scooter got his first serious pocket knife a while back. i went off on another trip and i got a text with a picture that my wife had sent after she got home from work, he had been out on the back whittling, as you d do. he cut himself right down through here, big, wide open, had to have a serious stitches. when i got back home after a few days, he said dad, are you going to take my knife away? . i said no, i m going to assume you re never going to make that mistake again. these kids with their rifles and their archery, this is important [bleep], i do remember one time, talking about the knot tying. back in the old days, training was a long period of time, i remember during one course, were out in the middle of the water, the instructor had us all jump in the water. we had to go underwater and