Huntin with your Traditional Knives

[Phil in Alabama]

Nailed this one with the Kimber Hunter

 

[Phil in Alabama]

The little Boker Davis lockback works very well for turning small game into food, and it being no larger than a standard sized trapper pattern at 6-3/4" overall makes for a good pocket carry too. There is also a same sized slipjoint Boker Davis design, with thin red liners beneath green canvas micarta, and I'd like to get one of those also. Maybe before too long. The Loveless styled shape is very appealing to me.

 

[Old Hunter]

Nice knife and nice rifle Phil - did the job on that squirrel! OH

 

[tongueriver]

Nailed this one with the Kimber Hunter

That Kimber is a lovely firearm. You have good taste.

 

[johnny twoshoes]

I keep coming back to this stand for bushytails, I imagine the view is getting over played on here, but this stand is too darn comfy and I know there is a grey, or two down in the section of the hollow.

Think I’ll wonder further on down the hollow and look for some fox squrriels.

 

[Horsewright]

My shop assistant Dani is a whiz with a bandsaw, she really is:

My nickname for her is Dani the Huntress:

Sonoran Hunter with Rosewood handle in a Slotted sheath. Water Buffalo belt by us too with pink stitching:

She and her dad both did well. No defrosting the turkey this week at their house:

 

[johnny twoshoes]

Bear season was a bust.
We got a ton of rain on the opening day, I made it out after driving straight from working midnight shift, but it was all for not.

I had my #73 with me.


#23 on my belt. It came in handy back at camp for cutting up ring bologna.

#72 running back up. Seen sitting here atop my 1976 Remington 760 in ott six.

 

[Jsega51]

Nice pics Dave!

Johnny, those stag knives are going to look great by the end of the season. The bears up here are hitting the standing corn right now. Been trying to get eyes on these two smaller ones. Just missed them as these tracks are as fresh as mine were lol.

 

[johnny twoshoes]

Nice pics Dave!

Johnny, those stag knives are going to look great by the end of the season. The bears up here are hitting the standing corn right now. Been trying to get eyes on these two smaller ones. Just missed them as these tracks are as fresh as mine were lol.

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We were forecasted to have a record year for bear harvest and that fell flat on its face after the opening day rained nearly non stop. I found an awesome place to hunt, I was tucked in next to a big pine in the middle of this thick sapling patch nestled in between some laurel thickets. There was good bear “sign” everywhere. I couldn't stay dry even being under the old pine and when the trees started bending in the wind I boogied.

The mellow earthy tones really overtake the stag after a bath in blood.

 

[Horsewright]

Thanks Jsega51 . I'll pass that on.

 

[Rockon75]

Firearms season approaches here in the Mid-Atlantic. WV started this past Mon. MD comes in Saturday and PA this coming Monday. All two week seasons. Hope to have some pics for you folks......

 

[johnny twoshoes]

My Dad brought out his old hunting knife from the flat lands of Ohio, a Remington R-3 that has cleaned more dear than anything I have in my hunting group combined.


It was a gift from his brother after he came back from serving in the Navy in Alaska. They told my Dad’s brother Tim that, “there is a girl behind every tree up here”, when Tim got there he realized there were no trees around the base.

The edge on this knife was beat, I don’t know what my Dad did to it, but there was a weird wave to the blade that I had sharpen out.

It’s taken an amazing edge and will probably get some more use here in Pa.

Here it is next to my hunting knife of choice, a #73L, a pattern I’ve been using for nearly a decade now.

 

[Horsewright]

Made this raindrop damascus Paisano with mammoth ivory, for a hunting guide in Montana. This is his girlfriends first buck:

 

[Jsega51]

Dave, I notice that a lot of your knives are on the small side. Just wondering of thats by request or if you just simply prefer a smaller blade. Most of my hunting fixed blades run in the 8” range, but then again, I’m very partial to the Loveless dropped hunter and semi-skinner patterns.

Also, do you have a pic of the knife that Dani is carrying in her pics?

 

[Horsewright]

Jsega51 Yep I make very few knives over 7 inches or so. Simply economics. I sell 10 smaller knives to one larger. Hands down. A lot of what sell my knives is the sheaths and the different ways they are designed to carry, like horizontal crossdraw, small of the back etc. Smaller knives work better for this. Most of my customers are working cowboys, buckaroos, ranchers, working horsemen etc and most of these folks are looking for knives that can be carried comfortably and safely while in the saddle. Again small works better here. Here ya go. While not that specific knife, (I don't have any pics of it), its this model. This one is in ironwood instead of rosewood, that's the only difference. The Sonoran Hunter:

Its A2 at 62RC and are cutting sons of guns. I make them in a set and individually too. The set consists of the Sonoran Skinner, The Sonoran Hunter and the Sonoran Belt Knife (a caper, bird and trout, EDC). When ordered as a set they come with individual sheaths and I throw in the Pack Pac for free which carries the two larger knives in a pack safely. Here in sheep horn:

 

[cut it out]

Bear camp

 

[Jsega51]

Horsewright , thanks for the info! That ironwood Sonoran is really nice, great grain in that one. Have a great Thanksgiving!

 

[Horsewright]

Ya bet and thanks! Ya too Jake Jsega51

 

[Phil in Alabama]

Case 3 Finn that I had bought several months ago, on the Thanksgiving Day squirrel hunt. I had originally intended to just save this one for collecting but broke down and used it; turned out to be excellent to use on squirrels, one of the best out of all the knives I've used on squirrels in the last few years.

 

[greentrout]

Duck season opened this past Saturday.