I'm thinking about the upcoming hunting season, about 7 weeks away now and got these 2 knives out to inspect. Used 'em both last season and they performed flawlessly to process the deer I took. Used the Queen Mountain Man lock back to field dress the deer, for skinning I used the Lon Humphrey
fixed blade, then used both of them to debone and cut up the meat. After all was done both knives were still extremely sharp and needed nary a touch-up on the edges.
My friend wanted the hide to tan and then smoke treat so I wanted to take it off cleanly without any cuts to the underside. The big fixed blade worked perfectly at that task and was so sharp it removed hide with the lightest of touch. It also cut up the meat with with ease and the heavy weight of the
knife seemed to help with that task as well.
My friend Paul gave me a piece of the smoked hide and I used for the handle wrap on a bow I made to donate to a raffle last weekend at the Elm Hall Michigan stick bow rendezvous we attended last week. This club allows a few of us to each cut a small diameter elm or hop hornbeam tree down, take it home and return the following year with completed bows to raffle in a benefit for the club.
Here's a few pics., thanks for looking fellas.
