There are knives, good knives, great knives, and classic knives. Then there are the knives that are flat-out legends with remarkable stories behind them. One of these is the instantly recognizable Puma White Hunter that redefined the hunting knife.
On a rainy afternoon many years ago I was killing time by switching on the telly and watching the 1965 feature The Sands of the Kalahari. It was an entertaining enough survival drama, but what really caught my eye was the fixed-blade knife that the big game hunter played by Stuart Whitman was carrying.
It looked nothing like any other blade, with a distinctive rounded leaf shape and a stag horn handle. It wasn’t just unusual, it was the most beautiful piece of outdoor cutlery I’d ever seen. Since I was no knife expert – I was more into Robert E. Howard stories back then – and this was decades before the internet was anything more than a vague concept, that’s where the anecdote ends.
We don’t often get to cover a company like Puma. One of the oldest extant knife companies.
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