Officially the best knife for stalking that money can buy.

[Dalua]

buy once, cry once

The problem with expensive knives is that you tend to cry twice: once on paying, and the second time on realising you've left it on the hill somewhere.

Mora, etc - no crying over the price, or losing it - the chance of the latter being in any case reduced markedly by its being very orange.

 

[gixer1]

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Can’t beat the Garron … buy once, cry once

Just looking at the pattern of that makes me think it’s easy to lay down and never find it again….it blends really well with the background…this bad boy won’t have that problem -

 

[User00040]

Wrong, Mora Classic is the best if you know how to use a knife and don't need to follow silly standards.


Less than £15 a pop too!

 

[Klenchblaize]

Just looking at the pattern of that makes me think it’s easy to lay down and never find it again….it blends really well with the background…this bad boy won’t have that problem -

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I’ve got two of those. One still in it’s environmentally unfriendly plastic shrink wrap.

I may have it wrong but thought they were a “Limited Edition” offering?

K

 

[gixer1]

I’ve got two of those. One still in it’s environmentally unfriendly plastic shrink wrap.

I may have it wrong but thought they were a “Limited Edition” offering?

K

Limited to a few hundred thousand produced?

 

[Klenchblaize]

Limited to a few hundred thousand produced?

OK I hadn’t realised they had made that many in hi-viz orange.

K

 

[gixer1]

OK I hadn’t realised they had made that many in hi-viz orange.

K

I’ve got a few if you are struggling to get them at all…

 

[cjm1066]

It looks a good knife, until you live with it and find how it holds an edge and touches up on a steel, it difficult to appreciate good knife steel.

 

[Muir]

Just looking at the pattern of that makes me think it’s easy to lay down and never find it again….it blends really well with the background…this bad boy won’t have that problem -

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I've got a couple of these. Face it: The best knife for hunting is one that is still in the scabbard once you've left the field. You just can't lose that Mora in the leaves and if you do, $14 gets you a new one. I always carry a few knives. Two are Mora, one a larger hunting knife by Martini and my trusty 4" Solingen-bladed, bone handled "tourist" knife that I've carried for 42 seasons now. Best $2 I ever spent. ~Muir

 

[gixer1]

It looks a good knife, until you live with it and find how it holds an edge and touches up on a steel, it difficult to appreciate good knife steel.

Which one? I find the Mora’s sharpen up pretty quick..,and seem to hold an edge long enough too…

 

[Shabz]

Mora knives are abysmal. They’re for weekend warriors and survivalists battering them into logs. No decent gralloching knife has a scandi grind. They’re for spoon wittlers.

I’ve never lost a knife yet. I did temporarily keep one on a stump for three or four months but nowadays I take a grid reference of anywhere that I use my knife so it won’t be hard to go back to it.

 

[Shootgun]

The problem with expensive knives is that you tend to cry twice: once on paying, and the second time on realising you've left it on the hill

Just looking at the pattern of that makes me think it’s easy to lay down and never find it again….it blends really well with the background…this bad boy won’t have that problem

I look after my stuff, never lost a knife.

Is like never drive a nice car for the fear of crashing it…

 

[Stalker62]

The problem with expensive knives is that you tend to cry twice: once on paying, and the second time on realising you've left it on the hill somewhere.

And that is why my good stuff stays in the study.

I know.


I am a kit tart.

 

[gixer1]

I look after my stuff, never lost a knife.

Is like never drive a nice car for the fear of crashing it…

You’ve maybe never gralloched a deer in long grass with 10,000 midge’s trying to eat your ears….

 

[Overlay]

You’ve maybe never gralloched a deer in long grass with 10,000 midge’s trying to eat your ears….

mozzies never let you forget your a free meal
i grassed 2 Roe in scotland on wee bit of damp ground gralloched em on the turn of the light
bloody hell they were up my nose, ears and i was eating em as well, my poor old dog was bitten to bits big time - i can still taste them now
moral of the story - shoot the deer then move it to gralloch in a better place, you probably won’t leave yer knife behind them either

 

[Shootgun]

You’ve maybe never gralloched a deer in long grass with 10,000 midge’s trying to eat your ears….

I had…
The knife never goes on the floor… is getting wiped off and back in its sheath on the belt.
Simple!

 

[Taff]

Good steel in a knife is only the first thing you need , hand fit is just as important, so really it’s all about personal choice, I have field dressed bulls with a mora, did hundreds of deer with a opinel no8, own a garron and cael ar, use both of them on goats and pigs, have done quite a few deer with them as well.
As for not using a scandi grind, ask a reindeer if it works. If you lose a knife it has nothing to do with colour it just means you are careless or suffering from buck fever.
Obviously this thread is here as a windup so thought I would join in.

 

[Leec6.5]

Best knife money can buy is a victorinox 5” or 6” boning knife that cost £15.

Simple as that end of story!

 

[Taff]

Just waiting for someone to mention H&S and it must be dishwasher proof, along with what’s recommended in DSC1 the bible for idiots.

 

[Jagare]

The first version of the f2 filleting knife they made had a very thick blade not very good as a filleting knife. I bought one in a sale for half price. I carried it my car for years to finish off injured deer. Now it resides in my rucksack that I take on driven game shoots. Must say a very sharp knife and very good for whittling round the ring piece of boar and deer.