The Sunday Picture Show (November 17th, 2024)

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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)

On this Day, November 17th, 1973. "I'm not a crook!"
"Nixon flew to Orlando from his Key Biscayne, Florida, retreat to hold a televised question-and-answer session with some 400 Associated Press managing editors. They wanted to know more about his role in the 1972 burglary at Washington’s Watergate complex and about efforts to cover up the fact that his reelection committee had funded a botched attempt to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee."
President Nixon would resign 9 months later.

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Battling Bucks Alpha Hunter, a project for Bass Pro and listed on the 2003 Special Projects list, 1 of 144. 100th anniversary sheath and sticker on the box with a 2003 date code on the knife. The blade is a 694 but the knife is listed as a 194. According to the catalogs, the 193/194 are ATS-34 and the 693/694 knives are 420HC as is this knife. The fixed blade Alpha Hunter was introduced in the 2002 catalog and last seen in 2013. I don't find many Bucks in Antique Malls but do find an acorn once in awhile.
addendum: my knife may not be the Bass Pro knife. An overrun perhaps?
See post #30 by jb4570 jb4570
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Happy SPS! Thanks again for taking the reigns Roger!

Yesterday... long day started at 2:45am. Get in the blind and just as the sun breaks over the hill, turkeys go bonkers on the roost. All told, about 50 came off the roost to start their day.
A dozen or so does and youngsters frolicked around before noon. One good chocolate rack buck at about 150 yards cruised through, me with my binos in hand didn't get a shot.
From noon to 3 a couple more does, and the turkey started heading back to their roosting grounds.
At about 430 I started packing the blind up. I Wasn't feeling a night tracking and dresing job.
A few minutes later, tall, dark, and handsome from earlier stepped out at 40 yards and was staring at my decoy.
Yes... decoy! If you want to see some fun interactions from your deer, try a decoy. I got it for bow hunting. I don't dump corn like a lot of the other hillbillies do 'cause I turkey hunt and you can't hunt turkey on baited ground. The comfort provided by the decoy and their own curiosity brings the deer in close.
One well placed shot from my .30-30 and this old boy ran off about 50 yards before running out of air and crashing in the swimming hole in the creek.
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Dressed him with my 118 pro.
 
Here is a 694 that has had a hard life and looks nothing like the nice 694s that already have been shown today. I am not sure what happened, but it came to me with the wrong sheath, dull as a butter knife, and with grip tape and string holding the handle together. I have cleaned the blade up and acquired some rosewood dymalux for a new handle. Hopefully I will be able to get it back together and back in use by Thanksgiving.
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MT_Pokt said:
Happy SPS! Thanks again for taking the reigns Roger!

Yesterday... long day started at 2:45am. Get in the blind and just as the sun breaks over the hill, turkeys go bonkers on the roost. All told, about 50 came off the roost to start their day.
A dozen or so does and youngsters frolicked around before noon. One good chocolate rack buck at about 150 yards cruised through, me with my binos in hand didn't get a shot.
From noon to 3 a couple more does, and the turkey started heading back to their roosting grounds.
At about 430 I started packing the blind up. I Wasn't feeling a night tracking and dresing job.
A few minutes later, tall, dark, and handsome from earlier stepped out at 40 yards and was staring at my decoy.
Yes... decoy! If you want to see some fun interactions from your deer, try a decoy. I got it for bow hunting. I don't dump corn like a lot of the other hillbillies do 'cause I turkey hunt and you can't hunt turkey on baited ground. The comfort provided by the decoy and their own curiosity brings the deer in close.
One well placed shot from my .30-30 and this old boy ran off about 50 yards before running out of air and crashing in the swimming hole in the creek.
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Dressed him with my 118 pro.
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Those are two nice Bucks right there. Congratulations. Winchester or Marlin 30-30?
 
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