Drop Point Knife
I’ve worked with and carried #knives all of my life. I’ve been cut quite a few times and helped send quite a few others to the emergency room for cuts and stab wounds. You’d think I would be totally comfortable around knives but every now and then I run across one that is so sharp it scares me. I know one slip and it’s going to be a bad slice.
I hate getting cut. It burns. And there’s no good spot on the human body to get cut or stabbed. Inside the torso are vital organ. In the legs and arms are big arteries and in the hands are ligaments and tendons that don’t do well when cut. There’s not really any spot that is good to get cut or stabbed! I say all of this because when I pulled my new Spyderco Bill Moran Drop Point Knife out of the box, it was so sleek and sharp that it scared me to handle it. A couple of weeks later I was headed to Texas for a hog hunt and threw it in my gun case so I could test it out.
From the looks of it, it appeared that it should be a good skinning knife. It has a drop point which you need for high speed skinning if you’re wanting to save the hide and yet, the spine had been ground down enough to have an ok point, which should work for cutting the pattern. (The pattern is the original “H” skinning pattern you make down the belly line and out each leg to the hooves).
It comes with a molded Boltaron sheath. I used to not like these plastic type of sheaths but after starting to slowly use them 10 years ago I’ve gradualy started changing my opinion of them. They’re light weight, they don’t trap moisture as bad as leather thereby rusting your knife, they’re more compact and the knife snaps tightly down into them. As I type, I’m enroute via airplane to Texas for the hunt. After hunting with the knife, I will resume typing….
Wow, having some great hog hunts. Hunting with a company named Slow Glow. They invented an LED light that slowly illuminates so the hogs don’t even know that it is getting lighter. It is motion activated. Then you sneak in just like on a normal stalk. You have to play the wind, be silent and everything else just like a normal hunt. These things are great. The first night we got within 11 paces of a group.
