any hard use slippies outthere

kalama

kalama

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just getting into slipjoints,got me a nice GEC,but i dont see any pics of them in use,,i would like to use it to dress out game ,maybe some camp chores,anyone got any pics or advice?????
 
Personally, I'd call those tasks "intended (normal) use" -- that's what they're made for...
I'm sure someone will be along with pics soon. :)
 
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Well here's a few carbon steel ones. My stainless knives show pretty little use -- save for some of my older Queens in D2 (well, I guess D2 is only "semi-stainless" -- which has always seemed redundant to me).

Anyway, the little Imperial and that Old Timer have seen plenty of pocket time. The Imperial was given to me by my father when i was 9-10 or so (it had been carried by him before that); the Old Timer was given to me when I was much older (for graduating college) by my grandfather. That little Old Timer has cleaned its share of small game and such.

The Remington gets used for small game now.

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Game and camp chores? Sounds like a Case trapper to me.

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-- Mark
 
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I sometimes use this little Reese Bose to baton through cement landscape blocks. ;)

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Have you got a video of that? I'd like to see it, because I use a brick chisel for that.

Seriously, for what the OP is asking, a large hunter trapper like the Model 73 or the Furtaker should be ideal. While I'm doing stuff like that, taking pictures just doesn't seem to come to mind. The closest thing I've got is a Camillus Wildlife Series large trapper, but I don't have any pics of it in use. Even the standard size trapper patterns should be fine though. I tend to use a lockback like a large copperlock or Gerber FSII or Buck 110 for medium (whitetail work) or my fixed blades.

Ed
 
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Hi,

I have carried a stockman as my go to hunting knife for many years. This last year I've switched to a Case Gunboat. Only knife I've carried that's bigger was a couple of Schrade lockbacks.

I carry the Gunboat in a belt sheath because I've been carrying either a stockman or a SAK Hiker in my pocket. I like having three different blade shapes. The big spear can handle most any chore. And the sharp point on the sheep's foot will open game like it's a zipper. And the spey makes skinning a snap. It's big enough and beefy enough I wouldn't hesitate to use it for all my outdoor needs.

Dale
 
kalama said:
just getting into slipjoints,got me a nice GEC,but i dont see any pics of them in use,,i would like to use it to dress out game ,maybe some camp chores,anyone got any pics or advice?????
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Warriorsociologist said:
Personally, I'd call those tasks "intended (normal) use" -- that's what they're made for...
I'm sure someone will be along with pics soon. :)
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I agree with WS. Tasks such as those are not "hard use".

As for advice, after use, wash it with warm soapy water, then dry it, then lubricate with your favorite hydrophobic product. I like mineral oil, myself.
 
I have shown this before. My hunting buddy gutting a cow elk with a Buck 303 Stockman.
Instructing his son and his friend in how to handle the "big-as-a-whole-Whitetail" sized guts. Saw used to split pelvis, skinning and boning via fixed blade and my buddies ceramic bladed Boker large folder. Knife is in the right hand. He considers this normal but special use.... ch/300Bucks
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"Hard Use" is a recent term that I think is still trying to find a definition when it comes to knives.

I have used slipjoints my whole life while hunting, camping, fishing ,backpacking, construction etc. Rarely have I felt "underknifed". When I did it was because I wanted a fixed blade or another tool entirely, not a "harder use" folder.
 
tomcrx said:
"Hard Use" is a recent term that I think is still trying to find a definition when it comes to knives.

I have used slipjoints my whole life while hunting, camping, fishing ,backpacking, construction etc. Rarely have I felt "underknifed". When I did it was because I wanted a fixed blade or another tool entirely, not a "harder use" folder.
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I have to go along with this.

Our grandfathers and great grandfathers lived in a far more agrarian society and probably did more hunting for actual food on the table than the modern 20 to 30 something knife knut who works in an office cubicle doing computer work. Then after work they brave the wilds of savage suburbia on the way to the mall. But the knife magazines have put a lot of ideas in young gullible minds that if their knife is not one of those featured in a Movie, TV show or video game, and not capable of going through a car door, it's not a "hard use"knife, whatever that may be. Too bad all those cowboys carrying a Russell's barlow, or freight wagon drivers carrying a harness jack, or those GI's that walked and fought all the way from Utah beach to Berlin, didn't know how under knifed they were with those poor old Camillus TL-29's.

Maybe one day I'll understand what a 'hard use knife' is.

Okay rant over. Sorry. I have to go wipe down my rifle with a nice oily rag, in case i have to tell some punks to "Get off my lawn!"

Some day's I feel like a curmudgeon, some day's I dont.

Carl.
 
Dale is correct about that Gunboat Canoe. That is a big, sturdy folder. The back springs on mine are stronger than those on my GEC stockman!
 
I camp and hunt, mostly for moose, furtermore I fish and build a little on houses. What you mention I would call normal use for a folder. Cleening nails, opening envelopes and cutting flowers is light use. Hard use I dont know about. A trapper is for example exilent for hunting and camping. So are a small sodbuster too.

Bosse
 
I didn't have anything but slipjoints until I was older so they got all the use! My Dad bought me a small Buck sheath knife when I was 14 before a backpacking trip to the UP but it hung on my belt the whole time while I used my Old Timer for cleaning fish, cutting up wood for camp fires, whittling, etc.. Maybe I didn't want to scratch up my new Buck? Still have both that Old Timer and Buck from around 1975.
 
I may be getting lost in semantics but I've been trolling ebay for a canoe and I'm now wondering what the difference is between a normal Canoe that is about 3 5/8" closed and a Gunboat Canoe, besides the extra blade in the Gunboat? I'm drawn to the Canoe because I like the blade shape, seems sturdy, and with just two blades, it has a slimmer profile, thus making it a more comfortable pocket carry.
 
This one's been used hard for 46 years. Tight again, after a trip to the vise last year, and STILL purty!

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ok i should have used a better term ,alot of people dont like the word "hard use" an thats cool with me,,,im new to the slipjoints always carried a buck folder or fixed blade for the past 30 years while hunting,,,heres alittle info on what i would use the blade for,,i carry four blades with me when i go out a 16"machete to cut the vegetation,clear trail,,,my main blade 7"fix to dispatch the hog when my dogs grab it an to do other camping duties,a small fixed blade to clean,gut,skin,debone,an do light camping chores if we stay the nite in the bush,an a buck 110 in the pack for back-up,,going to retire the buck had it for over 20 years,going to leave the small fix blade at home,an add the GEC trapper to my gear,from what i read it should do me good,thanks to all for the info,any more comments keep-um comming,the more i learn the better,,aloha
 
Thanks, Carl, it's my first and oldest knife of any kind, and still used every week.
 
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