So if you lived in the Alaska bush...

Blackie Scantling said:
what would be your EDC? I'm talking about for field dressing large and small game, butchering and just the knife you always had on you.
I believe mine would be my new ESEE semi serrated 4.

(No batoners please, thats what an ax is for)
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So a skinner, and not a camp knife/wood processor.

I'd go with any Dozier. Pick one from the "Hunting" line.
 
upnorth said:
The Indians will use whatever they have on them and not give it a second thought.
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Wha??? Are you trying to tell me that people who actually live in the Alaskan bush will use any old knife? They don't demand knives with orange handles, or super steel, or even stuff like skulls stencilled on their blades?

How do those people even survive?!? Must be just dumb luck with that kind of gear.

:D
 
marcinek said:
Wha??? Are you trying to tell me that people who actually live in the Alaskan bush will use any old knife? They don't demand knives with orange handles, or super steel, or even stuff like skulls stencilled on their blades?

How do those people even survive?!? Must be just dumb luck with that kind of gear.

:D
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There are a lot of people around that still use the older stuff...

But then there are people who still walk everyplace they go and live without power and all the modern stuff that have come in the past 200 years.

Some people like to do things the hard way I guess. :D
 
Shotgun said:
Is the sheath easier to clean then say a Spydie Military that you can take apart? ;)
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Kydex or Zytel, yep a lot easier...

Why would one even want to have to take a knife apart in the field when they could carry a fixed blade, so much more efficient to take care of than a folder.
 
Fish stink. I'd hate to drag rotting Salmon slime into my pocket with a folder. I bet the natives don't either and if they do they stink too.
For almost half a century I've been hunting/fishing/camping and most of the time I had a fixed blade or my huntin' knife and somehow I was able to do it without "processing wood" or "batoning." Lucky me.

If my buddies returned to camp from hunting to find me splitting wood with my knife to make sticks or 'processing wood' they'd ask WTF are you doing? And then they'd build a fire with twigs.
 
Mora. Cheap and will work. You said no batoning, which means it won't be seeing anything harder than basic bushcraft and Moras are perfect for that.
 
I'd have a SAK in my pocket same as in the Lower 48. I would probably carry my Dozier Professional Guides Knife as my all around fixed blade although most any medium small to medium sized Dozier would do nicely. The Fallkniven F1 would work nicely too.
 
Absolutely no batoning. This is for knives you gut, skin, quarter and maybe cape a trophy with, rope cutting and wood notching shaving. Pounding it through a piece of firewood like a wedge threads are that way<----.
 
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Probably this. Easy to sharpen holds a decent edge, probably not going break from normal use, even twisting to separate joints and I can find it when I drop it. Decent carry size and enough blade for a moose size tenderloin. I would love to see it in Elmax but sr101 will work.

I might say my spyderco Phil Wilson south fork but it is s90v and hard to sharpen with a narrow handle. My hands give out to quickly with the slim grip. I just like the shape of both of the models. I consider them sharpfingers on steroids.
 
Ankerson said:
Not really even on the same planet performance wise for what YOU want the knife for.

If you are talking about butchering you would have a very dull knife in a real hurry especially on large game with that 1095 unless you plan on sharpening a lot during the butchering etc.
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Virtuovice seems very happy with the edge retention of CPM 3V. I believe he stated once he could do four deers with one CPM 3V Gunny where as with the A2 version he could do only one.
 
Thats an easy question my Blind Horse Lumberjack toothpick. Too bad the company split, although one of them will probably re manufacture them... But if i had a Gransfords or Wetterlings hunter's axe i might consider carrying my bark river gunny hunter.
 
RWT said:

Probably this. Easy to sharpen holds a decent edge, probably not going break from normal use, even twisting to separate joints and I can find it when I drop it. Decent carry size and enough blade for a moose size tenderloin. I would love to see it in Elmax but sr101 will work.

I might say my spyderco Phil Wilson south fork but it is s90v and hard to sharpen with a narrow handle. My hands give out to quickly with the slim grip. I just like the shape of both of the models. I consider them sharpfingers on steroids.
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Hey man, when I scrolled up and saw that buck's face and features I knew immediately it was from around here. I can spot these Austin area whitetails.
Here's one I took recently, maybe you can see what I'm talking about.

 
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