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Picking Up the Right Hunting Knives

If you’re an outdoors rough and tough go-getter, hunting knives area a must have in your survival kits. These essential and handy blades can really make a difference in how you deal with the wild outdoors. A good hunting blade not only is strong, sturdy and makes you feel secure, but it should also be easy to carry about, manipulate, maintain and use.

A hunting knife can basically be classified into two categories, a fixed blade or a folding knife. While fixed blade knives are easier to wield and are more effective, they are not very easy to carry about. They always require a proper sheathing to keep the blade from damage, and also to keep the owners from being cut. Folding knives like the Buck 110 Folding Hunter are much more compact and the blade is easily housed into the handle. These do not compromise on the strength and effectiveness ether.

Custom hunting knives with ornately designed handles and blades are mostly heirlooms of some great family. Unless you’ve inherited one, these can be fairly costly to purchase. These knives are not just weapons and tools, but also a personal style statement for their owner, albeit and expensive one. The quality of these knives is very superior to the common hunting knives since they are designed to last and endure through generations.

However for most common needs all you’re going to need is a pocket knife. With leading companies like Benchmade knives, offering a huge range of pocket knives with an assortment of innovative attachments, you will have a great choice of potential purchases. Pocket knives don’t only house blades, but also tools like a screwdriver, a bottle opener, and even a tiny pair of scissors. While the blade housed in it, is nowhere near a proper fixed blade knife, it will meet most of your needs and would never let you feel under-equipped.

Thanksgiving Day hunts

It was a family tradition. At least, I remember it happening a couple times when I was a kid—the Thanksgiving Day hunts. My dad would lay out the gear and guns for the next day and instruct me on what to wear to keep warm while out in the field. Then dad, my uncle, and grandfather drive out early the next morning to an open woodland field with lots of scrub. That was perfect rabbit habitat. Read More…