This years pronghorn, just for attention.
My late uncle bought me a Buck 110 about thirty years ago, which sat basically unused for twenty years ‘till I started hunting. Now it field dresses and quarters my pronghorn each year, and when I’m lucky, it does my elk, too.
By the time I’m done in the field it’s caked with blood and goo, and I throw it in a plastic bag and clean it as well as I can when I’m home, but the 110 has rivets and doesn’t come apart so I’m skeptical on whether it’s clean enough, and i worry to that it must be hard on the wood handles, though they’ve held up pretty well.
I sometimes think about getting a nice fixed blade hunting knife but I like that this one with sentimental value is actually seeing use.
Does anyone have advice?
by Temporary-Soup6124
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Yeah, I’d be constantly worried about it never being all that clean. You could dunk it in alcohol for a while and rinse it out a lot, but that’s really going to dry out the scales. And even then, it’s just a pain to always need to clean and re-lube etc. I’d go for a fixed blade. Tons of options depending on your budget. Way easier to clean, and way more options in blade shapes and sizes.
Just carry the 110 as a basic pocket knife for cutting everything else. Open boxes, cut rope, shred junk mail.
You may also be able to give the wood a bit more life. Not sure how well this works, with scales on the knife, but a thin coat of superglue can be rubbed on and polished, acting like a sealer. Would only be able to get the exposed edges, but it might be better than nothing. I’d mask off the rest of the knife, and do a test on similar wood if you have some – it’s going to darken things a bit if they are dry.