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I am seeking aid to locate a specific type of knife for use at work. The knife must have a gut hook. Must be a folding blade. Must have a belt/pocket clip. Should be as short as possible. Spring loaded or gravity driven is also desirable. If you know of a knife that meets those criteria please let me know. I used to use my personal knife at work, a Hammerhead Xtreme Tactical but someone complained about the guy with the 'big scary knife' so I need a smaller blade to fulfill the same function.
 
Then I second the bm triage, either version would serve u great! Im an emt and I carry one on duty and it’s a great knife. Its one of the few that the rescue cutter actually works well. I use the hook about as often as the knife! It zips through a lot of material with ease, included plastic wrapping, zip ties, clothes. And it doesn’t look like a murder weapon! However I found I wanted for a pointy er blade i moded mine. 60D109F6-AB9E-4FCB-9EF1-0CF07CD0FC7A.png
 
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I'd recommend the Grizzly Creek. It is a bit large, but since it has wood scales it looks more like a traditional pocketknife than a killmurderstab knife. It would probably work for you.

The Triage is the same price, with cheaper handle materials and a lesser steel. The sheepsfoot blade might help, though, as far as looking less scary.

You might also want to consider a Leatherman Wingman. Definitely not scary, and it has a hook tool for slicing open taped packages, or plastic wrapping.
 
I've carried the grizzly creek daily for months its great it looks less scary than na smaller black knife.
 
I’ve just now looked at the grizzly creek that does look less scary and more traditional hunting ish. Good luck on your decision make sure and let us know what you choose!
 
Benchmade triage or grizzly Creek both great knives I have owned a triage and I owned the grizzly creeks smaller brother the north fork so I know both knives would suit you well especially with the separate strap cuter because it looks like a dedicated tool just to open stuff not a knife
 
I also will say that the grizzly creek is a great choice.

However if the price is a little too salty for you, considering you are carrying a frost cutlery made hammerhead, (not judging just considering your budget knowing that you're carrying a budget knife already), another option which saves you a couple bucks, but still gives you a bit of pride in ownership in a less commonly known maker:
the Katz Kagemusha - ("secret ninja") w/ gut hook.

The "ninja" name aside, Katz makes a decent knife, size isn't intimidating but is certainly still a full size knife at 3.5"
you'll probably never see someone with another, (although it is a small world afterall, who knows),
and you dont even have to open the knife in any way to utilize the guthook... making it even less threatening.
Plus, from a purely build standpoint, it'll be a much better knife then the hammerhead you have now.
https://www.knifecenter.com/item/KZ...a-gut-hook-plain-blade-stippled-kraton-handle

Just another outside the box idea.
 
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Budweiser products. Though to be perfectly honest I myself don't care for most beers. In fact the only ones I drink are apple flavored ales. Strongbow & Woodchuck are pretty good. I dearly miss Red's Green Apple. I'd like to thank all of you who have contributed to my search thus far.
 
Another even cheaper option, I can't believe I didn't think of before because I actually own the smaller version without a gut hook, and it's one of my favorite cheap knives, very comfortable in hand.
CRKT Free Range folder with gut hook:
https://www.bladehq.com/item--CRKT-Free-Range-Hunter-Guthook--11426

Doesn't have a clip but, 3.75" is a good bit shorter then your 5" hammerhead, for around $30..

Buck makes the USA made 4" omni hunter:
https://www.bladehq.com/item--Buck-Folding-Omni-Hunter-12PT--15729
Kershaw makes the 3.5" LoneRock
https://www.bladehq.com/item--Kershaw-Lonerock-Gut-Hook-Hunting--14812
Gerber has a USA made 3.75" gator model
https://www.bladehq.com/item--Gerber-Gator-Drop-Point-Folding--16407

These all come with a belt pouch. Id be partial to the Buck, their sheaths are usually pretty solid and they stand by their warranty better then most. Gerber has left a sour taste in my mouth after some less then spectacular stuff they made after they were purchased by fiskar, but word on the street from some is that in light of lost sales, they've started upping their game with better builds, producing some in the USA again. In either case, I won't but one, but they do look sharp, and that's not to say you shouldn't persay if you like 'em.

The Kershaw is the smallest and likely least threatening
The CRKT w/o pouch is cheapest.
If you like orange, the Kershaw "Buck Commander" LoneRock model, same knife just in Orange, is on sale for under $20
https://www.bladehq.com/item--Kershaw-Buck-Commander-Lonerock--51594

Smaller yet, and with a clip, (but in the $50 range) is the 3" Buck 183 alpha crosslock.
https://www.bladehq.com/item--Buck-183-Alpha-Crosslock-Knife--21638
Made in america. Also has a sawtooth blade. You will actually have to deploy the blade to use the hook, but a 3" blade is very much more "public friendly" and nonthreatening to most...

Gerber also has a 3.6" premium gator model using s30v steel and a leather pouch if you want to give a premium steel a shot?
https://www.bladehq.com/item--Gerber-Gator-Premium-Gut-Hook--27331


* I would like to add as a good rule of thumb for budget knives; to stay away from any Chinese made Gerbers, quality is suspect, also anything that doesn't list a specific blade steel type: blade steel a good selling point on a knife, so if they're not trying to sell it, it's very suspect that the're trying to pass off subpar materials; "stainless" is not a type, but rather 1000 different types. Also stay away from any Chinese steels lower then 7crXYZ123... with quality already in question for low end Chinese manufacturing, in my experience, at least 7c & 8c = 0.7-0.8% carbon; is enough carbon content to give a decent hardness unless they completely screw up the heat treatment, anything less and you're better off buying an American made blade with quality produced 420hc. 5cr15mov is a chinese equivelant to 420hc, but for the price of a budget blade, usa made 420hc from a reputable brand is 99.99% of the time going to be consistently better quality in manufacturing. Where 5cr15mov is going to be of questionable quality, and typically runs too soft...
Kershaw's Chinese made budget knives are some of the best in the biz, their 8cr is usually on point, but I would still recommend highly against their 5cr stuff. And 3cr is just plain crap soft for a decent knife edge in today's steel market; basically your stuff marked "surgical/stainless" without a type, is often in this grade along with "420 series" (420j2). Resists rust well, tough as it will bend before it breaks, fine for saltwater dive knives or steel liners, but not going to hold an edge very well at all. Simply not enough carbon.
 
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