Bird n trouts or small utility knives, show please

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This is a great thread (and bad for my wallet!) bc I was thinking about getting a Bird and Trout. Any comments on the Bark River Bird and Trout vs their Pro Scapel 2 or Little Creek for skinning/gutting small and or large game?
 
Grohmann DH Russell #2 Trout and Bird. Such an excellent design that when in use in hand it truly feels like a natural extension of your hand.

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This is the first bird and trout I made for my cousin a few months ago. I am currently working on three more of various blade thickness and design.
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Big_TM said:
This is the first bird and trout I made for my cousin a few months ago. I am currently working on three more of various blade thickness and design.
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Danketch said:
This is a great thread (and bad for my wallet!) bc I was thinking about getting a Bird and Trout. Any comments on the Bark River Bird and Trout vs their Pro Scapel 2 or Little Creek for skinning/gutting small and or large game?
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Sure, I picked up one of these in Elmax over the summer and used to field dress and skin four whitetail deer this year over Thanksgiving week.

I like the blade end of it a lot. Simple, very useful shape, nice pointy tip in line with the handle. Guts well, skins well (I don't like "skinner" type knives with the swept point & huge belly, ymmv), and works well on fruit and veggies as a paring knife in the kitchen. At 0.065" thick it just flies through everything.

I don't like the handle end as much. Mine is in green canvas micarta. They polished the darn micarta too much to let it grip, and there's nothing to keep your hand from sliding right up onto the blade edge. I usually end up holding it with my first three fingers in front of the little hook on the butt, and my pinky finger resting on the flat part of the butt that comes up at an angle on the back. If you were going to have to push it really hard to cut through stuff, I would be really uncomfortable, but since it's so thin, I've never run into anything where I needed to push the knife that hard to get it to cut through.

For BRK's Elmax in particular, edge retention is alright, better than VG-10 or 14C28N but definitely worse than M390 (Spyderco on the VG-10, Kershaw on the 14C28N, Benchmade on the M390, all used in the same gutting + skinning tasks). It has been impressively tough. I replaced the convex edge with something like an 18 dps bevel and wasn't particularly kind to it; it ended up with just one little ding in the edge. Pretty sure that was from when I was twisting it to pry open a buck's jaw to check his age so... understandable, haha.

I had been going to look out for a Spyderco Sprig, which I like the look of the handle on a lot more. But Spyderco's apparently making those with 0.118" (3mm) thick blades, which I really don't want to go back to after enjoying the 0.065" BRK. So I might end up looking around for a custom, or maybe a regrind on the Sprig down to 0.08" or something (it's a bit longer than the BRK, so I can understand leaving it a little thicker).

For now, though, I'm pretty happy with the BRK Bird and Trout.

Hope that mini-review helps a bit.

A pic from the treestand after cleaning the first one:

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Bird & Trout by: Edmund Davidson 2 3/4" blade of ATS-34 Rc 60, Black & Red Micarta w/Red Plastic liner.
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The Zieg said:
I think the Mora counts. I'm rehandling a Mora now an it'll be pretty bird-and-trouty when done. The term is a bit nebulous but meant to distinguish the knife from a skinner, a heavier hunter, or a small bowie. It comes from an era in US and UK shooting and hunting when there weren't quite so many different styles. It's a handy family of knives, the bird and trout style.

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Do I see a Tapio Wirkkala puukko there?
 
I like this thread a lot. Bird & Trout can be viewed in many ways, but I see it as a lightweight thin bladed prep knife that you can take with you anywhere. Also, it should look good!

Another vote for Grohmann flat ground. Opinel No.8 stainless makes a good folding alternative too.

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Thanks, Will
 
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