It's like an omen, since I just ordered a Boker Copperhead as my first ever traditional knife. While out for a walk, I found a little 2 1/2" stockman pattern knife by the side of the rural road on which I live. It's a Boker with jigged brown bone scales. The pen blade is broken off at the base, but the sheepfoot and clip point are functional. Also, the shield/badge is gone. There's no rust, so I doubt it's been there for long.
Hey Foilist! That's my Boker stockman! I just lost it...last week...on the side of a rural road...in Connecticut...by your house! Yeah, that's what happened! Please send it to me!
If you want to use the knife you found, you can contact Boker and see about having the broken blade replaced. I believe they will replace a blade if the knife is in current production.The cost isn't very much. I had a blade replaced in a Boker I had several years ago, and was pleased with their workmanship.It took a while, as they sent the knife back to Germany, but I was willing to wait. Rick W
Nice find, Foilist. Must be some kind of cosmic force at work there. Although your Boker is quite usable as is, I tend to agree with RickW on sending it back to Boker and having the broken blade replaced. I'm sure there are other qualified people who can repair it, too, but be sure they really are qualified.
Absolutely super find there Foiliest!. Good for you. I love finding good stuff. I have found my fair share and then some while hiking, hunting, fishing, walking, ect. One of my best finds was when I was a young lad of about 9-10 and was ice skating on a small lake with my friends in Vienna, Virginia in the dead of winter. I remember it was snowing steadily, and as I went to sit down in the fresh snow on the bank of the lake to change out of my skates back into my boots, I looked down and saw a very faint glint of metal. As I brushed the snow away I realized it was a bail/shackle and attached to it was one of those push button auto-open Paratrooper pocket knives in day-glow orange. It had a spear blade and hook tool for the parachute para-cord. It was either a Schrade or Camillus,, I forget which now cause its been so long ago, 37 plus years now. But I do remember the knife being in brand new condition and functioning perfectly after a quick cleaning.. I thought I was the coolest kid going that day. All of us kids carried pocketknives(even some of the girls) in my group of pals back then, but no one had a "switch blade".. LOL!. Wish I still had it. Anyway Foilist, perhaps when you get a moment you could post a photograph of it here. It would fun to see it.
Yes, it was odd. I called the police station, but it was still cool to find a brand new pistol only a hundred feet from my house. The people who lost it were at the top of my driveway a day or two after I turned it in. I really didn't like the pistol anyway, the grip was too square.
No, man. We've got so many nice weapons over here that sometimes we just throw them away when we get tired of them. My buddy who lives about 3 miles away found a loaded Ruger 9 mm pistol in the middle of US-27 as he was leaving for work one morning. It had been run over by too many trucks in the night to still be operational, though. Since the frame was aluminum it was destroyed, but I tried to get it from him anyway. I wanted to send it back to the Ruger plant just for giggles to see if they would "repair" it.
Rugers sure like to run away from home. Too bad many end up as roadkill. At least I am not the only one who has found a lost Ruger.
