This thread started a few days ago when I my oldest asked me to help him pick out a knife for my youngest for their Christmas exchange. We started looking through some of the popular sites like grohmann, buck, gerber etc and then I dumped out my hunting bag out and showed him the knives I pack around and what I like about each one. Then we landed on the gerber I got when I was 12-14ish.
I remember how excited I was to get that knife and I remember how I planned on using it to gut and skin deer and told myself I’d never use it for the stupid stuff I do with other cheap knives like carving sticks and stuff. It was strictly for cutting up animals. Anyways it’s still one of my main knives in my pack 25 years or more later and I’m still only using it to cut up animals. It’s actually my number two knife behind my grohman moose and deer knife.
Anyways, it brought me down memory lane today so I thought I’d share and see how many of you other guys are still using the same knife for many decades, maybe you’ve even had one passed down for a couple of generations.