How many dress & skin with their folders?

My dad and uncle just used a Spyderco Native in S30V to skin a buck that ran in front of my brothers car. My dad and uncle looked at the little knife and asked if I had anything that could actually be useful. I left for about 2 hours and when I returned, both my dad and uncle said that it was the best knife they had ever used. Of course I ran it through an ultrasonic bath after the deer was done.
 
SIFU1A said:
the 1st time me and my wife went hunting with him we shot a couple of rabbits, he would take the same knife and slit the rabbits bellys open, grab the ears and snap the rabbit like a whip and inertia would empty out the guts lol, never ever saw anyone else do that, and neither had my wife, it was her 1st hunt and she started turning green, then a big old farm dog ran up and started eating the guts, but bless her heart she didnt barf, said i had better have been glad she was in "hunting" mode though, she was something else lol.

my dad said when he was growing up (depression) they ate a lotta rabbits and he just figured it out as an easier way to deal with the gutting, didnt get his hands as dirty.
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By the merest of coincidences, while out hiking with a friend yesterday, he told me the same about how he guts rabbits. Until then, such a thing had never crossed my mind, but it makes sense. I didn't mention any of this to my wife, who would probably have gone all nauseous about it even from hearsay :D.
 
I personally use fixed blades (recently used my Spydie Steet Beat to gut, skin and bone out a cow elk) , but I've assisted others w/ folders.
One was a BM apparition (liner) and the next year I helped cape a Bull w/ a BM 940 (axis).

In both cases, I boiled the fat and gunk out of the actions, then oiled well. Good a new.
 
I used a Camco folder to gut, skin, and quarter a nice young 4x4 bull elk a few yrs. back. I had the knife razor sharp going into the day and kept it touched up with a Gerber pocket steel. It took a couple of washing's to clean it up, but all worked well. I've used a fixed blade though on the last two bull's I've tagged. Also, I've gutted cottontails by the same method as mentioned above. :thumbup:Dale H.
 
Although i much prefer a fixed blade a folder works quite acceptably, there is just more cleanup to do. For some reason last year my Waved Endura was used to do my dear last year.
 
I have dressed and skinned a number of Florida and Georgia deer, as well as hogs, with an older Case XX Changer folder. The sheath holds three blades (one is a saw blade) that you can use with the knife.
 
I wouldn't use a slip joint on big game, nor a liner lock although that is just my preference.
 
I prefer a fixed blade for skinning just because you don't have to spend so much time cleaning it up - however I have used Several Folders to skin/butcher a lot of fish & several deer.

Primarily have used: LArge and small Sebenzas/PE Manix/CE Sog Titanium Vision - All of which did great - but were kind of a pain to clean primarily because I was so neurotic about them.


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I used a buck selector in the early 90s it was great, the blade came out and was very easy to clean.
 
I used my Custom Shop Buck 110 to field dress this buck. Clean up wasn't too bad. Hot soapy water, then oil. Click 2X for enlargement.


 
a great gutting folder is the buck nobleman. it uses 440 A stainless but it has great shape and there is no scales so all you have to do is rinse it in hot water and it is cleaned off. that is all i used last year and i gutted about 14 deer. i would reccomend sharpening it every other time you gut with it though
 
meliaant said:
Hey folks...I'm curious how many of you here field dress & skin with their folding knives, regardless of getting "gunk" in the lock & mechanism...I'm in the market for a fixed blade for this purpose (Bill Moran by Spyderco, BM Rant, etc.), but if many people here (who undoubtedly know much more than I do) use their folders, I might do the same, if only because I'd like to use my BM Griptilian 551S combo edge for everything, due to my unhealthy love for the thing.
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From all of the other responses, you sure can!

Just make sure that you know how to thoroughly clean your griptilian, taking it apart and cleaning the inside of the hande scales.

The handles are kind of hollow when pulled apart, and there's room in there for a nice piece of meat (or guts) to sit and rot for a while if not looked after.

It's quite easy if you haven't done it before, you need a torx screwdriver set and that's about it. I would recommend practicing before you have to clean it and it's all dirty.
 
For me, it would depend on what I'm cleaning. For smaller game I have used my Old Timer (Minuteman, I think) that I've had since I was 10 (almost 30 years now). Never had a problem with it and it worked great on squirrels.

I prefer using fixed blades on deer and hogs but I have used my Benchmade Rukus 610 and it worked just fine. Clean up is really the main issue, for me. I think your Grip would be adequate.

JMHO :)
 
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