Author Topic: Boker #509H Fixed Blade Knife  (Read 767 times)

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Offline smokepolehall

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Boker #509H Fixed Blade Knife
« on: February 04, 2007, 08:47:34 AM »
Has anyone owned one? I am interested in getting one to field dress deer. Don't want to throw good money away.
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Re: Boker #509H Fixed Blade Knife
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2007, 02:49:09 AM »
I don't have one, but Boker does have a good rep. In this case though, I surely wouldn't like to try and gut a deer with that upswept trailing point; you'd have to be really careful not to puncture the gut.  Make a nice skinner, since being hollow ground trying to slice deeper than the edge with it is a bit more difficult than with flat or convex grinds; but it will still work...lots of folks still use that grind.  The steel is 440A which is known more for it's toughness than it's edgeholding, but it does take a satisfactory edge; at least the couple I've owned in that steel have.  It'll do a deer easily enough.  Has nice, graceful lines, which some folks really appreciate.