I had a chance to round up about 250 calves and help brand/band/tag/inject/and cut them (a lot were too big for the bander).
I had several production traditional slipjoints, and an Opinel, but I had to use my J. Oeser too, just because.
The brands heating.
A vet took about 15 photo's of me cutting. She got some great photo's of my bloody hands, and holding the knife and the product of the cutting, and of the action, but the pictures seemed to have disappeared, and we can't figure out what happened to them.
Here are a few pics of the knife a day later, when I finally got unpacked and got around to cleaning it up.
It got all pretty again with some hot water and soap. It was dropped in the dirt several times. Kicked by a few calves, and stepped on by at least one cowboy, who had to go help two others who were already trying to hold down the calf. It was one of the bigger ones, and really put up a fight.