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I have a wooden box full of hunting knives that I've bought, found, been gifted, but the one that gets used 99% of the time is my Buck 110. My best friends dad gave it to me about 15 years ago. I can sharpen it easy and it holds an edge to my standards. It has gutted, boned, skinned, and processed more deer, elk, bear, grouse, trout, and even one beef than I can remember.

I think I can here it calling now, "put me in some elk blood".

Another vote for the Case Shark folders. I never paid much attention to them until a good friend gave me one about 30 years ago…lost it on a hunt last year and looked several times after…even with a metal detector… replaced it since but it's not the same.

$28 for a lifetime of service, can't beat it!

On an impulse purchase (rarely have those), I picked up one of these yesterday at the local store to check out.
http://www.amazon.com/Outdoor-Edge-Razor-Lite-Knife/dp/B00P6LZHM4

Ain't that the truth. What's not to like IF you can sharpen one. Some haven't learned how.

Jerry

I am lucky not be sharpening challenged. I touched mine up this weekend

I carry a 20 year old schrade sharpfinger. does everything from gutting to boning to skinning to caping.

Only used it on Whitetails here...Done 4 last year before I needed to touch it up. I call it "scary sharp"

The Sharpfinger was great blade.

I have several of them, all US made and 1095.

Amazing how a good fixed blade knife is NEVER a wrong choice - at least with people who actually hunt.

I have a Buck Selector with a drop point blade that I've used for years. It's orange handle has kept me from losing it while field dressing. I would like to find a clip point blade for it if anyone has one for sale

+1

Although Joel did the "16 Bore" just as I wanted and it's the only custom I've got. Good work and reasonable prices.

Dagburnit: 3 new BuckLites arrived today. 1 total POS, 1?, 1 WTF?

Should have stuck with the 673 at the top.

The larger black 679 came in a sheath that is the most uber-retarded damdest thing ever. I can't even begin to wonder WTF they were thinking in Idaho Falls? It's like a freaking taco! It's a gawdammed knife handle enveloping belt taco!

Most disappointing, the 484 small folder is already titz up, doesn't stay fully closed and doesn't lock solid! Didn't last an hour!

The 482 medium folder may work, "may" being the key word or may 'plode like the 484. Yah, it might be ok. Since I already cut the clip off, guess it's going to have to be.

Used a Buck 110 for years. In the last 10 or so, I've been using Gerber Gators clip point non serrated. They've been great.

I have a couple knives with some of the harder steels and find them to be a double edge sword (pun intended). They are harder to sharpen but do stay sharp longer. I'm pretty content with 440 steel.

pretty handy for deer.

the AUS8 blade is easy to keep sharp.

put the ingrams on the classifieds, they'll go fast.

Knives are purely utility tools to me, and tend to be an item that I loose more often than I'd like. I don't have any worth more than $30, I don't think. In my hunting pack I carry a small hook knife with the replaceable double ended blades and 2 Mora's. The hook knife gets used for all initial skinning cuts. Its small enough to not puncture the guts but still get through the hide, and it unzips even elk and moose with ease. The Mora's have been great, really don't need more than 1 but they are cheap and light so an extra can be handy.

I've used the two same Gerber's for almost twenty years. Both are Gators one is folding with 650 steel. The blade is hard and holds up to tough use, like cutting the ivory teeth out. The other is fixed blade with softer steel. That one can be sharpened enough to shave with and is used for skinning. Last year I used a Havalon folding replaceable blade knife on two elk and one buck mulie. The blade is as sharp as a surgical knife and it does a heck of a job. Just have to be extra careful not to cut your fingers off!!

The Buck of all Bucks, semi retired....

The Buck Titanium Folder model 186!!! When I was a 10 year old squirt, I coveted one awfully hard.

Boned out a buck with it yesterday on top of a mountain. Wasn't too impressed. I'll do a few more and then really make up my mind. Didn't seem to stay sharp for very long.