Single-blade trappers

2Dead, good review. The Slimline Trapper is really useful and nice to have in the hand:thumbup:

Couple of days ago I got a Tidioute 48 in Tractor Green, I like this knife enormously and it's Barehead, my preference in this pattern. I can't find any grounds for complaint on my knife. No gaps,rough spring or annoyances. It is carbon which does at first impart taste, but this goes away once a few weeks patina has been built up.

I would recommend getting a CASE Yellow stainless, they are light and excel at food prep. Not as glorious as the others but still more than acceptable and a lot cheaper!

In terms of overall fit&finish I rate my knives as follows:

GEC Tidioute 48
Queen Cutlery Utility ACSB (mine came sharp, gasp!)
CASE Yellow ss (they also come in Jigged Bone with end caps cv or ss)
Canal Street Moonpie (let down by blade wobble and weak snap)
 
willgoy, why did you put the Queen before the Case? They're pretty much neck to neck.
 
Steve, only because it is in more costly 'garb' Jigged Bone it also has no gaps at all. My Yellow CASE has a hairline gap. However, the CASE gets the use and is easy to resharpen, real value for money.

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2Dead said:
The Buffalo Horn was completed in 2008 and it is the slowest of the bunch. The rest were completed in 2010 and are snappier. Not as snappy as my Case Mini Trapper or Peanut. Closer to my Vic Cadet. I don't have a Case, Queen or GEC single-blade trapper to compare to but I'm looking to fix that.
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I just got a half moon in rosewood (2009), and it is a little bit slower than my Case slimline trapper. I think part of the reason is that the Canal Street has a tang that's about 1/16" shorter along with a taller backspring. There's just not as much leverage at the pivot.
 
I have a few single blade trappers, a Cattaraugus 717, a Case regular trapper in Amber bone that I had Muskratman take off the Spey blade and a Case yellow barehead. I also have a USA made Schrade 194ot liner lock.
 
I have a few of the Schrade, Old Timer, Uncle Henery Slim Line Trappers with liner locks. They are my all time favorite and even the knives produced today are hard to beat for $10.
 
Tim Britton makes a good trapper in either a single or double blade.

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I like the single bladed Trapper. I just still have a hard time thinking of them as a Trapper, not having a spey blade. For someone that uses the Trapper on game, it seems the single bladed Trapper is missing the most important blade... I know you can use the clip blade for just about anything, but the spey blade is great for skinning something that you don't want to damage the hide

I know, I'm being overly critical :D Must be the lack of sleep. It is time to go to bed... :yawn:
BTW, there have been some great single bladers posted :thumbup:
 
The shape of that modified clip lends itself well to game processing. It is more rounded and sweeps up much the same as a drop point. I've used mine on all types of fish, quail, rabbit, squirrel, and Deer. In fact it is all I carry now for deer hunting. I used my original Shrade slim line to take deer from the field all the way to the freezer and found it almost perfect. The 3" blade is just a hair short for a perfect one slice cut on the roast or making stakes from a big roast. It is easy to work around that buy taking another swipe at it though. :)

I'm thinking about a banana boat trapper since I just discovered them this week. They have a 4" blade, which might be just the ticket. I did order two slips with 4" blades to test this year. If all goes well the order of the banana will follow.
 
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