What is the purpose of carrying a knife out in a safari..

[HankBuck]

I’ve never not had a knife on my person (except for flights since the recent unpleasantness) since my father gave me my first Barlow for Christmas when I was 6. I gutted my first doe with that knife when I was about 10.

I have expensive knives and I’ve had cheap knives. I have a full set of cutco knives in my kitchen and Dexter-Russel knives in my slaughter house. I have only one custom knife. I designed it Virgil Campbell’s shop in Moose pass Alaska. It’s a combination skinner/flesher. The bone handle is from the first trophy caribou’s rack I took. I wanted a working memory of him. It is always on a carabiner on my Barney’s pack hunting or on my belt in camp. I never minded hunters not bringing a knife with them to the bush. I just never lent them mine if they asked.




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I took a knife, because, well, you always take a knife when you go hunting.
So I took a knife with me on my recent trip to Africa. I used it to scrape the mud out of the soles of my hunting shoes before I packed them for the return trip home. It worked better than a stick.

@Betterinthebush @Rellik - Betterinthebush You think like me - always have a knife on you wherever you go, there is Never a downside to having one and it’s what Men should carry. Rellik, did you “really scrape mud out of soles of boots” with Your knife?? I’m guessing you carry a real crap knife - otherwise we need to report You for “Knife Abuse” !