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a 7-8 inch fairly heavy and thick blade does an aweful lot of work. i can split tent stove firewood, cut guy out pegs etc. it may not be perfect for everything but a big knife will do everything a small knife will. the reverse is not true
The government plans these shootings by targeting kids from kindergarten that the government thinks they can control with drugs until the appropriate time--DerbyDude
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Not fancy or beautiful, but for cutting through a brisket nothing can compare with these. [/quote] That Dexter is real close to what we used to carve up moose. Non-serrated. Meat-cutter that we used to grind burger and make sausage turned us on to them. Great use for that size of a blade.
Bob Enjoy life now -- it has an expiration date. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Large knife and a tomahawk...
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Not fancy or beautiful, but for cutting through a brisket nothing can compare with these. Get a real Knife and stop being a Cheap Queer. Dexters Suck. Get a 10" Dick, like mine, and be a man will ya?
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Campfire Kahuna
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I buy what interests me, and don't feel the need to justify my choices. Personally, I love a big knife, a big chopper if you will.
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I hunted a few times on an Island in the Mississippi River. Went fishing on another. Exclusive places where they had a hired hand to help with cleaning game. These guys were rivermen that commercial fished and if the truth be known probably lived off meat they killed when nobody was around. I ran into 3 different ones and they all had a big flexible knife about a foot and a half long straight blade about an inch to 1 1\4 " deep full length of the blade. Looked to be homemade. Were razor sharp and they could make short work of a deer with them. I thought they looked to big to use but they sliced and cut with them with ease. They used them on fish too. Sliced through big catfish backbones like butter.
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Like you knife, looks like a cross between a Green River and a Bowie, Great job. Rio7 The inspiration for the knife came from a Texas Ranger down in SW Texas that was cooking up Grilled Ribeye's and cutting them into bites at a street festival for Beef and Wine producers! He had a custom-made carbon steel/wood handled knife similar that he was using. I added a few enhancements and asked Tim to do the honors. He did an amazing job and as I understand a second was commissioned by another Campfire member as well. Frog---OUT! That was my understanding as well.......... ya! GWB Really like that sheath GW!
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I signed up for notification when they're back in stock! Thanks GW! Frog--OUT!
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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I've tried a good many blade configurations and price ranges of knives for deer carving. I prefer the old longer butchering blades like have been used for many years. If I need a short handy knife to carry, I have at least one pocketknife on me every day. Short fixed blades haven't worked for me except for some kitchen chores
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I had Tim Olt make this large knife for me. I call it a Mountain Man Camp Bowie. While it can serve several functions in social situation if needed, especially while up in the Wild lands, it also works well for meal preparation! Absolutely love it and it will be with me come October first until the end of hunting season! Frog----OUT! This ^ ^ ^ ^ is a nice design, but I'd want the edge all the way back to the handle. Nice all purpose all around user
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I can do most work on stuff like deer and antelope with a 3 1/2" blade. But to look right the knife with a 3 1/2" blade should have a handle sized to match. I have normal to fairly large hands and a smaller knife handle is no issue for field dressing chores. And such a knife is compact, handy, and light. For more extensive or more strenuous work I like a larger more hand filling grip. The smaller pictured knife has dressed squirrels, rabbits, and deer, and has gutted and gilled trout with aplomb. If I were in a camp and doing a lot of camp chores and maybe quartering numerous deer I want the larger knife. FWIW there's only 1 1/8 difference in actual blade length.
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going off next Wed. for a week in the Ocala NF. I'll be wearing Tim Olt's 'snub nose' as a daily user, and his 'big chopper' just in case. lol
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'Just in case' you run into one of those big snakes? Or haven't they gotten to Ocala yet. Have a good trip.
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein
At Khe Sanh a sign read "For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the protected never knew".
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I keep a cold steel fixed blade on the straps of my back pack when hunting to cut away any limbs or brush around my stand/sitting position so there’s nothing interfering with the ability to shoulder and swing my rifle.
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'Just in case' you run into one of those big snakes? Or haven't they gotten to Ocala yet. Have a good trip. some years back we found an 11 foot reticulated python on the side of the road here in Gainesville. A mower had hit him, but our vet fixed him up. We called him Mad Max the Road Warrior. When he got to 13 feet, we gave him away. Yeah, your chopper could handle that easily.
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I keep a cold steel fixed blade on the straps of my back pack when hunting to cut away any limbs or brush around my stand/sitting position so there’s nothing interfering with the ability to shoulder and swing my rifle. The saw blade on a little Victorinox SAK works great for that job.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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BGG made this knife for me. It's great for prime rib, turkey and any large cut of meat.
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I have a 17" blade that fits on the front of my SHTLE mk I***
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