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I carry a Helle Jagermester, love it

For all of you interested:

The best there is, bar none-----

Walker Wax on your knives, Obenaufs on your sheaths.

Use them, and you'll agree.

Thank me later .....

Boker Trapper or a KOA Feather light Hunter D2, only 2oz.

Somewhete I have a buck fixed blade with a guthook, but it's vanished from the knife drawer. I carry my dad's old fixed blade case for sentimental reasons, but I also carry an Outdoor Edge combo pak with a smal bone saw and a swing blaze in my pack

Tonight I used a BHK bushbaby. A 3" fixed blade that does a great job dressing and skinning.

If I don't use it I use a Jeff White trade knife that has a 4" blade and a convex grind.

A 30 year old Buck folding hunter, nothing fancy but has dressed
many critters in those 30yrs.

I carry my michiganroadkill custom:

Crotts.

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After

Basic buck 110 folder. Gutted a bunch of deer with that knife in 30 years. I also have my dads old case sheath knife.

This, hands down the best thing to ever come along.

Especially when I've taken two complete moose apart only with one of these. And a couple of blades.

I guess I could get a fancy one to carry on the belt though, just to look good.

Survival knife situation is different though.

An old Gerber folder that stays kickazz sharp. And last year I broke down and bought a Morseth out of a pawn shop here that is a great traditional knife. Laminated blade. It's purely an indulgence as my Gerber and a locally made b&t knife have served me well for years. Great steel in both of them.

Why? What does a wimpy assed little Chinese thro-away blade have on a real knife? Nothing, IMO. I'm certain I would break it. If you can't sharpen a knife, or use it for small fur-bearers, I could see it being an asset. But for big game? Why? Plus it has NO SOUL....

I carried this Marbles knife in good old 1095 steel tonight. It's hair shaving sharp. Nothing too special, but if you want to compare a Havalon to it, for use on big game, I'm LMAO.....

Boring as it may be, I always use my case xx fixed blade. It gets the job done very easily..

Mike E Miller Lite Hunter

the deer around here are slightly bigger, and different color than what you guys have....

Huntsman - More than a few city people have shot deer that looked like that.....

SOUL has zero to do with using a knife. But if you want to thats cool.

I"m just utilitarian and use what works best for me.

I"ve seen all kinds of blades snapped over years of guiding, by idiots. YOu can even snap these blades if you don't pay attention. I did 2 weeks ago in a hurry. Hadn't done that in a long time.

BUT if my little wimpy assed Havalon can take a moose all the way down to skinned, gutted, quartered, deboned, caped, etc with no help... its more than enough for me. Cheap enough.

And while you are sharpening I"m further down the road.

I will admit I had a Randal that I was given to use and I made a few swipes on the last moose on the skin part of it, until it was dull. And put it away. I"d used it. Its a nice knife from a friend. I was not impressed and went back to what works best for me.

It may have to do that I was a taxidermist for years though too... I know how to use blades, and how not to use blades probably at least as well as the average person...and I find that cumulative time sharpening can be used for other more enjoyable tasks.

But like I said, I never fault anyone for their choice, but all means if it works. I'm just happy someone was smart enough to make a folder that fit the long autopsy blades... so I could quit carrying long fixed blade scalpel handles.

And I don't know a guiding buddy of mine that hasn't quit using other knives once they used this type.... Have 5 or 6 that use them exclusively on coastal brown bears... that says enough for me. Especailly when guides recieve all the top knives as tips/gifts.

How many of you need to use saws to reduce game to quarters or less?