Let’s talk hunting knives. (Traditional)

Always enjoyed using this Old Timer 160OT, blade is similar in shape to the beautiful Randall above. The handle is a bit blocky but comfortable when used on a whitetail. OH
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lithicus said:
I've fished since I could hold a rod. There's a picture of me pulling a double out of Lake Michigan perch fishing that was before I can remember. I was probably 4 or 5, maybe younger. I do remember the first time I was allowed to shoot a real gun; a 22 when I was maybe 8 or 9 years old? I was with my grandpa who was sighting in for deer season. I had a bb gun before then, but that doesn't really count 😝

I wasn't allowed to really hunt with my grandpa until I turned 13. I continued to hunt whitetail with him until I left my local community college for the main campus for my junior year. I would've been 20. So, that would be 8 seasons in total, I guess. We only shot bucks, never doe. My grandpa liked to preach that killing a buck killed one deer, but shooting a doe killed 3. We never needed more than 1 deer to feed us for a year, probably because of all the coho, lakers, steelhead, and perch in the freezer. Since we only got skunked one year out of the 8, that's 7 bucks field dressed on my watch with the Uncle Henry below. We cracked the pelvis open with brute force and used a bone saw for the sternum. So, I think that's why he didn't feel the need for a fixed blade. But, the liner lock certainly came in handy safety wise. I'm sure he had a backup blade, just in case the folder broke, but we never needed it.

We also did a LOT of rabbit hunting in those 8ish years. I couldn't even begin to count the number of rabbits this Uncle Henry has field dressed in my time alone.

And, none of this even takes into account the number of deer/rabbit this one knife dressed before I was allowed to hunt. My grandpa was given a Case 5165 by my grandma as a gift in the late 60s. He used that knife and that knife alone for all of his hunting until his buddy accidentally threw it away in the 80's. He bought this Uncle Henry around then and he used it ever since. Always carried in the pictured sheath.

The Uncle Henry has a stainless blade but carbon springs. And boy do the springs have patina for all the years of use. They're nearly black.

I'm more than a little sad that I haven't been hunting since I moved away. I have gotten back into fishing, but hunting has alluded me. I only ever hunted with my grandpa and so I kept my guns at his place. But, I do have all of mine and my grandpas guns at my house now that he's passed. So, maybe I'll manage to get out sometime now that they are in my possession.

Either way, it's very cool to see everyones pictures and their take on various knife patterns for hunting. I never knew brand names or patterns when I hunted. Couldn't tell you a clip from a drop point or a sheepsfoot 😅 I just saw the knife my grandpa used and figured that was the right tool for the job. Given he used a 5165 before using this Uncle Henry, I'd say he felt a clip was the best tool for the job!

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Lithicus-
I have a similar special spot in my kit when I hunt…I have a whole lotta knives, folders and fixed, these are a good chunk of them but there are many more…..the one I really use is the Uncle Henry 227 UH in front with two blades and sheath….I received this when I turned 11 in Oct of ‘77. My 1st serious knife. I really wanted a Buck 110 or 112 because that was the knife to have but, I found out that after receiving th UH, maybe it was the knife to have. It has field dressed so many critters while growing up in central Montana. The following year, I received my first gun, a Savage model 24 with .22 lr over 20 gauge and still have that as well. One of these Buck 110’s is a 2nd favorite field knife too, and I really like a Buck 105 for it’s ease of handling and smallish size. I find the larger fixed blades are better camp and kitchen knives over smaller 4-5” bladed cutters…my UH227 was abused and knicked badly one season by a friend but I got most of the knicks out and the folder is still razor sharp capable and my all time all rounder’….cheers!
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This Buck 110 Folding Hunter (Two-Dot) was a big surprise for me. I bought it for cheap money at a pawn shop; the blade was so dull (flat in sections) that I sent it off to Buck with $7 and asked for them to sharpen it for me. This picture was taken the day I got the knife back (about seven years ago). It looked great, they had cleaned and polished the knife but then I realized I hadn’t stated that I wanted to maintain the original grind. Buck had put an Edge 2000 on it. All I can say is that the combination of their old 440C and the Edge 2000 makes for a terrific deer skinner and butchering knife. It has become my go-to Buck 110 that accompanies me on deer hunts. OH
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runninmike said:
Lithicus-
I have a similar special spot in my kit when I hunt…I have a whole lotta knives, folders and fixed, these are a good chunk of them but there are many more…..the one I really use is the Uncle Henry 227 UH in front with two blades and sheath….I received this when I turned 11 in Oct of ‘77. My 1st serious knife. I really wanted a Buck 110 or 112 because that was the knife to have but, I found out that after receiving th UH, maybe it was the knife to have. It has field dressed so many critters while growing up in central Montana. The following year, I received my first gun, a Savage model 24 with .22 lr over 20 gauge and still have that as well. One of these Buck 110’s is a 2nd favorite field knife too, and I really like a Buck 105 for it’s ease of handling and smallish size. I find the larger fixed blades are better camp and kitchen knives over smaller 4-5” bladed cutters…my UH227 was abused and knicked badly one season by a friend but I got most of the knicks out and the folder is still razor sharp capable and my all time all rounder’….cheers!
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That is quite a collection!! I don't have a 227UH, but I can see how that would come in handy. Thanks for sharing pictures and the story to go with it!
 
Long ago my Grandad owned a grain elevator and railroad siding for his grain brokerage. My dad and his brothers worked summers in the elevator and loading dock.

Sweeping out a rail car one day my uncle found a Buck 110 that someone had lost inside the car. He carried it as his hunting knife for decades. No telling how many deer and elk it dressed and quartered. Taking an elk apart with a snowstorm moving in one year he got careless and left it on the mountain, never to be seen again.

Dad liked it but was a Case fan, so he bought a Case Mako for his hunting knife. Still has and uses it. He also bought his brother a newer similar style Case lockback to replace his lost Buck a few Christmas’ ago.

So growing up I knew I needed a big brass bolstered lockback knife for my hunting knife. For some reason I never did get one, not sure why. My seven year old son even has a razor sharp 110 in the sheath waiting for him to get big enough for it, a gentleman thought he would need a good hunting knife someday and gifted it to him.

I’m still without a big brass bolstered lockback, but the desire isn’t really there anymore, just not my style I guess.
 
if you welcome someone has traditional hunting knives but hasn't gone actual hunting, nor skinning, nor gutting (though one has guthook). 🤣
but if I go skinning one day, for fish cutting will be Opinel 12 slim, for big animal skinning, i think Benchmade Hidden Canyon Hunter Knife would be my best choice.

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deltablade said:
could you attach photo? would be great to see you boucheron
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I would but my account doesn’t allow me to unless it’s via an external host.

The French used the pouce measurement at the time over the inch, very similar but not exact. My knife is 5 pouce, has a slight drop point and boxwood handle. It’s a half tang but has two separate Scales with 3 pins. The third pin is between the two scales and not the tang.
 
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