Schrade Pro-Hunter = POS

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Stitch

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I hit the top of the blade with a batton and the blade broke in half. I will never buy another Schrade product again. These knives are not suited for bushcraft. Luckily I broke it in my front yard and not out in the woods.
 
This thread will soon fill up with people talking about how schrades have gone downhill ever scince the name got bought by Taylor. I'm sorry you wasted your money.
 
Everyone can put out a bad knife, what is the customer service responce. What was the baton, wood? How large, and what were you trying to do with it?

-Cliff
 
I was using a wood baton. I was trying to cut a 2" piece of wood.
I have a Charles May "Swamp Oak Scandi" and a Linger WSK, they were both worth every penny. Being a former Marine, I want to know how my gear will hold up before I put my life in its hands.
 
OOORAH! :)

But, like my Grandpa told me a long time ago; "ya gets what ya pay fer!" The Schrade Pro Hunter is made of a stainless steel, and not a very good stainless steel either. They cost very little, and came with an imitation stag handle, didn't they? :barf:
 
Is there a Chinese-Taylor Pro-Hunter? Or did you have an original US-made Schrade product?

I have two Pro Hunter models, the PH1 and PH2. Both are well-fitted and attractive, but I wouldn't expect to use them (or most other inexpensive factory hunting knives) like a hatchet.

One of mine is genuine stag and the other is a black composite. I haven't seen one with imitation stag.

Currently, if those are American-made genuine Schrade knives, they are quite collectible and have increased in value significantly. But when new they were mass-produced by the millions (?) and were quite inexpensive.

Best Wishes,
Bob
 
Hmm...glad I didn't put mine to the test though it seems a little small to be batoning. Its too bad the style of this isn't made in better steel. I really like the design.
 
Stitch said:
I was using a wood baton. I was trying to cut a 2" piece of wood.
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What type of wood, was the grain clear? Does that knife have a deep hollow grind?

-Cliff
 
P.S. Taylor has brought back the 171UH shown above, plus other old patterns. I don't know the steel used, but 440a was the old standard:).
 
Interesting! I have seen the new Brand-Name-Purchased Schrade stuff from China with the nasty high polish stainless blades; they superficially resemble the older US made stuff, but are really crappy. Last summer I bought a real USA Schrade Old Timer in my favorite pattern of theirs, the one blade leaf-lock trapper. $12.00 off a dealer's table that had a whole shoebox of 'em. (Which means they had a heck of a lot more under the table :) ) It takers a lot of fiddling to get those soft 1095 blades sharp, but they do get amazingly sharp. YES, apparently there are a LOT of the old Schrade stuff still on the market.
 
bob bowie said:
P.S. Taylor has brought back the 171UH shown above, plus other old patterns. I don't know the steel used, but 440a was the old standard:).
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Accordinf to sources at Taylor, those knives are not yet being imported. They are still awaiting the arrival of the Chinee 171UH. And as far as I know, they have not yet repro'd the other Pro Hunters.

I am still curious as to which of the three "Pro Hunter"'s Stitch broke. The PH series was a thin bladed hunter/skinner pattern, and the 171UH was a thick clip point hunter. Neither were intended to beaten between two rounds of hardwood. But there are a lot of knives made for just such treatment. They do, however, fail to perform the tasks the Schrades were designed for. At least, not as well. He might want to look at Cold Steel or Busse. They make fine heavy combat/woodcraft knives. And I believe they are still in business to take care of warranty claims. Imperial Schrade is not.

Simper Fi and happy birthday to the Corps.

Codger
 
Last weekend at a knife show I handled several different models of the Taylor/China Schrades and every one of them was crap.
 
If the knife that got Whacked was a PH1, the excellent Loveless game field dressing knife, then it was no big surprise that it broke. However, if it was the 171UH, the big clip bladed - staglon handled bruiser, then someone just made an expensive mistake. Any of us Schrade collectors would pay between 150 and 250 dollars for one if it was new in the box. Perhaps more for the original pommel model.
 
Why would it be no surprise if the PH1 loveless broke? It seems pretty solid with a thick spine? Though way to small to be batoning through anything.
 
The Last Confederate said:
Last weekend at a knife show I handled several different models of the Taylor/China Schrades and every one of them was crap.
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It's too bad Schrade's QC went down the toilet in their last days and now their name is going to be further rubbed in poop by Taylor Cutlery. Oh well. The only thing Schrade was ever good at was their slipjoint folders, in my opinion. Now that Taylor's got a hold of the name, I don't ever expect to see anything worthy of the old Schrade.
 
Cosmic Superchunk said:
It's too bad Schrade's QC went down the toilet in their last days and now their name is going to be further rubbed in poop by Taylor Cutlery. Oh well. The only thing Schrade was ever good at was their slipjoint folders, in my opinion. Now that Taylor's got a hold of the name, I don't ever expect to see anything worthy of the old Schrade.
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That's the problem with all of this--the Schrade name will be dragged through the mud because of the worthless Chinese junk turned out today called Schrade Old Timer.
 
I`ve always liked schrade. It`s sad to see them go downhill like that. The older ones, I cant remember the exact model, or at least the one I had was pretty darn tough. I hammered it into a tree 2 to 4 inches and stood on it and it didn`t break. I know that model couldn`t have been over 10 inches. It couldn`t have been under 8. That was about 20 years ago.
 
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