This is my first hunting knife..... it started life as a standard Green River Skinner style that all shepherds used to use.
I replaced the wooden handle with a piece of Antler and used it like that for years before it got deemed not fit for purpose and left in the hunting cupboard for about 30 years.
Then one long wet day, I dug it out and took a sanding block to the Antler which improved it immensely.
But the big swept skinning shaped blade still grated with me, so on another long wet day, I shortened the blade and reshaped it to a clip point....... far more user friendly.
I managed to bludge a bit of leather and made it a new sheath on another slow wet week
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