As a teen at my first hunting camp, an old man dropped a roll pouch onto the park table. It was full of old hickory knives. He told me to bring back a big mule deer and he would help me skin and quarter it and cheese cloth wrap it. About 1970z.
I have that knife as part of my rotation. Living fulltime offgrid in the woods of western NC my knives get a lot of use. Old Hickory knives hold up well. I do clean and oil them almost daily. Take a look at the old Green River Hunter also. Made in USA. Est 1854 and still making old school knives.
I have a couple old hickory knives foundered in the 40's and 5 or 6 foundered in the past 10 years. Today's O.H. are nothing compared old school steel. I use my old ones all the time over my newest which is only a month or two. The metal is really crappy now.
I thot I was done with off grid, but kept my off grid truck. Water, elect multi task truck at ready. Well at 66 the main house burned. Water and elect gone. Ins. Blocks any touching of black. No way to get set up for months. So gens are a purring and water barrel filled with a short drive. Nice to be at ready!!!!!!!
i bought a 1929 house and found 2of them. one thinner steel and sharpened to the shape of a kurkuri, the other thicker and still in good shape. I just purchased the Old Hickory hunter and really enjoy it on my side in the leather sheath. Great skinner as I have used it to gut and skin a hog the hump on top helps with gutting.
These knives work fine for almost everything out in the woods ( short of battoning huge ass pieces of wood and chopping off branches) like you see some you tubers do . I took off the factory slabs and put some bigger maple slabs on . And profiled them to my grip . Works great , this steel sharpens up easy and will tcb . Keep some mineral oil on it and you'll be fine .
I got one and I like it. I think it’s great for the money and a good all purpose knife. It has the beauty of simplicity aspect and it’s much lighter than my other favorite fixed blades like the BK-7.
I like carbon steel and the old found steel is the best. I've got a large Bowie type made from the spring of an old wagon seat, a good camp and hunting knife, clip point, about 4 and a half to 5 inch blade from an old crosscut saw blade and another from o-1 tool steel. They've all got custom scabbards that ride high and unobtrusively with the blade part behind the belt. But to be truthful a fellow can beet along just fine in about any situation with a good pocket knife, a hatchet, and a good butcher knife.
As a kid I would go out commercial fishing for weeks on end at sea. We used nothing but the OLD HICHORY KNIFE. I'm a hunter and began hunting alone at age 11. I had nothing but an old hickory knife. Today I sell old hickory knives and custom sheaths. And customized hunting and fishing As old hickory knives. No other knives.
I am not sure Sir..because ,,Old Hickory,, is the nickname of former American prezident and militarist Andrew Jackson ..because he was tough as hickory wood...really
Nice video and nice channel. I love bushcraft ... in Italy it is little practiced. As soon as I can I also upload videos immersed in nature. A greeting
worry not my friend, things are getting interesting, and people are realizing that basic survival is good knowledge to have. buddy has survival school here in Slovenia and says that the booking is close to 200% more than just a few years ago :D .
This looks like the newer one.I have had the same Old Hickory hunting knife for 35years, and not one knife I've seen holds the edge or as versatile and durable as a O'Hickery. I've skinned deer, hogs and thwarted off several millennial city dwelling twink zombies with mine just by the sight of it. It can be left handed, just turn it around.
@@PAoutdoors well their website may not be updated and they have not been very forthcoming about the switch. I called and asked a few times and they confirmed it's 1075. They made the switch more than a year ago. It's fairly well known among knife people that they are now 1075. On the packages it simply says "high carbon steel" now
