The BLADE Blogs

The blogs of the BLADE editors, Steve Shackleford and Erin Healy.

Read the Paul Ryan Hunter Interview

 

Paul Ryan Hunter, Outdoorsman, Vice Presidential Hopeful

BLADE‘s sister magazine, Deer & Deer Hunting, is receiving a ton of big league attention for its interview about Paul Ryan hunting deer. It’s offering the full Paul Ryan hunter Q&A as a download from this page on Deer & Deer Hunting.

That’s Paul Ryan deer hunting with a bow in his home state, Wisconsin, in the photo at left. It shouldn’t come as any surprise, since the area has a long tradition of hunting deer and other game species. Here’s a snippet from Paul Ryan deer hunter himself:

 

“I’m just pretty typical for a Wisconsin guy. I love hunting and fishing,” Ryan said. “Bowhunting is my passion. Studying the strategy, preparing food plots, the strategy of where a dominant buck is living or will be moving and then being in position to get a shot, that’s really exciting. Half of it is getting ready for the shot.”
A good deal of the Paul Ryan hunting interview covers everything before the shot. BLADE would’ve liked to sneak in a few questions about the knives he uses, but the time allotted for the Paul Ryan hunter interview was brief. We suppose he had just a littlebit on his plate.

 

Still, BLADE celebrates Deer & Deer Hunting‘s Paul Ryan deer hunting interview. It shows how mainstream hunting is with a lot of people. It must only follow that knives play a role with these folks, too.

 

Click here to read the Paul Ryan deer hunter interview with Deer & Deer Hunting.

Free BLADE Show Seminars Educate, Entertain

The federal ivory ban, the 12th Annual BLADE Show World Championship Cutting Competition, how to make a cut ‘n shoot and much more will highlight the free seminars of the 33rd Annual BLADE Show June 6-8 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta.

Free BLADE Show seminars will include the BLADE Show World Championship Cutting Competition. (PointSeven photo)
Dan Keffeler shows his championship form in the BLADE Show World Championship Cutting Competition, one of several free BLADE Show seminars. (PointSeven photo)

The seminars are free to all BLADE Show ticket holders only.

Knifemaker Jim Hammond has made knives with assorted ivory handle materials for decades, and Sandra Brady has scrimmed ivory handles for many years as well. She also has been on the front lines of the debate over the federal ivory ban. Both will discuss the ban, its effect on knives, how to identify the many different ivories and much more in their free seminar, “Ivory: Past, Present and Future.”

Knifemaker Dan Keffeler will return to defend his title in the 12th Annual BLADE Show World Championship Cutting Competition, conducted by BladeSports International (BSI). Others who will participate in the competition that pits big cutters in such regimens as the 2-inch free-hanging rope cut, 2×4 chop and more will include past champion Ted Ott, BSI Executive Director Donavon Phillips, Jim Cottingham and others.

ABS master smith Steve Culver won “Best of the Rest” in the 2013 BLADE Show’s custom knife judging competition with his “Laffite’s Revenge” cut ‘n shoot knife/pistol—which also will serve as the cover knife for the July BLADE® (on many newsstands beginning April 22)—and will show you how he made it in his special seminar. Other free seminar topics will include: Sharpening On a Stick, with knifemaker Jared Williams; How To Use Bushcraft Knives, with knife writer/designer Abe Elias; Surviving Inside the Kill Zone, with  knifemaker Ernest Emerson; Tactical & Handforged Knives: What To Look For, with purveyor Les Robertson; Estate Planning and Your Knife Collection, with BLADE Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame© member Bruce Voyles; and much more.

For the latest knives, knife news, trends and more, stay tuned to www.blademag.com.

3 Outstanding Knife Shows This Weekend

Knife enthusiasts have three outstanding knife shows to choose from this coming weekend.

     The Chesapeake Knife Show will be Dec. 11 at the Crowne Plaza in Timonium, Maryland. Visit http://www.knifeshows.com/shows/baltimore/index.html for more details.

     The Oregon Winter Knife Show will be Dec. 10 in the Lane County Convention Center in Eugene, Oregon. Visit www.oregonknfieclub.org for all the poop.

     Parkers’ Greatest Knife Show on Earth will be Dec. 8-10 at the Sevierville Events Center in Sevierville, Tennessee. Call Ed Henley (423-892-0448) for more info.

For the latest info on knife shows, the latest knives, knife news and much more, subscribe to BLADE® by clicking on http://www.shopblade.com/product/blade-magazine-one-year-subscription-us/?r+ssfb71211#BL1SU

4th Great Smoky Mountain Bladesmithing Symposium – Clyde, NC

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4th Great Smoky Mountain Bladesmithing Symposium

 
March 4, 5, and 6, 2011

Offered by the American Bladesmith Society, Inc.
Hosted by Haywood Community College

Location:
Haywood Community College
185 Freelander Drive
Clyde, North Carolina

For more information Contact:
Laura Simmons, HCC at  (828)565-4244
or Bill Wiggins, ABS at (828) 226-2551 or Email Bill

Registration:
$65 Registration fee can be paid in “Event Registration” in the ABS Store or contact Cindy Sheely, ABS Store Manager at (419) 832-0400 or Email Cindy

Event Flyer and Mail in Registration Form:
Click to download – Smoky Mountain Flyer and Registration Form

Featured Demonstrators:

Joseph Keeslar – Blade Forging, Grinding & Heat Treament
James Rodebaugh – Damascus Steel
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Demonstrators:

Greg Neely – Fit & Finish & ABS Knife Judging
Jason Knight – Handles & Guards
Daniel Warren – Slip Joint Folders
Butch Sheely – Forging Tomahawks
BR Hughes – ABS Knife Judging
Carolyn Hughes – Promotion and Advertising
James Batson – Making Antique Bowies
Ronnie Boydston & Demonstrators – Hands-on blade forging
Col. Tim Ryan – Auctioneer

Event Schedule:

Thursday, March 3 ………………..3 to 6pm Check in and Registration

………………..6:30 pm Demonstrators Dinner (All invited)

Friday, March 4 ………………..8AM to 5pm Blade Forging & Demonstrations
………………..7 to 9pm *Battle of the Bladesmiths*

Saturday, March 5 …………………8am to 12am Blade Forging & Demonstrations
………………..1 to 3pm Knife Show (Free to the public)

………………..3 to 5pm Auction (bring items for auction)

………………..5 to 7pm BBQ Dinner (pay at site)

………………..7 to 9pm Cutting Demonstration

Sunday, March 6 ………………..8 to 12am Blade Forging & Demonstrations

Metalsmithing Showcased At the Colorado Botanic Gardens

On October 16-17, the Colorado Botanic Gardens will play host to 28 members of the Colorado Metalsmithing Assoc. displaying and selling their work. Knives will share space with monumental sculptures, and the setting is spectacular. Displays will include one-of-a-kind art jewelry, collectible custom knives by Jerry McClure and small sculptures by Travis Ogden and Pat Ryan.

The international Colorado Metalsmithing Assoc. members are some of the finest artists and teachers in their field.

“It’s the largest and smallest art forms that possess the most power.” —Henry Moore

Officer of Distinction – Harjit Singh Sajjan

The CBC’s Duncan McCue profiles Canada’s first Sikh commanding officer.

Gunny Salutes Fallen Policeman

R. Lee “Gunny” Ermey, who will appear at the 30th Annual BLADE Show June 10-12 at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta, made a special appearance in Chattanooga, Tennessee, May 13 to speak on behalf of a local policeman killed in the line of duty.

The policeman, Sgt. Tim Chapin, was answering a robbery call when he was shot and killed. The murder has resulted in an outpouring of concern from the local citizenry, and Gunny’s appearance was a most welcome one to a grieving community.

Ermey took the stage at a benefit for the Fallen Officer’s Fund sponsored by the Shooter’s Depot to raise money for the cause, specifically designated to the Chapin Family Memorial Educational Fund.

At one point Ermey threw an autographed football to one of Chapin’s sons, and addressed the family. “I know you will all keep moving forward and trying to make the best of it,” Gunny said. “All the best to you. God bless.”

Ermey will appear at the SOG Specialty Knives & Tools booth the Saturday of the BLADE Show from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to sign autographs and pose for pictures.

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