Very professionally done video. You hit all the marks pertaining to the knife, told us some history, quoted from a novel, and cooked some lunch. You and Quervo get gold stars!
This is how a knife review should be done. Seeing people baton bricks doesn't really strike my fancy. Fire making, food prep, history, and skinning game - very well done.
My ancestors founded the first colonial settlement in the Upper Delaware Valley back in 1755 and I've always been into the history of this country, so I'm also an avid fan of historically traditional knives, but most of my budget goes to taking care of my family. The outdoors has always been my favorite place to be for reconnecting with myself and my ancestral roots, which is very sacred and even spiritual to me. I would truly be grateful to receive a knife that most likely is very similar to the knives my ancestors used during their lives exploring the untamed wilderness of this country. Your videos also help me to reconnect with the sacredness of the past and of the wilderness, and to receive an historically styled knife from you would give it even more significant meaning to me. Whether I'm fortunate enough to receive this awesome knife or not, I thank you for this opportunity to win it and for the great videos you make for the rest of us to view and enjoy.
I bought my first Green River knife when I was 11 back in 1978. It was a kit, including sheath material, from Atlanta Cutlery. Now I'm 52 and I still have that knife. It's has performed great all these years and has never let me down. Excellent knife for the money! The reason I wanted one, I saw Fess Parker use one on his TV show Daniel Boone. RANGERS LEAD THE WAY 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅
Ok! I just have to say! First time I was in texas I was alone and ordered a biscuit and gravy. An old man ordered steak and eggs with pecan pie! He invited me over to his table. When his naked steak and eggs came, the waitress winked and turned away as he whipped open his jacket to Expose... his 12 pocket spice rack! You may need to stitch one up!?! Lol
If I had a Green River knife I'd use it to prepare game meals at our little, adobe block, off-grid home my wife and I are presently finishing in rural southeast Arizona. I absolutely love how you provided the brief history of the Green River knife. Such a simple, yet classic American knife. Excellent video!
Another great video...I like Green River Knives...still have a CVA branded blade(the markings have faded due to patina over the years) I got when I was into muzzleloading...backin the 70s ,bought it along with a Hawken Rifle..
I'm also a history buff, especially westerns. Sine the early eastern expansion to the western expansion, one of the most prominent items in common was kitchen cutlery. Yes, kitchen knives, i.e. the butcher knife was most commonly carried do to its thin spine and sharpening capability. It was also proven as a combat weapon as well. Kitchen knives were also a common trade item amongst the Indians as well.
Great knife. Iv'e been using less and less gear every year that i'm out, and my blades have been getting more simple and the stock thinner. I typically use a mora. This knife along with the Metis is the next knives i would like to try. I would only use this knife for everyday cutting tasks and skinning. I raise rabbits for meat and want to try this for skinning. Some of the pelts are saved for tanning. Thanks for another great video my friend.
These are great knives, I have an old one that I purchased for about $25 on eBay, it’s bent, rusty as hell but it works well and it’s an American classic.
i bought my first green river knife at the age of 14 years old in the sixties to use at the mudgee abbattors as a labourer on the slourghter floor in nsw australia
Love the knife great video can't wait till next adventure . nice history lesson. I do a lot of fishing with my girls would love to have that knife on my side
Definitely can use a quality outdoor knives for my annual hike.with the family. We will want to do some fishing along the way so I bet the knives will play a part in our outing
Very nice job skinning the bunny! Their hides are so thin, it’s easy to cut holes in them. Many tribes twisted their hides and wove them into blankets or warm robes rather than stitching them. The Green River hunter is a nice looking knife. It’s length and thinner blade would work well for skinning and processing large game. I’ve considered replacing the Helle I carry for hunting moose and caribou with one of these! Nice choice and great video!
These by far are my favorite knives. I have quit a few. I carry the Dadley,the buffalo and a 8" butcher. I love how the come with enough meat on the handle,that you can make it your own. I'm a knife maker. All my friends and my family carries a knife or two that I have made. I even have one in my bag as a back up. However being an Alaskan, I grew up using these and I use them daily for work. So as a habit I just got in the habit of making them my EDC.
I really enjoyed your video and appreciate the detail about the knife. I just started my knife craze about a week ago. My grandfather's name is John Russell so these knifes really mean a lot to me and will always be the gem of any knife I ever buy. I've been trying to find as much information about the knifes and the company so thank you again for the video.
Not sure what game I'd process with that beautiful blade. But id look forward to taking it when I head back to Grover Hot Springs an absolutely beautiful place to camp. Thanks for the book recommendation.
Hey James. Great fire prep and food prep, looks like a nice blade. Pretty sure I could cook up a nice meal in the woods with that! Love the music too. Take care, Wade
If I had The Green River knife, I would use it to cut the thorns off the nopales I have in my yard and cook them with some pork spareribs. Now I use a BRK JX6 that I bought thanks to a review that you did.
I recently got two of these. One from the factory and another kit build version that someone just epoxied and pinned the scales to without shaping anything other than the tang edge profile. Two hours of hand sanding and food grade mineral oil and it has become my favorite of the two. A little thicker than the factory handles but not by much. There's a paper advertisement on eBay that shows the GRKW hunting knives. The advertisement is from 1899. The advertisement shows that GRKW used the same textured handle design back then. They used more expensive woods back then than they do now, from the factory, but the knives haven't changed in appearance for over 100 years.
I own an actual 19th Century Green River butcher knife, plus three, or four of the 'hunter' model. One was a kit that I put together. I have other Green River knives, since I do Mountain Man reenactment, all in sheaths that I cut and stitched together, myself. The "hunter" model, I find to be the best all around camp knife.
I am sure the knife was given away 3 years ago, but I will tell a little story. Back in the 1970’s a friend and I picked out a muzzle loading rifle kits to put together. My kit was a .50 cal. (.490) Hawkin reproduction rifle. The stock we mostly enletted, with just a little fitting required. I had to file the octagon barrel a little and “brown” the barrel to make It fit the times of the Rocky Mountain fur trade. I sanded and put several coats of probably boiled lind seed oil on the stock. .50 caliber or even .54 caliber rifles were needed to handle the Grizzley bears of the Rockies. Of course I needed a Green River knife to go with my rifle, flintlock pistol, and my “Possibles” bag. I did purchase a knife kit and attached the scales and shaped them a little, and if I remember correctly I smeared mayonnaise on the blade to give it a used looking color. I read somewhere that the Green River knives were marked Green River where the blade met the handle. In the story, supposedly the Mountain Man said he got into a fight with someone and had to take him up to the Green River ! Whether the original knives were marked that way or not, it is an interesting story. I still have the Rifle & Pistol, perhaps I need to help my young GRANDkids put together some Green River knife kits! I am sharing James’ excellent videos with them. History IS IMPORTANT-“the good, bad, and the ugly !” It ALL NEEDS TO BE STUDIED- and remembered ! How else are we going to learn if we cannot see and remember our Challenges, our mistakes, and our victories !
Glad to finally see a video about a great old one love historical knives like to prove that they still have what it takes gladly carry the knife everyday for food chores camping needs so I could show my sons you don't need the latest greatest knife to get the job done
You cook good rabbit pilgrim:) I know I posted when this first came out, but it still a good video. I used to hunt with a .50 caliber percussion cap, muzzle loading Hawken rifle. I carried the Green River hunter, and a tomahawk that my Dad got me for Christmas, way back in the early 80's, I still have both. I don't hunt any more. But when fishing or hiking I still take both with me. Oh, and the reason the knife is so thin, is due to how hard it was to make steel blades way back when. So you used just enough steel to make the knife. There is a museum in Wyoming that shows a few Green River knives that have been sharpened to almost nothing. I love the four I have.
Beautiful knife, if i won it, i'd bring it with me and use it everywhere i went, thank God i'm a Texan where we can legally carry any knife or blade from a Bowie, switchblade, machete or samurai sword. I love Texas!
This knife and a small axe/hatchet is camping heaven. I almost see it as America's classic mora, not the best stand alone knife but with a hatchet you can't complain. They will both hold their own if need be though.
These videos make me miss New Mexico. I used to take my boys squirrel hunting and camping in Cloudcroft a couple times a year. My favorite spot was on Pumphouse Canyon Road. Lots of primitive camping there. If I won I'd make it my new squirrel cleaning knife.
Cool! Great history lesson. I have just received my grandfather's Old Hickory butcher knife and boning knife, and they are really worn and wonderful and look like they should be in a museum as you said. Thanks for sharing!
I absolutely love your videos. I am new to bushcrafting and benefit so much from your channel. I am going hunting for the first time in my 44 years and am very excited. thank you for what you do!
Another great video, and knife revue. You and my gramma would get along great, rabbit was her choice wild game to cook. I can still smell it cooking to this day.
Hey Junkyard Fox I'm moving to Nevada this spring cause I work out west as a wildland firefighter. I am a beginning bushcrafter and me and my buddy have plans to hunt chukar, quail, mule deer, and elk out there. If I won the Green River knife it would be with me on many of my new adventures in the mountains and would hopefully processing an abundance of game. It would be cherished for many years to come....
I always liked classic knives. I have a vintage Green River skinner. Not in the best shape but good for me. I do like flat grinds, and if i want to split wood there are tools made for that. Supper sure looked good. Thank you for the video, James
I have always liked a green river style for food prep and light camp chores . I used to have 1 that I would leave at deer & trout camp in the mountains of WV . Worked really well for fish and game the evil flood of 85 stole it . If I won this it would be left at the place I camp now to become what that 1 was .
I've been looking for a nice thin slicer for camp cooking. And this one fits the bill. Like you showed it's great on thin slicing potatoes and I'd throw in some thinly sliced wild mushrooms with ramps fried up in a skillet over the open flames. Thank you for a great video!
That's a very elegant knife love the simplicity of Grean River ... I have always said it's not the brand of the knife.. But the person that use it that makes it a complete tool...
Really loving your channel! And this was a great video! I’m gonna have to pick one of the hunters up, looks like a sweet blade! Thanks for showing so much about it! Greetings from Northern Wisconsin! Shaun
The Green River knife would be a great companion on a hog hunt in Georgia. While hunting I prepare a small meal on the stand and this knife would be perfect.
This looks exactly like my father's favorite kitchen/steak knife that his step brother made for him in highschool shop class back in the 70s/80s. The steel came from a tractor leaf spring. Its a great knife, and extremely functional.
Green River is one of my favorites . Decades ago had the buffalo Skinner and used it to process lots of game . Now I have the sheep Skinner and the patch knive .
I've seen the skinning of rabbits on farms here in austria as a child. They basically opened the skin at the rear legs and then just pulled it of like a sock with just one quick move. It's quite some time ago and I can not recall the exact way it is done but it took like 2 to 5 minutes to skin one rabbit
This channel has inspired me to get outdoors and enjoy the outdoors. Green River from junkyard fox would be perfect by my side! Keep up the great work!
Hey James! I love the review and the history lesson. Always glad to see what you've been up to and your stories add a great element into your videos. I would love to see one of your book reviews again. I'd take the Green River hunter with me and head out on a Colorado backcountry fly fishing trip with my family. My mom learned how to fish from her father and we used to spend a lot of time with him like that. After his passing, it's a way to keep him around and learn from my mom. Keep making great videos and put out some T-shirts!
Hey Junkyard Fox, been watching your stuff since the Cold Steel GI tanto hobo stove video. If I won the Green River knife, I’d use it on a week long camping trip I have coming up to clear my head. I’d continue to use it for bow hunting and camping trips I do with my brothers in the Boy Scouts (I’m 23, brothers are 12, 11, and 9) here in Indiana. I don’t comment a lot, but I definitely don’t want to miss out on this opportunity.
I have always liked the look of that knife. I never purchased it, because I didn’t know what size it was. There’s never anything to reference them on any websites I’ve seen them on. So I’m simply happy to see it in your hand, so I know that. I do have the large butcher version and the cimetar version for cooking at home. They really can’t be beat for real world use. Not even by an expensive Japanese kitchen knife. At least not in my hands ha ha. I’m no sushi master, just a normal American.
I am an avid reader especially when it comes to Texas history and the history of the American frontier and I've seen these knives mentioned I just didn't think they made them anymore but now that I know I'll definitely have to get one
How crazy! Blood Meridian is my favorite book as well! Mccarthy is my favorite author. I carry a green river 6 inch butcher knife into the woods with me. You make great content!
I have the identical blade I bought years ago at SMKW and added my own scales and made a sheath. Great slicer and general kitchen knife too. Carry it in my pack when camping.
Aaaah, you went quiet when I mentioned the Green River knife because you were about to film it. The Sheffield made one's are similar but spear points with a fish descaler on the spine. Same thin carbon steel blade stock and you have to shape the scales yourself. I liked the frontiers men, mountain men, explorers and Trappers as a kid so had to have a Green River knife. Give it to someone else I have one and don't want to be greedy.
Hey man! Long time subscriber, first time commenter. I love Cormac McCarthy, and I love good, American, classic knives! If I won the Green River knife, it would go with me on my yearly retreat in the Smokies with the men who mentored me as a boy. I can picture myself setting up camp, carving toggles and stakes for my tarp. I'd love to make a snare to catch some kind of game for dinner. The guys are always eating freeze dried meals, and I'd like to see their faces as I roast a squirrel or rabbit over the fire. That seems like a great tool, and a great piece of American history that I can pass along to my son as well! Keep up the great work, JF!
Nice video, and decent job skinning that rabbit. If I won the green river knife I’d very much like to test it out up here in the great cold north when I’m out winter camping, and I bet it would be a fantastic hunting knife.
Awesome channel you have here. Been using green rivers for 30 years...you cant beat them.They are like the Mora of the old west. Something thats been around that long must be good.
This is the video that convinced me to buy that knife. I got the plain handle. I noticed this is very similar in outer edge shape to your Snake Eater. Excellent knife I'm finding out. Thanks again for this one. // I found the last three coats like yours on the internet. One was a medium, large, and a 2X. I bought the 2X. Should be here in a week or two. Hope it's as warm as it looks. Thank you for it as well.
Yep, by far my go to knife for processing meat for over 25 years. I would definitely take another one to pass on to my son👍 Great video James Now I have to dig a rabbit out of the freezer and have a snack 😊
Love you videos as always. I live in the Mojave desert myself. I would use this knife to teach my grandson all the uses and give it to him once he learns to use it safely
These are great knives! My 2nd outdoors/camp knife was a Green River Hunter. Before I "knew better" I did all my tasks with it from batoning to food prep. That was quite awhile ago, and I lost that beloved knife. It would be really neat to have one again.
I would love to make it my new hunting knife, your videos inspired me to start hunting and to see how it feels to harvest your own food, mostly small games like dove squirrel rabbit and some ducks. Love your channel most underrated survival/self reliance channel
I have a couple of Green River knives. The two I usually pack have had over 20 years of use. I believe the new ones are 1095 steel. As you say, the blades are thin. Personally, I would never baton one, but I carry a tomahawk in the woods. So.... not an issue.
Great knife looked super sharp & perfect for batoning & feather making for fire starting would also like to see you make gloves or something with the rabbit fur.
Very professionally done video. You hit all the marks pertaining to the knife, told us some history, quoted from a novel, and cooked some lunch. You and Quervo get gold stars!
im glad you liked it, my friend!
This is how a knife review should be done. Seeing people baton bricks doesn't really strike my fancy. Fire making, food prep, history, and skinning game - very well done.
Green River fanatic here. I own all of them. I make my own scales and sheaths. Proud Green River user since 1986.
My ancestors founded the first colonial settlement in the Upper Delaware Valley back in 1755 and I've always been into the history of this country, so I'm also an avid fan of historically traditional knives, but most of my budget goes to taking care of my family. The outdoors has always been my favorite place to be for reconnecting with myself and my ancestral roots, which is very sacred and even spiritual to me. I would truly be grateful to receive a knife that most likely is very similar to the knives my ancestors used during their lives exploring the untamed wilderness of this country. Your videos also help me to reconnect with the sacredness of the past and of the wilderness, and to receive an historically styled knife from you would give it even more significant meaning to me. Whether I'm fortunate enough to receive this awesome knife or not, I thank you for this opportunity to win it and for the great videos you make for the rest of us to view and enjoy.
I bought my first Green River knife when I was 11 back in 1978. It was a kit, including sheath material, from Atlanta Cutlery. Now I'm 52 and I still have that knife. It's has performed great all these years and has never let me down. Excellent knife for the money! The reason I wanted one, I saw Fess Parker use one on his TV show Daniel Boone. RANGERS LEAD THE WAY 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅
"You cook good Rabbit Pilgrim."
Best Wishes from Montana! M.H
Thank you very much!
Thanks as people forget the true history of knives we need to appreciate where they came from
i completely agree
Ok! I just have to say! First time I was in texas I was alone and ordered a biscuit and gravy. An old man ordered steak and eggs with pecan pie! He invited me over to his table. When his naked steak and eggs came, the waitress winked and turned away as he whipped open his jacket to Expose... his 12 pocket spice rack! You may need to stitch one up!?! Lol
My favorite camp knife and, such a fun weekend project too make a handle for.
I love the history of knives 🔪 and the back story of our country just starting out.
same here, i need more books on knives from the frontier
If I had a Green River knife I'd use it to prepare game meals at our little, adobe block, off-grid home my wife and I are presently finishing in rural southeast Arizona. I absolutely love how you provided the brief history of the Green River knife. Such a simple, yet classic American knife. Excellent video!
Great video and use of the knife. Love the rabbit skinning blues and meal. The history was nice. Thanks and take care.
Another great video...I like Green River Knives...still have a CVA branded blade(the markings have faded due to patina over the years) I got when I was into muzzleloading...backin the 70s ,bought it along with a Hawken Rifle..
Nice smooth knife moves!
I'm also a history buff, especially westerns. Sine the early eastern expansion to the western expansion, one of the most prominent items in common was kitchen cutlery. Yes, kitchen knives, i.e. the butcher knife was most commonly carried do to its thin spine and sharpening capability. It was also proven as a combat weapon as well. Kitchen knives were also a common trade item amongst the Indians as well.
Great knife / great lunch. Thanks for the nice review.
I am a simple man. I watch a quality video, and then I subscribe. Well done.
Welcome aboard!
I like the way you skin the rabbit was full of respect.
thanl you! i apprecaite that
I will take it to the mountains and cook up a feast with it. Camping is always fun when you do some wild cooking.
Excellent video from the knife to the cast iron fry pan!
This should have a million views..
Nicely done
Great knife. Iv'e been using less and less gear every year that i'm out, and my blades have been getting more simple and the stock thinner. I typically use a mora. This knife along with the Metis is the next knives i would like to try. I would only use this knife for everyday cutting tasks and skinning. I raise rabbits for meat and want to try this for skinning. Some of the pelts are saved for tanning. Thanks for another great video my friend.
These are great knives, I have an old one that I purchased for about $25 on eBay, it’s bent, rusty as hell but it works well and it’s an American classic.
i bought my first green river knife at the age of 14 years old in the sixties to use at the mudgee abbattors as a labourer on the slourghter floor in nsw australia
I’d got fishing in Kickapoo state park and process trout. Thanks for the video, and live the simplicity of this style blade!
Almost 60k...great job..hope soon 100k..
Very classic knife. Perfect for a weekend camping, trapping, or hunting, Thank You!
Love the knife great video can't wait till next adventure . nice history lesson. I do a lot of fishing with my girls would love to have that knife on my side
Definitely can use a quality outdoor knives for my annual hike.with the family. We will want to do some fishing along the way so I bet the knives will play a part in our outing
Very nice job skinning the bunny! Their hides are so thin, it’s easy to cut holes in them. Many tribes twisted their hides and wove them into blankets or warm robes rather than stitching them. The Green River hunter is a nice looking knife. It’s length and thinner blade would work well for skinning and processing large game. I’ve considered replacing the Helle I carry for hunting moose and caribou with one of these! Nice choice and great video!
I use my Cold Steel Red River knife in the kitchen all the time! It’s a great pattern!
These by far are my favorite knives. I have quit a few. I carry the Dadley,the buffalo and a 8" butcher. I love how the come with enough meat on the handle,that you can make it your own. I'm a knife maker. All my friends and my family carries a knife or two that I have made. I even have one in my bag as a back up. However being an Alaskan, I grew up using these and I use them daily for work. So as a habit I just got in the habit of making them my EDC.
I really enjoyed your video and appreciate the detail about the knife. I just started my knife craze about a week ago. My grandfather's name is John Russell so these knifes really mean a lot to me and will always be the gem of any knife I ever buy. I've been trying to find as much information about the knifes and the company so thank you again for the video.
Not sure what game I'd process with that beautiful blade. But id look forward to taking it when I head back to Grover Hot Springs an absolutely beautiful place to camp. Thanks for the book recommendation.
Hey James. Great fire prep and food prep, looks like a nice blade. Pretty sure I could cook up a nice meal in the woods with that!
Love the music too. Take care, Wade
im glad you enjoyed it!
If I had The Green River knife, I would use it to cut the thorns off the nopales I have in my yard and cook them with some pork spareribs. Now I use a BRK JX6 that I bought thanks to a review that you did.
I recently got two of these. One from the factory and another kit build version that someone just epoxied and pinned the scales to without shaping anything other than the tang edge profile. Two hours of hand sanding and food grade mineral oil and it has become my favorite of the two. A little thicker than the factory handles but not by much. There's a paper advertisement on eBay that shows the GRKW hunting knives. The advertisement is from 1899. The advertisement shows that GRKW used the same textured handle design back then. They used more expensive woods back then than they do now, from the factory, but the knives haven't changed in appearance for over 100 years.
Hello James!! Good to see you! Nice knife Sir!
I own an actual 19th Century Green River butcher knife, plus three, or four of the 'hunter' model. One was a kit that I put together. I have other Green River knives, since I do Mountain Man reenactment, all in sheaths that I cut and stitched together, myself. The "hunter" model, I find to be the best all around camp knife.
I am sure the knife was given away 3 years ago, but I will tell a little story.
Back in the 1970’s a friend and I picked out a muzzle loading rifle kits to put together.
My kit was a .50 cal. (.490) Hawkin reproduction rifle. The stock we mostly enletted, with
just a little fitting required. I had to file the octagon barrel a little and “brown” the barrel to make
It fit the times of the Rocky Mountain fur trade. I sanded and put several coats of probably boiled
lind seed oil on the stock. .50 caliber or even .54 caliber rifles were needed
to handle the Grizzley bears of the Rockies. Of course I needed a Green River knife to go
with my rifle, flintlock pistol, and my “Possibles” bag. I did purchase a knife kit and attached the
scales and shaped them a little, and if I remember correctly I smeared mayonnaise on the blade
to give it a used looking color. I read somewhere that the Green River knives were marked Green River where the blade met the handle. In the story, supposedly the Mountain Man said
he got into a fight with someone and had to take him up to the Green River !
Whether the original knives were marked that way or not, it is an interesting story.
I still have the Rifle & Pistol, perhaps I need to help my young GRANDkids put together
some Green River knife kits!
I am sharing James’ excellent videos with them.
History IS IMPORTANT-“the good, bad, and the ugly !”
It ALL NEEDS TO BE STUDIED- and remembered !
How else are we going to learn if we cannot see and remember our
Challenges, our mistakes, and our victories !
definitely agree, my friend! glad youre passing on your knowledge and experiences to others.
Glad to finally see a video about a great old one love historical knives like to prove that they still have what it takes gladly carry the knife everyday for food chores camping needs so I could show my sons you don't need the latest greatest knife to get the job done
You cook good rabbit pilgrim:) I know I posted when this first came out, but it still a good video. I used to hunt with a .50 caliber percussion cap, muzzle loading Hawken rifle. I carried the Green River hunter, and a tomahawk that my Dad got me for Christmas, way back in the early 80's, I still have both. I don't hunt any more. But when fishing or hiking I still take both with me. Oh, and the reason the knife is so thin, is due to how hard it was to make steel blades way back when. So you used just enough steel to make the knife. There is a museum in Wyoming that shows a few Green River knives that have been sharpened to almost nothing. I love the four I have.
GRT video. I enjoy ur catch & cook videos. I would use it next deer season
Beautiful knife, if i won it, i'd bring it with me and use it everywhere i went, thank God i'm a Texan where we can legally carry any knife or blade from a Bowie, switchblade, machete or samurai sword. I love Texas!
This knife and a small axe/hatchet is camping heaven. I almost see it as America's classic mora, not the best stand alone knife but with a hatchet you can't complain. They will both hold their own if need be though.
Great review. Its good to see a practical use of the knife.
These videos make me miss New Mexico. I used to take my boys squirrel hunting and camping in Cloudcroft a couple times a year. My favorite spot was on Pumphouse Canyon Road. Lots of primitive camping there. If I won I'd make it my new squirrel cleaning knife.
Cool! Great history lesson. I have just received my grandfather's Old Hickory butcher knife and boning knife, and they are really worn and wonderful and look like they should be in a museum as you said. Thanks for sharing!
I absolutely love your videos. I am new to bushcrafting and benefit so much from your channel. I am going hunting for the first time in my 44 years and am very excited. thank you for what you do!
im gald you enjoy our stuff! im glad youre getting out there and enjoying nature and adventure
awesome looking knife, and great review. My son and I are planning a camping trip this summer in Michigan. It would get great use their. Thanks
Just comfortable to watch, nice!
Thank you for highlighting American history and real budget items. Fight forward. 🤔🤠💒🇺🇸
The knife will be a useful tools on the hiking trail. I can make camp or just some simple cooking on the side.
The Green River and the Old Hickory always make the cleanest cuts. Tried and true old history..
nice story about the history of that knife.
Another great video, and knife revue. You and my gramma would get along great, rabbit was her choice wild game to cook. I can still smell it cooking to this day.
Solid built knives! Of course I am in! I can't wait so I can use it for bish task like cooking up a wild meal in the woods.
The handle is nicely done! I will be proud to us it for any outdoor task in hand. It would be my primary hiking knives.
Been waiting to see this knife and rabbit processing in action. Would love to see you guys do a tanning video to start learning that
Hey Junkyard Fox I'm moving to Nevada this spring cause I work out west as a wildland firefighter. I am a beginning bushcrafter and me and my buddy have plans to hunt chukar, quail, mule deer, and elk out there. If I won the Green River knife it would be with me on many of my new adventures in the mountains and would hopefully processing an abundance of game. It would be cherished for many years to come....
I always liked classic knives. I have a vintage Green River skinner. Not in the best shape but good for me. I do like flat grinds, and if i want to split wood there are tools made for that. Supper sure looked good. Thank you for the video, James
I have always liked a green river style for food prep and light camp chores . I used to have 1 that I would leave at deer & trout camp in the mountains of WV . Worked really well for fish and game the evil flood of 85 stole it . If I won this it would be left at the place I camp now to become what that 1 was .
I've been looking for a nice thin slicer for camp cooking. And this one fits the bill. Like you showed it's great on thin slicing potatoes and I'd throw in some thinly sliced wild mushrooms with ramps fried up in a skillet over the open flames. Thank you for a great video!
That's a very elegant knife love the simplicity of Grean River ... I have always said it's not the brand of the knife.. But the person that use it that makes it a complete tool...
very true!
Dude!! Finally you made another video! I've been waiting for a while.
Yeah I got a nasty cold for a while then I kept trying to hunt a rabbit for this video with no luck, but finally we got this video filmed.
Really loving your channel! And this was a great video! I’m gonna have to pick one of the hunters up, looks like a sweet blade! Thanks for showing so much about it! Greetings from Northern Wisconsin! Shaun
with this knife it would be a good start to my Bushcraft kit.
The Green River knife would be a great companion on a hog hunt in Georgia. While hunting I prepare a small meal on the stand and this knife would be perfect.
This looks exactly like my father's favorite kitchen/steak knife that his step brother made for him in highschool shop class back in the 70s/80s. The steel came from a tractor leaf spring. Its a great knife, and extremely functional.
Green River is one of my favorites .
Decades ago had the buffalo Skinner and used it to process lots of game .
Now I have the sheep Skinner and the patch knive .
Beautiful blade and awesome video; I would personally use it for honing my bushcraft and hunting skills down here in the wilderness of Arizona.
I've seen the skinning of rabbits on farms here in austria as a child. They basically opened the skin at the rear legs and then just pulled it of like a sock with just one quick move.
It's quite some time ago and I can not recall the exact way it is done but it took like 2 to 5 minutes to skin one rabbit
This channel has inspired me to get outdoors and enjoy the outdoors. Green River from junkyard fox would be perfect by my side! Keep up the great work!
The green river will be a nice edition to my bugout bag.
Hey James! I love the review and the history lesson. Always glad to see what you've been up to and your stories add a great element into your videos. I would love to see one of your book reviews again.
I'd take the Green River hunter with me and head out on a Colorado backcountry fly fishing trip with my family. My mom learned how to fish from her father and we used to spend a lot of time with him like that. After his passing, it's a way to keep him around and learn from my mom.
Keep making great videos and put out some T-shirts!
Very nice. Never seen that green river blade before. Thanks for the video.
Very cool knife. I would really like to put that to work this upcoming hunting season for deer.
Green River looks cool. I'd clean some rainbow trout with it on my next flyfishing trip and cook them up in my cast iron skillet.
Hey Junkyard Fox, been watching your stuff since the Cold Steel GI tanto hobo stove video.
If I won the Green River knife, I’d use it on a week long camping trip I have coming up to clear my head. I’d continue to use it for bow hunting and camping trips I do with my brothers in the Boy Scouts (I’m 23, brothers are 12, 11, and 9) here in Indiana.
I don’t comment a lot, but I definitely don’t want to miss out on this opportunity.
I have always liked the look of that knife. I never purchased it, because I didn’t know what size it was. There’s never anything to reference them on any websites I’ve seen them on. So I’m simply happy to see it in your hand, so I know that.
I do have the large butcher version and the cimetar version for cooking at home. They really can’t be beat for real world use. Not even by an expensive Japanese kitchen knife. At least not in my hands ha ha. I’m no sushi master, just a normal American.
I am an avid reader especially when it comes to Texas history and the history of the American frontier and I've seen these knives mentioned I just didn't think they made them anymore but now that I know I'll definitely have to get one
That is a nice knives to have around the campfire. I can do cooking with it and maybe some bushcraft stuff.
How crazy! Blood Meridian is my favorite book as well! Mccarthy is my favorite author. I carry a green river 6 inch butcher knife into the woods with me. You make great content!
Nice video . I really like that rounded curly maple handle on the green river . Really looks nice and traditional as well as more comfortable .
I have the identical blade I bought years ago at SMKW and added my own scales and made a sheath. Great slicer and general kitchen knife too. Carry it in my pack when camping.
this thing is a beast for kitchen work.
Aaaah, you went quiet when I mentioned the Green River knife because you were about to film it. The Sheffield made one's are similar but spear points with a fish descaler on the spine. Same thin carbon steel blade stock and you have to shape the scales yourself. I liked the frontiers men, mountain men, explorers and Trappers as a kid so had to have a Green River knife. Give it to someone else I have one and don't want to be greedy.
I will be glad to receive this knives and put it into good use as my primary blade for my hiking trip. I bet it will.be a pleasure to use.
Hey man! Long time subscriber, first time commenter. I love Cormac McCarthy, and I love good, American, classic knives!
If I won the Green River knife, it would go with me on my yearly retreat in the Smokies with the men who mentored me as a boy.
I can picture myself setting up camp, carving toggles and stakes for my tarp. I'd love to make a snare to catch some kind of game for dinner. The guys are always eating freeze dried meals, and I'd like to see their faces as I roast a squirrel or rabbit over the fire. That seems like a great tool, and a great piece of American history that I can pass along to my son as well!
Keep up the great work, JF!
Nice video, and decent job skinning that rabbit.
If I won the green river knife I’d very much like to test it out up here in the great cold north when I’m out winter camping, and I bet it would be a fantastic hunting knife.
Awesome channel you have here. Been using green rivers for 30 years...you cant beat them.They are like the Mora of the old west. Something thats been around that long must be good.
very true, theyre so overlooked these days
This is the video that convinced me to buy that knife. I got the plain handle. I noticed this is very similar in outer edge shape to your Snake Eater. Excellent knife I'm finding out. Thanks again for this one. // I found the last three coats like yours on the internet. One was a medium, large, and a 2X. I bought the 2X. Should be here in a week or two. Hope it's as warm as it looks. Thank you for it as well.
Yep, by far my go to knife for processing meat for over 25 years.
I would definitely take another one to pass on to my son👍
Great video James
Now I have to dig a rabbit out of the freezer and have a snack 😊
you gotta make a video showing off your collection!
@@JunkyardFox 😊in due time 👍
Love you videos as always. I live in the Mojave desert myself. I would use this knife to teach my grandson all the uses and give it to him once he learns to use it safely
Love the history behind the blade. Great video bro!!! Would be my go to outdoor knife.
These are great knives! My 2nd outdoors/camp knife was a Green River Hunter. Before I "knew better" I did all my tasks with it from batoning to food prep. That was quite awhile ago, and I lost that beloved knife. It would be really neat to have one again.
I would love to make it my new hunting knife, your videos inspired me to start hunting and to see how it feels to harvest your own food, mostly small games like dove squirrel rabbit and some ducks. Love your channel most underrated survival/self reliance channel
It will.male a great gift for my son. I can imagine him using it for his camping activities.
I have a couple of Green River knives. The two I usually pack have had over 20 years of use. I believe the new ones are 1095 steel. As you say, the blades are thin. Personally, I would never baton one, but I carry a tomahawk in the woods. So.... not an issue.
Love the classic blade shape, since it has been around for so long, I bet it will do well as a skinner with that thin blade stock.
i have skinned a rattlesnake, catfish, and rabbit with this baby, no problem, it excels at it
Great knife looked super sharp & perfect for batoning & feather making for fire starting would also like to see you make gloves or something with the rabbit fur.