Mr Fisk NLT :; I bow to da king!
Yes ! We tested the magnum camp with all the other knives.
Of coarse being an ABS guy I was IN LOVE with it. I felt it needed more testing because of its nature and multi fuction. It was put through the same tests plus more and was a great design for sure. Now for the real great news . The design fit just what you said it would do. A camp knife. A camp knife should be able to do small chores and large chores IMHO. Most feel it is a fully rounded knife for a one knife carry in the camp situation. I feel it should be a knife that even if you need to... will do everything from fillet a fish or chop a tree down. THIS KNIFE WILL DO IT.
I got meat cutting detail from Mr becker in the kitchen. We used it to carve bear meat and deer meat roasted.
I did a raw deer loin taking off the thin tendion( this is a bitch) and cutting it up, bacon, 8 full hugh garlic cloves,hot peppers and sevral other kitchen chopping and cutting chores . It went then to the hanging rope cutting test and passed. Then on to the wood chopping test and passed.
IMHO when cutting (slicing ) the rope (2") on a board it did the best of the line.
All the knives were hammered on the backspine to split wood also.
At first sight the handles looked a bit different to me on the camillus becker line. But after using the knives I know why they were designed the way they were. THEY WORK... no blisters and they are rounded in the right places to allow long use times without losing your grip and making your hand cramp. We also did a paper slicing test.. The magnum camp did the best here also. The others have a thicker blade for other types of use.
But for the folks who like thick kick butt knives for other types of use the thicker knives kick butt in that arena.
One thing I have to say is I thought the coating would scratch BUT IT DIDNT. It mared a little but it hung through some tough testing with magazine, and many other camillus clients watching.
The brute was a great knife for anything extreme.
The maxchex (SP) did the chores it was designed for very well. I didnt understand the thinner section of the curve. After I was educated I understood . It is for shaving log ods and shaping wood for building and then is a hachet type tool on the front end. It will cut a tree down in a heart beat.
The companion is for smaller heavy duty chores.
The tac tool is bad to the bone and will be a popular tool for leo's, spook, and tac operators. The folks who attended that are versed in pure tac arena had coments like yup every tac team will have this one soon.
I think thats all of them and I hope the knives in my mind eye are correct to the name.
Note this is just my opinion of what I saw in real life. I have been to the factory . The heat treat and steel choice combonation is the real heart of these knives. Camillus uses excellent heat treat processes to get this high standard.
I was also the edge checker. NONE of these knives had a flat spot,ding or wrinkle on the edge after this type of REAL life use. They were as sharp as when the came from the box..
These knives are a good well thought out product.
Im sure there are other extreme tests for these knives. IMHO they were tested for there
real life purpose and not tests that do not apply in my world.
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[This message has been edited by Darrel Ralph (edited 06-07-2000).]
