Show 'Em If You Got 'Em: The Classic "Full Size" Folding Hunter

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I'd love to carry mine from time to time but it keeps making my pants fall down.
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Here ya go Blues !!
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I used to have several folding hunters, down to three because of swapping and trading. :oHere's a Case, a Queen and a Schrade.
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know what i mean said:
All three of those knives are nice, but I find the Queen to be exceptional! Great pics!
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I agree all three are nice but for me the bone on that Case just grabs me. :cool:

A great illustration of how even within a pattern a little change here and there can make such a personal difference. :thumbup:
 
That Case in my picture is one of the wooden ones. It does look a whole lot like red bone until you examine it from a closer distance. It's stamped "Case XX" side by side with no USA visible underneath that part, the stamp is not the Case with XX beneath it. It has the XX frame and drilled bolster, and I have been told that it is a transition knife, a Case XX USA knife with a XX frame, if I'm remembering right approximatly 1964 manufacture. It appears unused, but does have a few rust freckles here and there. I'd love to have a red or green bone with the wormgroove jig mixed in with the corncob jig, seems like it's called second cut bone. Those are absolutely beautiful. The stag from the 1940-1960's is awesome too. Too expensive for me though! :o
 
John A. Larsen said:
Blues,
Case and Bone? I just looked at my Case and it looks like it is a wood handle to me? John
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Couldn't tell, John, on my monitor at first blush. It did remind me of my jigged wood handled Case lockback from the 70's. Guess it was just wishful thinking on my part as I vastly prefer bone to wood on my folders. Haven't ever owned or handled a Case folding hunter so...oh well. :o
 
Blues, it is still a good looking knife. The one I have has a special history. It was issued by one of those three letter government agencies that starts with a "C", has an "EYE" in the middle and ends with an "A" for Project 404 in Laos back at the end of the Vietnam era. I traded their supply Sergeant for it. In additon to the Case I have the following folders, a Queen #39, a Scrade 225, an Olsen OK (made by Schrade?),a Schrade 1250T, a Western 062, a Buck 317 (made by Camillus 440C?) and a large (5-1/4" handle, 4" blade) Carl Schlieper, with a yellow handle and only one blade, the skinning one. John
 
I've had occasion to work with that same group, John (though it was in the 80's through the 2000's).

Not only did I not find them of much use in furtherance of my international investigations, they never gave me any knives! :eek: ;)

Sounds like a regular bevy of beauties you've got there! :thumbup:
 
Blues, I have heard similar stories from other folks who worked with them. Also found two more hunters, a Cold Steel classic in Carbon V (made by Camillus) and a Herter Folding Hunter in Stainless, made by Case, both have leather sheaths and are NIB. John
 
John A. Larsen said:
Blues, I have heard similar stories from other folks who worked with them. Also found two more hunters, a Cold Steel classic in Carbon V (made by Camillus) and a Herter Folding Hunter in Stainless, made by Case, both have leather sheaths and are NIB. John
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I had the Cold Steel, had it rescaled in jigged bone and sent it along to TX as a gift to one of our buds on the forum. It's a nice beefy knife with good steel. :thumbup:
 
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