Other uses for a Gut Hook?

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dextersp1

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I'm just curious - Are there any other uses of a gut hook on a knife besides cutting the guts out of an animal?
 
Opening beers? I don't know, I have a REAL, ORIGINAL Becker Necker with a thing on the end of the handle that opens all sorts of Bottles for that.
 
I always shied away from gut hooks. Even on knives I bought for hunting.

Therefore I could not tell you if there's any other use for one.
 
I use these.
http://newgraham.com/store/product/3093/RESCOM-Folder--BLACK-FRN-BOK587/
http://newgraham.com/store/product/64/Benchmade-Marine-Rescue-Hook-BM6H20/
And the one on my Leatherman Charge every day at work to cut heavy plastic and packing materials from machined surfaces. A regular blade would score the machined parts. Just used the Benchmade last week to cut a heavy, over tightened cribbing collar off of a very upset horse. He was way too freaked out to try to use a regular knife. It cut through the 1/4" leather like butter. They can also be used to cut belts, straps, cardboard etc. Large gut hooks on the back of fixed blades do not appeal to me though.
 
The first knife I bought and paid for myself was a Buck Crosslock. It had a knife blade and a large combination flathead screwdriver blade and gut hook. I worked on a deep sea fishing party boat and I used the gut hook a lot to cut 50 pound test monofilament fishing line. It was especially handy on crowded trips and rough days when a blunt cutting tool was safer than a pointed blade. It was also good on night bluefishing trips when tangles were the norm.
 
sidecutter said:
well,does ANYBODY use a guthook for gutting???? :confused:
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I have on occasion, but not regularly. To be perfectly honest, the only people I've seen using them are people who are new to hunting and want to be sure they won't puncture anything bad.
 
They're great for lifting coffee pots out of the fire or anything that has a small enough handle to fit in the hook..... bout the only thing they're good for IMHO. Well that and destroying the looks of a knife.
 
The small ones on some Leathermans work good for opening those ^** clamshell packages.
 
I have used them and think they are crap if they are placed on the back of the knife. The type who exklusivly are a hook is better but limited in use and the type with a inwards curwed edge and without a point is very useful.(Type where end is rounded and blunt.) I use them inside moose. For opening the hide a ordinary knife is good enough.

Bosse
 
Guthooks seem to sell to the newbs in hunting. Most experience field dressers resort to a small droppoint, 4 1/4" max. The droppoint does exactly the same job, slips under the skin edge up and slides along the top layer of muscle, cutting the hide from inside out.

Actually using them to hook guts is precisely what to avoid - which is pretty hard to do, considering the layers above them.

I've seen and heard folks using the hook to grab pots by the bail handle off the fire, but steel on steel is a great way to dull it.
 
What WL said. They were originally designed to lift cooking pots off of fires. Designed by some Alaska bushman fella. They are good for that I'll give them that. Other than that they ruin the look of a knife bar none. I feel like a parrot! keepem sharp
 
I guess you could conceivably use a big nasty gut-hook like on the Spyderco Impala for defense and catch with on the back-swing.
I always thought the Impala had a wicked looking gut-hook even if I don't like them.
SpydercoImpala1.jpg
 
I only have one knife with the gut hook and I use it to cut fishing line as well, I tried it hunting and I would rather not use it.
 
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