The “Los” (Elk) was developed in 2004. The prototype was received by Maslennikov in one of his business trips over hunting equipment shops. One shop owner (who was hunter also) looked at the “Toolen” (Seal) model and said that it would be useful to create a knife with shorter blade, longer handle and little rest for thumb. It’s form his words that the knife was drawn and then produced.
This is one of the 3 “hunter’s demand for the long handle” knife (together with “Rees-2”(Lynx-2), “Promisloviy maliy” (Gaming little)) created by wishes of hunters of 3 climatic zone from North to South.
The “Los” is very similar at “Promisloviy maliy” and at “Zahyatz” knives but there are differences in the blade forms: “Los” is 86 mm deep drop-point close to spear-point, “Promisloviy maliy” is 98 mm clip-point, “Zahyatz” is 82 mm curved cutting edge with shallow drop-point close to normal point. It’s up to user purpose which one to chose.
As an example, in 2006 the “Los” was tested by Maslennikov at hunt. It was perfect at skinning elks. Also Maslennikov tried to use the “Los” at hares and found it usable but less handy than the “Zahyatz” specialized for skinning small games. The “Los” (Elk) was developed in 2004. The prototype was received by Maslennikov in one of his business trips over hunting equipment shops. One shop owner (who was hunter also) looked at the “Toolen” (Seal) model and said that it would be useful to create a knife with shorter blade, longer handle and little rest for thumb. It’s form his words that the knife was drawn and then produced.
This is one of the 3 “hunter’s demand for the long handle” knife (together with “Rees-2”(Lynx-2), “Promisloviy maliy” (Gaming little)) created by wishes of hunters of 3 climatic zone from North to South.
The “Los” is very similar at “Promisloviy maliy” and at “Zahyatz” knives but there are differences in the blade forms: “Los” is 86 mm deep drop-point close to spear-point, “Promisloviy maliy” is 98 mm clip-point, “Zahyatz” is 82 mm curved cutting edge with shallow drop-point close to normal point. It’s up to user purpose which one to chose.
As an example, in 2006 the “Los” was tested by Maslennikov at hunt. It was perfect at skinning elks. Also Maslennikov tried to use the “Los” at hares and found it usable but less handy than the “Zahyatz” specialized for skinning small games.