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I used a guide with a guy that had a custom set made by a maker in eastern AZ who’s name I can’t remember. One was a skinning knife and the other was a gutting knife. The gutting knife was backwards so to speak. The cutting edge of the blade was on top and the spine was on the bottom with the handle in a regular position. The end of the blade had an unsharpened round “point” He could slit an elk lickety split and never worry about punching a gut. Interesting purpose driven design.

Mornin, I put this on the other Puma thread but no response. Once saw a Puma fixed blade & in the handle it had a gutting blade that opened like a jack knife. Can't understand why someone hasn't tried this before??? If it was done right I don't think it would weaken the handle. No more than a hidden tang knife. Ya would take some special machining but with cnc would just be another line in the cnc program. Now I've only seen the one Puma like this & lm on knife sites a lot. PS that swing blade is a heck of an idea too. Even the double blade folder would work but again ,maybe to weak for other tasks. What ya think. GWPGUY. 🐾👣🇨🇦

"What you think?" I think it's a lot of talk and fuss over nothing. I don't understand the need for a special blade for gutting.

A good gutting knife is a good skinning knife is a good butchering knife is a good steak knife.

Never saw the need for more than one well balanced razor sharp blade.

What's 'need' have to do with it?

I like a sharp point to one for everything. Like to poke into the hide first, the just turn It over and don't pop the stomach. Like at least 5 or 6 inches of blade to free the lungs, heart, and windpipe, then pull all out in one clump. I've gutted a heck of alot of deer sized stuff with an old sharpfinger that is carbon steel.

So many experts on here, who new??? Thanks for your time. GWPGUY. 🐾👣🇨🇦

Huntsman2, ya I've bought chit I just had to & never did use it. Including many, many knives!!! Use some of it for awhile then give it to kids. Used to put 22 rimfire boxes in mail boxes were kids lived on our road. Just the ones I new the parents & got permission. Eventually they clued in, always said from Santa. GWPGUY 🐾👣🇨🇦

My dedicated gutting knife is a Buck 102 fixed blade knife. It has special meaning for me as it was owned by my hunting and fishing mentor, a WWII veteran Marine pilot. It originally had its 4" blade, but his wife broke off the blade tip on frozen hamburgers. He took it to work (US Rubber Company) and had the shop reshape the blade. He then sharpened it at home. The blade is now 3" long and about perfect for field dressing a deer. He had small hands, and mine are extra large, but it works for me. My other gutting knife is also a Buck, the 112 folding knife, also with a 3" blade. I bought the 112 in 1973 and have had the 102 since 1985, when my friend died.

I have all his knives, mostly old Ka-Bars. Another with special meaning is his sandwich knife. It's a Camillus fishing knife which came out of one of the airplanes he flew in the South Pacific. Every survival kit in the plane's life raft had such a knife. It is wicked sharp. We used it to cut Hungarian bacon and onion for our sandwiches. Memories.....

Buck 116. Probably my favorite pure gutting knife although ringing the bung hole isn't the easiest.