Fading stag.

[johnny twoshoes]

The ability to only use and rely on one knife kinda blows my mind, but I think that’s something us knife nuts tend to struggle with.

I picked this model with a non-knife nut in mind, I knew it was something that he could use year round. It’s preformed well in helping build hunting shacks in the summer and harvesting meat for the freezer comefall, it gets the nod when opening gifts around Christmas time as well. It’s not too much and not too little. I’m glad my kids will be able to remember their Pappy using this knife to do all sorts of things and that they will learn by watching.

The funny thing is that this knife is a worry stone for him as well, I’ll catch him tracing the stag by a campfire, or spinning it in his hand on the recliner.

I’m jealous of the stag myself and the wear it shows is something of pride for me.

 

[johnny twoshoes]

Great story johnny twoshoes !

What a great user! The hunt for a #72/73 pattern started for me thanks to your awesome pictures of your knifes. I now have two #72s and an amazing #73 in stag. One of my #72s that I received from you as a gift still gets tons of pocket time and is waiting for deer season to open up here in California in late September.

Those two models are among my favorites. I like the #72 for gifting out because it doesn’t scare people with the heavy backspring of a #73. The #73 is just a stout blade capable of anythig and everything I need a knife for.

You have a lot of the same hobbies I do and that #72 needed to experience a black tail hunt at least once in its lifetime.

I gave a different stag #72 to my older brother, I’ve gifted him knife after knife and he always misplaces, or never uses them until I got him his #72. It’s almost always on him and has done a lot of heavy lifting. He doesn’t take care of it barely at all and it keeps chugging right along. There will be strips of tape and gobs of who knows what hanging from the edge and he’ll put it to work like a straight razor. I have to maintain his knife as well.

 

[The Fort]

Great story Johnny! I really enjoyed reading it. I’m not sure if you recall, or not, but you helped point me in the right direction when I was looking for my first stag 73. Here’s a couple of pictures of it when it was new. I’ll have to take some current ones, when I get around to it.