The Camp Muk is Battle Horse Knives tipping its hat to Nessmuk, the pen name of George Washington Sears, whose 1880s woodcraft writing made the deep bellied camp skinner a permanent part of American outdoor kit. Battle Horse builds its version compact: 3.5 inches of flat ground O1 on 0.125 inch stock, 7.625 inches overall, 5.6 ounces on the belt with a brown leather sheath.
Sears carried his little skinner for the jobs a hatchet and a folder could not do, dressing game and running the camp kitchen, and that is still where the pattern earns its keep. The belly handles the skinning sweeps, the flat grind slices through food prep the way scandi bushcrafters simply will not, and the light stock keeps it nimble through a whole deer or a whole dinner, which is why it slots into a hunting kit as the dedicated game and cook blade beside a heavier chopper. Handles run matte micarta in natural, green, and black plus individually numbered stabilized maple, no two the same, handmade in Cambridge, Ohio.