X-Timer Photo

CapCase

CapCase

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Messing around and took some pictures of my knives today. Thought y'all might want to see a picture of my X-Timer.

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Nice clear shot.
I've never handled one of those, but it looks like that handle would fit right into the old hand! I like those thumb ridges, too.
What model of X-Timer is that, and what's the blade length?
 
Nice shot, Cap. Pocketknife, the knife is model XT2B. It's 9 1/4" in length and has a Schrade+ blade finished in a tough black, just over 4". You are right about the handles, very comfy in the hand. Flip the knife over, as if gutting a deer, and it feels just as good-- a neat trick for any knife designer. Sadly, the only one of these I have is missing the sheath. Anyone got an extra?

Here's my own favorite X-timer. Shown here as part of my rabbit hunting kit. I wrote about this in a past thread, comparing it to a similar sized Camillus Becker. The gun is a Saiga 20 gauge, a variant of the AK47, made in Russia. Six shots as fast you can pull the trigger--flawless action. The knife is used in the dead of winter, when I bag a bunny and it ends up in a thicket, hacking my way to it. Lots of multiflora rose where I hunt them.

Underrated Schrades, these X-timers, coming out too late in the company history to develop the following they should have.
Phil
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=318701&highlight=XT1B


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Sorry Phil, no spare sheath, and I have a sheathless XT2B as well. But I do know the XT3B sheath is the same. These do come up on ebay occasionally if you don't have a XT3B, but I haven't been able to refine my search method to find just empty sheaths.

Codger
 
It does feel real good in the hand. I only handled it out of curiosity, at Wal-Mart a year or so ago, but it fit my hand so well, and I was so impressed with it, I bought it. But I haven't really used it. Most of my fixed blade knives have never been used. I need to get out in the woods more often. :o

Phil, I'm afraid I don't have an extra sheath either. Sorry. Hope you locate one.
 
The XT's are great knives. The only one I'm missing is the XT3B Fatboy which I will have to eventually buy to complete the set. Taylor has added the XT4, which is listed as a 9" fixed blade as opposed to the XT2B, which is listed as a 9 1/8" fixed blade. Does anyone know anything about the XT4?

They also have the 1 Elk which looks like a cross between several of the other models:

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Taylor's "list" seems to have a lot of knives on it that they do not import. The XT4 is one of them. I am not sure where their list originated, but dealers have picked it up and put it on their websites, gross errors and all. Like the 15OT Sharpfinger. As far as I have been able to determine, Schrade never actually made the XT4 and several others on that list. I could be wrong though. My wife says it is possible. I believe Mr. Taylor's phone number was posted here this past week, so if you really want to know......

Codger :D
 
Codger, I never really thought about it until I read your post, but the XT7 folder is kind of out of the series of numbers and now makes me wonder if there is, or was planned, an XT4, 5 and 6.

Just curious, which of the XT's is your favorite?
 
Dang Phil, just how big ARE the rabbits in your area? :eek:

A semi-automatic shotgun and a camp knife for rabbit hunting? :confused:

Ah, I understand - it's in case you stumble across a Grizzly. Good planning!! :thumbup:

Do you call this your "BBBR" outfit? (B cubed R) :)

BBBR = Bloody Big Bad Rabbit
 
I like that X-Timer drop point and would have bought one, but they were never discounted like the folder and the others.

-Bob
 
Bob, you just have to catch them in the off-hour on eBay. I bought the XT2B for about $17.00 NIB. It was actually cheaper than the others. The guthook must be pretty popular, or harder to come by, given the price that one usually sells for. I really like the blade shape of the guthook except for the guthook itself.
 
redshanks said:
Codger, I never really thought about it until I read your post, but the XT7 folder is kind of out of the series of numbers and now makes me wonder if there is, or was planned, an XT4, 5 and 6.

Just curious, which of the XT's is your favorite?
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Schrade did plan to make an XT4. It was in their 2004 catalog, but they never got it built for production, at least that we have seen. And the 1ELK had not made it to the black coated "X-Timer" lineup. It was a Jim Zumbo RMEF knife with the same handle produced a few years earlier with an etch on the bright blade. The 1ELK in the picture is not anything Imperial Schrade produced.

I kinda favor the 24OTX. It has some real old timer character. And it won't scare the womenfolk when you whip it out in public. And I like the "tit nit" blades.

I have the whole series and picking a favorite is not easy since I got them at a time when I was unable to try them out because of poor health. I bought them during the period before prices went up, and gave $20 or less apiece for them. I did not/would not buy them at their 2004 retail prices.
XT1B - $75.95
XT2B - $64.95
XT3B - $64.95
XT7B - $69.95

They were cheap enough there for a while that I "oops'd" doubles and triplesof the XT2B and XT7B off ebay and it wasn't a big deal. Unintentionally purchased, they still have made good trading fodder.

And Del, I think that is BBQR. I like them that way myself! :thumbup: I've been wanting a muzzleloading swivel gun (1.5" bore) to get the deer out of the thickets, but the wife keeps resisting. Christmas is coming though.

Codger
 
Sounds more like blowing the thickets away from the deer so they'll be left out in the open to me. :)

Reminds me of the very first time I was hunting in Ontario. The two of us were from out West where is was(and is) illegal to hunt big game with a dog. We were sitting having a smoke when we saw a doe with her tongue hanging out a mile burst from the bushes with a dog close behind. Without a word, we both shot the dog!!
A bit later I thought we were going to be shot by a couple of VERY irate Italian fellows who apparently owned the dog! It seems that such is legal there!
Took a lot of talking and us showing our driver's licnces to convince them that it really had been a misunderstanding and that where we came from a dog running game was a 'dead dog'.
 
FOlks, more sad news. After spending a few more minutes sitting here docked on the 'bay (a tribute to Otis Redding) I regret to inform you that Chinese XT1B and XT2B knives have been added to the XT3B that you were already aware of.

Del, that reminds me of my years hunting deer in central Arkansas where dogs were legal. I shot a deer and before I could get to it, a pair of dobermans landed on it and bared their fangs at me. Shoot the dogs? Boy, I was tempted and well within my rights since it was my lease and the dogs weren't licensed to hunt. Lucky for them the discharge from my rifle convinced them to put away their fangs and depart. I was wishing for a 1.5 bore then instead of my puny .72 cal.
 
Now Del, those Italian boys wouldn't have caught you if you hadn't tied that dead dog to the hood of your car and tried to drive back to Alberta with it. :D
 
A .72 cal is puny?...Hot dog!!
I was raised where a 30-30 was the norm, with a "heavy" calibre being a 30-06!
And, I thought a .50 cal was an ELEPHANT gun!! :eek: :eek:
 
Well, a .72 cal has 12 bore sized balls of lead to the pound, making it a 12 guage. The game police decided I was in a shotgun only zone, so I got a rifled 12 guage. Turned out that it had the same kick as a 375 Holland & Holland elephant gun, 44 ftlb. Kills on BOTH ends!

Codger
 
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