I've had many a knife, but I always gravitate back to using my Case XXX blades on deer.

Always have my Case as well as a small neck knife.

Been using this forever.

usually a small folder with about 2" blade.

Think it's a Buck

great for going blindly elbows deep for that 'corrugated' wind pipe


a pelvic canal with a full bladder of deer piss is no place to be swinging a Rambo knife

I've got the Case leather hunter, and a smaller one That goes with it, here is the well weathered set.

1972 vintage Puma 970 Game Warden.

Used a small case like above forever. It is retired for a nice piece of 1084 by Ed Caffrey. An EBK drop point.

Whatever is in my pocket.
Most often a Case pocket knife, but always an American made pocket knife of some sort.

My favorite field dressing/skinning knife. I've tried others, but keep coming back to it.

It's brand new but make no mistake it will be my go to field knife for all chores. Rick Menefee drop point hunter modeled after a Tony Bose pattern with jigged black micarta. Do yourself a favor and avoid our knife forums. Only bad things happen there.

Gerber Gator

I was following that thread on the knife forum.
Beautiful work and glad you got one.

Any old sharp pointed, medium sized, lock bladed jackknife. Sharpened real sharp. Easy to carry and so what if you are 3 miles away and remember that you left it laying by the gutpile!

I am a bit of a knife slut so I have been using several over the past few years. However my long time favorite was a old folding western with a composite handle and a clip blade about 4" long. A couple of years ago the nylon sheath was getting battered and I was afraid I would lose it so I replaced the sheath with a new one. Of course the belt loop on the new one failed and lost both the knife and the sheath the first time out. I did manage to replace it recently with the magic of ebay so I will probably continue to use it.

same gerber 3 1/2" folding knife for past 36 years.

-ken

The same Buck 110 I've been using since 1976.

Helle Jagermeister, got it from my wife for my 33rd birthday this year. Used it on 26 big game critters so far and I absolutely love it!

I have used a buck 119 since 1991, I have tried others and keep coming back to the buck. It holds an edge very well, as I am a "splitter" I desire the longer blade. GRF

I have 2 Kauffman hunting knives and I rarely use them. I always have my leatherman on my belt and it holds an edge as good as anything I have found. The saw blade will make quick work of the brisket as well...

Lately, this right here:

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Gerber 97223 since the early 1970's.

Buck 110 for a folder and Helle Godbit when I carry a fixed.

I usually don't carry the fixed blade knife while using a climbing stand or climbing into trees in general.

Gene Ingram #7


ddj

Buck 110 with S30V as sold by Cabelas. This year I used a knife I inherited from my dad, an Old Timer Sharpfinger. I was surprised at how well I liked the design of it.

Buck folder or Buck Fixed blade with gut hook.
AMRA

Good to see other Buck 110 users. I believe the one I posted is from the early 70's. Memory is fuzzy on exact year.

Boker Tree Brand Classic 2002, Solingen, Germany.

Gerber Gator here

Charlie May Trace.

Browning Mountain Ti.



I carry it everyday and use it for everything. I would feel bad about buying a new one... This is just beyond perfect. Light weight, sharp, looks great, and is a slim fit in my pocket.

Field dressing ... a pair of Gerber LSTs. The "magnum" handles "outside work": throat cutting, leg removal, and and any skinning needed. The "medium" does "inside work" like cutting loose the diaphragm and the fine detail work around the anus.

(Damn, did I really say that?)

In other years I've used a Buck General, original Gerber LMF, Buck Vanguard ... they are great but the Gerber Folders are smaller and lighter and adequate to the job.

Tangent ... one time my dad didn't know he'd forgotten his knife 'til he had a buck down. He did all he could think of ... beat his empty '06 case flat with a rock, kept beating 'til he'd made a sharp spot on it, and gutted his deer with that. Seems easier to check yer pockets before leaving the house IMHO.

Tom

One of the reasons I always loved using two-blade heads for bowhunting. Pretty hard to get a knife any sharper, and, had a quiver full of backups.

this is my go to for now, its a mitchellmountain #15, as in the 15th I've made. Worked slick, A2 hardened to 60RC and rosewood burl handles. I gutted, skinned and got most of the way through boning out the meat before having to touch up the blade. Different steel really makes a difference.


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Havalon Piranta

I used a Buck 110 (actually two or three--I'm bad about losing knives) for over 30 years. In the early 1990s, a guest sent me a Kershaw Folding Field and that is what I have used ever since on deer, elk, pronghorns, feral hogs, javelina and a few Texas exotics. The one shown below is only a couple of years old, as I laid the original one down while pulling the innards out of a Colorado bull elk and never saw it again, despite hours of searching and several different trips back to the site to see if it would turn up. (Did I mention that I'm bad about losing knives?)

For skinning I very much like a drop point but for field dressing it is very hard to beat the "sharpfinger" shape....



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Currently either use a Linder Super Edge (bottom) or a Frost Mora



Usually I have a lock knife of some sort as back up, but dislike using folders for gralloching work as I have seen locks fail once too often. Additionally, folders have too many nooks and crannies that get filled with blood, fat and snot, and are generally a pain to clean compared to a fixed blade..

Got my first Case knife for Chirstmas,a Trapper Lock. Nice knife.

SKane,

I know this thread is about knives, but wow! What a buck!

+1, fuggin' amazing mass!

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Ka-bar Dozier

Great design with good steel and cheap too!

Amazing buck Skane!

Knives of Alaska Bear Cub.

I like the one in my favorite color... Olive drab.

I would buy one but I feel like I would betray my Browning.

I've got two of them {gifts} and they're junk.

L-R ... Bark River, Grohman belt knife clone, Grohman, pre WWII Erik Frost/Mora.

Buck 110 and a Wyoming saw. Make quick work of a deer around these parts.

Gerber fix blade with Gut Hook

I only put two in my pack anymore. Cutco and a havalon.

Buck 110 and 119. I like them both.

The little one.

Buck Alpha fixed blade with gut hook or Buck 110. Going to try a new Buck Woodsman that I received for Xmas this year in the future.

I only stopped using my 110 because to me it seemed like quite a lot of weight for its size. I say that mostly as a lead in to saying: for a while Buck offered a titanium bodied version of the 110 and I meant to buy one but I waited too long and they were discontinued.

A lot of guys here appreciate really fine things...a good bourbon, a good cigar, a fine rifle, etc.. A hunting knife to me is like that too. I get a lot of enjoyment out of pulling out a fine custom knife from my pack or off my belt when it's time to field dress and/or butcher a game animal.

My Charles May that I bought here. Awesome knife, I love it!

Hen & Rooster 5011

You need to hit the weights a little harder.

Kershaw folder or one of my (2)Gerber folders.

Buck Zipper

Thinking if you added picts of all of your knives, Rick would need to add another server.

I REALLY like that blade. I dabble a little with a hammer and hot steel and the frustration of finishing out a blade. You really never apreciate a fine cutting machine till you own one and USE it. Buck and Case will serve 90% of the public well for their use, but that last bit of performance comes for a price and man is it ever performance.

I found this one to be just perfect for deer

Buck 105

Well said sir. Most of us know that your love affair is deeper than that though. Your knife porn collection is more than impressive.

Antlers....What Winston Model Numbers are they?? THANKS

Hopefully I can try this out next year.

The Spalted Maple one is the Model 45, and the one with jigged and fluted dyed Camel Bone is the Model 62.

Wyoming knife.

Ka-Bar 1607.

Many. I really like the stuff I bought from Erwin and Vince.

Dozier K-16M Modified Yukon Pro Skinner. A wonderful blade for deer and much more.

My favorites are from the Dozier & Ingram shops...

I have a few, and gravitate (a lot) to the top one below. It isn't very pretty anymore, but I like a knife you can dress, skin and cape with all in one, and it fits the bill just right.

What year is yours? I sent mine in for repair and Buck sent it back good to go with a value sheet on it. Just about crapped when I found out what this broken found knife is worth.

Agree with you Pete on the Frost Mora. Bought a few of them and had one custom sheath made. All I could ask for.

g

How much is that worth and why? Seems to be lots of those Bucks around, so wondering why that one.

I carry a Buck 500 and like it alot.

I'm guessing the late 70's. Maybe early 80's. I used to have two, and sold one. I'm not sure which one I kept.

What are they worth?

Green River Russell, Sheepskinner. Saw it in box, brand new at the winter Yankton, SD gunshow 1974. It was a commercial grade drop pt skinning knife with stamped metal finger guard. I was 19 at the time I asked the guy behind the table how much as I was handling it thinking it would be my go to hunting belt knife. He looked at me and said 6 bucks and I was thinking to much. (you could get a good S series Chicago for $3 and change back then)He said you think that's to much? JFC there are 4 of them in that box, dumb ass. Kept my mouth shut and handed him a $5 bill and enough change to make 6. He got a little red in the face and handed the change back and said "didn't mean to take all you had". I just said thanks and walked away with the knives. One I gave to a person I thought of as a friend, another to a person who is still a friend the other two are still working. Custom Sheaths, they respond well to sharpening with a steel, stays sharp for two-3 animals. $1.50 knife 38 years and over 140 animals ago with it. For some things,how much money it costs just don't have jackshit to do with it. Magnum Man

I like knives too much to stick to one but so far this one or an Ingram Dropped Hunter have been my favorites.
The #4 B&T works too.

This year got a outdoor edge swing blaze. Great for dear. Cheap enough you can lose it and you won't cringe when your partner is trying to de-joint with it.

Dave

Don't really have a go to. For several years I used a Buck Vantage folder but lately there has been the Ingram #1, Dozier Yukon Pro, Ingram Lite Hunter, and this year a Mike Miller Lite Hunter. Any one of them would work for a one knife forever guy, but I'm not that guy.

Gerber Gator

Yep

Surgically sharp everytime and if not, so ez to switch in the field

These 3 see lots of work

Anybody tried or know anything about the new Gerber Myth fixed blade?

Very much like the bottom one of those two..

A Marble's Woodcraft with antler handle my Dad got in the early '50s and gave to me 20 years ago or a Cold Steel Master Hunter.

Include me in on that idea...

Hard not to like the Ingrams but the Bolt Action is a hell of a tool too.

Cold Steel Pocket Bushman

There are some who favor this pattern.

Tim

Randall Model 23

Mines a hen n rooster mini trapper...just cause its what I carry regardless....

Puma Master folder, since 1982.

i now use a buck 112 folder since 2001
used a buck 110 folder for years since 1978 been put up now dont use it no more
also have a buck sheath knife that i used for awhile back in the 90,s

some 8 inch fixed blade i received as a gift. it's about 30 years old. this christmas i got a case fixed blade. haven't got to try it out yet.

Carried an old milsurp Ontario USMC fighting knife for years(got it for $17 back in the mid 90s), lately it's been regulated to bleeding out steers and pigs when we butcher. Been using a Buck 110 and like it a lot, been thinking on a 119...

When right at home I use a home made knife may by my buddy, Barry Gouge. That thing is amazing. Otherwise I use a Buck 110. It really is hard to beat a Buck 110. I will be handing mine down to my little man, or getting him a new one.

buck 124

Knives of Alaska Bush Camp knife. The D2 tool steel on it stays sharp for a long time.

Put this one together a couple of years ago, using an Alabama Damascus blade, and some Maple Burl. Nice size for deer.

That would go nice with a flintlock.

Wow

Couldn't find the posed pic of Woodcraft with my ol' Liberty Model SBH, but here's the Marble's in action today (see Son Hunter thread) and the Cold Steel is laying on the tailgate below.

I use a Randall 23 also. Great knife.

i aint seen that patch since 2001


where you from

im originally from old town/milford area



you need to join the tn mafia

D.H. Russell "trout & bird"

Those are THE perfect style & size for a deer hunting field knife!


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I'll also 2nd the Frost Mora knives. I bought a couple of them at Smokey Mtn Knife Works and wow those things get scary sharp. I keep one in the truck and even went back and bought one for my buddy for his new truck. Not crazy about the sheath for actual belt carry but for about $12 they are like stealing.

Bark River Woodland Special.

Totally agree. Keep away from the knife forum! Evil place! I'm hooked.

Boker with red liners. Love this knife.

just for Field dressing, I like a little knife.. So I use a Blind Horse Knife's "lil Muk"

Just a little neck sheath knife.