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If not my favorite AC/DC song, it's definitely in the top three. I find it interesting that if you see their original video of this song way back in the day, you see a lot of the crowd walking around them in the street as if they're a nuisance. They came a long way.

The 'Muskie', the largest of the original fixed blade fillet knives by Gerber. I use this one on salmon and large birds like pheasant. The sheath is actually for an older version of this knife. There is also the 'Coho', which is similar but has a spoon end like the bird and trout above, but I...

Sadly, I just never went down that path. The Mark II's have always been priced at a premium and now all of the related knives tend to be out of reach as well. I did have this Guardian back in the day, but I didn't like the tip so I sold it with the intention of picking up another. Never...

Very clean Gerber Trout and Bird with dark Armorhide coating. According to one document that I have, these were made from 1969 through 1990. I can vouch for the latter year as there is no sign of any Armorhide hunting or fishing knives in the 1991 catalog (military daggers continued). This...

When Gerber transitioned from an advertising company to a knife company in 1939, they focused on chromed aluminum handled fixed blade kitchen knives. This was a prolific part of their business well into the 70s. The jump into sporting knives and eventually military knives came a bit later...

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While the bird numbers weren't the best, Montana still never disappoints. Spent six nights last week sleeping out of the back of the truck with most of those nights dipping below freezing and gusts up to 40 mph. Still, we've marked our calendars for next year. This was a hunting trip, not a...

Here is another Bob Loveless by Gerber. This one is his classic drop point hunter in a limited edition. He also allowed Beretta and Schrade to make this model. The Beretta's ranged from beautiful stag, made in italy to ugly plastic. The Schrade was pretty solid if I remember correctly. I...

Tell me who you're rooting for without telling me who you're rooting for. I'll go first.

This is from the Gerber PK series knives. PK for Pete's Knives that ran overall from 73 to 81. There were four different catalog versions, PK1 (Skookum) with two blades large and small, PK2 with one trailing point blade, PK2d (shown below with drop point blade) and the PK3 (Handyman) with one...

Gerber Lockback by Bob Loveless. These were produced from 83 to 85 (I think). The body of the knife is an anodized nickel silver with a rubber (kraton?) insert. Bob collaborated on a number of knives for Gerber, including the design of the guardian boot/dagger series, a drop point hunter and...

A pair of Gerber Folding Sportsman I (1) knives. The upper left knife is earlier with the old style stamp and the transitional grind. The lower right is later with the plunge grind and the later stamp. I believe this transition took place in the mid to late 80s. These smallest of the...

Most pocket/field knives had/have around a 20 to 25 degree angle to them. My Gatco sharpening system defaults to pocket/hunting knives at 25 degrees. Gerber usually provided paperwork with their knives stating that they need to be sharpened at a 15 degree angle. This is/was a major complaint...

Technically in the same category, this is the Gerber Magnum Folding Hunter. At the time, Al Mar was head of Gerber's design team and this knife is attributed to him. These were made from 75 thru 87. The early ones had pins in the handles and during the first year, you could get one with...

I can't help but wonder why Muñoz wasn't brought in earlier. I was telling my wife that this thought will now finally replace "Why didn't he just hand the ball to Lynch?"

Spring training predicted this result. Still, I'm a bit crushed at the moment.

A pair of the largest of the Folding Sportsman series. The FSIII - And they are big. The sheath on the left is the more common, later version where the sheath on the right is alleged to be a first production year only for this knife. I like the handy dandy clip on the back. I show a...

Here is a pretty rough example of a Gerber Folding Sportsman II with stag inlays. I believe these were made from 77 thru 82, but with Gerber, there were always exceptions. More, potentially boring detail below. While the vast majority of Folding Sportsman models came with Macassar Ebony...

This is fascinating stuff. Thanks for sharing. I have just one recommendation. Should anyone be in southeast ish Idaho, I highly suggest taking the road less traveled to the National Historic site Camp Minidoka. While the grounds are miserably austere, the museum is excellent. Beautifully...

Less common than the previously posted 'trailing point' blades is this pair of Folding Sportsman IId knives. The d is for drop point blade and these were introduced in 76 (three years after the introduction of the trailing point version) and stayed in production till 94 (three years before all...