Welcome Home...THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF OUR COMMUNITY

iKnife Collector

The online community of knife collectors, A Knife Family Forged in Steel

Fixed blades

A dicsussion group about knives of the Great Outdoors needs to have an area to discuss all those fixed blades. This will be a place to show off your fixed blades. Doesn't matter if it for filet fish or just the knife you use around the camp fire. Maybe its your favorite deer skinner! Let's see it!

For years, the knife i took camping was my Camillus Mk2 Fighting knife. But it is now in retirement. Not because I found something better, just because it has too much sentimental meaning to have it confiscated by a park ranger or game warden or lost through stupidity.

My current camp knife is a Rough Rider 844 Burl Wood Hunter. Why? Because it has been getting the job done. I've got Hunters by Bear & Son, Case and Buck that all cost more but this one seems to get the job done better and cost half as much as the others.

The only issue I had with the knife was the strap for the sheath. It got in the way of taking the knife in and out of the sheath . A little altering and all was fine.

8 members like this

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Ken Spielvogel on January 1, 2014 at 11:12

Great pic Rick, thanks for sharing with us.

Permalink Reply by Rick Hooper on January 1, 2014 at 11:40

Yes, it would. It is a American tradition, the basis for gun and knife ownership today more than ever.

Permalink Reply by Howard P Reynolds on January 1, 2014 at 20:05

You've got some brazen coyotes in the neighborhood, Rick. Thanks for the pics of guns, game and varmints.

Permalink Reply by Rick Hooper on January 1, 2014 at 21:27

Or hungry, I had waited about 30 minutes before tracking, so the dog found by smell. Thanks Howard.
Howard P Reynolds said:

You've got some brazen coyotes in the neighborhood, Rick. Thanks for the pics of guns, game and varmints.

Permalink Reply by Tobias Gibson on January 2, 2014 at 12:53

I love hand made knives that were made primarily for function and not so much for looks.! Great knives!

In MemoriamPermalink Reply by Robert Burris on January 2, 2014 at 15:41

My cousin hunts with a Contender pistol for deer and wild hogs. His caliber, I think, is a 30-30 or a 308. He has kill a few with it.

Rick Hooper said:

This is this deer, the leg bone of the Wright knife. I had purchased a ten inch 357 Remington Maximum barrel for my TC contender, that year , used 158 grain Hornady XTP at 2000 FPS. Ended up selling that barrel later, and purchased a 14 inch in the same caliber, for added velocity and less muzzle flash. The ten inch barrel muzzle flash was about 3 feet long and alarmingly bright in low light!

Permalink Reply by Rick Hooper on January 3, 2014 at 11:25

Thanks for the comment, Tobias. That's so true! A gun writer once said: The truly interesting rifles are the most accurate, not the fancy or the engraved ones. I have beautiful knives in display cases, but the plain Janes, each have a story, of a hunt or fishing trip. Or even remembering peeling potatoes with my grandmother before a family get together, preparing our traditional Mulligan stew. The memories make the knives I own interesting and important.
Tobias Gibson said:

I love hand made knives that were made primarily for function and not so much for looks.! Great knives!

Permalink Reply by Rick Hooper on January 3, 2014 at 11:27

The little bugger is useful in many ways!

Tobias Gibson said:

I'm wondering if this knife could be useful for anything in the bush? Any thoughts. This is probably my smallest fixed blade. 1.5 inch blade (3.8 CM) 4 inches (10 CM overall), a Rough Rider (Stoneworx) mini neck knife.

Permalink Reply by Rick Hooper on January 3, 2014 at 11:46

Robert , your cousin has taken a big challedge there, and excelled at it! I used a 30-30 many years ago in a 10 inch barrel, to and then bought a 14 inch SSK in 300 Savage caliber ,made from a bored chamber 300 Herrett originally, it was a real handful recoil wise and instant death, to any and all game around here! As Arthur Ritus , took up residence, in my hands in later years, and shooting the 300 began, to be a painful experiance. I sold the 300 to a Colorada elk hunter, who still sends me photos of muleys and elk, he takes with the 300 Savage. I purchased a 256 Winchester Magnum to replace it. Robert Burris said:

My cousin hunts with a Contender pistol for deer and wild hogs. His caliber, I think, is a 30-30 or a 308. He has kill a few with it.

Rick Hooper said:

This is this deer, the leg bone of the Wright knife. I had purchased a ten inch 357 Remington Maximum barrel for my TC contender, that year , used 158 grain Hornady XTP at 2000 FPS. Ended up selling that barrel later, and purchased a 14 inch in the same caliber, for added velocity and less muzzle flash. The ten inch barrel muzzle flash was about 3 feet long and alarmingly bright in low light!

Permalink Reply by Ken Spielvogel on January 4, 2014 at 16:04

"Rough it" knives for the Grandson

Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on January 4, 2014 at 16:16

Both very nice for a young man. I know you have taught hem the respect of knives Ken but just wondering, has he begun the process to learn to sharpen?

Permalink Reply by Ken Spielvogel on January 4, 2014 at 16:24

Yes, he has started, I bought him a diamond and ceramic sharpener - and he is using them, but I sometimes think he is dulling the knife more than sharpening it. He likes to hold the knife at to high an angle. He will learn.