This
is a Puma White Hunter. Not mine, I don’t have a picture of it here.
Mine was misplaced a while back, I had it in my car for the club’s African Match for a while, and when Partner bought a couple switchblades at the last gun show with Sambar Stag handles, I thought about it and looked in the gun cabinet where it wasn’t. It distressed me to say the least. So I did some digging turning up jack, and in the end, I found it laying on top of the gun cabinet, where apparently I put it against the moment when I would open the damned door and put it back.
My dumb ass.
Anyway, it’s a relief to have it back now, and i love the heft and shape of it, a beautiful knife well made and with a long history of use. I myself took it to Africa and used it to dress kudu, bushbuck, impala and lechwe. it’s done deer here. I hope I can go back to Africa with it someday. I need to organize my life.
I’d consider it a nearly perfect knife, with about 1.5″ less length on the blade.
Lusted hard after one though, when I was a wee 16 y/o lad, besotted with tales of Capstick and Roark. My local sports emporium carried them, but the $50 price was too rich for my blood.
Still, even at today’s prices, that’s one hell of a great value in a blade.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Worked with a guy behind an auto parts counter from 1991-94 who had one.
He prided himself on getting it so sharp you could shave with it.
Very nice blade.
Where at in Africa did you get to hunt?
Zambia. We hunted in the Bangueulu flats,and in Kitwe (or in the surrounding area)
Yo,Dood “White Hunter?” Ain’t dat be all raysiss ‘n sheeit?
U gonna git yo name onna liss.
I am the list.
Purty! And effective! :-) Glad you found yours!
Peter had one on his site a while back and picked it up. Good knife.
Old-Timer’s Disease, Og. I have it as well. The classic symptom is looking for one’s glasses, which are on top of one’s head (ties in with old eyes).
I won’t even get into wanting to find item X, which you need to enable you to find item X.