Old Olcut Union Cutlery Company

Very late Olcut. Olcut is listed in the Union Cut Co price lists until late 1937 and with the triangular KA-BAR type pommel it would have to be towards the end of Olcut production. This is the only model Olcut I have seen with the triangular KA-BAR style pommel. Your knife has had a nose job, tip should sweep up to the point. I have never seen an Olcut catalog, but they are listed in the old price lists by model name. Many of the earlier ones had that name etched on the blade such as "Trader", and "Old Scout" but I have never seen one like yours with a name etch on it. My opinion is that this model was only made for a couple of years toward the end of the use of the Olcut brand.
 
G gunsil Once again Thank You Very Much Gene. It's unfortunate about the tip. I have $18.00 into it. I will clean it up and take it a field were it belongs. Perfect size for cleaning squirrels.
 
Nice Mike!! Will be a better user than most knives one could buy that was made today especially for the money. Squirrels!! Dang, I haven't tried eating one of those since BSA survival training days! I have to say I didn't think much of their taste then. We stewed them up with some carrots, potatos, and wild onion grass, but the meat was still chewy. I guess they'd taste OK after a few days in a life raft. I much preferred the crayfish we caught cooked the same way. We sometimes cooked in an old WW2 army helmet and in season used the juice from the big vines that grow around here instead of water. Sure was fun being a kid when we could walk down the street with our .22s, .410s, a pocket knife in each front pocket and a hunting knife at our sides. We used to hunt nightcrawlers at the elementary school field and sell them to the local bait and gun shop where we got a penny apiece for them and bought .22s for the same penny each. When the worms were up at night in the late spring we'd get 2-300 hundred worms a night so we had a lot of ammo for free for a while. Poor kids these days will never know the fun we had, I just don't see how playing video games could be as much fun as running around the woods hunting, fishing, target shooting, and camping out most of the summer.
 
Thanks Gene. It sounds like the same upbringing just different parts of the country. I'm from the swamps of Florida. I would set trot lines and sell the catfish at the fish stand and the snapping turtles at the farm labor camps. As for the squirrels (Limb Chickens) I boil them off the bone and use the dirty water to make rice and add back the glorious meat. The only meat that taste better is the venison from the black dirt region up around your neck of the woods.
I'm a little younger than you. 22s cost 2 cents a round lol. My school parking lot was full of pick-up trucks with shotguns and rifles hanging in the back window and the side Windows down. Not a second thought was given about it either. Times have truly changed my friend:( FYI Blood worms are a $1 each for Jumbo now lol I don't know what a nightcrawler sells for now but I sure bet its more than a Penny.
 
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