Big knife envy

akadave2

akadave2

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I find it interesting that here in Alaska, when I am either hunting or camping or just hanging out with my hard core hunting and outdoor friends that they tend to give me a hard time for having any knife with a blade over 5 inches.

I only have a couple of larger fixed blade knives and when I carry them or talk about getting another they give me crap like Im some sort of greenhorn telling me to get a camp axe and use a knife for other things. Anyone else experience this?
 
Me and 2 huntingBuds of 30 years all have large Choppers and we always find obscure ways to put them to use every Michigan Hunting Season. The younger guys (Our Sons and their friends) think we are Silly and last year brought chainsaws to camp out of nowhere... Oh what battle that started with one of my Buds and his Son. It was all resolved with no real Trauma or Drama. We got them to understand that we wait all year to be up there 2gether tryin to Out-Knife or Out-Chopp each other. Thats our fun! Besides the Huntin/Drinkin/Cigars/Darts and standing around a fire every night makin fun of each other!!!! My Boy is bringing a new RD9 this year. I am waitin to see if the other boys got it????
 
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I find that a blade ~4" is the most useful in many given situations. Now that does not stop me from owning a Busse CGFBM & NMFBM, Fehrman FJ, Ranger RD9...... Like babakanoosh45 I have fun using larger knives, even if they are not the most practical
 
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yeah i got big blade envy. i whip out my 110 and my bud pulls a cold steel gunsite. i get my sog fusion bowie and my buudies brother whips out a bigazz busse he said cost $600.beans. i got a new buck 655 and my boss shows me his new buck pigsticker!!!Wazzzup??? i seem to be a day late and a few inches short again and again! oh well there all bald and i have hair, that somthing...right? LMAO!!!
 
I like big knives and always have a few around but they are more toys than anything. I never use them for practical knife work other that when I am processing big game.
 
udtjim said:
I like big knives and always have a few around but they are more toys than anything. I never use them for practical knife work other that when I am processing big game.
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Yuppers. LIKE lotta steel. Never need it, though.
 
I can be put into this category as well. I currently only have 2 "large" blades. 1 is a Smith and Wesson Ka-bar knock off. The other is a Hungarian made AK-47 bayonet that was a gift. However the bayonet needs to get sharpened. When I got it, it was already very used and dull, wouldn't even cut paper.
 
I've got a couple of HI kukris, and for all around chopping fun, they can't be beat, IMHO; great price & handmade, too.) Everyone who sees them loves 'em. I'm leaving the Becker BK7 & hatchet home next summer, and taking the kukri instead. I think it can handle the chopping/cutting chores that come up.

thx - cpr
 
Knives to me are much like engines: There's no replacement for displacement. :D Bigger is better, heheh, so long as it isn't so dang big you can't use it right. I prefer 6 - 10 inch blades, there is more blade to partition up for various tasks, and if it busts, you likely have some left over to regrind one day and still have a useable knife. I know what you mean about others making reference to your large knife in a teasing tone, but like you, I think they are just jealous. Kinda like a kid in his '95 Honda Civic poking fun at your '70 GTO Judge. :jerkit:
 
I've never bought into the 4" knife thing (except for my little Endura folder). I've got a 6" Cold Steel SRK and recently bought a Rat-7 collectors' edition. Gotta say I like the Rat-7's size over the SRK. Not too big to wear on your belt, but a nice size to do most anything. Both are 3/16", 0.1875". I do prefer a hatchet for chopping.


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I used to lug around big knives when I was young. A Randall 14 was a regular backpacking/camping knife when I wasn't carrying a Western bowie.

Then one day I realized I wasn't so young anymore, and that pack was getting hevier every year, so something had to go. Most of my buds had always been teasing me about my big knives, and they were the first to go. I thought carefully back over the years, and I really couldn't think of one thing I did with the big bowies that I couldn't do with a much smaller knife. The only times I did some chopping was just for the sake of using the big knife. I did not really have to chop, as most kindling could be broke up over a knee.

I went down to a 4 inch sheath knife, and it worked great for most things I did on a camping trip, and actually was better at fish and game.

It's been a very long time since I carried anything over a few inches of blade. Just don't need it, and don't want the weight and bulk. If I need to chop something, I'll put a small hatchet or folding saw in my pack.
 
I use my RTAK II, when I go to the woods, plain and simple. It has its purpose: cutting limbs off of trees or cutting small trees down quickly in thickly vegetated areas especially. Do I need an axe? If the weather gets cold enough.
 
Jack Knife. So you noticed that the gravitational pull has increased also? Who would have ever thunk it?:D
 
I recently got a Benchmade Skirmish. It is way too big for me as an EDC and if I am camping or such I like to have a fixed blade. But I do like to take the Skirmish out of the drawer once in a while just to admire it. It's a guilty pleasure.
 
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