Post by Deleted on May 17, 2014 8:17:49 GMT -5
Over the course of my hunting career I have carried a bunch of hunting knives, but these three are special to me for various reasons.
The first one on the right is one that I got way back in the 1950s at Tim Doutrich's clothing store in Harrisburg. When my parents bought clothing for me I got something called "Timbucks" which could be spent on stuff at a little shop on the second floor. One day I used some Timbucks to buy this knife. I carried it for many years and it holds a pretty good edge. Back in the 1970s I replaced it with a Queen knife that I bought at Gale Diehl's sporting goods store in Chambersburg.
The one in the middle has a story to it. One day when I was backpacking the Susquehannock Trail near Cross Fork in Potter County I got to the top of a mountain and found this knife on a rock with no sheath. It was probably left there during the previous deer season. At the time it had a handle made of some sort of bone-like stuff, but it was broken and the handle came apart. I fashioned a handle from walnut wood we cut at our old Camp Bucktail and sealed it with epoxy. The sheath is made from moosehide from a moose I killed in Alberta in 1994.
The one on the left is special to me, too. My father in law, William Weik mad this knife from a saw blade. He also made the sheath. Pop-Pop was a carpenter who worked for Litt Brothers in Philadelphia. For sentimental reasons a few years ago, I carried his old Savage Model 99 in .303 Savage and his hunting knife while hunting during rifle deer season. I believe that was the very first time this knife was used to field dress and skin a deer. It did the job. Pop-Pop passed on in 1994.
The first one on the right is one that I got way back in the 1950s at Tim Doutrich's clothing store in Harrisburg. When my parents bought clothing for me I got something called "Timbucks" which could be spent on stuff at a little shop on the second floor. One day I used some Timbucks to buy this knife. I carried it for many years and it holds a pretty good edge. Back in the 1970s I replaced it with a Queen knife that I bought at Gale Diehl's sporting goods store in Chambersburg.
The one in the middle has a story to it. One day when I was backpacking the Susquehannock Trail near Cross Fork in Potter County I got to the top of a mountain and found this knife on a rock with no sheath. It was probably left there during the previous deer season. At the time it had a handle made of some sort of bone-like stuff, but it was broken and the handle came apart. I fashioned a handle from walnut wood we cut at our old Camp Bucktail and sealed it with epoxy. The sheath is made from moosehide from a moose I killed in Alberta in 1994.
The one on the left is special to me, too. My father in law, William Weik mad this knife from a saw blade. He also made the sheath. Pop-Pop was a carpenter who worked for Litt Brothers in Philadelphia. For sentimental reasons a few years ago, I carried his old Savage Model 99 in .303 Savage and his hunting knife while hunting during rifle deer season. I believe that was the very first time this knife was used to field dress and skin a deer. It did the job. Pop-Pop passed on in 1994.
