Hunting knives

Merch

Rosahane wrote: »

...naw, that's not a knife, this is a knife

http://www.heinnie.com/Knives/Ka-Bar-Knives/KA-BAR-Machete-Cutlass/p-92-155-1196/

Best thing i ever bought for around the garden, cutting sticks and making hides:D

thats what Im looking for doing stuff in the garden, tried places here to no avail, any bothers getting that delivered here??

Hibrion

davymoore wrote: »

Just found this thread.......... interesting

anyone have a go at making one yet ??

How about leather work

Hibrion, how's that sealgaire working out for you, did you make the kydex sheath?

Davy

Its working out great Davy. No deer yet this season. Only been out once yet though so there's plenty of time.

I finally got the kydex for the sheath but I have to knock together a press before I make a solid attempt at it. It's on my long to do list at the moment.

Hondata92

Have a joker knife myself

It was giving to me as a birthday present from a relation who i go stalking with

Its large for most things but is perfect for deer imo, nice long blade but easily controlled and enough weight to go through the spinal cord if needs be but in saying that havent been out this season to try it out

I have used his own joker in the past to slit the throat of deer and do some gutting and was more than impressed at how easily controlled it was and how sharp it was from factory.

Had a muela knife before (someone bent the tip :mad:) and it was sharp from factory but with a few swipes over a sharpener it was almost to sharp to use for skinning as little to no effort would have it slicing clean through meat

tfox

Most of my knives are muela, find them very good and as said very easy to sharpen, handles are a bit short for someone with big paws like me

Tackleberrywho

tfox wrote: »

Most of my knives are muela, find them very good and as said very easy to sharpen, handles are a bit short for someone with big paws like me

Well a good handle is very important.
If the knife does not sit well in the hand then it can slip out, i have seen butchers cut themselves when a knife slipped out of the hand as it was slimy with animal fat.

Deise Musashi

I like a grippy handle with a little guard to it and a short blade when working inside the body cavity.

Lots of Swedish Puuko style knives have large handles and a short blade for just this type of thing. I like a blade the length of my index finger ideally, mainly for the gralloch.
I like micarta, rubber or solid wooden handles, leather washer type handles don't smell good soaked in blood and really don't like being wet!

Really I could do most things with a swiss army knife, I just like using different knives when I'm out and trying out stuff like batoning or making feather sticks. Ray Mears has a lot to answer for

CJhaughey

I am very tempted by the EKA swingblade, I have no time for guthook knives they are worthless in my opinion but the gutting blade on the swedish knives is different with a ball tip.
Plus you can get it in a blaze orange handle which I personally think is a great thing, I have never lost a knife during gralloching but have come close.

Thomasofmel

Deise Musashi wrote: »

Lots of Swedish Puuko style knives...

Finnish Puukko knifes or Leuku Swedish Mora (Morakniv) knifes :rolleyes:

Tackleberrywho

CJhaughey wrote: »

I am very tempted by the EKA swingblade, I have no time for guthook knives they are worthless in my opinion but the gutting blade on the swedish knives is different with a ball tip.
Plus you can get it in a blaze orange handle which I personally think is a great thing, I have never lost a knife during gralloching but have come close.

A gut hook is handy, but not essential, I have gutted as many deer with one as without one.
You just have to be "very careful with a sharp knife "

DR6.5

I use an eka swingblade,very good knife. i broke the tip off the knife earlier in the year, sent them an email of a picture of the knife and they sent me a brand new knife free of charge and a keyring knife.

dr6.5

Tackleberrywho

DR6.5 wrote: »

I use an eka swingblade,very good knife. i broke the tip off the knife earlier in the year, sent them an email of a picture of the knife and they sent me a brand new knife free of charge and a keyring knife.

dr6.5

Thats a serious deal!

How did you provide proof of purchase, want to send on a jpeg
A man can never have enough knives;)

DR6.5

I just had to tell them where i purchased the knife from, brilliant aftersales.

dr6.5