Old Timer Stockman

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jec88

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Hopefully this will work. I post pics so infrequently that I forget how. This is an Old Timer, I believe 80T. Got it at Wal-Mart sometime in the 1990's and cleaned a lot of deer with it. For some reason, it fell out of rotation and has been in a drawer and gotten a little rusty. I've been cleaning it up and may go back to using it. Now that I think about it, I use to be much more successful hunting when I carried it, maybe it was a lucky knife. I may go back to using it this year!


Was this the largest Old Timer Stockman pattern? Check out the brass liners on it!








 
Nice one!

I believe the 858 is larger, though I don't have the details on the size right now.
 
108 OT- 2 7/8 inches, 34 OT- 3 5/16 inches, 8 OT- 3 7/8 inches, 858 OT- 4 9/16 inches, Schrade/IXL ebony collaboration- 4 13/16 inches.
 
tongueriver said:
108 OT- 2 7/8 inches, 34 OT- 3 5/16 inches, 8 OT- 3 7/8 inches, 858 OT- 4 9/16 inches, Schrade/IXL ebony collaboration- 4 13/16 inches.
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I could be wrong - it wouldn't be the first time and I don't have an 80T on my desk to measure so I will have to go out to my shop to measure one but I thought the 80T was 4" long closed.
 
I dont have one with me but I also believe the 858 lumberjack is the largest. An auction site listing has it at 4 5/8" long.
 
I went out to my shop and measured two 80Ts with a set of calipers and both measured 4". Not trying to be picky here "tongueriver" - just trying to make sure that at my age my memory is still on track.

Oh, forgot to say that your 80T is a nice knife "jec88".
 
Thanks. I was curious on the size because my mother and father in law bought me the large old-timer stockman for my birthday. Somehow, I thought I lost it. I went back to my deerstand, looked everywhere and couldn't find it. So I went to the store to buy another and being young and just married, I couldn't afford to buy another large stockman so I bought a medium stockman instead, hoping that they wouldn't notice.
SO, if this is the largest stockman, that means that this is the one my in-laws bought me and that it has turned up in a move, and that I have another small stockman lost or misplaced somewhere.
 
I just happen to have a size comparison picture of Old Timer stockman models. ;)

From top to bottom:
Small stockman, like the 104 and 108OT.
Medium Stockman, 34OT and several other models on the same frame.
Large Stockman, 8OT and other
61OT, a slender stockman slightly longer than the 8OT
858OT Lumberjack

858OTsizecomparison.jpg


I don't know why the 61OT is so often overlooked. Ergonomically, it's my favorite Old Timer model, so comfortable to carry and use.
 
Even I forgot to include the 58OT. :o
From memory, I think it's slightly smaller than the 34OT, but perhaps the same length.
 
Bob, I just pulled a few of mine out of the drawer, the ones I own measure in OAL; 58OT - 3-1/4", 34OT - 3-3/8", 8OT - 3-15/16". I'm sure they vary ever so slightly among individual pieces. The 34OT is actually a surprisingly bigger knife than the 58OT all the way around (thicker, deeper, and heavier) - much more than 1/16" in length would have you think. OH
 
Bob W said:
I don't know why the 61OT is so often overlooked. Ergonomically, it's my favorite Old Timer model, so comfortable to carry and use.
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Personally I do not overlook it, its just that a decent 61OT fetches big bucks.
 
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