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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
As a birthday present, my son gave me a Kershaw with the only-one-finger-required "flipper" type assisted opener, and a reversible clip that allows it to be carried in the left-hand pocket and opened left-handed.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Texas finally removed automatic and "switchblade" knives from the list of prohibited weapons, thank gawd. I've been wanting one of those Benchmade Infidels for a long time now.
 

Rally

NC Minnesota
John,
I agree with Keith. That bottom knife would be a muskrat skinning tool, for sure. You must have the patients of Jobe!
I sell a buddies knives in my shop and on the road at trappers conventions. I had him make me a "Canadian Belt knife" which is on the trapline with me always. Made of a high carbon steel and rated at 57-59 RC. It has a willow leaf design blade that really works well on beaver. He makes the sheaths also. He's an interesting guy. Spent most of his life in Ca. working in aerospace industry then moved to In. to design interiors of Winnebagos. Then kinda checked out and moved up here and lives pretty much as a hermit with his son. Builds low frequency radios for fun too.
 
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Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Made them when I was working at GM. I was the only pipefitter, in the plant I was assigned to, to maintain production. I only had to work when production stopped. Otherwise, I sat and read novels, while I was on call. Putzed around making folders, when I wasn't reading. In essence, my job was like an insurance policy.............you only need it when you need it.
 

smokeywolf

Well-Known Member
I have 3 knives that I've carried off and on since childhood. A Case "Bulldog", a standard Buck folding knife and a very small folder made by Beretta.

I like John's second knife down because of the surer grip that it offers and the reduced chance of breaking off the point.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
most of my blades look like the second one down.
I have a couple like the bottom one and they work well on small game and birds and for cleaning the fingernails.
but the second shape is my main go to for big game hunting and the like.
 

Rick H

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I have been left handed all my life and never realized I have been using a opening right handed pocket knives all wrong for 60 or so years. I had to stop and think and imagine how in the hell I would open one of those newfangled left handed ones. :headscratch:
 
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fiver

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don't you hold the handle in one hand and pull the blade open with the other?
or flick the little knob open with your thumb.
now I'm lost as to how you open a knife properly.
 

Hawk

North Central Texas
I still have and carry the original three blade Case "Stockman" that my Dad gave me in 1961.
Carbon steel with the yellow handles.
That knife could tell a lot of stories!
 

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
I carried Case knives as a kid, started carrying Victorinox Swiss Army knives after my father brought me one home
from a Med cruise. For years, I always have two knives on me. One is a Swiss Army knife, usually a pretty good one, scissors,
pliers, wood saw, metal file, and all the rest. Then a "thumb knife" of various types, currently a Benchmade
Griptilian, but often an automatic, since KS eliminated all knife restrictions. If someone has a burning desire to wear
a Claymore or a saber around, come to KS, all knives are legal. Personally....those are a bit large, but I have seen some
fair sized sheath knives worn. An automatic is handy, but HAS TO have a good safety, or it WILL eventually open in
your pocket, which is inconvenient or worse.

I had many of the Case knives, like the Stockman, but as a kid, always managed to lose about one a year. :sigh:
 
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Winelover

North Central Arkansas
I have 3 knives that I've carried off and on since childhood. A Case "Bulldog", a standard Buck folding knife and a very small folder made by Beretta.


I'm a pattern collector. I specialize in the Bulldog/Clasp pattern. Last inventory, I had well over 125 different examples. Besides different makers, handle material is the discerning factor.
 

smokeywolf

Well-Known Member
Dad bought me the Case "Bulldog" in 1967; still have the wood case that it came in. Blade is carbon steel and has some mild staining on it, but no pitting.
Other knife (not a folding) that I treasure, is a Randall Made that Dad had made in the early 1940s. The model is now referred to as a "Big Game Hunter-Skinner" with stag grip and compass in the butt.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
but often an automatic, since KS eliminated all knife restrictions. If someone has a burning desire to wear
a Claymore or a saber around, come to KS, all knives are legal. Personally....those are a bit large, but I have seen some

or you could come here and deer hunt with them during our any weapon [rifle] season.
 

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
I can only imagine the uproar in Kalifornistan if someone even dreamed of legalizing spring-blade knives.
 
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