Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What's the smallest fixed blade, folding knife you use for cleaning your Game and Fish?

This knife. Bought a few of them, keep one in every hunting and hiking coat. Have gutted more than a few deer with them when I didn't have a better knife with.

GERBER Folding Knife: 2 in Blade Lg, 2 1/2 in Closed Lg, 4 1/2 in Overall Lg, Plastic, Straight - 45NV80|46050 - Grainger
https://www.grainger.com/product/45NV80?gucid=N:N:PS:Paid:GGL:CSM-2295:4P7A1P:20501231&gclid=CjwKCAjwpKyYBhB7EiwAU2Hn2RPGq87-S6sL6TR2bC7FS71m0gdkkEpuADxKQs672vFmakqU01VKFhoCnKEQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

I keep claiming I'm going to use this one but I'm lying to myself. I drag it out and sharpen it and put it back in the weapons locker. The only thing it'll ever cut is my dumb friends.

Usually goes like this:

"is it sharp?"
"yes, shaving sharp"
"really?" "OUWWWWWAAAAAA SHIIIIT" "why didn't you tell me it was sharp?"

"laughter"

Geno, that's one of the most beautiful knives I've ever seen. I would be hard pressed to put that to work; it's a real piece of art.

Thanks Offshoreman! I feel the same way. I really feel bad about owning it to be honest. I was rummaging around and found some ammo I wouldn't use (at the height of the price lunacy) and offered it up for trade on another forum and my buddy offered to put a knife together for me. He used stuff he already had on hand but I really feel like he got the worst end of the deal.

I am not a guthook fan, but everything else about that knife is exquisite! You certainly have a prize there.

I st down and over a few night sharpened our kitchen knifes.
Just about shaving sharp.

My girl picks one of them up and proceeds to cut her hand.
She started yelling at me.
What did you do to our knives
I told her that I was tired of dull knives so I sharpened them up a bit until I can get the right stone to really sharpen them up.

He yelled at me that I made them dangerous because they are to sharp.
I Mentioned to her that I let her know that they were Sharpened and to be careful.

I then found the right stone and sat don and sharpened some pocket knives shaving sharp.

She got pissed off at me for some reason and will not let me sharpen the kitchen knives to the proper sharpness.

But she will use the glass knives we gut from Harbor Freight which are shaving sharp.

Women I will never understand them

No doubt. What a gorgeous knife!

I wouldn't mind getting some blood on it but I know dang well I would set it down in some dead leaves and never find it again. lol

Buck 371 and a 110, good up through elk. Went a little larger for moose.

I like the 4" Buck Vanguard 692BR, I prefer the model with the rubber grip. Use it for moose and Caribou. For Caribou my Buck 110 works just fine. but it's not the fixed blade that was asked about.

https://www.amazon.com/Buck-692BR-Vanguard-Fixed-Blade/dp/B000EHUYQ4

I've used my Old Timer pocket knife lots of times to clean fish and skin deer. Have to have a saw to cut the bones on the deer. It doesn't take a special knife for either, just a sharp knife.

Over the past 10 or 12 years all of our big game has been field dressed with a folding Gerber with about a 4 to 4 1/2” blade! memtb

I bought both of these knives at the Airborne PX in Ft. Benning, GA, as a gift to myself after graduating jump school. That was in December of 1990. I have used the non-locking folder to clean dozens of salmon. The lockback is a 2 3/4" 501 Squire. I carried it to work when I was an attorney (back before metal detectors at courthouses) and then took it hunting with me too. I field dressed two or three deer with it, before getting another knife. I still have both knives.

I've got dozens of pocket knives but this is the one I find myself holding 98% of the time, a Buck 301 Stockman.

Either of these work splendidly. One is a 3” blade, and the other measures 2-1/4”.

I wouldn’t own a knife just to rest in a glass curio cabinet.

I’d be whacking zip ties, cutting garden/radiator hose, skinning deer. So….no sense in paying more than 30-40 for it.

Hate be all boo-boo face if I lost my $800 custom hand made Pope blessed, walrus penis bone handle work of art. Drop it down into some jetty rocks hacking up bait.

Buck 110
Walmart
Made in USA
Was $29 till 51% of you closet dill wads put Bidet in office. Now it’s $39

One time I killed a deer and forgot my fixed blade knife, but my little Buck pocket knife worked fine to field dress it. Any sharp knife works good.

When we hunted moose in Alberta during some slow time the conversation turned to knives and I asked the guide how many of his clients showed up with "new" knives just for moose? Lots. The rest of the answer was, "The longer the blade, the less likely it is that the person has any clue how to use it.".

You don’t need a broadsword to gut a deer.

Z Blade. It is a #66 scalpel in an injection molded case, weighs less than an ounce. They stay sharp for a while, the current one I have has several deer and a cow bison under its belt and it is still sharp.

I have gutted over 100 deer with my Gerber ultralight LST lock blade folder. Handle 31/2 inches, blade 31/4 inches. Come sharp and take a very sharp edge. I used it for years till I lost it and replaced it with another, I also have a spare now.