Yeah i have one of those I chopped it down a bit, like I chopped down my Svord that I wasn't using. Have sharpened and shaped it a little more since. Way better. I've re shaped quite a few including the handles, blades and bolsters.
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The Kershaw bear hunter I had was a good knife-the bottom one. Got pinched in a burglary 2 days after moving into the current house.
Second one is its relly the antelope hunter I got for my son. It hasn't cut up anything in anger. Maybe some parries?
The bear hunter became a bear hunter 11 with the same handle as the antelope. All discontinued now I believe-pics are for reference only
I seem to remember the bear having a similar curve to the back as the antelope but maybe not. The Anty seems to be a similar shape and style to the knife shape approved earlier on-more finger grooves though?
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Yeah that is a nice little knife.
Two of the small knives are underway for forum members, I was hoping to be further ahead but this convid situation has really put the brakes on with getting knife making supplies.
However as the levels drop things will start flowing again.
@csmiffy , I have the first model Kershaw Bear hunter with the original style sheath and gimping on the spine . It's a pretty good knife for the money, mine has only done 1 deer and as new but they work well.
Shame to hear it's no longer made.
@viper its a bastard too. I had a bear hunter I got off a workmate for a good price but left it in a hut a few years later. I was spewing. Fast forward maybe 3 years won the exact same model knife in a hunting comp-cheering. Helped cut up the first dear in years not long after I moved back to NZ and it got pinched a month later. Not happy
Similar to my lionsteel m4 in m390. What a great steel.
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Nice knife, 390 looks good in the premium steels...would like one like that where did you source from? Also keen to try Elmax.
Dlt in the states.
@csmiffy , mate I never use mine , if you ever want another and promise not to bloody lose it I would probably part with it . I've had it 10 years plus and used once so no great sentimental attachment to it.
@viper pm'd you. Owe you a beer just for the offer
I had an Antelope Hunter II, looked more or less the same as that Bear Hunter but I think slightly smaller (and mine was orange handle). Great knife, one of my favourites I've had.
Lost it in scrub somewhere when a matagouri ripped it out of the sheath. After that I stopped wearing knives on my belt and kept them in a pack or bumbag instead. Looked for a replacement a few times but couldn't find one.
I have a Kershaw Elk Hunter now which is a good knife too, but its a guthook blade which makes it less versatile. Seemed like a good idea at the time but I liked the Antelope Hunter better.
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@GravelBen....sounds like you need to buy a couple of bachos...one for the belt and another for the daybag.....if you put sheath on inside of belt the knife is a bugger to get out but wont come out in scrub...I used to drill a hole through plastic handle on the old green rivers and put loop through and then over the top...
@Micky Duck I have a couple of Bahco knives for general utility stuff but I'm not a big fan of them for hunting - I find them a bit shallow in the blade and the straight tip too long and pointy which can accidentally puncture things more easily than other knives.
yip but they do do the job and you dont cry quite so much if it gets lost LOL
I ve got one in each wagon...they live there as spares and its amazing just how often they get used.
@GravelBen yeah the Anty is a little smaller then the Bear hunter. If the Anty had a handle like the old bear it would've been better.
Apart from the blade the elk hunter would handle well? Better shape than the anty
@csmiffy My Antelope had the same handle with the finger grooves, I really liked it.
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The Elk hunter does handle well - a bit bigger, heavier and more solid than the Antelope. Handle is a softer rubber texture and rounder fatter profile, the Antelope handle was flatter squarer profile.
Actually looking on Kershaw website I think mine is the Elk Skinner rather than Elk Hunter, deeper flatter blade shape.
https://www.kershaw-knives.net/Kersh...-II-1078GH.php
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I like A...but maybe a slight bit more of a drop point
Maybe it's been said, but what thickness steel? I wouldn't go more than 3.5mm. Maybe less. Nothing worse than a heavy thick blade when trying to do fine work with a blade.
3mm one in 14c28n and another in D2
i9f its being used on the reciprocating saw youd bloody need old fashioned westcoast sawmills skid grease as a lubricant!-if a howler and a sprayer at point of no return wet weather gear and a life jacket too.
just looked at mine-doesnt have that accesory but have a bit of manuka branch in the shed and a couple of angle grinder flap sanding discs.final polisj ala naturale id think!1