Bird and Trout/Compact Fighter

[tomsm44]

This knife started out as about a 6" fighter last spring.  After getting the profile ground I decided it was too thin for that size knife and set it aside.  About September or so I saw it and decided to get some use out of it.  I was wanting to do a bird and trout knife so that's what I went with.  Ground it down and it got set aside again while I worked on some other projects.  Then, a few weeks back, I saw Lin's bird and boot knife and thought the idea made for an awesome knife.  So I stole the idea, combined it with my small amount of experience and some shoddy craftsmanship and my bird and trout became what I guess would be kind of a compact fighter.  A very poor representation of the concept when compared to Lin's but a lot of fun to build nonetheless.

4 5/8" blade 9 1/8" OAL
1084 stone washed blade
SS guard/pin
Cocobolo handle

 

 

[Bodork]

Looks dang nice to me!

[D.Ellis]

That'll do    
Darcy

[Bladepeek]

Would that by any chance be a 16ga M-12 behind it?

[tomsm44]

Afraid not but close.  That's my grandfather's old 20 gauge model 12 complete with Poly-Choke.  I thought an old bird gun would be a fitting prop for photographing this knife.  My dad gave it to me back in September and gave my grandfather's 28 gauge Rem 11-48 to my brother.  It has a Cutts compensator instead of the Poly-Choke.