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Absintheur

Absintheur

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It has taken me awhile to gather the clan together. I know I should have bought them while they were in production but where is the fun in that? At any rate I had to search for a while for the last one and ended up buying three 2 blade hunters...lol. Two are unfinished knives and will be sent out to be finished but right after I bought them I found a nice 2 Blade Hunter for a very low price and snapped it up as well...just means I get to gift 2 of them this Christmas to family. I find the Jr Stockman to be a very nice carry knife as well as the Muskrat.

At any rate here they are....a family portrait...

Large Stockman
Two Blade Hunter
Ozark Hunter
Trapper
Jr Stockman
Muskrat
Bird Knife

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Does any one know why the Ozark Hunter was never really produced? I was really looking forward to one. Then CS pulled it from their catalog.

God Bless
 
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Sweet. VERY sweet. You have me drooling.
 
Did CS make these or were they done by someone else?
Kinda look Kabar-ish. idunno

mike
 
Camillus made them with Carbon V steel. That is why I am salivating.
 
Yep....all Carbon V blades...these sharpen up as nicely as Case CV does. This is also why they were discontinued, when Camillus closed Cold Steel lost both their maker of Carbon V as well as the maker of their slipjoints. I haven't bought any of the new SK-5 which is the replacement for the Carbon V but I have heard it is not quite as good...holds an edge well but harder to sharpen.
 
kidwholaughs said:
Does any one know why the Ozark Hunter was really produced? I was really looking forward to one. Then CS pulled it from their catalog.

God Bless
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Did you mean 'why', or 'if'?

If I remember correctly, it didn't make into full production. A few were made, but I think Camillus closed before too many made it out. (I can't remember where I read that.)

thx - cpr
 
I have a large stockman. Its Carbon V blades take an incredible edge, and it is probably the sharpest knife I own.

Camillus did indeed make the Cold Steel knives. I have a junior stockman that is identical to Absintheur's, the only difference is that the shield says "Camillus" and not "Cold Steel."
 
Actually the Cold Steel Ozark Hunter is not that hard to find, you just need to watch the secondary market. They even show up in our own for sale forum here occasionally. As I said the rarest one is the 2 Blade Hunter. You can also find Camillus branded knives with the Carbon V blades, these are knives that were built from leftover blades just before Camillus closed. It was one of these....a trapper...that got me started on the CS slippies.
 
Cool! I think I might pick up one of those jr. stockmans on ebay. I would love to have a cold steel knife and try out Carbon V!
 
Here is one you don't see everyday. Red jigged bone handle. This puppy is a little over 9 inches open. A gift from one of my BFC cohorts, by the way.

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That is a great redo on the scales!

One of the two unfinished knives I bought has a bad nail nick on the smaller blade. How bad? This bad....

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What I am considering for this one is to have it rescaled and thinned by having the bad blade and extra liner removed making it a one blade hunter.
 
Very nice knives, I don't own any of the CS slippies but would have to say that the Carbon V skinners I have used in the past were superb slicers. Held a great edge and were very easy to restore to hair popping.
 
Capt. Carl said:
Cool! I think I might pick up one of those jr. stockmans on ebay. I would love to have a cold steel knife and try out Carbon V!
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You were thinking what I was thinking. Except I zipped off and snagged one of the large stockmans off the 'bay after see this post this morning. Always meant to get one. Seems like a good hard use EDC.
 
I'm a sucker for anything in Carbon V, or 0170-6, or 0170-6C, or whatever it is. I have a Camillus-made Remington, and a couple of blade blanks from Camillus as well. I pick up whatever I can when I see them for a good price.

thx - cpr
 
The Arkansas Hunter was never produced in large numbers because Lynn felt the Camillus lock was not strong enough for Cold Steel standards. He told me that at SHOT several years ago.
 
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