Clean cut!
While most bushmen are loath to leave home without their trusty pocket folding knife, basic camping cutlery and edged tools are largely ignored by campers.
A shame really, as we are gifted with more knives than ever, but the realities are that they are just a natural evolution of blade and handle styles that have evolved since the Stone Age. But every so often a ‘new’ knife stands out, something that manufacturers dream about because it means we buy it.
Many hunters use their hunting knives as camp kitchen tools. During a hunt, an old mate removed a set of boar tusks with a rusty, blunt PUMA Skinner knife. Back at camp, while preparing tea, he was cutting up vegetables with the same blade. It was still covered in pig blood and hair. I hate bad health habits in the bush. I tossed the stuff out, unfolded my kitchen knife pouch and finished the job. In the background, he told me that he always used his hunting knife in the camp, had never been ill from eating food - and that
