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Nice pronghorn, 'pole.
Travis
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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Jeez. Who wouldn't take a Dozier over a $30 plastic knife with disposable blades? Was not trying to make this into a Doziers are better than Pirantas thread. Just relating my experience with the two. Some of it related to elk hunting just three weeks ago. One person with extremely dull knives, one person with a Piranta, and me with my Dozier. Can't help the fact that that is what I had. The Piranta was obviously better than the dull knives and should be preferred for people who don't want to or cant sharpen knives. The guy with the Piranta used several blades skinning, quartering, and caping the elk. I used one. I prefer to use one that i don't have to carry extra blades for and continue to pay for whenever I use it. For guides who may skin and quarter many animals in a season I'm sure it's a great knife. They probably don't have the time to sharpen a knife properly or the means to in camp.
Don't just be a survivor, be a competitor.
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The whole point is carrying a Piranta ONLY, is borderline stupid. If you are in the woods, you need a no-schidt blade that you can baton wood with to keep the hypothermia/reaper off of your azz, so a decent REAL blade isn't an option. The Piranta is so light, there is no reason NOT to take one if game processing is hopefully on the menu. If you have to skin out a bear's pads or get the skull out of a hide, a proper skinning knife is a [bleep] tool to accomplish that with. Both have their role, and if you are a gram weenie, do burpees and buy a barbell.
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Or.....
Buy a scalpel handle that takes #22 blades, for like 5 bucks on Amazon, that weighs a quarter of a Havalon.
I'm no surgeon, but I'm betting I'd get better control on the scalpel too (or surgeons would be using Havalons now)
I'm Irish...
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Actually the handle thats fat ain't bad... take that from a taxidermist for 20 some years... the skinny ones kinda suck.
And you can do the caping thing with a skinny one but the fat one just feels much better.
And you can do a lot with the piranta. Lets just say I have about 5-6 of the fat handles, and probably could still find 2-3 of the skinny handles and what I carry for hunting is the piranta. May upgrade to take the heavier blades at some point.
Like others we still carry a heavier"survival" knife, but it never gets used on game...
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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I used to carry a knife big enough to baton wood with, but I could just never find the right river rock to sharpen it with......
A wise man is frequently humbled.
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I used to carry a knife big enough to baton wood with, but I could just never find the right river rock to sharpen it with...... Just do more burpees to keep the reaper away. Duh. Travis
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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I replace valve cover gaskets every 50K, if they don't need them sooner...
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Found a picture of TAK from his glory days:
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Found a picture of TAK from his glory days: Wrong. That pic is from Rambo III, the knife is a give away. I feel his 'prime' was from the first installment. The one where he converted a tarp into a poncho and did a bit of hog hunting.
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Laffin...
The wilds of the Great Northwest also provided a much better selection of river rocks for sharpening stones than Afghanistan had to offer.
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Yes, but the trees made the horse/goat skin polo fields a bit smaller...
Besides it was cooler that the Sherrifs in the NW have chopper ready sharpshooters with lever actions!
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You'd better bring a lot of body bags.......
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VFF! The difference between Sly and myself is: 1) I actually negotiated the Hoffman triangle successfully, along with the myriad others tasks associated with it. 2) I've fired M-60/M48's that actually used live ammo. 3) I can wear a green beret and not be in violation of 670-1.
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You're right, we all apologize. We don't seem to want to accept the fact that we're dealing with an expert in guerrilla warfare, with a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke.
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As well as being a model of humility.
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You're right, we all apologize. We don't seem to want to accept the fact that we're dealing with an expert in guerrilla warfare, with a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke. Bahahahaha
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You're mistaken, I've never been to Italy.
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