A Hunting Guide Taught Me These 10 Knife Tricks Now I Do It Every Time!

📘 THE BOOK: "The Old Scout Way: Walt's Camping & Fishing Manual" (120 camp and fishing tricks) 📗 ALSO: "The Old Scout Way: Walt's Camp Cooking Manual" (60 tricks for cooking with no kitchen) Get one, or both in a bundle: The Old Scout Way · Walt's Field Manuals I spent thirty-five years as a scoutmaster, but I learned my knife manners at fourteen from an old hunting guide in a northern Michigan deer camp. Here are the 10 knife tricks he drilled into me. I still do every one. In this video: The marker trick for your sharpening angle, and why a knife lives in your hand or its sheath Blaze-orange tape, where your fingers go on the sheath, and hand sanitizer for pine pitch Drugstore oil against rust, and an old leather belt that keeps an edge standing The light test, the cardboard sleeve, and the truck window touch-up The sources are the people who put it in writing, from Buck and KA-BAR to OSHA and the Red Cross. Safety: strop spine first, and for the window trick wear cut-resistant gloves and safety glasses and never strike the glass edge. Keep hand sanitizer away from the campfire. Who put the first knife in your hand, and what rule came with it? Tell me in the comments. Subscribe for the skills they stopped teaching: Walt's Camping Secrets