Knives

[Gunpowder]

What kind of knife do you use for dressing deer? How long have you been using it ?

 

[Nicodemus]

I`ve used everything from a simple folding pocketknife, to a custom skinner, to flint and obsidian flakes to skin and break down deer. My favorite steel blade is a 3 inch Nessmuk knife with stag handles, made by Hank Hammond, godogs57 here on the forum. It`s the knife on my hip when I`m hunting.

 

[red neck richie]

I like a buck knife with a gut hook for easy opening and a rubber grip so my hand won't slip.

 

[whitetailfreak]

I like a carbon steel drop point in the 2-3" range. I also prefer fixed blade knives.

 

[whitetailfreak]

I`ve used everything from a simple folding pocketknife, to a custom skinner, to flint and obsidian flakes to skin and break down deer. My favorite steel blade is a 3 inch Nessmuk knife with stag handles, made by Hank Hammond, godogs57 here on the forum. It`s the knife on my hip when I`m hunting.

That Nessie is a bute, and about the perfect huntin knife. I'm thinking real hard about ordering its twin.

 

[Hillbilly stalker]

It's hard to beat an old carbon steel sod buster. If this one could only talk.

 

[tree cutter 08]

I love those custom made knifes pretty good but I guess I've got lazy and tried a havalon last year and fell in love. It's not much to look at it takes about 15 seconds to swap blades and slices through hides like butter, cuts joints with ease and best knife I've used to skin and cape with.

 

[JustUs4All]

A 40 to 50 year old Gerber folding lock back wiht a 2-1/2 inch blade mostly. I used it on my first deer 33 years ago (I came late to deer hunting).

I got a larger Gerber a few years back but I still like the little one better.

 

[Deernut3]

My Grandad was a custom knife maker and his are top notch. For store bought the Outdoor Edge Swingblade is awfully hard to beat.

 

[lagrangedave]

I have a Ronnie Gore drop point stag handle that is my favorite.

 

[Major Wader]

I use one made by Barry Dawson before he retired. His nieces and nephews now run their business. Today's are high carbon steel, cerakoted to prevent rust.

 

[Nicodemus]

My go to knives. The dark flint flake skinned, quartered, removed the backstraps off a deer, and is just one example of many I`ve used. The Coastal Plains flake skinned a fox down to the claws. The Nessmuk`s are Hank`s design. It don`t take much to skin a critter. The Old Timer is like my hat, pistol, and handkerchief. It goes where I go.

 

[mizzippi jb]

Carbon steel.....case, old timer, etc

 

[Jason Stringer]

Old timer sharp finger

 

[NCHillbilly]

Like Nic said, I've skinned deer with everything from a flint flake to a fillet knife. I own a pile of knives, from production models to custom-made stuff.

But my go-to by a long shot is my old Old Timer OT77Muskrat skinner carbon steel pocketknife that has been my daily companion for the last 35 years, since my teenage trapping days. Just the right size and shape blades for the job. It's skinned/cleaned countless deer, bear, hogs, groundhogs, coons, possums, muskrats, mink, foxes, coyotes, otters, rabbits, squirrels, game birds, domestic animals, trout and other fish and who knows what else over the decades.

It's getting beat up and wore out about like its owner, but I would be utterly lost without it in my pocket.

 

[35 Whelen]

Buck 110 Folding Hunter

 

[dixiecutter]

Old Timer 1430t, USA made. Used it for years and years, somehow lost it recently probably laid on the bumper, and it's hard to find a replacement.

 

[toolmkr20]

Old Timer 1430t, USA made. Used it for years and years, somehow lost it recently probably laid on the bumper, and it's hard to find a replacement.View attachment 938864

I got one these myself. Great knife to have. Been using mine for going on 18 years.

 

[8pointduck]

1986 Buck Trailblazer

 

[treemanjohn]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned a box cutter