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Got a Helle GT two years back for my birthday. It feels good in hand. It's almost too pretty to go abuse though. I have kept it in the cabinet waiting for a day when we need to butcher a couple elk.
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I can't imagine any knife sharper than a $10-$15 Mora. This is the hilarious truth. Kinda like what's wrong with a 30-06?
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I can't imagine any knife sharper than a $10-$15 Mora. This is the hilarious truth. Kinda like what's wrong with a 30-06? The carbon steel blades hold an edge pretty darn well too and are super quick and easy to put a shaving sharp edge back on when they need resharpening.
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I've been using the same USA made Buck Rush for the last 10 years or so. I think I paid $45 for it since it was the store display model. Can't imagine the number of bunnies I've opened up with it not to mention the amount of abuse it sees doing mundane [bleep] like opening boxes.
Just had it back at Buck because the thumb stud broke off on the blade. Had it back within about 10 days with a new stud and they sharpened it for me while it was there...total out of pocket cost: $0. Hard to imagine a knife that would do me much better.
I've looked at replacing it with a similar knife from Benchmade or Spyderco but can't find anything they'd do my Buck won't.
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I have Greg Lightfoot 458 magnum, new, sitting in a drawer.
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Reminds me that Randall should be about ready to ship my Model 25....
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I'm old-school. Carbon steel works for me. Old Schrade, Old Timer, Uncle Henry and Old Hickory is all I need. Sodbusters too. IMO
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Benchmade will even put your name on your knife in case you leave it on every counter in the store multiple times a day.... Badging has never kept me Dave So you the mofo at the bank that leaves a ball and chain.
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I've got a Griptilian and an Apparition. Both well-made. Neither carry comfortably (Griptilian not flat enough, Apparition too heavy. Kershaw Leek's are nice, and made in USA, but the blade profile sucks for any kind of skinning task. For $31.95, this is a heck of a knock-around carry knife, and you won't cry if you lose it. Useful blade profile. Oh, and it's D2 steel. Made in Taiwan (at least it ain't China).No, jackazzes, I don't know what the Rockwell hardness is, or the quality of the heat treatment..... ontario Rat D2 If you grow a set of testicle they will offset the weight of the benchmades You spend all night trying to figure out a way to work dicks or balls into a knife thread?? Jeezus Christ, grow up (or find a chainsaw thread).....😉 (PS Google "Benchmade 670 review". EVERYONE bitches about the weight of that thing....
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viking, I bought this knife about a year ago for quartering elk. I paid about 200 bucks for it. It's made in Soligen, Germany. The price I paid was almost half of retail. While it was still pricey, it's worth the cost when having to cut through heavy big game. I didn't buy it at the above link. I got it at Optics Planet. It was on sale with an additional 10% off. So I jumped on it. Japanese is good steel. But Soligen is generally considered the best steel. Less expensive knives will cause a lot frustration. I have a friend in bavaria that is german special forces. Got in discussion with him one day on the knives the army issues them, they didn't like them, low cost provider, no tang, wet climate, good way to slice fingers. His unit basically ordered knives from japan. The ultimate kicker is that the company in japan was owned by an american who moved there to make knives.
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I like nice knives, and I get the pride of ownership that goes with them, but for every day handiness and usefulness I think it is hard to top a SAK. For skinning and butchering game it is hard to top the knives used by the blokes who do it for a living, like the Wenger Swibo and Victorinox Fibrox knives, made by the same folks who make the SAKs.
Out of the altogether too many knives I own these are the ones that get the most use, by far.
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The cold steel master hunter is VG-1 [RC56-58] http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Steel-Mas.../dp/B0011MYRN2 My spec elite is VG-10 [RC60] Comparing the two Japanese brand products [Takefu] VG 10 stainless steel shouldn’t be confused with VG 1 stainless steel, either. Though both of these varieties of steel are used by manufacturers in Japan and elsewhere, VG 10 is considered a higher quality metal The Benchmade is CM-154 [58-61 HRC] American made. It has the same Carbon as VG-10, the same Chrome content ast VG-10, but a lot more Molybdenum, less Cobalt, the same Manganese, and more Silicon. http://zknives.com/knives/steels/steelgraph.php?nm=ATS-34%2C154CM%2CVG-10%2CCPM%20S60V I took the thumb button off as it had sharp edges. I identified the screw as Torqx 6 and 4-40 thread. The Allen nut was between 0.050 and 0.057" in Allen wrenches. I had no Allens in between so I grabbed it with the bench vise. I used an electronics standoff, nut, and set screw in 4-40 to make a fixture. I spun a wire wheel on a mandrel in the mini lathe and rounded over the sharp corners on the thumb button nut [what the right thumb rubs on to open the knife]. I reassembled and notices the knife feels much smoother.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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have many benchmades and cs master hunter
the benchmades are quality knives no doubt but the cs master hunter with vg 1 is among the finest production hunting knives sub $100 without going through a custom knife maker
rust is an issue though
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no love for scandis or zt?
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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Benchmade knives at Optics Planet
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Thanks.
So y'all that own a BM folder, do they loosen up and get sloppy, or do their screws stay tight.
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I'm old-school. Carbon steel works for me. Old Schrade, Old Timer, Uncle Henry and Old Hickory is all I need. Sodbusters too. IMO Same here.....I like em all and have a few custom traditional hunters and upper end production jack knives but my old Schrades are pretty dear to me.... Automatic...tactical...super steel....mehhh....
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Thanks.
So y'all that own a BM folder, do they loosen up and get sloppy, or do their screws stay tight. Mine hasnt...been carried every day for 3 years
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That sounds promising, I hate knifes that get sloppy and the clips loosen.
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