Case CV Red Moose

[Dave Markowitz]

As I alluded to in my post last week about my Remington Woodsman Bullet Knife, this week I picked up a Case Moose (#6979) with chrome vanadium blades and red jigged bone handle scales. I ordered it Monday morning from Sawyer's Cutler on eBay and it arrived in the mail today.

Although the same general pattern as the Remington, the Case is slimmer overall and a bit lighter. My first impression is that the quality is much better, and it came with both blades razor sharp. (The Remington's spey blade was especially bad out of the box.) They may be the sharpest I've ever seen on a factory knife, as a matter of fact. I am going to use the knife without touching up the blades first, to see how long the edges last. There is absolutely no play in the blades, it's solid.

The Case feels nice in the hand and sits well in my front pocket. It's longer but slimmer than the Victorinox Farmer I've been carrying everyday for the past month or so.

I plan to employ the Case's clip blade for general use, keeping the spey in reserve as an always handy razor sharp edge. The spey would also be good for skinning game without poking through the hide in unwanted places, or opening packages with a reduced risk of damaging the contents.

 

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*GRIN*

Congrats!

 

[sixgunner455]

A nice Case is never a bad choice.

 

[Dave Markowitz]

Now with pics

I took a couple pictures of the Case. First one is next to my Remington Woodsman:



Next, with the Woodsman and my Cold Steel Trail Hawk. I wasn't too impressed with the Trail Hawk when I first got it. For chopping branches and stuff it's a bit small. However, it worked very well for splitting up some small logs and chopping splinters off the sides for use in making up the fire lay shown.



As an aside, you can't see it well but inside the fire lay is a bit of untwisted jute twine. It works well as tinder. Between the jute, my fuzz sticks, and one match and I had a fire going in about 20 seconds.