Question for the hunters and Counter-Strike players

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stark92

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Hello,
I posted a thread in the beginning of the summer asking about finding a damascus folding pocket knife for my brother as a wedding present. I got a few replies but the search didn't lead me to finding anything I thought my brother would truly love. To tell you about him, he works a lot with his knives and always carries a Kershaw Blur with a tanto point and a Leatherman wave. A few people pointed me in the direction of Zero-Tolerance knives for his interest in Kershaw.

Just recently, I thought about an old computer game my brother and I used to play so I got to searching for a combat knife similar to the one used in the game and came to this thread: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/962742-Counter-Strike-1-6-Knife . I guess that blade was made by Strider for a knife competition, but I also found myself back at Zero Tolerance where I found this: http://www.kershawknives.com/productdetails.php?id=7&brand=zt . To me, that looks like about as close as I'll get to Strider's original design while fitting in a decent price range too.

So, I now have a knife that would special to my brother on multiple levels: it looks like the CS knife, and from what I understand, ZT is a collaboration between Ken Onion and Strider so it's more than just a copy of the original- it's a spiritual predecessor of some sort.

My question is, how useful do you hunters think the ZT100 would be in the field? I'm almost certain Dave wouldn't take a military knife like that to work (although you never quite know what my brother will do!), but do you think it would make a good deer skinning or duck cleaning knife? I know he'll enjoy purely for the rugged survival vibe it has, but I don't hunt and it'd be great to get him a knife that would get a little more use than just a survival blade that sits and collects dust.

Thanks,
Ryan
 
Its not a duck cleaning knife. Too much. Cleaning fowl is fine work. Duck decapitating knife maybe!

It would probably skin a deer, but it's not really designed for that either.

There are a ton of dedicated hunting/skinning knives out there for less than that ZT. I hear a lot good about the Fallkniven H1.
 
stark92 said:
... My question is, how useful do you hunters think the ZT100 would be in the field? ... do you think it would make a good deer skinning or duck cleaning knife?
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No and No. The ZT100 is as you wrote a military/survival-style knife. It is big and heavy and designed for hard use where impact toughness is of high importance. None of those features apply in the stated tasks. Fowl call for a small, thin blade; deer call for a slightly larger blade (at least that's my preference) but nothing the size of this knife. Don't get me wrong, it's always nice to have a tough blade, but not if the design sacrifices more desirable features like thin edge geometry and light weight. Could you process deer or fowl with such a knife (and bare hands)? Yes. Is it the knife you'd choose for the tasks when other options are easily accessible/affordable? No.
 
Ah thanks guys... like I said, I really don't know much about hunting and I thought I had a winner here. Back to the drawing board.
 
Check out Blind horse knives, Falkniven, and Bark River. All make excellent knives, and all make several excellent hunting knives.

~Zim
 
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