What size knife do you EDC?
What size knife do you EDC?
I’m a 3” kind of guy
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Re: What size knife do you EDC?
3-1/2" mini-trapper
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Re: What size knife do you EDC?
3 1/4" to 4 1/4", 3 1/2" to 4" being the sweet spot.
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Re: What size knife do you EDC?
3 7/8 to 4 1/4. Nothing bigger or smaller than that. (Medium stockman and trapper lengths)
Re: What size knife do you EDC?
4 1/4” is my favorite, unless it’s a Camillus 72 (the biggest little knife you’ll ever carry). With that one exception, much smaller than 4” and there’s not enough knife for my hand
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Re: What size knife do you EDC?
Good post, Bro. Wade! I agree 100%, a #49 Queen or a 75 series Case, enough to work with.
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Re: What size knife do you EDC?
Something at or very near the 3 1/2 inch is my sweet spot.
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Re: What size knife do you EDC?
3 5/8" preferred, but anything between 3" and 5".
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Re: What size knife do you EDC?
3 to 4 inch blades but prefer a blade closer to 4"
Re: What size knife do you EDC?
I prefer jacks from 3 3/8” th 3 7/8”
Re: What size knife do you EDC?
Do you happen to have a Camillus 89? It’s just about my favorite toting knife these days. It’s the same size as the CASE 75 (my first love) but I like it a lot better for using.treefarmer wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 2:19 am Good post, Bro. Wade! I agree 100%, a #49 Queen or a 75 series Case, enough to work with.
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Stagalon scales (no chips), the clip blade has a long pull and a swedge, I’m a sucker for a swedge, and the icing on the cake, the sheepsfoot sits flush with the clip. I didn’t think the CASE 75 could be improved upon until I picked up my first one of these at a trade day.
Here’s mine that is well used and stained up from gardening, surgery on livestock, cleaning out my fingernails…
I don’t have a #49 Queen. I’ll have to keep my eyes open.
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Re: What size knife do you EDC?
Wade,
Don't have a #89 Camillus.
Only knife I have with that handle is a Muskrat that I found somewhere, the blades were dinged up and Dale put Western USA blades in it, it's only 3 7/8" closed.
The #49 Queens are getting pricey as is everything else.
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Don't have a #89 Camillus.

Only knife I have with that handle is a Muskrat that I found somewhere, the blades were dinged up and Dale put Western USA blades in it, it's only 3 7/8" closed.
The #49 Queens are getting pricey as is everything else.
Treefarmer
A GUN IN THE HAND IS BETTER THAN A COP ON THE PHONE.