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Re: The Safari Knife work in progress
      16/06/17 01:01 AM

My PH told me that it was not unusual for a client to make a present of his custom made "safari knife" to one of the staff at the end of the hunt. This pleased the party involved no end, because he immediately sold it for a tidy sum.

The staff preferred to use cheap ($1.00) Chinese made butcher kinves because they were easy to sharpen. The custom made knives held their sharpness much longer, but were almost impossible to resharpen, once they lost their edge, whereas the cheap knives could be resharpened with a few passes over a stone when they got dull. Some were worn down to the shape of filleting knives.

The only knife I had with me was a Swiss Army knife, which I once used to skin out an impala, just to prove to myself that I could. The gunbearers could skin out an animal almost as fast as I could pull off a sweat shirt.

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* The Safari Knife work in progress VonGruff 04/06/17 05:13 PM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress Rule303   04/06/17 07:58 PM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress NitroXAdministrator   15/06/17 04:26 PM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress Mike_Bailey   15/06/17 06:59 PM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress Mike_Bailey   15/06/17 07:08 PM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress xausa   16/06/17 01:01 AM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress VonGruff   16/06/17 05:32 AM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress VonGruff   16/06/17 05:37 AM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress VonGruff   16/06/17 05:38 AM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress VonGruff   16/06/17 05:42 AM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress gryphon   16/06/17 06:16 AM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress VonGruff   16/06/17 05:44 AM
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. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress Igorrock   16/06/17 05:27 PM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress VonGruff   16/06/17 07:26 PM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress Mike_Bailey   16/06/17 08:56 PM
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. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress Mike_Bailey   17/06/17 04:33 AM
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. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress VonGruff   17/06/17 06:04 AM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress NitroXAdministrator   19/06/17 05:18 PM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress Mike_Bailey   19/06/17 06:44 PM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress dracb   20/06/17 06:22 AM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress 93x64mm   17/07/17 07:57 AM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress VonGruff   17/07/17 11:54 AM
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. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress 93x64mm   24/07/17 05:54 AM
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. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress NitroXAdministrator   25/07/17 02:23 PM
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. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress NitroXAdministrator   25/07/17 04:04 PM
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. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress NitroXAdministrator   19/06/17 08:43 PM
. * * Re: The Safari Knife work in progress NitroXAdministrator   17/06/17 06:57 PM
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