Another tool to make your muzzleloader hunt easier.
11-18-2013, 04:29 PM
#1
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Saxonburg Pa
Posts: 3,925
Another tool to make your muzzleloader hunt easier.
Last edited by Grouse45; 11-18-2013 at 04:32 PM.
11-18-2013, 04:56 PM
#2
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Eastern PA
Posts: 12,746
I like my Lansky stones and diamond steel to put a shaving sharp edge on all my knives. Ain't nothing better than a sharp knife. I always said you rarely cut yourself with a sharp knife, only a dull one.
11-18-2013, 08:32 PM
#6
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: River Ridge, LA (Suburb of New Orleans)
Posts: 10,917
Save your bucks.
I use a sheet of 400 grit Emery paper rolled into a tube about 1.5" in diameter and held in place with rubber bands on each end. Hold the knife in one hand (with your hand braced on your knee while sitting in a chair is best). Hold one end of the Emery tube in the other hand. While keeping the knife still, place the end of the Emery tube against the knife edge and move it rapidly side-to-side from the knife tip to the handle with wrist action of the hand holding the tube. Keep the angle the same throughout the operation. Do that to both sides of the knife edge and you will get a scary sharp knife.
(Sharpen all of your kitchen knives like this and you wife will put on that black negligee.)
I use a sheet of 400 grit Emery paper rolled into a tube about 1.5" in diameter and held in place with rubber bands on each end. Hold the knife in one hand (with your hand braced on your knee while sitting in a chair is best). Hold one end of the Emery tube in the other hand. While keeping the knife still, place the end of the Emery tube against the knife edge and move it rapidly side-to-side from the knife tip to the handle with wrist action of the hand holding the tube. Keep the angle the same throughout the operation. Do that to both sides of the knife edge and you will get a scary sharp knife.
(Sharpen all of your kitchen knives like this and you wife will put on that black negligee.)
Last edited by Semisane; 11-18-2013 at 08:45 PM.
11-19-2013, 02:26 AM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Anne Arrundle County, Maryland
Posts: 1,672
Looks like a good system, but I have to add another vote for the Lansky sharpener.
11-19-2013, 06:58 AM
#10
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Colorado
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