Carothers Performance Knives, Use & Abuse. Take 2

Nathan the Machinist said:
Dude I'm telling you.

An Underwood .45 Winchester Magnum sending a 230 grain hollow point at 1600 ft per second is absolutely bananas. I mean, just an explosive energy transfer. Literally explosive. It's the damnedest thing

There's no shooting that squirrel more than once unless you gather up all the bits and pile it back together then shoot the pile again. But good luck finding all the bits, they went everywhere.

There was a head and the hind legs and some of the tail, connected with a few thin ribbons of skin.

There were no internal organs of any kind to be found and no spine at all. It completely exploded. It was the damnedest thing.

If you know what a squirrel looks like after being shot with a 12 gauge or an 5.56 AR-15, this was nothing like that. Nothing at all like that. It really is the damndest thing.

This gun makes me want to flap my hands, howl, and possibly piss myself.

Now you're making me want to post pictures on the random thought thread, and we all know that's a bad idea.
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I bet it was total destruction. I doubt there's much to post a picture of lol. I was sighting in some rifles years ago when squirrel made an error in judgement and ran out in our shooting lane ... a 338 Win Mag made a bit of a mess.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Dude I'm telling you.

An Underwood .45 Winchester Magnum sending a 230 grain hollow point at 1600 ft per second is absolutely bananas. I mean, just an explosive energy transfer. Literally explosive. It's the damnedest thing

There's no shooting that squirrel more than once unless you gather up all the bits and pile it back together then shoot the pile again. But good luck finding all the bits, they went everywhere.

There was a head and the hind legs and some of the tail, connected with a few thin ribbons of skin.

There were no internal organs of any kind to be found and no spine at all. It completely exploded. It was the damnedest thing.

If you know what a squirrel looks like after being shot with a 12 gauge or an 5.56 AR-15, this was nothing like that. Nothing at all like that. It really is the damndest thing.

This gun makes me want to flap my hands, howl, and possibly piss myself.

Now you're making me want to post pictures on the random thought thread, and we all know that's a bad idea.
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I declared war on squirrels after that ate through the battery cables on my F250. Unfortunately due to my suburban location, I was limited to .22 aguila super colibri. They work, but it does not send the same message. Maybe I should put a can on my .300 blackout.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I'm really torn about this one, I'm on the fence.

We are going back into production of the field knives because, despite having made about a thousand of them we have exhausted our inventory and have no shelf stock, which was not the plan.

If I was going to do a Fat Bastard Field Knife, This would be the time to do it.

But it's terrible timing doing a pre-order at the end of the year because it's unlikely I'll get the material in time for tax purposes. And it is, honestly, not a very good knife unless you're planning on needing to beat the shit out of it. The BFK is already far more durable than the average person needs, and it will outperform the Fat Bastard in every other way.

Someone talk me into this. The knife is objectively stupid, but that can be fun and sometimes we buy things that don't really make a lot of sense, just because we like it.
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I hear ya. I still think it’s important for a knife like this to exist.

Sure, it deviates from your overall philosophy of making edged tools, but it also is kind of a parody unto itself. Sometimes it’s good to do something crazy because you can. I don’t feel this with dilute or take any seriousness away from your brand.
 
Jabrni said:
I declared war on squirrels after that ate through the battery cables on my F250. Unfortunately due to my suburban location, I was limited to .22 aguila super colibri. They work, but it does not send the same message. Maybe I should put a can on my .300 blackout.
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They chewed up my nice garbage cans. I got the good double wall rotationally molded commercial quality Toter cans so I could have a nice long-term set of cans. And they chewed them up.

And they chewed up my deck

And they chew the wiring in the attic of my shop down to bare metal and built little squirrels nests around them and tried to burn me down

But then they started chewing up the wiring in my Ford trucks. Do you know how difficult and expensive it is to keep a Ford truck running? Powerstroke diesels?

That was the final straw and I started war. It actually got where there were no squirrels near the house for a while but they're back now.
 
It's funny how we can love wildlife but then when they start tearing up our shit we change our tunes

I used to like coyotes until one ate my cat

That was a long time ago and when we moved to the new compound I was leaving the coyotes alone until they attacked my dog
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I'm really torn about this one, I'm on the fence.

We are going back into production of the field knives because, despite having made about a thousand of them we have exhausted our inventory and have no shelf stock, which was not the plan.

If I was going to do a Fat Bastard Field Knife, This would be the time to do it.

But it's terrible timing doing a pre-order at the end of the year because it's unlikely I'll get the material in time for tax purposes. And it is, honestly, not a very good knife unless you're planning on needing to beat the shit out of it. The BFK is already far more durable than the average person needs, and it will outperform the Fat Bastard in every other way.

Someone talk me into this. The knife is objectively stupid, but that can be fun and sometimes we buy things that don't really make a lot of sense, just because we like it.


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Look at this cool 45 Magnum!

I shot a squirrel with it this weekend.

(I am waging an unholy jihad on the squirrels. I have my reasons)

I won't post pictures of the outcome....
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I would much rather have something more useful like a skinner.
 
Some of you guys aren’t listening with both ears open. Nathan is only considering this because he’s already tooled up for it with the current BFK run. And because it’s a fricken badass knife. This is not the McDonalds drive through where you can substitute your diet Dr. Pepper for a chocolate milk shake. 1/4” BFK with a killer penetrator tip. I’m in. I will add it with my SDFK and Dek2 in my apocalypse tool kit.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I'm really torn about this one, I'm on the fence.

We are going back into production of the field knives because, despite having made about a thousand of them we have exhausted our inventory and have no shelf stock, which was not the plan.

If I was going to do a Fat Bastard Field Knife, This would be the time to do it.

But it's terrible timing doing a pre-order at the end of the year because it's unlikely I'll get the material in time for tax purposes. And it is, honestly, not a very good knife unless you're planning on needing to beat the shit out of it. The BFK is already far more durable than the average person needs, and it will outperform the Fat Bastard in every other way.

Someone talk me into this. The knife is objectively stupid, but that can be fun and sometimes we buy things that don't really make a lot of sense, just because we like it.


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Look at this cool 45 Magnum!

I shot a squirrel with it this weekend.

(I am waging an unholy jihad on the squirrels. I have my reasons)

I won't post pictures of the outcome....
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The Fat Bastard Field Knife would be a very monumental field knife to make.
Would you consider lengthening it to 6 or 7 inches? Would a proper lengthening make it look more attractive
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Someone talk me into this.
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People are irrational, and usually irrational is fun. While this knife doesn't fit within the 'ultra cutting performance' ethos of CPK, the FBFK does fit into the 'ultra tough need-tools-to-destroy' as well as the 'unbelievable edge retention' ethos very well, so it is directionally accurate regarding what your knives are known for in the community.

If knives were only practical, they would be boring. Knives like this are exciting. And sign me up for one.

I know you are incredibly busy, but if you haven't seen Joe X's test of the K329 Ares yet - grill a steak, grab a beer and watch it. One of his best videos ever made, and highly inspirational (aspirational?). Probably one of the most irrational, and fun, examples. It might be just what you need to make a decision.

 
Even though I’d take a pass* on the overbuilt BFK, I’d say go ahead make a bunch. You don’t have to finish them this year, just do the pre-sale in the new year.


*A man’s gotta know his limitations. I’ll never break my normal duty CPKs, or even my non-CPK knives.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Dude I'm telling you.

An Underwood .45 Winchester Magnum sending a 230 grain hollow point at 1600 ft per second is absolutely bananas. I mean, just an explosive energy transfer. Literally explosive. It's the damnedest thing

There's no shooting that squirrel more than once unless you gather up all the bits and pile it back together then shoot the pile again. But good luck finding all the bits, they went everywhere.

There was a head and the hind legs and some of the tail, connected with a few thin ribbons of skin.

There were no internal organs of any kind to be found and no spine at all. It completely exploded. It was the damnedest thing.

If you know what a squirrel looks like after being shot with a 12 gauge or an 5.56 AR-15, this was nothing like that. Nothing at all like that. It really is the damndest thing.

This gun makes me want to flap my hands, howl, and possibly piss myself.

Now you're making me want to post pictures on the random thought thread, and we all know that's a bad idea.
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As a kid we would joke about a particularly good shot on a gopher, saying "that one had blue eyes."

It meant "one blew this way and the other blew that way."


Make the damn knife. "No Regrats!"
 
HKP7K3 said:
Some of you guys aren’t listening with both ears open. Nathan is only considering this because he’s already tooled up for it with the current BFK run. And because it’s a fricken badass knife. This is not the McDonalds drive through where you can substitute your diet Dr. Pepper for a chocolate milk shake. 1/4” BFK with a killer penetrator tip. I’m in. I will add it with my SDFK and Dek2 in my apocalypse tool kit.
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Finally a voice of reason!
 
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