It's not a safe queen anymore!

[elkins45]

Here's the Dozier Buffalo River Hunter I bought a couple of years ago. It's been a safe queen until yesterday when I used it to field dress and skin a whitetail doe. As you can see, it's not a safe queen anymore.

I don't think I've ever been more disappointed with a knife. It lost its shaving edge before I finished skinning and after I cleaned it up I discovered there's a little bit of edge deformation from where I used it to disarticulate the joints of the front legs. I'm pretty sure it will sharpen out, but I expected better performance from a >$200 knife than from the $18 Victorinox boning knife I used to put it in the freezer.

Oh well...I bought it to experience the famed Dozier performance I've been reading about since high school. Now I guess I have. As it turns out, an expensive hunting knife doesn't perform all that much better than a regular one. I guess I already knew that but I just needed to learn it again.

 

[Thalestin]

That is too bad. Live and learn

 

[sar5]

That's a shame, I always wanted one too. What a disappointment. Congrats on the meat however

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Clean it up, put a new edge on it, try it again. Sometimes even the best knives do not have their best steel at the very edge, and really need a good stropping at least before use. If it still fails, contact the Dozier shop.

 

[elkins45]

Clean it up, put a new edge on it, try it again. Sometimes even the best knives do not have their best steel at the very edge, and really need a good stropping at least before use. If it still fails, contact the Dozier shop.

That's a good point I hadn't thought of. I'll absolutely give it a good sharpening/stropping and (hopefully) try it again on a big buck.