Cold Steel Boar Hunter Subhilt Fighting Knife

[BennettS.]

Does anyone know anything about these? How do these handle everyday tasks? Is it worth the $60? I really like modern style seaxes, and I am looking to purchase my first one. Is this a good place to start?
Thanks,
Bennett

 

[DShiflet]

By everyday tasks, do you mean opening boxes, cutting food, that sort of thing? If so, it handles them fine. If you mean like shelter building, skinning game, that kinda stuff, it's design is probably not the most ideal. I've never gone boar hunting(and presumably never will), but I assume it would kill boar just fine(and at least one poster on these forums has posted pictures of it doing just that). It's AUS-8 steel, which Cold Steel does well though it's not a super steel and isn't gonna hold it's edge for 12 years or anything like that, the handle is good and grippy...and at $60, if you like the design, go for it.

 

[marcinek]

If your everyday tasks are boar killing and knife fighting, its great! Otherwise...meh.

But! Like DShiflet said, if its 60 bucks worth of cool looking to you...by alll means get it.

$60 is pretty cheap for a knife (especially a huge fixed blade), and I really like AUS8.

 

[Hawgsnawt]

its ALOT too large for use as much of anything other than a camp/field knife.... not a bad knife, but don't get any illusions that you'll be hip carrying it to work and whooping it out for random tasks.....

Mine pretty much lives in the kitchen, and for that task, I'd have preferred it without the subhilt....but for the price, its a great knife to just add to the collection.....you'll find a use for it...

 

[orca8589]

I lived part of my childhood in North Carolina, and and uncle of a friend of mine went down to Georgia every year and hunted boar with a cut-down, modified bayonet. I remember the bayonet blade looking not too different from the CS version, but it had a much stronger, stout point. (I do remember him saying that the knife wasn't really good for anything else.)

That being said, the Cold Steel Boar Hunter might make a useful slicer, if only because the blade is a full flat grind. To me, the point looks a little fragile to be ramming into the ribs a huge boar, but I've never hunted one, so I really have no idea.

~Chris

 

[BennettS.]

Thanks for all of the responses. By everyday tasks, I mean box opening, rope cutting, and food prep. The idea is that I could use it for a self defense knife if needed

 

[DShiflet]

Thanks for all of the responses. By everyday tasks, I mean box opening, rope cutting, and food prep. The idea is that I could use it for a self defense knife if needed

It would handle those tasks fine. You may want to cut off the sub-hilt(it's just kraton on whatever, easy to cut through) if you wanna use it for a lot of food prep, but it would easily open boxes and cut rope. As for self defense, I wouldn't really want to rely on a knife personally, but since the purpose of the knife was killing boar, well...yeah, I think it could probably take the fight out of a human, too.

 

[marcinek]

Thanks for all of the responses. By everyday tasks, I mean box opening, rope cutting, and food prep. The idea is that I could use it for a self defense knife if needed

You could use a box cutter for box opening, and a kitchen knife for food prep, too, and they would work better for those tasks, and would be just as (in)effective for SD as that CS.

It's not an "everyday tasks" knife, clearly. Its a sub hilt...its for stabbing and removing after stabbing.

You think it looks cool. Nothing wrong with that....get it.