Homemade. Seems to handle most all of it. I don’t cape with it though.
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QUESTION - Which Knife do you carry to back up your Scalpel-blade knife?
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Now that's a knife, not a box cutter.
I like this knife
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I have the 105 Pathfinder.. and I do like it... but Buck unfortunately has this thing they do of making their holsters such that all their knives ride too high and want to get pushed all kindsa sideways by the packs hipbelt. It's soo foolish too... because it'd be soo easy to fix. And they could offer it as another holster option and make even more money. Just don't get people sometimes. I guess that's what happens when you've lived your whole life back east or on the plains or something.
Buck knives for the 1st 40 years were made in the "16".....(El Cajon)…..lol
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Before and after pick of an Elk. All work was done with a Havalon Piranta. Most elk I have done takes 2-3 blades.
Yes a little twisting to take the head off
Well heck... why the heck do they not make a drop-leg version of their holster that gets the butt of the tang just down far enough so the HipBelt on the pack doesn't tug all kindsa sideways on it?
Anyhoo... nowadays I run HAvalon Piranta... and fold on hip is Leatherman Skeletool CX.
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I don't know but the are tough knife sheaths. But do need better design.
But I don't care mine has worked fine for forty years. And still going.
But I don't care mine has worked fine for forty years. And still going.
I've got a Buck 102 and some old german knife that is shaped similarly.
I've got a 105, and I like it's size and shape, and it works well for boning out the deer, especially sliding along the ribs when removing the backstraps, and for getting into the vertebrae but as I said, the dang sheath makes the pommel end stick up too high so your packs hip-belt wants to push it all kindsa crooked on your hip. And all they'd have to do is lower it about 1.25-1.50 inches and it wouldn't be a problem anymore. I saw a drop-down extension once that somebody else made, looked like the hot ticket to fix that, but they wanted too much for what it was.
Like I said, I mostly use the Havalon, but I'll use a regular knife for tasks that I think will prematurely dull the Havalon. So that way I don't have to slow down as much for those tasks as I would with strictly using only the Havalon.
Like I said, I mostly use the Havalon, but I'll use a regular knife for tasks that I think will prematurely dull the Havalon. So that way I don't have to slow down as much for those tasks as I would with strictly using only the Havalon.