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I was discussing different knives with this fellow, and knives came up, and he was saying that JOC used to use a knife he'd made, and he would sell his hand made knives to the public. The way he described what he was talking about, I believe that he was thinking of one of the Benoit hunting family. I read some article many years ago where they were talking about one of the brothers making some different obviously homemade knives and sold many of them to the public, and they talked about the Remington pump rifles they used, etc. I've never studied JOC that much, read maybe a couple of his stories. I do know that he used 270 bolt rifles and not Remington pumps.
Does anyone know what knives Jack O'connor favored ? I sure don't
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I have several of his books and grew up reading his magazine articles. I cannot recall him ever saying much about knives and am fairly certain he didn't hand make any custom knives. You are correct about one of the Benoit's making knives. They were pretty crude in my opinion, but I guess at least a few people bought them. Probably more for the name than the actual knife itself.
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Knives that the Benoit's made were intended to be functional, not works of art.
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I think that you're right. I have most of JOC's books and grew up reading his articles is ODL and don't remember him writing about knives or handguns. The Benoits made and sold knives, not sure which Benoit, Larry or his sons or his grandsons.
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Knives that the Benoit's made were intended to be functional, not works of art. They look like 7th grade shop projects to my eye.
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Respectfully, there has been a tremendous renaissance in knife making, steel, etc since his time.
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Knives that the Benoit's made were intended to be functional, not works of art. They look like 7th grade shop projects to my eye. 😂
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The Benoits were making a tool to field dress a deer, not a museum piece. Something that did the job intended, it didn't have any frills.
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It was Larry that made the knives. I have pics of several and they are nothing fancy for sure. All I've seen had clip point style blades with handles of deer antler.
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Ask chuntsman 22... He seems to be the expert on anything and everything at least in his little world LOL He hurt your feelers on your Rambo knife thread? 😂😂😂
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Ask chuntsman 22... He seems to be the expert on anything and everything at least in his little world LOL You're a mite touchy today feller.
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Ask chuntsman 22... He seems to be the expert on anything and everything at least in his little world LOL He hurt your feelers on your Rambo knife thread? 😂😂😂 Lol I was thinking the same thing.
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Well somebody else has said JOC always used and carried a regular trapper pocketknife to cut up his animals, but I don't know
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I think that you're right. I have most of JOC's books and grew up reading his articles is ODL and don't remember him writing about knives or handguns. The Benoits made and sold knives, not sure which Benoit, Larry or his sons or his grandsons. Jack owned quite a few handguns, and wrote articles over the years. There were two with documentation, he owned a K-22 and K-38 both are lettered and were shipped to Jack. A Colt National Match .38 spl was reviewed by him and sold to a friend. I’ve never seen any reference in writing about knives he used.
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Well somebody else has said JOC always used and carried a regular trapper pocketknife to cut up his animals, but I don't know Whoever said that was correct. "The only knife a hunter needs is a good, strong, well-made pocket knife" - J.O'C, Hunting in the Rockies, 1947. "For a hunting knife the sportsman should choose a good substantial pocket knife" - J.O'C, Hunting in the Southwest, 1945. O'Connor wasn't a fan of belt knives and said so rather caustically in both books. If he mentioned anything about hunting knives in writing after those two early books I've never seen it.
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"The only knife a hunter needs. . ."
I would sorta kinda agree when it comes to field dressing or gutting. Done a bunch with most every configuration the smallest being a MiniBuck folder with a 1 7/8 teeny blade. That's all I had that impromptu trip. I sure wouldn't want to just have a smallish knife for my one and only, but I would have to make do.
Still, I wasn't sure because I've not read that much of O'connor's stories
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Cactus Jack did a fair bit of hunting on his own, but he also had a lot of guided hunts. Could be a lot of knife work was performed by his guides.
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I would imagine O'Connor's "substantial pocket knife" was a single blade swell-center folding hunter that was popular in those days. A big jack knife.
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I would imagine O'Connor's "substantial pocket knife" was a single blade swell-center folding hunter that was popular in those days. A big jack knife. Since JOC was brought up in Arizona, I was thinking a large Stockman style of folding blade knife.
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For whatever reason, I would have thought he'd have used a 2 bladed folding hunter, like Case and KBar and Schrade and all those old companies used to offer before the Buck 110 changed the game. An uncle used to carry those starting when he was in the Navy in Alaska back in the 50's and 60's. Him and some other sailors hunted ( poached) game when they could slip away from whatever they were supposed to be doing. IIRC he said he initially had a Case, and later on started with Schrades. I do remember that when he was getting on towards the end of the road, he had those Old Timer folder with the brass liner lock. I guess me thinking about them shooting the white colored sheep and using those type of knives kinda got mixed around with JOC hunting ( most likely legally) the sheep he hunted made me kinda think that he probably used a slip joint folder larger than a standard trapper or similar
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Born in Nogales grew up in Tempe must of had a switchblade. Time in Tucson no dought he would of started carrying a lightweight mountain knife.🤔
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