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a 7-8 inch fairly heavy and thick blade does an aweful lot of work. i can split tent stove firewood, cut guy out pegs etc. it may not be perfect for everything but a big knife will do everything a small knife will. the reverse is not true

Not fancy or beautiful, but for cutting through a brisket nothing can compare with these.
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That Dexter is real close to what we used to carve up moose. Non-serrated. Meat-cutter that we used to grind burger and make sausage turned us on to them. Great use for that size of a blade.

Large knife and a tomahawk...

This is way too big

Get a real Knife and stop being a Cheap Queer. Dexters Suck.

Get a 10" Dick, like mine, and be a man will ya?

I buy what interests me, and don't feel the need to justify my choices. Personally, I love a big knife, a big chopper if you will.

I hunted a few times on an Island in the Mississippi River. Went fishing on another. Exclusive places where they had a hired hand to help with cleaning game. These guys were rivermen that commercial fished and if the truth be known probably lived off meat they killed when nobody was around. I ran into 3 different ones and they all had a big flexible knife about a foot and a half long straight blade about an inch to 1 1\4 " deep full length of the blade. Looked to be homemade. Were razor sharp and they could make short work of a deer with them. I thought they looked to big to use but they sliced and cut with them with ease. They used them on fish too. Sliced through big catfish backbones like butter.

Really like that sheath GW!

IIRC, got it from "Track of the Wolf for $ 14.99.

https://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/51/1/SHEATH-7R

Shows to be out of stock at the moment but they have other styles.

https://www.trackofthewolf.com/List/Item.aspx/51/1

ya!

GWB

I signed up for notification when they're back in stock! Thanks GW!

Frog--OUT!

I've tried a good many blade configurations and
price ranges of knives for deer carving.
I prefer the old longer butchering blades
like have been used for many years.
If I need a short handy knife to carry, I have
at least one pocketknife on me every day.
Short fixed blades haven't worked for me
except for some kitchen chores

This ^ ^ ^ ^ is a nice design, but I'd want the
edge all the way back to the handle.
Nice all purpose all around user

I can do most work on stuff like deer and antelope with a 3 1/2" blade. But to look right the knife with a 3 1/2" blade should have a handle sized to match. I have normal to fairly large hands and a smaller knife handle is no issue for field dressing chores. And such a knife is compact, handy, and light.

For more extensive or more strenuous work I like a larger more hand filling grip. The smaller pictured knife has dressed squirrels, rabbits, and deer, and has gutted and gilled trout with aplomb.

If I were in a camp and doing a lot of camp chores and maybe quartering numerous deer I want the larger knife.

FWIW there's only 1 1/8 difference in actual blade length.

going off next Wed. for a week in the Ocala NF. I'll be wearing Tim Olt's 'snub nose' as a daily user, and his 'big chopper' just in case. lol

'Just in case' you run into one of those big snakes? Or haven't they gotten to Ocala yet.
Have a good trip.

I keep a cold steel fixed blade on the straps of my back pack when hunting to cut away any limbs or brush around my stand/sitting position so there’s nothing interfering with the ability to shoulder and swing my rifle.

some years back we found an 11 foot reticulated python on the side of the road here in Gainesville. A mower had hit him, but our vet fixed him up. We called him Mad Max the Road Warrior. When he got to 13 feet, we gave him away. Yeah, your chopper could handle that easily.

The saw blade on a little Victorinox SAK works great for that job.

BGG made this knife for me. It's great for prime rib, turkey and any large cut of meat.

I have a 17" blade that fits on the front of my SHTLE mk I***