It's 1923.

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And you're off to try to find the Lost Dutchman mine in the Superstition mountains of Arizona. The model T is loaded, but you will have to take to foot when you get there, so weight is critical. You have a rifle for game.

What two knives are you dropping in your pocket to handle day to day cutting jobs?

I'm thinking a scout knife and a barlow. Goes well with a lever action winchester. :D

Carl.
 
The Arizona desert huh? Not much call for a big, heavy knife then. Something like these two should do.

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- Christian
 
Living out here and having hiked the Peralta trail I know that the most likely thing I will find is a great view. So I'm bringing a sodbuster to cut the fantastic sandwich I'm going to eat when I get there!

In case I get lucky I'll take an electrician's knife, never know when the screwdriver is going to come in handy for prying that gold out of the wall.
 
Just so happens it is the combo I am carrying today, plus my peanut, there is always room for a peanut.
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Plus when I traveled cross country by foot, I only took a Vic Farmer ( scout with saw) and I think but not sure a Gerber single blade lockback, it was 20 years ago, I can't remember.
 
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Dogelg jack (and beverage, for medicinal purposes) and Scagel (inspired) fish-tail.
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Well, naturally I'll have my good ole 1923 EDC (a two-blade, equal-end jack in stag) in the pocket of my Filsons. On my belt, you'll find a smallish sheath knife for game. Something like a Little Finn.

When do we get started!?! :)

-- Mark
 
I'm thinking a scout knife for the utility and a belt knife, 4" or smaller blade for game. Wouldn't ya sign up tomorrow if you could?
 
I'd have to take a hatchet and a knife such as this Harness Jack.

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Either a med stockman or 4" trapper and a 4" full tang fixed blade. Oh wait, that's what I take when I head out now :)
 
I think a full size trapper and a fixed blade at a lenth of 14 cm bladelength should do the job very well. Though I have never been to Arizona...

Kind regards
Andi
 
A smaller Skinner belt knife, some sort of Nessmuk style, compact thin and real slicer.

Teardrop Jack, good to grip nice broad blade.

When can we start the Time Machine??:D:thumbup:

In terms of contemporary knives that I own - any simple Puukko, they're light, easy to carry and field sharpen. Alternatively, the Buck Gen 5 Skinner is a belt-knife I really like. Handle long enough for all hands, thin broad blade in Buck's ever ready stainless, so easy to maintain. The sheath of this Buck can be worn vertically or horizontal, a handy thing. Compact&serious. The GEC 85 Bullet End would be a good Teardrop type, or the Queen Cutlery QCCC Teardrop, both are carbon hence no problem with improvised sharpening, for this reason I'd avoid D2 too tricky to sharpen on the go.

Thanks, Will
 
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I live and hunt in AZ, including the superstitions. So I would carry the same wilderness blades I always do, a trapper and 6"-8" bladed bowie knife. A bowie knife can be pretty handy in the desert as long as it fits nicely on a belt, axes and machetes are comparably useless.
 
I'd have to take my "Ladykiller" by James Whitten and my 2009 Bladeforums Barlow:


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But I might just drop the MCH in there somewhere as well.

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None of my stuff would have been here in 1923 though. The model 94 Winchester is perfect, but I don't have one.

Ed J
 
Old kinfolks hunter, and my old puuko. Along with the good ole 30-30 trapper.
 
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