watchmaker
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KNIVES FOR HUNTING
Many of us hunters of long have a love affair with the tool of a successful hunt; the knife.
In our minds, we have this idea of the perfect knife that will fit our hand like a glove; that will perform surgery like a scalpel; that will not need to be sharpened ever, and will remove a cape as well as field dress and skin anything from a deer to a moose.
In our search for the perfect blade, we accumulate many of them that are probably as good as the best knife ever made, but in our search for Nirvana we keep adding new blades and hoping to do enough hunting to test all of them on game.
On the other hand, some hunters are not interested at all in the tool. My friend Frank that has probably field dressed at least fifty deer with the same Buck hunter knife in the last 20 years removes it from the pack once every year in hunting season to field dress a deer or two, and the blade goes back into the same pack to wait for next year’s job.
Perhaps his father being a butcher has something to do with it. He was taught how to field dress a deer early in life, and to him it is just a necessary job that has to be performed. To others like me it is a culmination of all our efforts and should be done as elegantly and as clean and bloodless as possible and with the most effective of tools.
I have found in my long search for the perfect blade that many of today’s knives in the market qualify as superb blades for the job. A good knife blade of 3 ½ to 4 inches will be plenty for most chores. Preferences in my case are for the drop-point blades, but I have had good service from clip points or other shapes.
Some of us like a fancy wood or antler handle or perhaps some engraving on the blade. Those I label dress knives and are a great way to stir a conversation between fellow hunters. I am one with that type of taste and will always appear at camp with a fancy blade. The truth is that I perform all of my field dressings with a plain one that I keep hidden in my pack.
Here is one of my fancy blades, the Browning model 122 one of one thousand, and the one that does the actual field dressing, a Buck 192 Vanguard.
Best wishes
Watchmaker
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iqbal
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I to have a love affair with knives and have a whole lot of them,Buck,Boker,Baretta and what not.However I do not use them for skinning or anything,just like to look at them and show them to friends.Like guns knives also fascinate men and having a good one is a source of pride.
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ozhunter
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Here are a couple made by Aus Knife maker Jeff Peck.
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watchmaker
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Those Peck's knives are gorgeous, congratulations.
Here is my Browning model 65 (one of one thousand)
And here is the detail of the file work in the handle.
All the best
Watchmaker
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mikeh416Rigby
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Beautiful looking tools, all. I especially like the Damascus Blade from Jeff Peck. I own 2 Damascus Blade knives from Charlton USA.
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bonanza
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I just picked up this knife from Charles Sauer, Montana.
5th on left column.
http://sauerknives.com/gallery.shtml
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mikeh416Rigby
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He certainly seems to produce nice products. What's the blade length on your knife?
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bonanza
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Patterned after a 18th century camp knife. Wedge style profile wiht a faily blunt point. This is not a "fighting" knife, but a workhorse.
7" blade
4.5" rose wood handle
1.25" wide
3/8" thick
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mikeh416Rigby
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Sweet! 
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gator
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I prefer the zipper version of the buck knives.
They have various handles, but the blade is the same. usually have a BK in the model name
This is a Buck 691BK and is what I personally use.
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Tatume
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My favorite knives for field dressing are very small and very sharp. Presently I carry a Benchmade Activator, and find it to be as nearly ideal as it can be. A picture can be seen here
http://www.benchmade.com/products/product_detail.aspx?model=210TK
though mine came with a very nice leather belt sheath.
Take care, Tom
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