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Yeah I think our interest in having near indestructible knives becomes an obsession sometimes. I have to remind myself that the only knives that have to be built to be near indestructible are the ones that you need to be able to take horrible abuse (I throw a survival knife into that category). If you DON'T need the knife to be able to take horrible abuse, then why pay for that quality? It is quite expensive. And the type of design that goes with super toughness really hurts performance in most tasks (and the task of processing game is certainly one of those tasks).
For going on a hike or a hunt in a remote area where I may end up having to fight the elements, I'll take my swamp rat. For cutting up a deer, I'd much rather have a much thinner, more maneuverable blade. I want it to have a sheath and be tough so that I can throw it into a bucket to take on a camping or hunting trip (hence why I don't want to just go with a kitchen or butcher knife), but I really do not care about how well it stacks up to, say, a busse.
And I would agree that most of the buck fixed blades that I have see do not appear to have full tangs.
As for the patina issue, I really don't care about patina, but patina after half an hour seems to say that there could be rust after a longer period of time, and I do care about that. For a knife that is going to be used on the picnic table in camp and left there over night, I think stainless is the right choice.
At this point, I am seriously eyeing a Mora 748. It looks like the 746, but has a longer blade. If anyone knows whether it has the longer tang of the 746, please let me know.
For going on a hike or a hunt in a remote area where I may end up having to fight the elements, I'll take my swamp rat. For cutting up a deer, I'd much rather have a much thinner, more maneuverable blade. I want it to have a sheath and be tough so that I can throw it into a bucket to take on a camping or hunting trip (hence why I don't want to just go with a kitchen or butcher knife), but I really do not care about how well it stacks up to, say, a busse.
And I would agree that most of the buck fixed blades that I have see do not appear to have full tangs.
As for the patina issue, I really don't care about patina, but patina after half an hour seems to say that there could be rust after a longer period of time, and I do care about that. For a knife that is going to be used on the picnic table in camp and left there over night, I think stainless is the right choice.
At this point, I am seriously eyeing a Mora 748. It looks like the 746, but has a longer blade. If anyone knows whether it has the longer tang of the 746, please let me know.