Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting What knife do you carry during deer season?

Forums are funny. You guys will argue over the stupidest stuff. If my knife was slapped together it was done by Buck, because I bought directly from them in 81.

Now please. Enough of this. It's not that important.

Yes, it helps if we get the right information.

The pin count is the total number of pins showing.

Your knife is called a four-pin, not a three pin.

Three inlay rivets plus the pivot pin.

Photos clear everything up.

Your knife is a nice four-dot finger-grooved 110.

I've read some guys don't count the pivot pin and some do, so I wasn't sure what to call it.

Blade markings are much more reliable

Blade markings are quite reliable, that is true.

To ID some knives you have to use blade markings plus other factors.

Who started this whole thing anyway???.

Buck.

LOL.

I use both a back stroke and forward when using a steel. With some practice you will be able to go by the sound of the stroke to know if you using the right angle or not. Some of the better flat steels seem to work better for me.

My Buck doesn't have any pins. Is that bad?

It's tough being pinless.

I use one I made myself; 154CM & Stag;

Nice!

Buck hasn't had a single blade in 420 that's as good as what they used to use. My Granddads was in 440C and was down-right impressive. The newer ones are good to leave rattling around in the glovebox or under the seat just in case.

I have been using a couple custom or semi-custom knives. One is a Manley Blades in ATS-34, another Blind Horse Knives in 01 gets used a lot. My newest was a safety award is a Bark River Loveless in CPM3v. Even with my poor sharpening skills and poor blade skills, these knives stay sharp much longer than the softer steels. Maybe if I was good at not "hurting" my edge it wouldn't be important to me to use harder steels.

Nice lookin knife!

Very nice. I love the blade design and the overall contour.

Steve.

reading through this thread theres been a good many quality knives posted, (many I'd like to own) but I can,t help but wonder how many other guys like myself , do carry a second larger blade of some type, I'm betting a great deal of the guys that hunt farther from the camp or back pack in rather than hunt near a road and truck do!
many of my friends that back pack in for elk hunts carry a tomahawk , I prefer the kukri, but I can,t imagine being able to function for days at a time back packing into remote areas with just a 4" skinning knife

Never seen the attraction of the kukri blade style..If I wanted a camp knife capable of serious chopping, I'd go for a parang with say a 10" blade...

Top to Bottom Cliff Manley ATS-34, Chris Reeves Shadow IV A-2, Blind Horse Knives Woodsman Pro O-1, Bark River Classic Drop point Hunter 3v.

You can see the BHK and Cliff Manley both are frequent fliers.

Just picked up some Mora Companions.
I plan on having them everywhere. Pack, truck, sling, belt...hell I may strap one to my climber.

Just watch how the sheath clips over whatever your fixing it to as they become easily dislodged.

If its going onto a belt or similar, once in place, it best using a cable tie around the bottom of the clip to stop it inadvertently comming off..

True, but with that color it should be easy to find if lost.