How to sharpen your Kestrel Knives titanium knife

Kestrel Knives will be offering a sharpening kit that comes with everything you need to sharpen your Ti knife. It includes your choice of a home strop, field strop and UL field strop. It will come with 5 different grits of wet/dry sand paper, a preloaded leather strop and a stick of green compound. Pricing and options are available the products page. As always do not hesitate to contact me with any questions you may have regarding sharpening or your knives.

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Wilderness Rifle Hunt Trip Report 2011

This trip began with a four-mile-long downhill hike to our camp. We picked an area that would allow us to simply wake up in the morning and sneak down to a nearby rock outcropping that offered a great vantage point from which to glass the whole basin we planned to hunt. This area is a three-year-old burn filled with short oaks and bay trees. The deer like to feed on the young growth, turning the new trees into well-manicured hedges, so we felt our chances of spotting deer the next morning to be pretty good.

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Backcountry Bowhunt Trip Report 2011

With all our gear packed and ready, Bryan and I drove the 6 hours to the trailhead and packed in to arrive two days before the opener. We were anxious to see what waited for us in the basin that held so many deer last year. We spent the first night at a beautiful lake that seemed to overflow with Eastern Brook trout. My buddy wasted no time catching our dinner as I set up camp and started a fire. I employed the Kestrel Ultralight Knives Kuiu Edition Prototype to clean the fish and dice up some onions and garlic we had brought in anticipation of our catch. Eastern Brooks are way tastier than Rainbows, that’s for sure. I could eat those things all week.

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Welcome to the Kestrel Knives Blog

Thank you for taking the time to browse the Kestrel Knives site and welcome to the Kestrel Knives blog. This blog will feature a wide variety of topics that will include knives, ultralight hunting and backpacking, gear reviews, trip reports, tips and techniques, interviews, industry news and new products and developments.

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