User Sambar stag

I had one I carried for years until someone took it. I was told that it is the oils in your hands that eventually turns stag yellow.
 
Here are my users.

The old 1978 two dot 110 in the front middle is almost always with me. I love carrying and using that old knife. :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
My next favorite is the 311 directly behind the 110, then the 55 behind that and the 310 behind that.
The rest get used, but very seldom.
The 307 in top left is not Sambar stag, but it is stag.



 
My stag has darkened a lot as well,blood from animals stains it ,the oils and daily use will yellow the whitest stag out there over time.
 
Not Sambar...But here is a photo of two knives that I think are both elk. One is very yellow and one is lighter but has flecks of green (not plant material) in grooves. The dark yellow one came to me that way. I think some is just colored that yellow and some is colored by oils of some type. Can be hand oil but I likely think most is sharpening oils. Use in cleaning fish and game will color it if not cleaned quickly. Another factor may be whether the antler was taken from animal or found as shed antler. Sheds whiten quickly if exposed to sunlight. I know that nothing is totally honorable, lots of sheds get hand colored to make them look fresh ......ask any taxidermist.... 300

 
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It has seen plenty of fish also but one thing I don't use is sharpening oil, so I know its not that.
I have one that is from a shed antler and it is noticeably different, but it's not a user, yet.
I would typically attribute the green to brass, but yours isn't although NS may do the same thing. Unless those are SS bolsters. (i'm not up on the slippies)
 
The green on the left one is something in the antler, may be stain for plants. Real stag comes from India, everything else is something else. Real stag has a small core of holes in center, American deer and elk have larger cores of holes. Hence, that is why India stag is preferred.

Several discussions on stag exist in the past records of this forum and the Traditional forum.

300Bucks
 
st8yd said:
What does your user Sambar stag look like?
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I have to admit that I don't or have not used any of my stag Buck knives (they are all safe kings). It's funny that stag is one of my favorite handle materials but I don't want to use any of them??? I like the caramel yellow color in some stag, the first knife I bought and used hunting was a Case Kodiac Hunter with awesome caramel yellow stag, then next was a Browning 3 blade folder with nice stag. Maybe it's time I put one of my Buck knives with stag to work:eek: "I don't know if I can do it"!

Wow Mark, that pile of Buck stag is just plane fantastic! Thanks for the photo.

jb4570
 
Just to clear up "Sambar"

The subspecies of sambar in India and Sri Lanka are the largest of the genus with the largest antlers both in size and in body proportions. The South China sambar of Southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia is probably second in terms of size with slightly smaller antlers than the Indian sambar. The Sumatran sambar, that inhabits the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, and the Bornean sambar seem to have the smallest antlers in proportion to their body size. The Formosan sambar is the smallest Rusa unicolor with antler-body proportions more similar to the South China sambar.

So the Best Sambar Antlers are found in India..

I believe there is still good quality European Stag/antlers from past research. I also was under the impression stag was just another name for antler...so anything with an Antler has stag? any of the experts want to chime in?

Back to Sambar Carry Knives, Used to carry a 532 WBC in Sambar for a couple years till I switched to Buck/Strider Tarani...The screws on the clip decided to disappear right as I received this great 501 Sambar a few weeks back. It has performed well a few times since this picture...



And this one will be riding my hip for a week in the Wind river mountains this summer!!:thumbup:



Also, Among all living cervid species, only the moose and the elk can attain larger sizes:eek::eek:
 
Steelhead,

How about the Greater Kudu? Also, caribou have the largest antlers relative to body size?
 
STEELHEADBULLY said:
And this one will be riding my hip for a week in the Wind river mountains this summer!!:thumbup:



Also, Among all living cervid species, only the moose and the elk can attain larger sizes:eek::eek:
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I'll be walking from north of Yellowstone down though the Winds to South Pass, WY this summer. Hope you will have a mess of fish frying in the pan when I walk by. :)
 
300Bucks said:
Since we got going on this.....here is something I did on the subject a while back. Read the whole thread.....300Bucks

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...Stag-Class-is-in-session?highlight=Antler+101
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Thanks for pointing us in the right direction. It was nice to see some confirmations and some others who love eating Moose! I am one of those who is not a picky eater, but I do recall a night in WY where half pound moose burgers were the highlight and would have been for anyone. I was by myself that whole week and ate them after a long day of putting up wire fence for the season while looking out at a lone moose eating on the salt lick as the sun was going down.
 
Sorry, Steelhead I oops and deleted your comment. I was writing about possible parasite in African horn that bores holes and guess I hit the wrong edit button. 300

You were telling Stumps if he hikes your way you will feed him trout. I remember my college days working putting up fence for FS and eating lots of little brook trout. We would cook trout, fried potatoes, green beans and play hearts into the night. No one would play poker because we needed every dollar for college.
 
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