To use a tanto or not.

lorise

lorise

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I am from Iceland and we occasionally hunt seals up here. Anyway, my thoughts are that of wether a tanto blade is ever more useful than a straigh one. I own a few knifes and took my Gerber Kiowa, wich I just bought, with me seal hunting last autumn. Now the ones we hunt give birth in autumn, called outseals wiegh about 300 kg., we have stopped killing the ones that give birth in spring, called landseals weigh about 150 kg.or more to the point their number are so down that by natures law we don't kill them anymore. A good knife is a must for after you have clogged it in the head with a baton you have to cut its throat to kill it and they have thick beautiful fur and the blade has to be a good one. The blade on my Kiowa measures 7 cm (about 3 inch.) When I hold up the younglings head from the back or from the side to cut its throat I only use the straight edge of the blade, about 5 cm (1,9 inch) because the tanto curve is so awkward that I had to do more than one cut to get the blood flowing, and that's desireably avoidable. I had to stick it in the throat and cut outwards wich was also awkward and the tanto doesnt penetrate all to well. A good straight edge blade hase never failed me in this kind of killing or given me problems like this. I must insist my killing be quick and cleen and therefor will never use a tanto blade in these circumstances again.
 
cant comment to much on the knife, however I must admit this is one gory post hehe. Kind of nasty to slit an animals throat like that but I guess they do the same to cows all the time. Personally Id prefer to shoot it in that situation.
 
I apologise for the gore. It should have been written with more finesse.
We do sometimes use cut down, sawed of 22s with a homemade silencer but we still have to cut to bleed it.
 
What is a "troll" and how do we know when someone is "trolling"? I mean, how do we know this is not a legitimate post?

I would say, owning a tanto blade (BM975S), that I won;t own another one. As long as I keep both the straight and tanto edge razor sharp, it's a good knife. Problem is, sharpening is difficult because each edge is its own blade.
 
StretchNM said:
What is a "troll" and how do we know when someone is "trolling"? I mean, how do we know this is not a legitimate post?
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By experience. Sometimes it's very difficult to tell, on other occasions it's rather simple.

Notice the excessive use of blood and gore from trollus lorise in this particular case. :yawn:
Also note the post counter.

-Connor :D
 
One situation I can think of when a tanto is maybe better is when gutting small fish.
 
When I go killing baby seals, I prefer to use a club, as opposed to a gun or knife. The blunt damage from the club will quickly do the pup in, while not ruining the hide. You can then bleed it without having any extra damage, thus presevering some of the hide. IF I was to be cutting throats though, I'd be stuck between a Cold Steel PT, a Strider TR011, or a Dark Ops GTFO, all of which eleminate slippage by using high quality paracord, bumpy handle stuff, and tactical blood grooves- the seal pup won't see it coming, and will be killed faster than if you had used ANY other knife around.
 
Well, you're probably not killing it....just stunning it until you bleed it. If you club the pup til it's dead, in order to be sure, you've probably caved in its skull.

The reason I say this is because I slaughter ducks by stunning, then bleeding. The duck is alive, but senseless, as it's bled. I mean to kill it, I would have to beat that little head into a bloody pulp. You ain;t doing that now are you? You're stunning it.

If you seriously believe pups are killed with the club, each time, then this probably is a troll.
 
StretchNM said:
If you seriously believe pups are killed with the club, each time, then this probably is a troll.
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yup, :rolleyes:

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IP indicates lorise really is in Iceland and does not seem to be one of the regulars having some fun. I admit I was surprised to see that....
 
Actually, he stated what many of the rest of the forum have said. He said that a tanto was not really a useful blade design for actual work.

Sounds real enough to me.
 
heh, carrots are orange, But im an assasian cuz I have a cool gun, and awsome pants.

Am I really an assasian? no, but does the fact that I know carrots are orange make me one, no.


The public statment that he uses sawed off .22 with a homemade silencer is what tiped me the other way.
 
Well, if he's clubbin' them pups to death, along with horses and meese, he just might be trolling all the way from Iceland. But, what do I know. I couldn;t spot a troll if there was a bridge around....
 
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