How Many Use & Hunt with a Neck Knife?

[Ron LaClair]

This one is an inverted carry. The sheath has a strong magnet that holds the steel blade firmly in the sheath. They sell these sheaths on Bark River DLT
Like I said, I've carried a neck knife for more years than I can remember. I use it dozens of times a day, I can't imagine going thorough my day without one.

[Gene Wensel]

   Here is mine. It's one of a kind. Herb Derr made it for me last year. The blade is Damascus in Warncliffe style. It hangs down securely via a strong magnet. The handle is a petrified whitetail antler. Solid rock, many thousands of years old. It also has a small piece of wooly mammoth ivory in front of the fossil antler. Herb told me this is the only "antler" he has ever buffed out where the inside is brown, not white. Beautiful knife. I gutted a deer with it day before yesterday. Not the best blade shape for skinning but for gutting, it beats gut hook styles. I wish I would have asked him to tool the leather sheath.

[Ron LaClair]

Send it to me Gene, I'll tool on the sheath and send it back when I'm done. I should warn you I work awfully slow  .

Barry has a pretty cool neck knife too, who's is better yours or his?

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Great looking knife Jeff.  I know what you mean ron about not hearing about anyone having fallen on the knife. But like jeff, I spend more time than I should around horses and they are prey creatures therefore can react quickly to a noise or even something that looks funny. I'm sure for most however they dont take up the expensive pastime of hay burners.

[Ron LaClair]

A couple more neck knives, the one on the left is whitetail bone, on the right is walrus tusk

[Ron LaClair]

Don't tell me neck knives are not handy, I keep them extremely sharp and this little Bark River blade just under 3" slices through the Porterhouse that I grilled for supper like it was butter.

[Ron LaClair]

You can see Barry's neck knife that he's wearing.

[Barry Wensel]

I'm not smart enough to post pictures but if you want I can send better close-up photos of my necker in an email so someone smarter than me can post them. Is it just me or do I look constipated in that last picture? bw

[Gun]

Its not just you

[Gene Wensel]

Stay tuned Barry. I'll post your pictures tomorrow when I have more time just to show people who is smarter......

[Gene Wensel]

  Here is Barry's neck knife. Its a beauty.

[arrow30]

i like the way the blade is exposed, really shows off good.

[olddogrib]

Call me the "nanny state" if you must...but as someone on here once stated "the only thing left-wing about me is my fletching".  I'd suggest if you must wear a neck knife at least wear it point down.  Yes, I realize you could face plant ten times and at least 9 of those you wouldn't land on the point with the blade vertical.  In the words of Dirt Harry...."well do you feel lucky"?  Ron, I'm 20 yrs. your junior and can think think of at least three times I've fallen flat on my face at work in the last 6 months.  Part of it is that with my artificial knee and hip I'm just not as agile as I used to be.  Add to that the place I work is an obstacle course of uneven, elevated, catwalks (i.e. an OSHA wet dream). We're required to wear N95 masks because of the dust''...long before anyone heard of COVID.  If you've ever worn one, you know it protrudes from the face enough it obstructs your peripheral vision of where you plant your feet.  I won't throw in the times in the field this year I've misjudged a log I was stepping over or slipped on muddy, rotten inclines...you get the picture.  I respect my elders, but with a bum foot I'd personally reconsider that tip-up carry!

[Ron LaClair]

Richard, with all due respect, maybe you shouldn't wear a neck knife probably a helmet would be a better choice. 

For those  that think neck knife's are useless consider two of the best Whitetail bow hunters in the Country wear and use them
(side note) We've all lost weight since this picture

[olddogrib]

I'll take that advice under consideration....never said they were useless, only that it would be safer to carry them tip-down.  Not likely to seriously damage the old head at this point, but at least I won't be driving a blade through it.  I remember some famous and quite successful  early bowhunters (who will remain nameless) that used the hoodless Kwikee "suicide" quivers...or else w/the equally bad clip-on U-shaped plastic attachment.  The point being with age hopefully comes wisdom and we adopt safer ways of doing things or our passing just improves the gene pool.  (pardon the pun...it wasn't either of the brothers to my knowledge)

[Flingblade]

I use both a neck knife and at times a Fred Eichler knife made by Outdoor Edge with a horizontal belt sheath.  Both are comfortable and convenient ways for me to carry a knife but there are times when the neck knife is the best option.  In the late season I wear First Lite bibs and therefore have no belt on to carry a knife.  The neck knife tucks under the front of my bibs; out of the way, and easy to access when needed.  The other time is while kayak fishing in the summer.  I usually have shorts or swim trunks on and again no belt.  The neck knife tucks under my life jacket.  In the last couple years I've started hunting out of a saddle and a belt knife on the side is uncomfortable because of the way the saddle hugs the hips so I always carry the neck knife.  I do opt for the security of a kydex sheath for my neck knife though as the blade is just a little too close to my ten ring.   

[Roughcountry]

Sure lots pretty of knives in this this topic. I'm also too dumb to post pics. I have 3 or 4 knives with neck sheaths that I like. All are by the arrow around a grizzle track friend.
One knife Is really tiny ( my favorite)  Jeff' I used buckskin over a shaped thin piece of rawhide for safety from the blade. Works really well holding the blade in and weight is almost nothing.

[tippit]

Robin,
Your sheaths are beyond compare and I sure they are very safe. I still have one of yours that I cherish. That guy with the arrow around a grizzly track mark is one hell of a bladesmith. I'm still a Grasshopper in comparison 

[tippit]

One more tippit necker. Keeslar style flared finger guard and some Spalded Oak for a handle...

[Ron LaClair]

I love that spalded oak.