For all you fellow bear hunters, why you should always carry a stout bladed knife

[Bobby B.]

http://www.kimwolhuter.com/harry.htm

Bobby B.

[BDAJ]

Awesome story! What a great read! Thanks!

[kayaker]

Harry's knife and the skin of the lion he killed with it are on display in the museum in Skukuza (in KNP). Pretty cool museum, as is the elephant museum in Letaba.

[Jimmyjjj]

Wow... well worth the read!

[rugatika]

Great story.

My Dad always carried his belt knife with him whenever we went into the bush. Often when talking to him on the phone, if I ever mentioned walking in the bush on my own, he would almost immediately interrupt with "Did you have a knife with you?" lol. Got his knife on the desk right beside me now.

[Lonnie]

Originally Posted by rugatika

Great story.

My Dad always carried his belt knife with him whenever we went into the bush. Often when talking to him on the phone, if I ever mentioned walking in the bush on my own, he would almost immediately interrupt with "Did you have a knife with you?" lol. Got his knife on the desk right beside me now.

a good belt knife is the most used tool in the bush.

[Hagalaz]

When my father passed away I inherited his Browning Sportsman knife. He recieved it as a gift in the late 1960s when he was leaving a place that he had been employed at for many years.

Its one item that I will never willingly part with.

[lone wolf]

Great read - have to look for the book now !!

[pickrel pat]

awsome read!

[chimpac]

Such a great story.
Now I am thinking about what shape and thickness that knife of his is like.
He said it was 6" long and he called a butchers sticking knife. I was around when my dad slaughtered pigs on the farm. He said he was sticking the pig when he cut their throat to bleed them out.
The closest I have to a knife like I think the writer used is a cheap Swedish Mora with a round red handle with a sliim 6" blade. It is the one I use if we are cutting into a cow to see why she died.
From what I have seen of knives that butchers use they are thinner than a hunting knife like maybe a buck knife.
So I would like to see the knife the author used, or one like it.

[creeky]

Originally Posted by chimpac

Such a great story.
Now I am thinking about what shape and thickness that knife of his is like.
He said it was 6" long and he called a butchers sticking knife. I was around when my dad slaughtered pigs on the farm. He said he was sticking the pig when he cut their throat to bleed them out.
The closest I have to a knife like I think the writer used is a cheap Swedish Mora with a round red handle with a sliim 6" blade. It is the one I use if we are cutting into a cow to see why she died.
From what I have seen of knives that butchers use they are thinner than a hunting knife like maybe a buck knife.
So I would like to see the knife the author used, or one like it.

X2, spellbindingly fascinating story. Word is a movie is in the works.

Knife definitely not a mora type, more on the lines of a kitchen style. Attached photo copyright is credited to a mister "Danzo"

[Lonnie]

Originally Posted by creeky

X2, spellbindingly fascinating story. Word is a movie is in the works.

Knife definitely not a mora type, more on the lines of a kitchen style. Attached photo copyright is credited to a mister "Danzo"

looks like a boning knife.

[Full Metal Jacket]

That was a great story and really gives us a glimpse into a 'different' world and a different time.

[creeky]

Originally Posted by Lonnie

looks like a boning knife.

not quite, this is more a traditional boning knife (attached)

[bb356]

Originally Posted by Full Metal Jacket

That was a great story and really gives us a glimpse into a 'different' world and a different time.

x2 !!!

[Wolftrapper]

Great story. Thanks for sharing.

[Homesteader]

Originally Posted by Lonnie

looks like a boning knife.

Crossed with a Russell.

Great read. I also always pack a good knife in the bush, definatley one of the best tools around.
Hopefully I never get packed off by a lion though.

[Lonnie]

Originally Posted by creeky

not quite, this is more a traditional boning knife (attached)

that is a very modern boning knife but there are many styles of boning knives and styles have changed many times in the last 100 years and style and size changes a lot with the animal that's being worked on but I wuold agree the knife you showed the pic of is the most common boning knife that's used to day for most genral use. some of the $20 to $25 dollar ones make great genral purpose camp knife. but if you cuold find pic of some of the early 1900s boning kives you wuold fined one that looks like the one use in the story as most knives were from a harware or butcher shop and you had to make a sheath for them if you wanted to carry it on your belt. hudsons bay green river was a kitchen buchers knife. came to be a very popular belt knife.

[chimpac]

The terms for knives may have changed but the knife in the story was called by the author a sticking knife not a boning knife.
I am sure they had what they called a boning knife back then. A boning knife is to slim for the job of sticking.

I will ask a butcher next time I see one, if he knows what a sticking knife looks like.
I really do not think that some hunting knives that are carried by hunters could do the job on the lion. The long slim 6" swedish knife is the only one of my knives that would come close to going deep enough to get the heart.

So that is the one I will carry from now on. It is rusty because it is carbon steel (stays sharp longer than stainless) and the plastic scabard is gone. I sewed a new one out of an old red leather purse.

[Bobby B.]

This is the knife I carry for 'just in case' situations. http://www.pumaknives.de/dispitem_12...item_no=809040

Bobby B.

[Rocky7]

Very interesting read.

Here's another about a B.C. man who killed a cougar with his pocketknife:

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/articl...fe-1092755.php

Here's the part they don't tell you:

Mr. Parker fought the cougar quite a while and we ready to give up when it bit his skull. The pain was so excruciating that he got mad, fished the jackknife out of his pocket and stabbed it to death.

The mill workers did not recognize him when he walked out, although some of them knew him. He needed 2 yrs. of reconstructive surgery.

Men who can get past their fear have surely done great and unimaginable things.

F&W confiscated his pocketknife while they considered whether to charge him with killing the cougar. It took Mr. Parker a long time to get them to release it. It is obvious why that knife meant a lot to him.

[creeky]

Originally Posted by Lonnie

that is a very modern boning knife but there are many styles of boning knives and styles have changed many times in the last 100 years and style and size changes a lot with the animal that's being worked on but I wuold agree the knife you showed the pic of is the most common boning knife that's used to day for most genral use. some of the $20 to $25 dollar ones make great genral purpose camp knife. but if you cuold find pic of some of the early 1900s boning kives you wuold fined one that looks like the one use in the story as most knives were from a harware or butcher shop and you had to make a sheath for them if you wanted to carry it on your belt. hudsons bay green river was a kitchen buchers knife. came to be a very popular belt knife.

most modern thing on that boning knife is the stainless its made from, blade type/style goes back to the 1800s as per the great cutlers of europe, Solingen, Sheffield and Sabatier K. Only they where forged out of Carbon, similar to 1095.

Heck (dating myself here), that boning knife style has been around for the 57 yrs iv'e stumbled around the planet, and (as a kid) some of those where vintage knives.

Ontario knife still makes the " Old Hickory Household Boning Knife" in 1095. Evolved, yet styled real close to their 1800s offering. Bottom knife being of that type in attached pics.

[Homesteader]

Creeky, I remember a knife that looked exactly the same as your bottom one at my Grandparents home, back in the day.

[pseelk]

It was a great story,but I'll stick with the ole 7mag.

[creeky]

Originally Posted by Homesteader

Creeky, I remember a knife that looked exactly the same as your bottom one at my Grandparents home, back in the day.

you see them @ garage sales from time to time. I hope your Grandparents knives are in your family still & with some one who appreciates them?