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Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife AbeJohnsen #15598322 01/02/21
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hanco Campfire Savant Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 151,214 Texas	A buck 118, don’t need axes, sazalls, chainsaws, machetes, to skin and quarter a deer. Last edited by hanco; 01/02/21.

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Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife AbeJohnsen #15598365 01/02/21
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TheKid Campfire Outfitter T Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 8,173	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.

Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife AbeJohnsen #15598411 01/02/21
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River_Ridge Campfire Tracker Joined: Mar 2015 Posts: 3,584 Upstate NY	Buck 105 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.

Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife AbeJohnsen #15598646 01/02/21
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JGRaider Campfire Ranger J Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 28,239 W. Texas	Puma Warden for 20+ years now. It is irrelevant what you think. What matters is the TRUTH.

Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife AbeJohnsen #15598696 01/02/21
Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 11,951 NB / Canada SuperCub Campfire Outfitter
SuperCub Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 11,951 NB / Canada	Any knife could be used to skin game, but what defines a knife as a "skinning" knife?

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Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife AbeJohnsen #15598748 01/02/21
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CRS Campfire Tracker Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 5,924 Black Hills of Dakota	I have used many different styles to skin, and have come to prefer whichever knife is sharp. Arcus Venator

Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife SuperCub #15598749 01/02/21
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JRS3 Campfire Regular J Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 1,169 Florida	Originally Posted by SuperCub Originally Posted by JRS3 Randall #5 stays attached at my hip during hunting season. This one? https://www.randallknives.com/knives/model-5-camp-and-trail-knife/ 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.

Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife JRS3 #15598812 01/02/21
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SuperCub Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 11,951 NB / Canada	Originally Posted by JRS3 Originally Posted by SuperCub Originally Posted by JRS3 Randall #5 stays attached at my hip during hunting season. This one? https://www.randallknives.com/knives/model-5-camp-and-trail-knife/ 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!

Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife RIO7 #15598868 01/02/21
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sbhooper Campfire Regular S Joined: Jul 2014 Posts: 2,556 Nebraska	Originally Posted by RIO7 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.

Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife AbeJohnsen #15599115 01/02/21
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Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife AbeJohnsen #15599156 01/02/21
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bigswede358 Campfire Regular B Joined: Apr 2013 Posts: 1,962 N. Idaho	Buck 110 It does all the field work too

Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife AbeJohnsen #15599285 01/02/21
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CRS Campfire Tracker Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 5,924 Black Hills of Dakota	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

Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife CRS #15599331 01/02/21
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kennymauser Campfire Tracker Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 4,270 Montana	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.

Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife Ralphie #15599382 01/02/21
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efw Campfire Ranger E Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 29,632 Mi.	Originally Posted by Ralphie 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

Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife AbeJohnsen #15599389 01/02/21
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Judman Campfire Ranger J Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 21,176 N.. Newaukum, Washington	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.

Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife AbeJohnsen #15599674 01/02/21
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Talus_in_Arizona Campfire Tracker T Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,575 AZ	Havalon Piranta. Not even close. I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world itself is vexing enough. -- Col. Stonehill

Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife AbeJohnsen #15599745 01/02/21
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Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife AbeJohnsen #15599901 01/02/21
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ribka Campfire Ranger R Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 24,146 PNW	Victornix skinning knife or the 8 dollar paring knife and a piece of steel. Like the carbon cold steel master hunter too.

Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife Judman #15599918 01/02/21
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ribka Campfire Ranger R Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 24,146 PNW	Originally Posted by Judman A few I like. The orange howe mountain Wyoming skinner is my favorite I like that Wy skinner

Re: What’s your favourite skinning knife AbeJohnsen #15599927 01/02/21
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