Well I got wrangled in to taking some of the nieces and nephews in a forced march (for me it was one) to some woodsy place with water...I took them through their grand mother's plop of land to a creek with a wind over an old RR bridge. Important for keeping the blood sucker bugs away. I grabbed the RD9 not knowing where we were going to end up at first, but one fast campfire I had to make later and some 4th food, every one got in to trying their hand at fishing, they had fun with the odd suckers but surprisingly the trout there didn't get fished out. After cleaning the trout, heads and fins off, I boiled them in butter and served for all to get a taste. Of course after about a few hours, they wanted to go back so it was a short walk back as it was to get there. Every one forgot to take pictures with their phones. But they know where the bridge is and go there any time they want. Atleast the sugary stuff they brought was keeping them going. And glad the worms held out. Boy were their parents mad I brought them back so "fast"! But its the 4th! They need to have fun on this day! They thought I was going to take them to a muskeg lake where all the biting flies were like THEY HAD TO GO THROUGH! A very high mile away hike. "Uncle Don't Do Dat."
Knife use, I used the RD9 to cut cooking sticks and sharpened and peeled thanks to the generous, do the wood splitting/ba-tacti-toning after the SAW cut the wood to length after the RD9 cut the dead tree or two down.(ones evil beavers genocided by flooding them out with a damn dam. Big enough to chop down). It even did some feather sticks, but the waste paper and hand santizer made a better fire starter along with a lighter. A few belt strops and it was as sharp as field practical it was needed to be. The buck 110 did the fish gutting and trimming, a few had their own folders, (Gee I wonder who gave them to them...) and re did a few of "My bad Points" on their cooking sticks, some are pointed stick snobs. Cooked polish on a stick over a fire is good. Yes I packed the katsup. The RD9 can do any thing the other RDs could do, and that longer blade sure helped for a general purpose camp knife. Handle shortness was a minor con but not effected what I used it for.
When KC had a find of RD9s, like an idiot I only got 1 more and 3 NS4s...oh well makes 3 RD9s for the rest of my life. I did order a G-10 handle to see how it works to replace my wood handled one. The NS4s probably going to be deer hunting gifts, a 4" blade is a perfect deer processing size knife.
Knife use, I used the RD9 to cut cooking sticks and sharpened and peeled thanks to the generous, do the wood splitting/ba-tacti-toning after the SAW cut the wood to length after the RD9 cut the dead tree or two down.(ones evil beavers genocided by flooding them out with a damn dam. Big enough to chop down). It even did some feather sticks, but the waste paper and hand santizer made a better fire starter along with a lighter. A few belt strops and it was as sharp as field practical it was needed to be. The buck 110 did the fish gutting and trimming, a few had their own folders, (Gee I wonder who gave them to them...) and re did a few of "My bad Points" on their cooking sticks, some are pointed stick snobs. Cooked polish on a stick over a fire is good. Yes I packed the katsup. The RD9 can do any thing the other RDs could do, and that longer blade sure helped for a general purpose camp knife. Handle shortness was a minor con but not effected what I used it for.
When KC had a find of RD9s, like an idiot I only got 1 more and 3 NS4s...oh well makes 3 RD9s for the rest of my life. I did order a G-10 handle to see how it works to replace my wood handled one. The NS4s probably going to be deer hunting gifts, a 4" blade is a perfect deer processing size knife.
