Huntin with your Traditional Knives

Nice knives and pictures Jon. The young man looks like a happy, knife totin hunter to me.

Jake, that Shigeno is a beauty. Sorry to here about the truck.

Enjoy this email duck breath greentrout. Looks like the Schrade handled the task just fine.


Chris
 
Jsega-glad you are ok, and sorry about the truck. Were the knives hurt? 'Cause I want that Bose, and that Shigeno(?) is beautiful too! You definitely take some good tools out when you're...working? ;) Really,quality stag on both. My envy continues to grow, but in a good way:D
Thanks, Neal
 
Don't worry Neal! No knives were hurt in the making of that crash scene lol. A lot of people would probably say I'm a bonehead for carrying the knives that I do but I take care of them so that they don't get all beat up. Dressing and skinning game won't even leave a mark really.

For a lot of years, I was using the "standard" knives like the Schrade Sharpfinger, a Buck 110 and a Browning FTD (and let me tell you, I used this folder on a ton of game!). After getting into customs, I'll never go back. To me, they really do work more efficiently and to be honest, I mostly appreciate the fact that they were made by a true craftsman. I almost feel that I owe it to them to use the knife for what it was intended for.

Don't get me wrong, I do have knives that are strictly collector pieces. They look great in the display case but I want to be able to use some of them as well. Plus it's fun letting a friend try out what's on my belt and watching their eyes pop when they see how nice it is and how nice it cuts.

(Then they ask price, and I have to put their eyeballs back into their head.)
 
Sam Lurquin work good on this roe deer

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took a small five pointer in the two days I had to hunt. Used a knife I bought in AZ on my way to the West Rim of the Grand Canyon. Not sure who made it, it has three mountain tops in a triangle pattern as a mark. But the knife performed admirably. Stropped it when I got home and it is shaving sharp still. LT Wright Jet hanging off my hip.


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Jsega51 said:
Could you post a closer pic of that knife? Congrats on the venison!
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Jake, here are some more pics of my "graduation knife". Mr. John Pavliko of SW-PA made it at my cousin's request, for my high school graduation present (over 20 yrs ago). The "P" is on all of Pavliko's knives. I tried to show the various planes of the original flat, the edge profile and the swedge in the third pic. Like I said before, the pedigree is not the significance of this knife, but it is well made and definitely gets it done, and it is a treasure to me. It was made from a large circular sawmill blade, so I don't know the exact steel, but it is of high carbon and does patina where blood is allowed to sit. I don't mind that though, it tells the stories of my hunts.

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Like many of you, I have probably too many knives. This year, as I'm taking deer, I'm trying out my various patterns to see what really works for me and what is so-so. After field dressing a deer with the knife pictured above, I decided to process the deer with some other knives that I've had hanging around. For skinning, I chose the Wolf River in s30v. This pattern is as old as the hills. The way I skin is upside down, so I need a pointed knife to slit the inner rear-thighs, then ring the knee joints and work under the front armpits. In between these few operations, the true skinning blade does the work. I used the Forest Knife, which is perhaps older than the hills quoted above. It's a traditional Scandinavian knife and it worked the particular cuts like lightning. The combination of the Forest and Wolf River made an amazingly great pair and the deer was skinned in no-time flat. I kept the sheaths in the lower leg pockets of my carhartts and switched back and forth without hesitation. Here they are, and they are great tools:
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For quartering, I thought I'd try one of my camp knife patterns. This is a 2012 Bark River Collectors knife. Sort of a small bowie. It did the job and worked fine, but it seems a bit unwieldly for this work. It got it done though. Here is this knife after removing the silver skin from the backstraps:
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Kent, Bozak, congrats! Nice selection of knives also.

Josh, that knife is pretty nice! For someone who doesn't really make knives much, his grinds look nice and even and the swedge is a great added touch. Definitely a nice keepsake to pass down to your kids!
 
alclark2 said:
Jake, you have a chance to put that beautiful stag hunter to work yet?
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Not yet sadly...don't worry though, I seem to always get something right at the end of the season. That's why I love our week of muzzleloader.
 
Thanks for the suggestion, John. It is not the right maker. The knife cast all of $43.00. So I am guessing a local guy. The logo is two peaks side by side with a third in the middle below. The peaks are "A" shaped with snow caps. If anyone has a clue I would be interested in knowing. It is a nice working knife.
 
bozack-The other man I just thought of is Kaleb Reynolds, The Muskrat Man, but his logo on the knife I have is two mountains, with the left one slightly higher than the right one. I have a Nesmuck from him and the handle looks a lot like yours. Is your handle Osage Orange? Also the price range is right about where my knife from him was. John
 
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