Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Advice on an all around good knife..

I use a bark river Fox River knife. I can skin and completely debone a deer and still slice paper afterwards. Convex edge is easy to maintain.

I am real late to this thread but here are my experiences and thoughts. The first time I skinned a deer with my Buck 110 my Mom gave me 25 years ago, I just about cut my hand off because it was slippery with blood and the upturned point dug deep <<< inexperience too.

I switched to my carry knife, a small drop point Michael Walker Spyderco and finished the work. After that first deer, I picked up a Spyderco Native and used that a few years.

I bought a Schrade Old Timer 143T for 19.99 at Academy, a rubber handled gut hook skinner and that became my all time favorite hunting knife. It was easy to grip when bloody, the gut hook works great and the drop point is easier for me to skin with.

Someone liked it more than me and it disappeared while I was on the farm. A family member probably borrowed it and lost it or was too scared to return it.

I have had the sheath in the kitchen drawer for 5-7 years and it bugged me so I jumped on Ebay a few months ago and found one. I did not know Schrade went out of business. So I bought a replacement and when it arrived I was bummed, it was a chinaloca copy and I had no idea Schrade had them made anywhere but the USA! I gave it to my cousin as a birthday present and ordered another, Made in the USA and then a second, a 141 drop point skinner as backup.

There is no doubt that I would love to own some of the custom, micarta scaled, red liner, fancy pinned, back filed drop points that have surfaced on the classifieds but it will be hard to beat the utterly simple, not so pretty, 20.00 Schrade.