Muskrat Cope

[sheathmaker]

I may have paid too much....but I got it!! I've been after one of these little muskrat/gut hook jobs for a couple of weeks and always got outbid at the very last minute, but tonight I hooked one, and in a Cope pattern with black and brass. $34.00 plus $6.95 shipping, but it's new and I like it.

Paul

 

[Codger_64]

No, you did well. The COPE version is uncommon, more so than even the OT version. I like both the Copenhagen and Skoal knives. Both have a nice look to them.
Congrats!

Codger

 

[dlk]

I've seen the Uncle Henry version (877 UH, I think), but are you saying there is an Old Timer version of the muskrat with gut hook? Never saw one of those before! What is the model number?

Thanks,
Dave

 

[sheathmaker]

I've always seen referred to by the same model number, but with gut hook added. You might be able to pull up a picture of the one I got on ebay by doing an ebay search for item number 6575153866. An 877UH gut hook with staglon went for 49.99 (opening bid) a couple of days ago. Codger, it was that same one that went through the entire auction cycle with an opening bid by the seller of 79.99 without a single bid.

Paul

 

[dlk]

The COPE version is uncommon, more so than even the OT version.

I've always seen referred to by the same model number, but with gut hook added.

I'm not sure if I have this straight yet: Are you saying there's a 77OT with a gut hook?

I was watching those 877 UH auctions, but I thought they went for closer to $60? Here's the search I did (not sure if this will work) -- did I miss one? http://search-completed.ebay.com/s...=&saprchi=&sass=&so=Show+Items&fsop=2&fsoo=2

Also, I saw the Cope one you got -- I was thinking about bidding on it, but the way I am, if I got it then I'd want ALL the Copes, and I'd STILL want the 877 UH.

Thanks,
Dave

 

[Codger_64]

I pulled up the pic I had saved of the guthook OT, and went back to the ended auction for it. It was an end of days knife with OT scales, but the 877UH guthook blade. A mix-n-match. As far as I know, they didn't make it in an OT version, at least not shown it the catalogs that I have. The UH version was only made for two years or so in the early ninties, so it is uncommon. I am supposing the Cope version was made around the same time.

Codger

 

[dlk]

Codger, Thanks for the clarification. I'm always keeping an eye out for OTs I didn't know about!

Dave

 

[Codger_64]

Even those slap together end of days knives are interesting in their variations. And there is a finite list of regular production Old Timers, so finding factory produced variants no one ever planned is neat. To mis-quote Forrest Gump, "Schrades is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you will find!"

Codger