To really find out if it suits your purpose is to use what you think would work for you, or one similiar.
Years ago, when I first started making knives, I designed one for my own use. I thought it was the perfect knife. It fit my hand perfectly and had a blade shape that seemed just perfect for field dressing. I was going to put it into production and get rich.
I still have it. Shortly afterward, I killed an antelope, and used the knife to field dress it. That was the most ungainly, clumsy, hard to control, hard to handle knife and uncomfortable to hold knife I have ever used.
That is the only time I have ever used it.
In my opinion, the Russell pattern is the best design ever thought up for using for field dressing and skinning. It is not all that attractive, and many people give them a glance and go on by, but use it and you quickly form a different opinion.
It works.
Which Russell design?
