 Howdy y'all welcome on back to the channel. I've got a bit of a change up for you here today since my bass boat has been in the shop and getting the trolling motor and some other stuff worked on. The old silver bullet she, she waits my presence but I'm getting ready to go to the deer lease film some videos for you guys and I thought that I would do a video on my camp knives. And today's feature film is sponsored by Guggen Squad Minis and Micros. Folks we just launched these micro crank baits, hard baits for pan fish and even bass and these mini frogs, OMG killer at the pond scene. I will be taking these to to deer camp to go fish some of the first of all I have collected knives since I was a kid. This is something I'm passionate about because my dad used to take me to flea markets when I was a kid. He'd let me pick out a knife and I started just collecting these little pocket knives and you know just just cheap little knives. It was so so fun and over the years as I got more into the outdoors and coming more of a total woodsman I guess you could say I got into what I call camp knives. Let's get into the knives that everyone should have the moras. These specifically are mora companions. This knife right here folks is fantastic for the money and I keep these in the ATV, keep them in like in drawers here at the house. You know there's great in the truck just something pretty cheap if you lose it. It's not going to break the bank but it's really effective. It's not a full tang knife meaning you don't have the spine that runs all the way through the grip of the knife but it's still really solid. You can do a ton with this and you're most likely not going to break it and you could buy like three or four of these for the price of some of these other ones. I'm going to show you pretty decent steel on it carbon steel so you can use this for striking a fire steel, scraping, shavings, making feather sticks and stuff like that. That scandy edge is pretty nice. Some might argue that is a saber grind or a high saber grind. It's got this little cheap plastic sheath but works really great. This is actually what OSG uses when we're out doing camping as well. I actually don't know the model name of this but it's another mora. It's very similar to my mora 2000 which is the knife I wear on my hip when I'm fishing. That's probably the one I get asked about the most. You know we're talking 30-40 bucks for these knives. Not very expensive at all. Then we'll go right up to another mora in this beautifully done custom sheath by Red Rhino Customs. He's made a few of these for me. I got these a few years ago. Love them. They're so good but I got them to do one for this mora bush crafter and this is a high carbon steel knife with a really good spine. Comes with a great spine out of the package. You want a really good 90 degree spine when you're using it for camp stuff so you can easily scrape woods and process things. Again, got that scandy edge on there and that knife does really well. Just really light in the hand. Love it. Next step, I don't like using this knife. It's actually one of my least favorite knives. I don't like the blade shape or the edge on it. The steel. I don't really like anything about it but it's mean something to me because I got it in high school. This was probably my first I guess if you want to consider a camp knife purchase. It's the K bar. It's got a clip point on it. I don't even know if they still use these in the Marine Corps or not but that is the K bar. Had to have it back in the day playing paintball, airsoft. Wanted to look cool. Got it. Got one of those. Eventually used it in some outdoor situations but hated it. Next we'll go up to the cold steel. Known for making some really cheap knives but they got some pretty cool stuff out there. This knife was given to me by the Air Force Air Rifles team and it's actually not a bad knife. I like the thickness. Supposedly this is like a Navy Seal training knife or something like that. I don't know that to be 100% true but makes it sound cool. Definitely looks like some sort of tactical knife but you know great little hog sticker if you wanted to use it for that or just playing around at camp. Decent little grip on that baby too. That textured rubber grip. Now we'll move on up the line. Most of these from here have leather sheets. This right here is a Bark River Fox River and this was the first I would say more expensive knife that I purchased. I bought this as a gift for a friend that was getting married. I thought he was a big hunter and I was like oh man what's something really cool that I could get like a nice heirloom item and these Bark River knives popped up. I purchased the Fox River. I fell in love with the grip. I almost didn't even give it to him. I was like this feels so good in the hand. So it's kind of got that squared off grip. It's about four inches and it is this one is in CPM 154 steel which is stainless. Perfect hunting knife with that stainless steel. It's got a good belly on it so you could do a really good skinning. You can process game with it as well and all the Bark River knives which I have quite a few of them that I'll show you they're in convex grinds which puts a lot of meat a lot of steel behind that final bevel of that edge that knife. So it gives you a gives you a lot of cutting power. You can beat up on these knives a little more and not have to worry about keeping them or keep resharping them in the field but it just really makes for a tough edge and it's it's a really natural way to sharpen a knife and there's multiple ways to sharpen different grinds which I can get into in a later video if you guys care at all for that. You know a dull knife is a useless knife. I keep them I keep them pretty razor. Next one we'll look at is the Bark River Gunny. So this is the second Bark River I got. Love the size of it. It's around four inches doesn't have as as much girth as the Fox River but again great little hunter knife and a very functional bushcrafting knife as well. It's got a little bit of a cant downward on it 3v steel. That means you can just really beat the tar out of this knife. It has extreme toughness and all the Bark River spines are pretty good. Next we'll go to the most popular the most sold Bark River knife is the Bravo One. So I've got an original Bravo One in bird's eye maple with mosaic pins. That is an absolute beauty and you could go to war with this baby. You could pry open a door. It is an excellent wood processor just choose through wood. It is thicker than any of the other knives I have on this table. I can tell you that. So when you're looking looking down this knife it almost looks like an ax blade. Excellent batoner but it has decent slicing capability as well. So the thinner a knife is the better slicing capability it has. The wider it is to a certain extent you'll get better splitting for batoning and stuff like that. And speaking of a little thinner this is the Bark River Bravo One LT which is the light version. Just a really good overall width for being kind of slicey but also good for splitting, batoning wood and just durability toughness, prying, stuff like that. This is arguably one of the best outdoor knives that you can own right here. So this would definitely be one on the table I would say. If you have the ability to purchase a Bravo One from Bark River I would definitely get one and that one's in another that's a little bit rarer wood. I think that's Makote wood. I'm not sure how you say it's real pretty. Next one is probably my favorite knife on this table. Like if I had to take one of these to the woods or me personally I think it would be this one and that's the Bark River Canadian Special in 3V. So got that really tough 3V steel. It's a sway back. Kind of looks like a willow blade like you'd see on a spinner bait. It's really great for scraping. You could use that and hide as well kind of scraping out fats and stuff without that point digging into your skin. And I do like that it comes up in that little willow shape right there making it great for skinning. So process and game and you've still got a good flat edge right here that you can work with wood on so it's just very good overall and I love the grip. Some people hate this apparently. I actually talked to Mike Stewart about this knife and he said this is their least selling knife which I could not believe but it's because of the finger grooves. Some people just hate the finger grooves. I love it. I have medium sized hands. It fits me perfectly. I just love the way this blade feels in my hand. It feels so natural and feels really good when you flip it over too and it's almost like that finger groove is a choil. So I love it because some people don't like it. And another fire steel on this one. I buy all the fire steels online just get the raw stuff and then I make my own little my little handles for them with my drill press and my woodworking stuff here. All these spines are real sharp. So gotta keep the spine sharp y'all. Don't forget about that spine on your your camp knives so you can process woods and throw big chunks of steel off your fire steel. Next one I thought I'd just give it a whirl and go with the Spyderco. I love Spyderco pocket knives so much I was like eh I'll try one of their camp knives. They're not really known for it but this is um the Bradley Bowie. Gail Bradley out of Weatherford Texas which is where I played junior college baseball and then migrated to the Texas A&M fishing team but I wonder if I've ever run into him or not in my roundabout circles. But anyway I love the balance of this knife. Feels great. It's got that flat grind on it. Doesn't have a good spine for processing woods and scraping things. Typically the Spyderco pocket knives have a fantastic spine but this one actually kind of rounds off the way they ground it. It has the typical Spyderco hole in it. They put a tiny little hole in there to just say hey I'm a Spyderco. Put it in the handle as well with G10 grips. G10 feels really great and the balance point on this knife is a dag gum near perfect. So just don't like the V edge on it. The V edge is just a little different from the convex. The convex has a micro bevel on the end but um it's just different than a V edge and you guys can watch all the videos on the different kinds of edges but basically the three that you have you've got scanties flat V edge and then you've got convex and this next one is going to be one of those sabers and this this knife is by LT Wright. That dude makes some really good knives. I also like the sheaths. The sheaths are high quality and and his knives tend to be a little bit thinner. This is the Genesis. It is just a fantastic little scraper. This spine this this guy makes the best spines out of the box that I have seen so far. I haven't experienced that many brands but this thing will chew chew through wood. So a little bit different grind and oh yeah this is also one of my favorite seals A-E-B-L steel. It's a I believe it's a stainless steel. I'm yet to see any corrosion on these but I got one of those for one of my skinning knives. Loved it and then decided to get one for the bigger version. Holds an edge really good. Love it. Next one this is the North Country Everyday Carry II. If I'm not mistaken NS-45VN which is the newest replacement for L-Max for Bark River production. It's also stainless so making it an excellent knife to carry around camp. Maybe it gets a little moist. Maybe you you know clean a deer with it or whatever. You don't have to baby it too much and the edge retention on it is fantastic. You can basically get through an entire animal skinning it without having to resharpen it. At least that's how it is on my L-Max knives that I use for skinning it. That's been my favorite steel that really holds an edge incredibly. So any of you hunters out there that are looking for a good skinning knife or a good steel to go on your your skinning knives I would definitely look at S-45VN and also L-Max. I just refuse to get one of those little you know replaceable razor delos that is that is not for me. I like having a tool that I don't have to have replacement parts for. So that is that's just a really good overall knife. Love it for just all things. This is a specific bushcrafting knife. I've shown this one on video when I built a little bushcraft camp down by the river. But this is the Bark River Aurora. The Aurora it's a fantastic little bushcrafter not too wide. It's got the perfect thickness. It doesn't weigh you down. It's not too heavy. You can do drilling task if you want to. Love the coke bottle grip on this thing. Feels fantastic. This one is an A2 steel which is a very hard steel. You do have to baby it a little bit with moisture. I keep mine oiled. I don't use any like rim oil or anything I would use that has chemicals in it because you know I usually use these knives for food as well. So I use a chef's knife oil or a just olive oil. It seems to work really well. And it just chews through wood. Fantastic. Love that knife. If I was doing straight bushcraft I would probably lean towards that one. And this is the Yuper Bravo. The UP Bravo. So it's got that by the way UP. If you guys haven't watched my smallmouth videos from last year fishing in the UP just an amazing place. You're basically in Canada. That's the upper peninsula of Michigan. It gets very cold, very snowy and there's some hardcore outdoorsmen that live up there. And that's where Bark River is made. Keeping it real for the folks in the Yuper and then putting that Bravo one handle on there. Their most popular handle. It's kind of got that coke bottle shape. Just feels fantastic in the hand. But this is the same blade shape as the Canadian camp knife. So you can do that good scraping and you know fire processing, wood processing. And I just love this knife. I love it. I use this one probably around the house the most because it's a decent chopper and it's an A2 steel. I've got a couple of dings in it but working them out gradually every time I sharpen it. This is a new favorite of mine and this is the Bark River cup. This one's got a little more length on it. It's five and a half inches. Pretty close to five and a half inches. It's getting up there in thickness with the Bravo one at the base of the spine and then you work down to a pretty thin spine. It almost looks like it'd be danger of bending if you pride really hard with it. But it's 3v steel. So extremely, extremely tough. Great chopper. It's got a broadened base to the handle. So you can just grab that little lanyard and then really do some chopping at the very end of the knife. Just a great knife for small task and medium big task. Love that knife. Great camp knife. This one I've had for a minute and it is a less expensive knife but just a good one. This is the SE6. I believe this is going to be the longest blade that I've got in here. So six inch blade 1095 steel which isn't a super steel but you know 1095 knives have been around forever. It's like the 308. It's just proven. It's very, very good but you do have to keep it oiled. It'll rust. This one's got a coating on it. So the main part of the knife won't rust. The edge is exposed and can. But you're not going to be able to get that good wood processing spine with it with that coating. So that's one of the things I don't like about this knife. But just great overall camp knife. It's got a flat grind with the V edge so it doesn't quite have that that convex nature to it. But still pretty good and it's got a little choil right there if you're doing fine tasks. I do like that about that. But you can chop with it. You can baton. You can do fine tasks. Great overall camp knife. And I got an awesome sheath from for it as well. This next one, these next two are actually gifts. So little collectibles. So my dad actually got me this one. He saw me getting all these bark rivers and he got me he got me one for Christmas. So I was pretty excited to see that. That's just that's one of those that I'm a little scared to take to the woods and ganging up pretty bad. But it's pretty cool. That's a bark river marauder first production model. So they print the first production model stamp on all those that they do for the first time. And this baby would would split you open right here. This looks like a pirate's knife. But it actually has excellent balance to it. It feels lighter than what it is just because of that. And I don't know I'm gonna slap it on my hip and take it to deer camp and you know if if the hogs come at me or maybe a mountain line or something maybe this will scare him off. They think I'm like an old school pirate in the woods ready to do some swashbuckling. Next one is a gift like I said and my buddy mullet man actually made this for me. So this isn't you know a steel knife. This is the one I'm going to take out of the woods. Just looks awesome on the on the office desk. He even put LFG burn that into I believe this is Axis deer and it actually feels pretty good. It's a good thickness and he carved that flint out chimp chipped that flint out himself and then wax whatever that is I don't know probably probably you know intestines of a mountain goat or something whatever kind of that guy kills so many animals you don't know what to do with and then just wrapped it up there with that stuff and it's pretty solid it feels really good. So back in the day this is what he would be using around camp and what's pretty interesting is if you take the bravo one for example look at the size he pretty much nailed it on the size it's almost uh almost exactly like the like the bravo one so shout out to mullet man on that did a good job. Lastly it's not a knife but it will do well at camp and this is uh my I think it's Gron's first Gron's first brook. I butchered that really bad and I apologize to all all the Swedes out there but this is a Swedish forest axe right here and it's an excellent little camp tool. You can use the back end gotta be careful don't want to damage it but you can use that to tamp down some stakes obviously the front is gonna chew through medium to large wood tasks. You could even do some game processing with this is that sharp so yeah it's hair popping sharp so you could actually use this to work on game but I probably would not do that. Wrapped it up with some some deer leather on the ends just to give it a nice nice little feel and this thing's great it's a great addition to uh to carry carry to camp. I like to carry both of these uh both a you know a camp knife and an axe just in case you gotta do a little bit bigger task but you gotta be careful not to chop your knees off of that thing because it will do it. So that y'all is my camp knife collection and now the hardest part is picking one it's it's hard I normally take a couple when I go to camp and I like to work with the knives you know see how the edges are different see how the grinds are different and test different steels that's why I have a variety of steels and I'm I'm starting to to learn what I really like and what's really comfortable for me but I really want to know from from y'all if you had to take one knife to the woods what would it be well let me know down in the comments and I try to buy one knife a month that's kind of my my rule I have to kind of limit myself to one because it's easy to go crazy um but just one knife in general whether it's pocket knife or you know skinning knife camp knife collectible knife whatever I'll just get one a month and if y'all are interested in one knife I'm buying every month let me know in the comments I'll share it on my uh my Instagram or my Tik Tok or whatever whatever sort of other social media things are going on and if you want to see stuff like the skinners you know a whole another category things let me know in the comments down below but I'm excited to go to deer camp y'all uh I think I'm gonna take I kind of don't want to take old trusty I kind of want to work with one of the new ones maybe maybe the cub and we just go with the cub maybe it oh no maybe take the gunny for backup just in case something happens you never know thanks for hanging with me today and checking out the old knife collection and I guess I'm gonna see you guys at deer camp I got a new moto transportation toy we're gonna be trying out there and uh going after hogs bass and maybe checking out some bucks in velvet so I'll see you guys out there at the least god bless see you