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Lon Humphrey posted a great looking Bowie on the forums a few years ago.
I wanted one just like it set up for pig sticking and asked him, if he could be persuaded to make me one.
He said yes and here is the knife.
Lon holding the Pig Sticker and the knife, which made me contact him (Pig Sticker being the top one).
I picked up the knife myself and Lon could not have been nicer to deal with.
We even went for a meal at his local watering hole and had a great talk.
I then proceeded to go hog hunting and used Lon's knife with great succes.
The knife is scary efficient - far more effective than I would ever have imagined.
I'd have thought, that I'd have to use a lot of force, but that turned out to not be the case at all.
Quite the contrary; sticking the hogs was like cutting through warm butter on a hot summer day!!!
Knife slides in very very easily and the design is devastating. A very efficient knife, which kills the hogs very fast.
The point lets the knife slide in very fast and easy, the blade has more than enough length and width to cause massive immediate trauma.
At the same time, the Humphrey Pig Sticker is incredibly fast and easily lend itself to snappy shifts in direction, should one so desire (not a bad trait for a knife used in the fast and furious, if not chaotic, pig sticking).
The handle is wide at the end and this is a help in extraction - especially helpful in regards to pig sticking as the handle can get very gory, wet, messy and slippery.
There is ample handguard which not only help to protect the hand/fingers, but where you can also hook a finger over the guard to help in extraction, should one so desire.
I spcified a generous choil with the above in mind and I really like how that came out.
Heck, I like how the entire knife came out.
Its a very efficient tool and PERFECT for my use. Im overjoyed with it and could not be happier with the project.
I would not change an iota about the knife after using it, for that it was designed and made for.
Did I mention, that it is a slicer as evidenced by the first pic below - it went in like slicing water!
The Devil Dog! Super fast extremly willing to Work. Did one heck of a good job too along as did the other dogs involved.
A very nice pooch to talk to....., once it calmed down a little ;-).
As mentioned; absolutely devastating and highly efficient blade config:
Lon's pic of the knife
