Hey Drew! No doubt, this knife is a brute! I’ve checked and researched this knife before. No doubt it’s a serious, do just about anything survival type knife. I’ve seen this D2 Pakistan Tacker before. Seems like it will certainly do the job very well. Thought I may have read that it is forged. Don’t know much about forged D2. Pretty sure D2 has great wear resistance but can be brittle. As usual it’s all about the temper. I suppose if the stock is thick and also add in that it is forged would make it damn rugged. I think the original dude who designed these Trackers started making these recently. You mentioned the Tom Brown Jr. Do you mean the one made by Tops Knives? I can’t believe the prices of some stock-removal knives made by knife companies today. Almost as much as a custom made knife. With the availability of super-steels today no need need for a forged blade for some. I wonder how a forged 8” blade Khukuri would do against the Tracker for survival/bushcraft. Throwing a Khukuri is a waste of time. If I was to get one I’d probably get one from the Company you got yours from. Didn’t know CVA still made rifles. I think they use to be mostly black powder. Might be wrong & have them confused with another company. Shot placement is king but a nice big fat bullet making all kinds of damage in & out sure does help. Love the slo-Mo intermissions with Bonzo & the Bergelmeister 👍🏻😊. I think the Tracker you have from The Lord of Metal is the best pick. Seems like the craftsmanship is there along with a good price 👍🏻. That Nepal Tracker looks awesome! Could be wrong but I bet that is forged 5160. Good ‘ol spring steel. Great video Drew! Enjoyed very much! Catch ya later!! 👍🏻💪🏻🇺🇸☘️

Just picked up a Schrade Usa 165 after buying a new one on sale and breaking it the first day. Luckily I found an original and it is solid. Great video, your channel is awesome my friend!

Curly maple sure is pretty looking wood, i think im gonna use some on my next build after seeing this. Nice looking handle 👍

Some of the 19th century fighting styles would have you hold the knife so the edge was facing upwards when it was extended; the idea was that you would stab forward and slash upwards, effectively disemboweling your opponent. Maybe the previous owner was into old-school knife-fighting manuals? Just a theory.

Dope AF results, @Mountaincraftoutdoors!

15 минут пиздежа не о чём!

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Love the build & the Pipe & Cigar Adverts!

Great knives ... Prepare to the end of the world ..

Boa faca, só não gosto da posição invertida da guarda, fica totalmente desconfortável para uso prático. Não sei como uma fábrica insistia nesse erro, já vi muitas peças antigas assim, acho no tempo era moda. Foi muito acertado da sua parte mudar isso. Agora a faca está operacional. Muito bom trabalho

Like the brazil

17:10 So sad to see those tires in the stream... Human beings can be such pigs!

Great job brother. I always enjoy your knife build/rebuild projects. Relaxing and enjoyable. I do the same things myself. Oh... I dangle enough myself man, so I get it 😂

Great rehandle! She is pretty! But I reckon you should sale it! Just be sure to let me know where! 😊

👍🏼 any handle you make for yourself is going to feel darn good in the hand. I always love the handles and knives I make the best over store bought. Although the buck 119 has a really comfortable handle for store bought. I’d love to see that beast in the woods! Great job on those curly scales.

Beautiful work, brother. I too modified my 1970 W49 that I inherited from my grandfather. Simply reduced the guard to a more practical size and had a custom leather sheath made for it. Would love to see you running that Bowie through the paces down by the river, or up in the mountains.

Hey Drew, love the weight forward aspect of the blade. Beautiful work on the handle Brother! Trust you have an awesome week 🇺🇸 🇳🇿

Nice W49. Very quick in the hand. The W49 is indeed a superb classic design, and a more comfortable handle profile like yours can make a significant difference in its usability.

Great job, brother! A field test by the river would be cool!

Nice job on the handle and sheath. I've had a Western bowie since I was a teenager. I used it a lot for a lot of years. It held up well. I always thought about thinning out the handle and cutting the back of the gard off. Never did. I don't use it much anymore. Too many other knives need using.

Got some talent there, Bud! Would love to see if it works as good as it looks!

Great rebuild. Top rate vid.

Locks down pretty good onto the Ball sack!! Why? Just Why the balls vs a fawns foot man?

Howdy: I've watched this video 4 or 5 times. LOVE IT!!! The only negative comment I have is... as a guitar maker and repair man, hide glue is great because you can heat it and remove or adjust your parts. The down side is.... if it gets wet or damp it breaks down and becomes useless. Outside of that I use it a lot in my business. I just have to keep it dry.:~))) Two Feathers

I really appreciate your channel for the naturalness of its content. But I will be honest about this knife. I am not questioning its performance, the price of this handmade knife, or the choice of materials. What leaves me doubtful is the extreme coarseness of the distribution of the forging marks. I mean, ask a blacksmith who knows his trade well... The hammer marks are so large on this small blade that they look like ripples. As for me, I would have refused the result of such forging work. Take care.

Awesome vid.

Hey, this is good stuff sir. Ya got anymore Spyderco knives? Make some more hard use / field use footage!

I’ve never had a Tom brown tracker but i credit it with bringing me into the knife world, I always loved knives even as a small child but when I saw the movie the hunted something clicked in me. Of course it’s exaggerated and some parts are very unrealistic, but It did for me what Rambo did for the generation before me. I still have the blade magazine that features it during the time when the movie came out. One of these days I’ll have to get me sum! Take care of yourself and the dogs and keep those videos coming, they are awesome ! Really dig that primitive tracker, what a bad to the bone blade.

Good Man, cutting slabs and not through the center until the last. Easier that way isn't it?

Just found your channel a few days back and i have been enjoying the videos. The tracker is an interesting knife. I had the tops tracker in my hands for a couple weeks back in 04. I liked the design but didn't find it all that useful for my purposes. Not enough to keep it. It works but its too wide for a general purpose knife. In my opinion. Lots of other people like it. The story or history of the knife or rather the design is interesting and worth looking up if you're into knife lore. It was probably designed by rob russon originaly. Tom brown made it famous but ive found that a lot of people these days haven't heard of tom brown jr. either. Anyway it was a fun video. Take care

Hey Drew, I like the knife. Can see the versatility of the blade with the ability to chop and do fine shavings. Always interesting to look for animal sign. Trust you have an awesome week Brother! 🇺🇸 🇳🇿

I love watching M.O. videos. No chigger bites and no ticks! ;).

Have you watched the easy going outdoors channel, he test the tracker knives made by origin knives, expensive but unbelievable knives.👍🏻 He does one called the STV tracker which basically means the straight variant.

I used these on expedition in the Amazon jungle they stayed soaking wet for at least 25 days, they are the most comfortable boot i ever put on my feet even when soaked. The weak point is the soles are just to soft they peal apart especially around the drain holes, I thought they stoped making them.

Good work on that knife man. Make a really nice gift

What a wonderful job you did Drew! Damascus steel 👍🏻😊❤️! Oh yeah! What a beautiful knife Drew. What’s not to like? I’m sure she will love this knife for its beauty, usefulness, quality and that you had a hand in its creation. Yep, looks like a loon to me. 👍🏻 Thought I was gonna bust a gut (🤣) with your comment about hoping it wasn’t too big for her hand. Lol! When you got back to the hostel sounded like some bluesy dirty slide guitar playing in the background 👍🏻😊. I sure did enjoy your video Drew! Heard that train too buddy! 👍🏻. A-1 job on that project. Take care & catch ya on the next one! 👍🏻💪🏻🇺🇸☘️

Los filos para la madera son el hacha y la sierra,debemos de asumir esto,navajas y cuchillos se joden no son para la madera,deben emplearse en la caza y la comida

Case knives make a cool little tri fold knife i just pucked one up about a yr ago its pretty cool

I live in ct. I just found me a Collins legitimus bout 6 months ago original handle with legitimus stamp still on it. They were once the most popular axe in the world so much so that other countries like the UK and Germany along with some states were counterfeiting them so they had to come up w diff. Handle stamps thats could only be printed in NY in the late 1800s early 1900s where the letters stuck up instead of imprinted hense the legitimus on the head and legitimus foil logo on the handles on there legitimus series axes and hatchets great axe!

They are all junk

You have taste for shit dude

Fruit tree wood esp wild plum trees have the coolest purple and yellow colors. It can be some annoying wood though to work with. What I like about it is that its full of resin and takes an awesome polish. I've made a ton of handles with that stuff to the point of burn out LOL . BUT now ya have me thinking about doing a new build with plum wood. . Its excellent handle wood , rock hard stuff. Nice work man.

Thats awesome work Drew! Well done. Trust you have a great week Brother! 🇺🇸 🇳🇿

That’s a heckuva present there, Drew! Straight from the heart! She’s lucky to have you in her life!

Another good one brother!

WOW! Tank of a knife Drew! I had one of those Buck hollow handle survival knives back in the 80’s lol! What a brut! Totally unrealistic but I wanted it. Babied it. Gave it away to a friend. I think I paid around $150 for it. It was very heavy and so was the sheath even though it was like a plastic of some sort. The attraction goes to the Rambo movie and the custom knife made by Jimmy Lyle. I agree that these are more of a conversation piece and cool to have. I’m sure these type knives can do some bushcraft as you demonstrate but with a bit of challenge. I agree about growing a calluce 🤣. The weakest part of those knives was always the hollow handle. Always liked them despite that fact. About 10-15 yrs ago a knife maker and his son made knives for the company Martin Knives in Texas. The son designed a hollow handle survival (Rambo style) with a bomb proof, fully tested, hollow handle. Think is was named the Apparo and came in two sizes. I believe the design is a company secret. The son wound up with cancer & passed away. He was pretty young. In his mid-late 20’s. Sad. Boker knives made some kind of deal ($) with Martin & started producing a similar knife with the same look as the Apparo. Same design for the handle also. Really cool looking knife. I believe all the knives are made by stock removal. Good variety of hunting, survival, military, classic, knives. Not sure if the company is still up and running. I bought a Randall mod. 18 attack/survival knife 5 1/2” stainless blade (440B fully forged) back in the late 90’s. Can’t remember the price. Around $500. No waiting as the knife was available in their showroom. At the time there was a 3yr wait. Now I think it’s around 5yrs. LONG waiting list. Insane. I find the shorter blade is a lot easier to use than the 7” version. A friend had the 7” one and it was a bit more difficult. Randall started making these in the 60’s for the Vietnam war. Saw teeth designed for getting out of a downed helicopter. Different than the teeth on the model in your video. The handles were thoroughly tested against breaking and it was said by Gary Randall (Bo Randall’s son) that of the huge amount of all these knives used only one came back with a broken handle. Every knife has it’s limits. I look at these knives as a “Jack of all trades and master of none.” I love ‘em all. To me, my opinion, there’s always a place/use for a knife of any size, quality, or condition. 😊 🚂🚂🚂🚂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Great video Drew! I really enjoyed it! Take care and I’ll catch ya on the rebound! 👍🏻💪🏻🇺🇸☘️

I'm a fan of all things knives but I'll have to admit that those William Collins knives are new to me, I'll have to check it out. Have you ever tried any of the cheep tracker style knives on Amazon? I've always wanted to try a tracker knife but I'm afraid that I won't like it after spending some good money. There are so many great knives out there that I want to buy right now!

Hi thanks for the video . I did not catch the name of the knife maker of your puukko. Who is it and was ie expensive ?

I never met a knife I didn’t like 😆. I always find something I like about any knife. I agree with you that the best is subjective & is a persons own opinion. Lol! Yep, do your own research. And that takes some effort that some just can’t seem to do for one reason or another. I have some particular favorites among my knives but they are all equally tools meant to be used. Some are for a particular purpose and some are just to look at. I like ‘em all and they’re all the best to me. Even the cheaper knives I bought yrs ago. Lol! I would use a knife but never abuse it. You mention Gerber knives. Back in the early 70’s they had a hell of a line of great knives. All made right there in Colorado. Their daggers/combat knives were awesome. Their pocket knives were really nice & great quality. Their prices were a bit more expensive than other brands but worth every penny. I believe the company sold out to China sometime in the 90’s, not positive. I hear ya loud & clear about opinions being shut down. Check out a video on youtube called American Maoism with James Lindsey. I believe it’s EXACTLY what’s going on in this country. This is the 1st of 3 videos he has speaking to a group of people on this topic. Each vid about 2hrs long. Pretty eye-opening shit. He connects all the dots through all his research. He’s very knowledgeable of history and the insanity going on. You’re so right about how fortunate we are to have so much available to us today. Love having so many choices. Lol!! Got a big kick how you threw “Kukri, Leuku” in there 😊. Looks like Bergel was getting ready to do some “zoomies!” Great video Drew! Take care & catch ya on the next one! 👍🏻💪🏻🇺🇸☘️

I still fondly recall a hiking trip with a buddy in 1988 and he took with him a Rambo knife his Dad had gifted him. Even had a compass on the handle. 🇺🇸 🇳🇿