really. I wonder why, hardier breed?

Bowhunting/Archery, Firearms instruction, ATV's, Kayaking, camping.

In the little once a week newspaper from the lake near (19 miles) us they have a picture of a guy holding a 6 pound bass with an 11" crappie in its mouth. Nice bonus!

Holy Smoke! Now THAT would have been a catch.

And some good eating!

I have been on ATV's before, never anything too exciting, but also I would not want to push them. I make ATV's a little top heavy (prone to tipping). I prefer side by sides, I get plenty crazy then.

Bluegill is some good eating. Went fishing some time back with 4 others on a boat in lake Erie for bluegill. From 9 in the morning to 5 in the PM we all tagged out at 30 each. It didn't even make sense, the processors said that it was pretty normal for the year though.

Lake Erie is supposed to be quite the fishery...now.

ATV's are solid performers if you know how to ride them. I have done some pretty interesting stuff on them, I am probably going to get a side by side eventually. My wife likes to ATV but there are times she would rather be a passenger and take pictures. Plus I could take my pup along when she doesn't go. I have been eyeballing a Can-am Maverick Sport RC.

M/B, I agree with you on the ATV's and side by sides. While I enjoy my little Arctic Cat 250, I would like to have a side by side so that my wife could join me tooling around our property. Up in central Illinois my brother in law has a side by side and we always go tooling around his 40 plus acreage with trails cut out in the woods.

Well dang. Lost my post. Patty and I are looking about a Side by Side. Just something simple, don't need 4X4 but would like enough power/size to spend an afternoon in if we wanted to. Y'all got any suggestions?

A lot is going to depend on the trails you plan on riding. Width etc. I will say 4x4 is a must. Wet leaves can suck. Mud can really suck.

I suggest looking and sitting in them. Rent one of you can. None are cheap. Some are insanely priced.

I'm looking for a Jack of all trades with the one I want. It will spend time in the mountains in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming with occasional trips to dunes and Slick rock in Utah.

But there are a bunch of different ones to choose from.

I don’t mess with knives so much anymore. Fishing, hunting and guns in general for me.

My brother in law has a Yamaha Wolverine 4 X 4, and it is a LOT of fun. Even if you don't "hot dog" it the 4 wheel drive is nice to have.

Do you prefer hand guns or rifles, and what do you like to hunt?

I don't doubt you about them being performers. They can go alot of places that a side by side can't slot easier too.

We mainly want one to tool around in town (in MO. you can ride an UTV/Side by side on ANY ROADWAY within 5 miles of your home. Not legal to do that on a golf cart. Plus going out to the BIL's place about 4.9 miles away and just enjoying the outdoors. MIGHT occasionally get up into "the hills" but nothing really way back and beyond. All on established roads of some kind or at least trails.

We just want one powerful enough for the two of us to cruise maybe 40mph or so and with a small bed to hall rocks or what not.

Get one Randy, I think both of you would enjoy it.

We are thinking about it. May go Tomorrow or Tuesday looking around.

Good luck on the hunt. And make sure you let Patty drive it as well!

Oh if we DO get one, she will. She's kinda like me when you talk about spending that kind of money, sort of wishy washy. Want one, don't want to spend the bucks, want one, repeat.

A few years back I flipped mine crossing a stream.
The atv fell on top of me and my head was trapped under water.
Luckily I was able to leg press the quad off of me and get my head up.

I was also lucky in that I was in northern BC hunting and that day was unseasonably warm, so hypothermia wasn't a concern.
I spent the next 4 days in camp.

The other good thing was in that group were 2 paramedics and a retired paramedic so they checked me out pretty good.
The 18 hour drive home from the camp was a killer though

Randy, you can't take all your money with you; live a little and share some fun times!

You're right Tom. You can't take it with you. They only make caskets in one size!

You would need one bigger than Noah's ark!

Coyotebc


That was basically a best case scenario then. Glad you ok, and now you got another cool story to tell.

Coyotebc


That was basically a best case scenario then. Glad you ok, and now you got another cool story to tell.

Haha, IF that were only the case. Heck, and I MIGHT buy a few others for well...

Uh-huh.