Best chopping & skinning knife under $200

a well made hatchet with a thin edge might do you for chopping and skinning and a little splitting (just kindling), but i don't know how hard the wood is in your area!
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12 ounces, thin edge for whittling or shaving or slicing, sturdy enough to chop frozen wood but maybe not pitch hardened knots unless you are a bit careful
 
wnease said:
a well made hatchet with a thin edge might do you for chopping and skinning and a little splitting (just kindling), but i don't know how hard the wood is in your area!
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12 ounces, thin edge for whittling or shaving or slicing, sturdy enough to chop frozen wood but maybe not pitch hardened knots unless you are a bit careful
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that "hatchet" looks like it was made from a kids mechanix/ tinker toy set, not me cup o tea.
 
Uniquebloke said:
Hi, I am an aussie from Sydney doesn't know anything about hunting knife.

Could anyone please suggest me which are the best chopping & skinning knifes under $200.

Cheers,

Jake
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Why would you chop with a knife?
If you could get an old stock-knife with a true castrating blade that'd be perfect as a skinner. If not, get a Soddy, and dull out the curved tip & what little point there is.
 
Without going too overboard. I'd simply go a Buck Omni Hunter or a Muela Sioux for the skinner. Both are going to be common if your gonna buy out of Oz. Both are between the $100-150 mark Aus dollars. For your chopper, I'd go with an Ontario RTak2 or an Ontario Ranger Rd9. Both will set you back around the $250 Aus mark. Since you live in Sydney, go and pay Bankstown Gun Shop or Horsley Park Gun Shop a visit and check out their knives, then buy them from America. Alot cheaper mate with our Aussie dollar at the moment. This may make all you Americans cringe, but even a Becker BK9 over here will set you back around $200Aus!
 
Could amble over to the Swamp Rat section and checkout the RMD and HRLM...both are great knives...

In the knifemakers section, I continue to drool over koyotes stuff...sweet!
 
If you have to go with a single knife I would
choose a heavy bladed chopper and have a
gut-hook ground into the spine near the tip.
A "good" chopper is one that YOU are comfortable
with.
The size of the wood being cut will greatly effect
your future choices in a chopper.
The heavier the blade. The deeper the cut (if the
primary bevel is leaving a nice slender edge).
If you could get aluminium as hard as 1095 and had
identical blades the lighter aluminium one could not
cut as deep as the heavier 1095 if swung by the
same person.
I don't think the thickness is the problem.
It's the weight.
Mike
 
for chopping a tree or tree branches or a bone .... I prefer using my cheap parang (malaysian machete) with 9 to 12 inches blade instead of my Ontario RAT 7 (D2) or my camping tramontina (which is to light to chop a tree) ... its not a hard steel.,,..but very smooth in chopping. But it rust easily.

For skinning...I prefer using my Knives of Alaska, Alpha Wolf (S30V).... small and very light weight. But the problem of this knive is, i think its only meant for skinning.
 
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