Over the past 15 years or so one of my Buck 110's has been used to butcher and clean deer more than anything I own. I'm talking about popping leg joints twisting ,prying and snapping and they have never failed (4 -6 deer a year). It's doesn't have all of the bells and whistles with the latest super steel, but it has never let me down. My expensive knives never see abuse like what is dished out during hunting season to that 110.
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Hunting knife question for deer hunters
- Thread starter Daniel Koster
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The Buck 110 design has a lot going for it. It has a straight handle to blade line. It has a narrow waist that helps to make it secure in the grip. The point is far enough back to be easy to guard when you invert the blade. It has a very reasonable blade length. It has a narrow enough point that you can use it to clean rabbits as well as deer. If you create a hunting knife design you have to ask yourself if it will do as well as a Buck 110.
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If you have a Dozier and think the handle is slippery, send it to Bob and have him blast the shiny finish off the micarta. It won't be as slick. It works. Geno Denning makes excellent deer knives. He will also blast the micarta handles if you want, and he has a guard on his hunting knives. I've used many knives deer hunting in the past. Now, Dozier and Denning blades are the only ones I use. My friends will say the same, since I bought them Dozier and Denning blades as gifts 
If you can find one of the above makers knives in stag, then you've got the perfect hunter.
www.dozierknives.com
www.cavemanengineering.com
Scott
If you can find one of the above makers knives in stag, then you've got the perfect hunter. www.dozierknives.com
www.cavemanengineering.com
Scott
I started out using Buck 110's and they are the business! I bought a pair of Ti handled Hunters out of nostalgia when my wife fell pregnant, one is (one of) my EDC and the other was sealed in its box for the unborn, it was a boy so happy days! Anyway, that is how good a general use knife that design is, a pure classic that should be in the Tate.
My next move was to a Buck Skinner, and a great knife not only to skin but actually portion game from rabbit to Red Deer.
After that I was lost, a pure knife knut! But I will always remember the best hunter I've ever seen work.He was an old man living in Kerry. During the "Emergency" (WWII here in Ireland) his brother distracted people so Dennis could steal the lead flashings from their chimneys to make shotgun slugs. The guy used to stroke wild deer for sport, an Irish Tom Brown if you like? But a very pragmatic one. A deer got caught in his fence once so he cut it's head off with a bow saw, all he had on him and meat was prized!
Anyway, he always felt a knife for dressing deer should be no longer than your index finger, he used a small Laguiole he'd been given as his best knife.
Following his example I've used a No. 8 Opinel very successfully on the hill and never wanted for anything larger, and certainly not sharper.
These days I have lots of knives But still for hunting I love the Carbon steel and size of Opinel Couteau de Jardin No. 8 or my Laguiole with Ox horn handle. Friendly but very well able to take care of business.
For Bushcraft as is in the UK or Survival as we knew it growing up I like the Golok from Valiant in Australia and Carbon bladed Sami Blad from Scandinavia,
but I love my Spydies and Emerson as well. Horses for courses lads, anybody used an A.G. Russell WoodsWalker or Grohmann Boat Knife? I love those patterns!
My next move was to a Buck Skinner, and a great knife not only to skin but actually portion game from rabbit to Red Deer.
After that I was lost, a pure knife knut! But I will always remember the best hunter I've ever seen work.He was an old man living in Kerry. During the "Emergency" (WWII here in Ireland) his brother distracted people so Dennis could steal the lead flashings from their chimneys to make shotgun slugs. The guy used to stroke wild deer for sport, an Irish Tom Brown if you like? But a very pragmatic one. A deer got caught in his fence once so he cut it's head off with a bow saw, all he had on him and meat was prized!
Anyway, he always felt a knife for dressing deer should be no longer than your index finger, he used a small Laguiole he'd been given as his best knife.
Following his example I've used a No. 8 Opinel very successfully on the hill and never wanted for anything larger, and certainly not sharper.
These days I have lots of knives
But still for hunting I love the Carbon steel and size of Opinel Couteau de Jardin No. 8 or my Laguiole with Ox horn handle. Friendly but very well able to take care of business.For Bushcraft as is in the UK or Survival as we knew it growing up I like the Golok from Valiant in Australia and Carbon bladed Sami Blad from Scandinavia,
but I love my Spydies and Emerson as well. Horses for courses lads, anybody used an A.G. Russell WoodsWalker or Grohmann Boat Knife? I love those patterns!