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They drop the whole tail on the fire and wait 'til it's cooked-ish, then peel and eat...traditional but not my cup of tea.

My father in laws girl friend is part Maori.

She likes lamb tails.

glad I could make you smile....bob

The new ones are nice to ogle Geedub, but the knives I really like to see are the ones that are carried and used...price or maker has no bearing on the matter, age doesn't either.
When a fellow uses or goes back to his favourite standby you have to ask yourself what makes that blade stand out, conversely when another posts a new different blade every time I just assume he hasn't found his knife yet.

As I said before, I particularly like my Randalls and enjoy using them...but experience tells me that I can rely on that Mora.

We used to eat them as kids in Qld.

We burn ours off....so I guess we could eat them too.

We docked really late....they must have weighed over a pound each.

Same here !

My go to always, outside.

Got lots of fancy kitchen cutlery, that I love & use indoors.

To each there own !

my knives are all cheap. 100 bucks is the most expensive and i got it as a gift. i figure i would just lose them anyway so never bought good ones. my favorite is a little queen steel bird and trout i got almost 50 years ago. probably a 10 dollar knife then and not worth much more now but it does the trick.

I've used a lot of different knives over the years and for the last 15 or 20 years I have used one or the other of the knives I make. Prior to that, I used this Morseth I bought in 1972. It is a very handy size, has a blade shape I really like and holds a great edge even though it's just carbon steel. I don't claim to have anywhere near the experience some of you guys that have killed stuff for a living have. But there is no telling how many game animals and fish this knife has dressed over the years, how many shooting lanes it has helped clear or the miles I have carried it. It has been lost and found several times and gotten more rust on it than I would like to admit. It would easily do it all again. It was about twice the price of a Puma or Buck in 1972, and very well worth the extra cost to me.

I always enjoy knife threads but have yet to get the "honest" part, who would lie about their choice of knives?

Now edc pistols I can understand folks not wanting to admit they don't carry a Glock but many knives perform well regardless of cost or mfgr.

#glocktard


mike r

Shooting for a living sucks and is just work...I am more impressed with the fellows on here that hunt off their hind legs and carry everything with them.

And I have seen some very interesting knives on this thread that tell a lot about the fellows who use them and how they use them.



added. Something I do find perplexing is how do you fellows that hunt in cold weather work with knives that have small handles?

Am interested in the Cattaraugus knife that pictured on this thread . antiquegmanhotmail.co

No...it is waiting for it's owner.

That is not you.

GDub,

More pics and info on the G Dukeman knife on the dove breasts, and also the knife in the foxes mouth, if you please. Google failed me on the Dukeman.

My "hard use knives" see maybe 2-4 deer a year. Maybe a few dozen squirrel.

The Benchmade in my ruler pocket is the true hard use knife, for me. Only been used on deer a couple of times, but it goes every where I do.

My hunting buddy was also a butcher for the largest grocery company in my area, that it all he uses, but he has the set. I bought a selection myself, but find my Havolin knife does all his will do except cut thru deep meat, then I pull out my victorinox, which is all I use in the kitchen.

years ago i gots one of those at costgo. it was a freeby if i bought a liter of jim beam.
it's spent its life on my reloading bench

same knife i use, just wish i could find a good sheath.. i hate hard plastic sheaths

works good for gutting deer and pigs.

Mine knows more about critter innards than most veterinary eggspurts.

I have and use a Mora carbon steel model and an Old TImer locking folder. They both are "foundlings" and this really appeals to my Scotch-Irish frugality. I have a few other knives, including a small Buck (Squire?) that was a Christmas gift from my dad, but most are cheapos.

Having said that, I'm glad not everyone is like me. It's good that many folks want to invest in custom knives (or guns, or whatever) because they are helping to keep the knowledge of how to make these items alive. It'd be a shame if the skills it takes to make things one at a time were lost.