Photos Kepharts...They just Work

Good morning all. Sorry I haven't added much here lately but I'm working 12 hr shifts and it doesn't leave me a lot of spare time. I have read everything and LIKED everything. You guys have taught me a lot about ol Horace and his Kephart.
My brother's FIL got "treed" by a razorback in Arkansas. He managed to be able to shoot him with a slug from a 12 ga Browning. He had the head mounted, tusks and all. Wicked looking beast.
 
Uncle Timbo said:
Good morning all. Sorry I haven't added much here lately but I'm working 12 hr shifts and it doesn't leave me a lot of spare time. I have read everything and LIKED everything. You guys have taught me a lot about ol Horace and his Kephart.
My brother's FIL got "treed" by a razorback in Arkansas. He managed to be able to shoot him with a slug from a 12 ga Browning. He had the head mounted, tusks and all. Wicked looking beast.
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I can relate.
Lol
I walked into a group of piglets once and the sow "treed" me. It happened so fast I had to drop my shotgun to climb the tree. If I hadn't had a revolver, I would probably still be in the tree.
:D
Mad 300lb sow is not to be triffled with.
 
These guys also live right outside my door.
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Bullet design or choice matters too. I think hogs are the perfect quarry with ARs along with varmints in general. It is one of the few animals that I would like a quick second and third shot available to me.

Would you use your shiny new Kephart to field dress one of those stinky things?
 
leghog said:
It isn't a rabbit hole. It's a sensible question and a sensible answer.
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If you spent as much time on forums and in the field as I have asking this question you would probably agree it’s a rabbit hole. But by all means have at it. It’s all good.
 
I don’t have a lot of experience shooting hogs. But of the two I killed, one took two shots with 180gr Noslers from a 300 Win Mag at less than 15 feet. One shoulder. One cranial.

The other was a one shot in the vitals distance kill. Same gun.
 
22-rimfire said:
Bullet design or choice matters too. I think hogs are the perfect quarry with ARs along with varmints in general. It is one of the few animals that I would like a quick second and third shot available to me.

Would you use your shiny new Kephart to field dress one of those stinky things?
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I have cleaned many many wild hogs with my condor Kephart....but it's not a shiny custom..lol
You can drive the condor like ya stole it.
marchone said:
I don’t have a lot of experience shooting hogs. But of the two I killed, one took two shots with 180gr Noslers from a 300 Win Mag at less than 15 feet. One shoulder. One cranial.

The other was a one shot in the vitals distance kill. Same gun.
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I've killed more than I can count.
300 win mag will do the trick.
;)
 
I would love to do a handgun only hunt for hogs. It is one of the things on my list. Frankly, I wouldn't even bother field dressing one..... take pictures and dig hole and bury.

Remember, this isn't a gun forum or even hunting forum unless it is knife related.
 
Last time guns and ammo choice came up in a thread like this, the mods showed up and pointed out that, that discussion is for the gun forums. As they're both related to hunting and outdoors activity, there is an easy cross-between but I think the line gets drawn when the majority of the conversation surrounds guns instead of them being in relation to knives and knife related activities.

Which gun do you shoot your busse knife with? probably okay
Which gun do you shoot hogs with? less okay

This has been a good thread and we don't want to see it shut down for getting way off topic, which the mods here do a good job keeping track of.
 
22-rimfire said:
I would love to do a handgun only hunt for hogs. It is one of the things on my list. Frankly, I wouldn't even bother field dressing one..... take pictures and dig hole and bury.

Remember, this isn't a gun forum or even hunting forum unless it is knife related.
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Only dress the small ones. Big ones are nasty. Too much musk.
We don't bury them.

"Buzzard's gotta eat..same as the worm"- The Outlaw Josey Wales

The spear point of the Kephart makes it an excellent blade for dressing tough skinned game like wild hogs.

Hunting is one of the few activities that pretty much require a good knife.
I tend to use my knives.
I can appreciate collectors, I love custom blades, and understand safe queens, but almost all of my blades get real world hard use.
The Kephart is one of my most used knives and IMHO is a fantastic knife design for hunting.
I can only whittle so many feather sticks.
;)
 
Understood. Because I traveled a lot to hunt, outfitters always came into the picture and I rarely if ever got to use my own knife.
 
Bad Ninja said:
Only dress the small ones. Big ones are nasty. Too much musk.
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The Kephart is one of my most used knives and IMHO is a fantastic knife design for hunting.
I can only whittle so many feather sticks.
;)
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Yes to the field dressing topic.

I really need to dig out my Condor Kephart and go to work on that thing. As new, and sharpened by me, it was not a cutter. 42 Blades says the edge needs to be thinned down. As I mentioned, it was a big part of the reason I purchased the Ken Onion version of the Work Sharp. Not something I use for knives in general as it can be a little aggressive. At the present, my Condor Kephart is MIA; I believe it fell behind one of my book cases and I have to remove all the stuff to move it away from the wall and look.

In general, the Kephart spear point design sort of grows on you. The only spear points I own are on SAKs and a couple traditional folding knives. I tend to favor saber grinds or clips on folders for the woods and not for hunting in general. I'm looking forward to using the BK-62 Kephart and I suspect I'm really going to like it. I mentioned before that it is destined to become my "Smoky Mountain" knife. Kind of like the historical aspect of using it there. I imagine the Rangers might get a kick out of that.

I take the spear point comment back a little... My Condor Bushlores are spear points.
 
22-rimfire said:
Yes to the field dressing topic.

I really need to dig out my Condor Kephart and go to work on that thing. As new, and sharpened by me, it was not a cutter. 42 Blades says the edge needs to be thinned down. As I mentioned, it was a big part of the reason I purchased the Ken Onion version of the Work Sharp. Not something I use for knives in general as it can be a little aggressive. At the present, my Condor Kephart is MIA; I believe it fell behind one of my book cases and I have to remove all the stuff to move it away from the wall and look.

In general, the Kephart spear point design sort of grows on you. The only spear points I own are on SAKs and a couple traditional folding knives. I tend to favor saber grinds or clips on folders for the woods and not for hunting in general. I'm looking forward to using the BK-62 Kephart and I suspect I'm really going to like it. I mentioned before that it is destined to become my "Smoky Mountain" knife. Kind of like the historical aspect of using it there. I imagine the Rangers might get a kick out of that.

I take the spear point comment back a little... My Condor Bushlores are spear points.
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My condor was a blank from Baryonyx Knife Co (a long time BF member) and was ordered with the "special treatment" so it was shaving sharp when it arrived, so it had a good starting point.
The worksharp puts a good working convex edge on really dull knives. I've had one for years and love it, but as you said, it's agressive. They do make leather belts for it, but I haven't tried them yet.
I use a strop to keep my Kephart in shape and do my best not to damage the edge.
That's why I don't baton knives.
Beating the spine with a stick isn't a good idea, especially when you are deep in the woods and may actually NEED the knife to be unbroken to stay alive.
 
Batoning a knife is a little foreign to me for the reasons you give and generally I don't like to do things that I consider abusive. But if I were out in the woods for the night and everything was wet, I would have no objection to splitting some smaller wood (1"- 2" size) with a knife to get to the dry stuff inside to start a fire. Once it is going, I would just burn the wet stuff.

Bad Ninja, I have only seen a couple of alligators in my life in the wild. You live around them all the time. How are the mosquitos in the summer? My lawn service keeps trying to sell me on skeeter control.... not paying for that along with some of the other services they push.
 
22-rimfire said:
Batoning a knife is a little foreign to me for the reasons you give and generally I don't like to do things that I consider abusive. But if I were out in the woods for the night and everything was wet, I would have no objection to splitting some smaller wood (1"- 2" size) with a knife to get to the dry stuff inside to start a fire. Once it is going, I would just burn the wet stuff.

Bad Ninja, I have only seen a couple of alligators in my life in the wild. You live around them all the time. How are the mosquitos in the summer? My lawn service keeps trying to sell me on skeeter control.... not paying for that along with some of the other services they push.
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Gators aren't as aggressive as movies and media imply.
They pretty much avoid people and shy away, but might snag the occasional small dog that wanders along the edge. We have a few 10 footers that live nearby.
The small ones are quite tasty. Gators..not dogs..:p
I'm more concerned with Rattlesnakes and Mocossins.

Skeeters aren't bad once you get past the wings.:D

Mosquitos are plentiful, but a thermacell works great to keep them under control in the summer and when fishing.
Not a problem in cooler months.
:cool:
 
Bad Ninja said:
These guys also live right outside my door.
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Nice! I lived in central FL for 3 years. 2 in Pinellas Co (like living on a vacation land) and the last in Minneola which is in Lake Co. (Just west of Orlando) Now Lake Co is a small county compared to Orange Co. But Lake Co is so named because it has over 1500 named lakes.
I fished the Clermont chain of lakes. It's the chain south of Lake Harris and Little Lake Harris where they filmed the BassMasters. The Clermont chain was a lake and a canal, lake and a canal...I had a aluminum semi-vee and I'd troll up the canals in stealth mode. I saw more gators and big arse snakes than you could shake a stick at. Snakes as big around as my forearm. I'm 6'2 and weigh in at 270. Big snakes.
Would of been prime area for a Kephart. :)
 
If the Condor Kephart blank that I bought as a pattern is any indication of the typical factory edge, then it needs to be thinned a LOT. Translated into knifegeekese, that means you have to pretty much regrind the blade bevels.
22-rimfire said:
Yes to the field dressing topic.

I really need to dig out my Condor Kephart and go to work on that thing. As new, and sharpened by me, it was not a cutter. 42 Blades says the edge needs to be thinned down. As I mentioned, it was a big part of the reason I purchased the Ken Onion version of the Work Sharp. Not something I use for knives in general as it can be a little aggressive. At the present, my Condor Kephart is MIA; I believe it fell behind one of my book cases and I have to remove all the stuff to move it away from the wall and look.

In general, the Kephart spear point design sort of grows on you. The only spear points I own are on SAKs and a couple traditional folding knives. I tend to favor saber grinds or clips on folders for the woods and not for hunting in general. I'm looking forward to using the BK-62 Kephart and I suspect I'm really going to like it. I mentioned before that it is destined to become my "Smoky Mountain" knife. Kind of like the historical aspect of using it there. I imagine the Rangers might get a kick out of that.

I take the spear point comment back a little... My Condor Bushlores are spear points.
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