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Just wanted to pass onto y'all a tale 'bout my fathers Christmas gift last year, which happened to be a Spyderco Moran.
Ya' see, my father has classically had a horrible time cleaning his game up at the cabin, always a kinda task. Last season he was down right annoyed with an Old Timer he'd been using, wound up doing the whole job with a Gerber his buddy had. Well, naturally I didn't like to hear of my old mans hard time, 'specially when I'm fully aware that the most dangerous knives out there are the dull ones, and he'd already gotten rushed back to town once for sticking a Leatherman blade in his Radial artery.
So, I went to the local knife shop and looked like hell for a new skinning knife for him, out of the thousands of blades there the Moran looked the best, so I picked it up for him.
He fell in love with the feel of it first thing when I gave it to him, and was very impressed by the hair splitting edge on it, although he was VERY skeptical that it would last very long at all. I myself was more optimistic, but we'd just have to wait and see.
Well, he just used it on his first caribou this year, and he was totally blown away by the performance of it. He's called me three times from a radio phone to tell me how terrific it is, and he's still raving about it.
The first time he called he told me what a fantastic job it had done. Said it'd probably need sharpening a little later, but it did awesome. It wasn't 'till after he hung up the phone that he discovered that the edge would still take the hair off his forearm!! on his second call he went on about how the knife just went through the meat like it was silk, and how it's so incredibly easier to use this knife. As an understatement the man stands mightily impressed.
So, anyhoo, I just wanted to report that knife has made my father one hell of a happy man, and that takes quite a bit when it comes to hunting equipment.
Ya' see, my father has classically had a horrible time cleaning his game up at the cabin, always a kinda task. Last season he was down right annoyed with an Old Timer he'd been using, wound up doing the whole job with a Gerber his buddy had. Well, naturally I didn't like to hear of my old mans hard time, 'specially when I'm fully aware that the most dangerous knives out there are the dull ones, and he'd already gotten rushed back to town once for sticking a Leatherman blade in his Radial artery.
So, I went to the local knife shop and looked like hell for a new skinning knife for him, out of the thousands of blades there the Moran looked the best, so I picked it up for him.
He fell in love with the feel of it first thing when I gave it to him, and was very impressed by the hair splitting edge on it, although he was VERY skeptical that it would last very long at all. I myself was more optimistic, but we'd just have to wait and see.
Well, he just used it on his first caribou this year, and he was totally blown away by the performance of it. He's called me three times from a radio phone to tell me how terrific it is, and he's still raving about it.
The first time he called he told me what a fantastic job it had done. Said it'd probably need sharpening a little later, but it did awesome. It wasn't 'till after he hung up the phone that he discovered that the edge would still take the hair off his forearm!! on his second call he went on about how the knife just went through the meat like it was silk, and how it's so incredibly easier to use this knife. As an understatement the man stands mightily impressed.
So, anyhoo, I just wanted to report that knife has made my father one hell of a happy man, and that takes quite a bit when it comes to hunting equipment.
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Not that he's unintelligent at all, he just doesn't speak "knife-ese" very well at all, and there's obviously going to be some communication issues when explaining these things overa crackling radio phone.