Small Game Hunter

[Gdpolk]

This Small Game Hunter pattern in CPM 3V is an extra blank from a run in CPM 3V for me. This pattern is my the same one that I personally use for all of my adventures as a skinner for animals in sizes from squirrel to deer.  I have been curious what the shadetree micarta finished out like so I had to try it out.  What better use than on an extra blank anyway?  Hope you guys like it 

This knife is designed to excel at skinning and quartering animals. Its size and proportions are made for those who like to maintain controlled cuts through the flesh and keep every bit of meat possible. The geometry of the blade is optimized to work well in small game, while still being large enough to be efficient in medium game. The handle is optimal for use in a modified saber grip with the thumb along the side and in a choked up grip with the index finger along the spine. The handle profile is left thin with minimal contouring to allow it to fit in a smaller grip as well as to provide increased feedback about the knife's position while in the chest cavity of medium sized game such as deer or pigs. The spine of the knife is squared with a slightly chamfered edge to allow for tactile feedback without risk of tearing your disposable gloves when cleaning game animals.

Knife Specs:
0.070" CPM 3V heat treated at 61 HRC by Peters
slight distal taper
full height flat grind
Shadetree Custom's drunken coffee bag micarta scales
coyote brown G10 and black vulcanized fiber liners
1/4" natural tan micarta pins
7.5" overall length
3.25" blade length

Kydex sheath with drain hole that can be ran in 19 orientations (on right or left of knife and at the top or bottom of knife in vertical, inverted, horizontal, canted, vertical neck knife, inverted neck knife, and baldric carry). It will come with a large TekLok.

The leather sheath has full coverage basket-weave tooling, border tooling on the back side, a fixed belt loop, a drain hole in the welt, a removable antiqued brass D-ring, a removable dangler loop with dual antiqued brass line-24 snaps, color matched maroon dye, blackened welt/edges, blackened shadow line around the tooling, and black stitching done by hand with a saddle stitch using woven thread.

[indianalongbowshooter]

like that one a lot.

[Gdpolk]

like that one a lot.

Thank you for the compliment. This pattern is a really effective design for hunting and skinning. It has everything you need and nothing you don’t. It’s just big enough to be efficient and just small enough to still work well in smaller animals. I make a lot of these for local sportsmen and get a lot of positive feedback on them.