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Just wondering what ya'll carry while hunting, or use after the kill. I'm a big fan of cold steel lately. I bought a SRK and that sucker is tough. Holds an edge real good. I've used it to gut, skin, debone, heck I've even split firewood with it.

I like Cold Steel. I know that Lin caught a lot of chit back in the day for his over the top advertising but I’ve always liked the products and liked the ads.

I have a few Marbles some that I use and some that I just collect. I like Rapid River and Bark River. I have a Hess and Blind Horse that I like. My go to hunting and camp knife is a Cold Steel US made Master Hunter. I like the blade profile, it holds an edge and touches up pretty easily. The handle feels good and it has a reversible sheath which I like as a lefty.

I have a Busse SAR4 and a Blind Horse patch knife I keep in my pack sharpened up and ready to go. But honestly most of the time I just use my pocket knife. GEC jumbo trapper, carbon steel easy to get razor sharp and touch up if needed, big enough to handle any dressing and quartering task I’ve ever encountered.

One my great-uncle made for me. Basically a Marble's copy with some of their steel from back in the day.

I use a case folder

Randall#25 Skinner.

Gerber Gator

Dozier Yukon Pro. I have Ingram #1 and Lite Hunter as well as a Mike Miller Lite Hunter that are beautiful, wonderful knives, but the synthetic handle and horizontal Kydex sheath on the Yukon Pro just fits rough duty better to my senses.

Tim Olt Loveless style

A Buck 110 that I've had since mid 70s and a KOA Alpha Wolf S30V.

Buck zipper with gut hook. Nothing fancy just gets the job done. Also carry a Havalon with extra blades for skinning and light duty tasks.

I've used a Schrade Old Timer folder for maybe 40 years. This year I splurged $30 and bought an Outdoor Edge replaceable blade knife. I've used it on 1 deer and 1 elk so far. It works very well. I don't think the blades hold an edge as long as some guys say they do, but 2 blades gutted and skinned an elk.

I'm a big fan of the replaceable scapel bladed knives (Havalon, Gerber Vital). That said, the more I use it, the more I appreciate my dad's old Schrade Old Timer Sharpfinger. It does a whole let well enough, but honestly I think I enjoy that it was his as much as anything.

I have had great luck with cold steel knives. Not very "refined" but a lot of knife for the money.

The last several deer have been gutted and skinned with the cheap "pendelton hunter". I like the size and shape, the steel is good (Carbon V?) and for about $18 if I lose it, I can replace it.

I have a Bark River Canadian Belt Knife I ordered with a burled handle and mosaic bolsters. Like it. BIL gave me a simple smallish CRKT drop point non-folder and I find myself using the heck out of it. Don't know the model.

Have several Grohman Canadian belt knives and like/used them for years.
Last couple of years I just use the Havalon or OE.
It's just too easy.

Outdoor Edge Flip n' Zip

Buck 192

I jump around because I'm a knife slut.

I've always got a Ingram in my bag or truck just in case but I cleaned the 3 deer we have killed so far with a phil wilson bird and trout knife this year.

Muzzleloader season is in here until the 6th or 7th of Jan. If we kill another one I'm gonna use a buck 118 that my dad gave my granddad in the 70s.

Make mine an Old Timer 125ot Mustang