Thread: Victory Knives

@Nick-D what is the rwl 34 knife? And when you say your victory edge needs a touch up afterwards what do you mean by touch up.

I dunno; when skinning you're only using the knife for opening incisions and hocking (if I correctly understand your meaning) goes straight through the joint, When boning beef you are hard on bone all the time and trimming the meat between ribs and boning out necks is way harder than boning a deer in the field. A Victory should get you through about 4 deer easily. Cheers

@Nick-D Not trying to be argumentative

I once did a pig and a 2deer with a bacho....slight touch with steel halfway through and good to carry on...skinned all three and broke down into quarters and other bits, as has been said if you not being rough you can get away with allsorts....Ive got a tiny diamond like steel,about size of a biro pen...it really rough /abrasive...it will get knife back up n running very quickly,I found with stainless I needed a courser steel and stone to get any result,thought it would be other way...by far the easiest way I found to get yellow handled v knife (ex works)sharp was on old shearing stone wheel...

Originally Posted by bumblefoot

I dunno; when skinning you're only using the knife for opening incisions and hocking (if I correctly understand your meaning) goes straight through the joint, When boning beef you are hard on bone all the time and trimming the meat between ribs and boning out necks is way harder than boning a deer in the field. A Victory should get you through about 4 deer easily. Cheers

Haha yeah I'm sure for a professional like yourself the beef is a lot more worka
and you can probably fly through a few deer with one.

Just anecdotally (at least in my experience) my victory goes dull in the space of a deer (or at least duller than I like to work with), I've used the same knife to process pigs and bone whole deer at home and it stays sharp a lot longer. I think the gritty coat and the inefficient scraping around finding joints etc means it goes dull much quicker.

I actually really like the wee knife(was the first hunting knife I ever bought) and quite often use it still, but just use a havalon to for skinning and hocking cuts. They are certainly good enough to do the job.

Originally Posted by bigbear

@Nick-D what is the rwl 34 knife? And when you say your victory edge needs a touch up afterwards what do you mean by touch up.

One of my own builds man, test knife for the steel. Love it, its a wicked steel. Takes a fine edge and has good edge stability so can be ground nice and thin. Still pretty easy to sharpen and work as well. Expensive though.

Touch up for me would mean back to a stone, but not a full resharpen, usually only takes a few minutes at 1000 grit and back to razor

What's everyones opinion on Knifekut knives?

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

green river bushmans friend.....or the knifekut equivilent they just work for me,easy to sharpen,easy to keep sharp and the blade shape is perfect for me.wont break the bank either.

@Micky Duck The green river bushmans friend and victory bushmans friend look strangely similar

Originally Posted by Three O'Three

What's everyones opinion on Knifekut knives?

Knifecut are rubbish if looking for a cheaper knife that isn't to bad I'd be looking at giesser I've tried all sorts over my 20+ years as a butcher and boner and the one thing that let's knifes down is the operator and the steel.

It's great to have input from butchers on this thread. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Three O'Three

@Micky Duck The green river bushmans friend and victory bushmans friend look strangely similar

and mine is actually a knifekut version sold through humping n fisting....price was right and even had choice of handle colour..which they managed to cock up LOL. dressed out quite a number of animals with it now and yes still believe it is ideal for me. Ive actually got two older wooden handled versions,but he blades are well worn down... must put decent handle on one of them as crude one on it is less than ideal,I made it way oversize as at the time was having issues with tendonitus and larger worked for my rooted hands.... 20 years later normal handle is ok again.

Originally Posted by country cuts

Knifecut are rubbish if looking for a cheaper knife that isn't to bad I'd be looking at giesser I've tried all sorts over my 20+ years as a butcher and boner and the one thing that let's knifes down is the operator and the steel.

cant fault the one Ive got.....holds edge nicely and easy to keep sharp..... but I not huge fan of Buck knives or gerbers....different strokes for different folks.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

and mine is actually a knifekut version sold through humping n fisting....price was right and even had choice of handle colour..which they managed to cock up LOL. dressed out quite a number of animals with it now and yes still believe it is ideal for me. Ive actually got two older wooden handled versions,but he blades are well worn down... must put decent handle on one of them as crude one on it is less than ideal,I made it way oversize as at the time was having issues with tendonitus and larger worked for my rooted hands.... 20 years later normal handle is ok again.

@Micky Duck There's quite a price difference between the green river and victory bushmans friend(also known as the "outdoors" knife), green river being more expensive $40-55 where as the victory is $30-45. Does that mean the green river is better quality?

who knows???,I put my knifkut version over stone after typing the earlier bit...that 2nd time its seen a stone in 2 years.... my left arm has bald patches again.
green river is a very old brand.in these modern times someone may just be trading on the good name and steel may be same or similar quality between all three,heck they possibly all come out of same factory and get rebranded at end user...... if $$$$ werent so hard to come by I would spend $300 and take knifemaking weekend here in town and make my own one with same blade shape.... but Im too tight to fork out the $$$$.

Originally Posted by Three O'Three

@Micky Duck There's quite a price difference between the green river and victory bushmans friend(also known as the "outdoors" knife), green river being more expensive $40-55 where as the victory is $30-45. Does that mean the green river is better quality?

I think that means the Green river is more expensive, cost doesn't always imply quality.