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I bought a few for $10 this past summer near my place in north Idaho. Great piece.
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I like the Mora and Martinii knives a lot. There's a carbon steel Mora in my truck all the time that's easy to sharpen and stays sharp through a lot of use. They may be inexpensive but they're not a cheap knife.
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These look to be a bit shorter than the classic Mora “Companion”, that’s OK, it’ll pack easier in my handlebar bag.
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I have a bunch of the cheap Mora's - both carbon and stainless. I love them. We got caught without electricity in a snow storm in a cabin one time. I used my Mora to split logs and make kindling for the wood burning stove, Beat it up with a fire poker to hammer the blade through the logs. Got home and sharpened it and took a file to the spline to clean it up, and it's fine. That was the stainless version. Tough knives.
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BTW....The one listed is fine for the kitchen or camp, but does not hold securely in the sheath like the companions. Just FYI. I don't think I'd carry it on my belt if hunting or hiking.
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Where are those knives made?
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I don't care for Mora knives. I tried them, both carbon and stainless, but don't care for them.
When it comes to cheap knives, I prefer the Cold Steel Canadian Belt Knife or Pendleton Lite Hunter styles.
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I don't care for Mora knives. I tried them, both carbon and stainless, but don't care for them.
When it comes to cheap knives, I prefer the Cold Steel Canadian Belt Knife or Pendleton Lite Hunter styles. Never tried the Canadian Belt Hunter but their Pendleton Light Hunter and Mini Hunter are Great Kniifes for the money. The cheapest Cold Steel Stuff has been damn good knifes IMO and experience. The Cold Steel Roach Belly has been one of the best and most useful cheap knifes I’ve ever bought. Sucker is surgical sharp!!! https://www.bladehq.com/item--Cold-Steel-Roach-Belly-Fixed-Blade--10139
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J[quote=nighthawk]Shhh! Calling a cheap knife good is a heresy. But with modern metallurgy and production methods it's easy to make a cheap, serviceable knife. Even stainless is so much better - what they use in production facilities where you work with a knife 8 hours a day. And those guys would buy knives more expensive than Victronics/Forchners if it made life better.
Just keep it sharp and you'll make it through any game animal. Dad once field dressed a deer with his cheap pipe knife and it was far from razor sharp.
Another secret is that being a "hunting knife" in most cases is a pretty easy gig for a blade. Gutting a deer? It only requires cutting some soft tissue. I expect that anything Mora makes is more than adequate.
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J[quote=nighthawk]Shhh! Calling a cheap knife good is a heresy. But with modern metallurgy and production methods it's easy to make a cheap, serviceable knife. Even stainless is so much better - what they use in production facilities where you work with a knife 8 hours a day. And those guys would buy knives more expensive than Victronics/Forchners if it made life better.
Just keep it sharp and you'll make it through any game animal. Dad once field dressed a deer with his cheap pipe knife and it was far from razor sharp.
Another secret is that being a "hunting knife" in most cases is a pretty easy gig for a blade. Gutting a deer? It only requires cutting some soft tissue. I expect that anything Mora makes is more than adequate. Yep, gutting a deer can be done with a broken beer bottle. Skinning one and breaking down quarters, that's not quite the same knife game.
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I have used those in the past, and was always dissapointed. I had a friend in UK make me a knife with much the same design, but with thicker, better steel, a full tang and Walnut scales. Cost more than $9 though. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/8SnYwQ1.jpg) ^ ^ ^ dumazz
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Those Mora knives are ground with a convex bevel.
To preserve the correct edge geometry, sharpen with silicon carbide paper over a mouse pad.
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I don't care for Mora knives. I tried them, both carbon and stainless, but don't care for them.
When it comes to cheap knives, I prefer the Cold Steel Canadian Belt Knife or Pendleton Lite Hunter styles. Never tried the Canadian Belt Hunter but their Pendleton Light Hunter and Mini Hunter are Great Kniifes for the money. The cheapest Cold Steel Stuff has been damn good knifes IMO and experience. The Cold Steel Roach Belly has been one of the best and most useful cheap knifes I’ve ever bought. Sucker is surgical sharp!!! https://www.bladehq.com/item--Cold-Steel-Roach-Belly-Fixed-Blade--10139Have a Pendleton and and Outdoorsman. Roach Belly on the way! Finn Bear next.
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Well, there just went another $40 to Amazon (three plus shipping).
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Well, there just went another $40 to Amazon (three plus shipping). LOL
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You need to get prime. For a hundred bucks all shipping from Amazon is free and their Prime TV and movie videos and series are also free to watch. It ain't free.... you just paid $100 for the "free shipping" - which can mount up if one orders a lot from amazon. I just ordered 3 bottles of gun Corrosion X from the manufacturer. With the $7+/3 flat rate shipping ($14 for 4), it came out a few cents higher than Amazon Prime. And I didn't have to try to find my wife's password. There was about a buck and a half difference in price per bottle. Equally priced, then, not counting the $100 up front to Amazon. Better sign up for some of those "cash back" credit cards too, where they charge you high interest while they use your money, then giv e a small portion of it "back" to you. As I said tho, Prime may be a better deal if one uses it a lot. Due diligence, and all that.  I've more than paid for the 100 I paid for free shipping by what I've purchased. I reno'ed a house and that paid for the 100 bucks many times over. The tires I had shipped to the garage to install likely paid for the hundred bucks alone. I think everyone understands that but some don't know about it.
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I typically buy on Amazon maybe 5 or ten items a year, most often used paperbacks in the $10 to $15 range delivered.$40 (actually $37 delivered) is a big order for me. I don’t watch tv or movies at home.
I expect Amazon Prime can be a good deal, but prob’ly not for me.
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