Say Heah Guys and Gals, Christmas in April just happened to me. Santa in his Brown Truck delivered my RatWeiler to me just a few hours ago. Initial inspection is simply tit's, beautiful. I ask Trissy to tell the guys to thin the edge down a little and I had no problem slicing today's add pages on the newspaper. My Swamp Rat Stable just grew by one.
Although one of my Fav's Combo carry is my Rodent 7 and my Rodent 4, I like the size difference between the two and with choils it exponentially increased knife sizes just by carrying the two knives.
I also have a similar set of Busse Combat's, I have on order a Steel Heart Ergo and the Badger Attack Ergo that should be similar to my Fav's Set but in the INFI Steel.
I defenetly have to rearrange some of my Swampie sets, I use to pair the Rodent 9 with my RatManDu, but now I'm leaning more to adding it to my RatWeiler/Solution set, and pairing my Rodent 9 with my Rodent 5 and the Rodent 3.
Ofcourse the weight is a big consideration as it was mentioned. But when let's say I do go with the RatWeiler and the RatManDu, I would molle attach the RatWeiler on my backpack. Usually I like to carry the larger knife on person, because if I'm seperated from my pack, I'm stuck with the larger knife as the knife that's on me at the time.
I also changed knife carry over the year's. I started out as a 3knife carry, but today especially when I scout a new area out and look for fatwood. I carry a good belt knife like my modified Rodent 6 which I had the top gaurd taken off and I had it thinned down and now it look's like a beefy Ratmandu on steriods, I love that knife, it's less than a 1/4" thick now. But I might also wear a neck carry, a hatchet, and a saw, My Trio I find with the way the tools complement eachother, I find less use to carry a multi knife carry. To me I don't consider a saw and hatchet as a knife carry and besides the hatchet is molle carried and it depends which saw I take, I can carry a Bacho Laplander on person or molle attached, same with my Wicked Tough Saw, The larger ones like my Silky Bigboy 2000 or Bob's Buck Saw is defenetly molle attached.
But I'm also finding out that I can go with a large knife and make it my one tool option. I take a large lanyard pull it over my elbow to my bisep and hold it by the tip, I can do my fine work like clean small game or fish. The weight of the knife is then supported by the lanyard.
I could use my large knife, as a one tool carry as a option, is only because I do have a few knives. But if I was just starting off and didn't have knives in different sizes, I would go with a 5"-6" knife as mentioned before. I personally like a choil because for me, It's like having two knives in one. I never ran out of blade lenght because of a choil. But it defenetly helps me to choke up when I do my fine work.
