J[quote=nighthawk]Shhh! Calling a cheap knife good is a heresy. But with modern metallurgy and production methods it's easy to make a cheap, serviceable knife. Even stainless is so much better - what they use in production facilities where you work with a knife 8 hours a day. And those guys would buy knives more expensive than Victronics/Forchners if it made life better.
Just keep it sharp and you'll make it through any game animal. Dad once field dressed a deer with his cheap pipe knife and it was far from razor sharp.
Another secret is that being a "hunting knife" in most cases is a pretty easy gig for a blade. Gutting a deer? It only requires cutting some soft tissue. I expect that anything Mora makes is more than adequate.
Yep, gutting a deer can be done with a broken beer bottle.
Skinning one and breaking down quarters, that's not quite the same knife game.
The Indians did it with rocks 🙂
‘Course, they upgraded to steel when they could.
Damn, I can’t quite recall the name, but there’s a number of Indian place names in the East that translate to “place of sharpening stones”. Once they were buying knives en mass they needed to keep an edge on them, some rocks worked better than others. Honing stones got traded around.
