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Yes, I sometimes carry an old Case 'Lockhorn"

I tend to loose pocket knives, so I get the chance to use several types. I do normally carry a jack knife of some sort...usually Case or such, but have tried Trappers before too.

Next to a bull skeleton in Cliff Creek Wyoming, there's 2 expensive pocket knives right now. By the time I realized they got left behind, I was too tired to go back just for them. Hopefully I can find them this fall and see how they weathered the winter. Should be a good test for their quality.

My dad is a very simple guy and I gave him one of these Gerber's about 10 years ago for Xmas, he loves it and I certainly see the benefit of replaceable blades.




I like simple myself and with dozens of EDC knives prefer baby Sodbuster's but it's hard not to carry my Dowell folder.

This better?

Looks like it is used , sharpened and carried.
I wore out a good many Case trappers, sharpened so much blades looked like a needle.

I seem to alternate between these two. The Schrade 80T Old Timer I've had since my early 20's. It replaced one just like it I had as a kid and has survived a flooded basement. The blade is a bit stained from the few days of being in the silt but otherwise serviceable. The Gerber I got 25 years ago for extending a magazine subscription an extra couple of years. It's been a good knife.

Moore Maker moose pattern here... you know that there are 2 grades of Moore Maker knives? The ones with plastic scales and the ones with real bone and very good carbon steel blades... quality and worth every penny IMHO.

That Gerber has seen a stone or two!




Dave

I never leave the House without one ,part of getting dressed, Buck 505 Small size but Quality . I couldn't count how many times my Wife has asked for it when we are out and she needed one.

Mart,

Bought a Gerber 300 at Freddies in Fairbanks years ago. It was a Federal .22 promotion. About time to retire it. I sold all my old well used pocket knives at gun shows . No use for non- lockers.

Never had any use for a dull pocket knife.

Currently, a Case mini-trapper. The full-sized trappers wear holes in my pockets.
My favorite was a Moore-Maker Mini Trapper with buffalo horn scales - stolen out of my baggage on a trip to Chicago several years ago. I couldn't find one when I returned, so wound up with the Case.
I've carried a knife since I was five. Naked without my glasses, knife, wallet, or pen. I'd rather forget my hearing aids than any of the above.

Yeah, I carried it as my only pocket knife for years. The Old Timer was in a box after I cleaned it up from the flood and only came across it a couple of years back. The Gerber was my everything knife back in my trapping days and has skinned hundreds of coyotes and beaver, and not a few deer. I never carried a belt knife when I deer hunted, just kept the Gerber sharp.

Buck 501

Ha, I know you. The guy who says "Does anyone have a pocket knife". 😀

Either a Leatherman or a Case, or both.

New kid at work, just graduated HS, asked me to borrow my pocketknife the other day. When I asked where his was he replied that he didn't carry one. I assured him that it would be okay because he could borrow mine this time and someday his nuts would drop and he could carry a knife of his own.

My checklist for a long time before I could leave the house was to feel my pockets and make sure I had my phone, knife, glasses, and snuff. Don't need glasses any more and gave up the Copenhagen but you can be damn sure that if I've got pants on there's a knife in them.

Sharpen it enough that every now and then I have to do a little grinder work towards the rear of the blade so the tip isn't snagging everything when closed.

Currently rotating between these three. Always try to have a knife handy - kind of a boy scout, "always prepared" thing.

I like the rams horn. What brand are they?

My two grandfathers and my father carried Barlow style pocketknives, so do I.

Old Timer Barlow.