Sporting Shooter

Ted Mitchell’s Custom Hunting Knives

FOR starters, this is a mid-sized hunting knife at 220mm overall - 110mm of the total in the working length of the Puma steel blade. The genuinely handy-shaped blade of this utility model would meet my forthcoming hunting season's anticipated needs - a knife for skinning and dressing deer, but also one also suited for cleaning small game and normal camp chores as well.

When Ted and his better half paid me a visit a few months ago and told me that he'd like to make me a knife, I mentioned that I had a stainless full tang blank he could use. It was the

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