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Cactus Jack did a fair bit of hunting on his own, but he also had a lot of guided hunts. Could be a lot of knife work was performed by his guides.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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I would imagine O'Connor's "substantial pocket knife" was a single blade swell-center folding hunter that was popular in those days. A big jack knife.
Last edited by PrimeBeef; 05/11/23.
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I would imagine O'Connor's "substantial pocket knife" was a single blade swell-center folding hunter that was popular in those days. A big jack knife. Since JOC was brought up in Arizona, I was thinking a large Stockman style of folding blade knife.
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For whatever reason, I would have thought he'd have used a 2 bladed folding hunter, like Case and KBar and Schrade and all those old companies used to offer before the Buck 110 changed the game. An uncle used to carry those starting when he was in the Navy in Alaska back in the 50's and 60's. Him and some other sailors hunted ( poached) game when they could slip away from whatever they were supposed to be doing. IIRC he said he initially had a Case, and later on started with Schrades. I do remember that when he was getting on towards the end of the road, he had those Old Timer folder with the brass liner lock. I guess me thinking about them shooting the white colored sheep and using those type of knives kinda got mixed around with JOC hunting ( most likely legally) the sheep he hunted made me kinda think that he probably used a slip joint folder larger than a standard trapper or similar
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Born in Nogales grew up in Tempe must of had a switchblade. Time in Tucson no dought he would of started carrying a lightweight mountain knife.🤔
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