No more Case Trappers

[ww2bill]

I have liked the Case Trapper for a long time.Case makes to many trappers in many colors for me to buy.I am sad but there just to many.Any others feel the same?

 

[Blues]

I'm not personally a big fan of the standard trapper pattern (mostly because of the long spey blade) but why not just buy the ones you like?

 

[d.parker]

I have liked the Case Trapper for a long time.Case makes to many trappers in many colors for me to buy.I am sad but there just to many.Any others feel the same?

WW2, I started buying them in the 50's. Case has changed them so much over the years that they are a big disappointment to me. They are so box like plus they are bigger and the blade shapes are about as ugly as you can get them. I quess I'm just old fashioned and yes I have bought my last one.

 

[sixgunner455]

Well, you could just buy old ones, instead. And who says you have to get the whole set?

I had never messed around with a medium-sized trapper until a few months ago, when one of my students had one. I liked it a lot, more than the full-sized one. So you could try different sizes, as well.

My mom likes the tiny trappers. Don't know why, besides that they are cute.

 

[myright]

I'm with Elliott on this one. I own a Trapper, but it's not my favorite. In fact, I don't think I've ever carried it.

It's a great looking knife though. Maybe if I was a trapper I'd find more use for it.

 

[Ed T]

I have several and used to really like them. I now collect the mini trapper, which has been nicer to carry and use.

Ed

 

[Morrow]

I have liked the Case Trapper for a long time.Case makes to many trappers in many colors for me to buy.I am sad but there just to many.Any others feel the same?

I've never seen someone make a decision like yours because of too many choices. I like to chase down Case knives with CV blades and I wish there was too many choices. I've never liked spey blades so my interest in trappers is minimal. If they would slap a wharncliff blade in there instead of the spey I would buy them until my checking account statement read "0'.

The good news for you is vast amount of other patterns to choose from now. Happy hunting.

 

[RobbW]

The trapper pattern is too large for me to want to carry. I have a mini trapper in stag and D2 that I love. If case ever makes mini- or tiny-trappers in CV with a Wharncliffe blade, I'd buy a pocketful.

 

[moonwilson]

For my tastes, the large Case trapper is a terrible pattern. I have one, just because if you're a collector, I think you kind of have to. It is an important pattern for Case, but I have no idea why they're so popular- the proportions are all wrong. I guess people like the two long blades and don't care how they look, but I'm an aesthetics snob. I like the medium trapper much better. Also, the fit and finish on the large trappers I've seen has been pretty ho-hum. They have weak, sluggish action, are way over tumbled/ polished, and the jigging on the bone is awful.

Case is doing a much better job with their small blades than they are with their large ones these days, I think.

 

[Whitedog]

I only have one trapper, Boker, but it is pretty and it cuts so good with those carbon steel blades. Don't think I would by another one unless it is a single blade model. Knives and guns, you never seem to have enough or you can sell them off and start over again.

 

[wintermute]

Never liked the full-sized trapper pattern - too big. The mini trapper has pretty much replaced the stockman as my go-to EDC. The short spey on a stockman I find useless and the long-ish spey on the mini trapper can do pretty much everything a sheepsfoot can. Plus the mini-trapper fits in-pocket better than a stockman. I love the Turkish clip on the Case pattern. I wish more manufacturers would make mini trappers and I'm looking forward to purchasing a GEC Scout to satisfy my mini-trapper urge (although it is a little bulkier).

 

[d.parker]

These are a couple of my trappers that I carry. You can see from the pictures one is slab sided and bulkier, not as aesthetic as the other one. I have carried trappers for many years and like the pattern.

 

[navihawk]

Nice looking trappers.I have one coming soon. I like the way the blades lay in on trappers. They also kind of criss cross when partially open.

 

[338375]

I never really warmed up to the full size trapper either..
Just never felt right in hand.. I prefer the mini trappers as others have stated.
Don't hardly notice it's in pocket, feels better in hand and they have halfstops Plenty big enough for most uses. I've got one I carried as my hunting folder for a few years now. Never felt the need for anything bigger, even on Elk.. If I do need somethin a little bigger I always have a small sheath knife..

 

[jonnymac44]

I've never seen someone make a decision like yours because of too many choices. I like to chase down Case knives with CV blades and I wish there was too many choices. I've never liked spey blades so my interest in trappers is minimal. If they would slap a wharncliff blade in there instead of the spey I would buy them until my checking account statement read "0'.

The good news for you is vast amount of other patterns to choose from now. Happy hunting.

Hey morrowj, I agree with you, and did you know that they DO make a wharncliffe trapper? I don't think they make one in the full size, but I have a carribean blue bone mini trapper with a clip and a wharncliffe. Carrry it all the time in my back pocket:thumbup:

 

[ww2bill]

I like Case but too many choices =too much money.I think I will hunt for the older ones. On new ones too many I give up.

 

[RobbW]

Hey morrowj, I agree with you, and did you know that they DO make a wharncliffe trapper?

They do make a wharnie, but morrowj specifically mentioned CV, which they don't make. Some of us are waiting for wharnecliffe Sway Back Jacks, which are rumored to come out in 2009 in CV.

If you prefer CV, the choices are really limited.

 

[dalee100]

Hi,

Count me as preferring the mini-trapper too. But I must be the only one here who likes the spey blade. That small curve at the end is really useful to me.

dalee

 

[orca8589]

The size of the standard Trapper doesn't bother me, but the overall feel doesn't do anything for me at all.

I have a Steel Warrior Trapper that I don't carry, got it in a bulk deal at one of the local hardware stores. I've been thinking of modifying the spay blade into a Wharncliffe type, and recutting the nail slot on the backside of the blade; the spay blade nail slot is half covered by the clip blade anyway. Once I'm set up to do it, I'll post pics before & after. I can't find a use for the spay blade with the shape it currently has. I usually work on the kicks of the blades of most of my multi-blade slipjoints anyway, to drop them a little lower. I'll have to see how it works on these large blades.

thx - cpr

 

[RobbW]

Hi,

Count me as preferring the mini-trapper too. But I must be the only one here who likes the spey blade. That small curve at the end is really useful to me.

dalee

What do you do with the spey curve? I'd like ideas for making mine more useful to me. As it is, i normally reserve the spey blade as a sharp backup to the clip point blade. I don't really "do" anything different with it, just keep it in reserve.