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A buck 118, don’t need axes, sazalls, chainsaws, machetes, to skin and quarter a deer.
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In the elk mountains or on trips I keep a Blind Horse Frontier patch knife and a Busse Combat SAR4 on my belt. Generally between the two I can break down an elk or moose or skin a couple bears before I need to worry about sharpening.
Around home hunting deer or peeling the occasional backstrap out of a pig, I just use my normal pocketknife. Always some type of jumbo trapper, currently a Great Eastern with micarta scales and carbon blades.
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Wag more, bark less.
The freedoms we surrender today will be the freedoms our grandchildren will never know existed.
The men who wrote the Second Amendment didn't just finish a hunting trip, they just finished liberating a nation.
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Puma Warden for 20+ years now.
It is irrelevant what you think. What matters is the TRUTH.
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Any knife could be used to skin game, but what defines a knife as a "skinning" knife?
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I have used many different styles to skin, and have come to prefer whichever knife is sharp.
Arcus Venator
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Small Camp with 4 inch blade and stag horn handle. I'm on my 2nd over 30 years. I broke the first blade skinning a deer. Randall said send it back so they could check and see if it was abused (me) or a grain in the metal. It ended up being the metal and they sent me a new one, probably 15 years ago. It holds a good edge and I have broken down many critters up to elk with it. For skinning it's a great knife. I have caped with it but carry along a Havalon specific for detail work, as the razors are fantastic at that.
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Small Camp with 4 inch blade and stag horn handle. I'm on my 2nd over 30 years. I broke the first blade skinning a deer. Randall said send it back so they could check and see if it was abused (me) or a grain in the metal. It ended up being the metal and they sent me a new one, probably 15 years ago. It holds a good edge and I have broken down many critters up to elk with it. For skinning it's a great knife. I have caped with it but carry along a Havalon specific for detail work, as the razors are fantastic at that. Thanks ...... Nice knives!
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A real sharp knife, works for me. Rio7
Exactly! Any knife is good, as long as you learn to sharpen it. I have some expensive knives, but they are no better than cheaper ones for skinning, gutting etc. With custom, the sky is the limit. For commercial knives, it is hard to beat Buck, Knives of Alaska, or Puma.
You did not "seen" anything, you "saw" it. A "creek" has water in it, a "crick" is what you get in your neck. Liberals with guns are nothing but hypocrites.
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Buck 110 or it's little brother - Buck 112.
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Buck 110
It does all the field work too
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I have used all sorts of knives for skinning and have never found a "skinning" knife to be that much of an advantage.
Arcus Venator
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I have been carrying the same Western sheath knife since I was 12 yrs old. It still works as good as it ever did, but being a knife nut, I have found the Gerber Gator , and a few custom knives actually do the hard stuff better, but the Western still gets the skinning work! It's the one with the upswept blade.
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Something with replaceable blades. I hate sharpening and I’m really good at dulling.
Can totally understand the sentimental attachment to a special knife or just appreciating a fine one.
But what I most appreciate is scary sharp with little to no effort on my part Yep that’s me too
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A few I like. The orange howe mountain Wyoming skinner is my favorite
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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Havalon Piranta. Not even close.
I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world itself is vexing enough. -- Col. Stonehill
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Victornix skinning knife or the 8 dollar paring knife and a piece of steel.
Like the carbon cold steel master hunter too.
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A few I like. The orange howe mountain Wyoming skinner is my favorite I like that Wy skinner
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Grohmann #1. The one on the bottom.
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My heart's in the mountains, my heart is not here. My heart's in the mountains, chasing the deer.
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