Question of Limitations

[Grateful]

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[SilverFoxKnows]

for my suburban purposes a slip joint does my day to day cutting very well. Sometimes I'll back up my trapper with a Spyderco, but that's more for sh!ts and giggles than it is any shortcomings of the slip joint. Sorry I can't answer your question about slippies fof hunting.

Frank

 

[rev_jch]

The largest animal I ever used a sj on to skin was a squirrel.

 

[Dr van Nostrom]

I have heard of people cleaning deer with a Case trapper. I think the main disadavantage of a folder (slippie or locking knife) over a fixed blade for cleaning game is all the gunk that gets into a folder, though I imagine with small game thats not too much of a problem

 

[rev_jch]

I would be afarid to use one on a deer considering all the blood and other matter, that could cause the blade to perhaps become "inadvertantly" closed while you are using it.

 

[wire eddge]

I got the nastalga bug and decided to carry nothing but slip joints while hunting elk during muzzloading season last year,well,I succeded in getting a nice six point bull and I used the knives to field dress and quarter the animal, I also had a stanley tool box saw with the new teeth patern that they are putting on most of the hunting saws these days.

Knives I was carrying were a large two blade folding hunter from Camillus and a Old Timer gunstock two blade trapper I also had means to sharpen (which I had to several times) in a eze lap fine diamond stone.

My thoughts are as follows;

I will carry a locking blade and or small fixed blade next time hunting, dealing with animals this big is too much and not real safe with a slip joint.
I dident cut myself but came close to several times as I being used to a lock blade had the blades almost close on my fingers during difficult cutting tasks.

The slip joints worked just fine for skinning.

This wasent a back-pack in hunt and I wasent real far from my truck.

If this was a pack in type hunt I would be carrying lockbacks and fixed blades with the best of blade steel.

 

[lambertiana]

Biggest thing I have used a slipjoint on is squirrel and chukar. I did have a friend when I was in high school whose father got a whitetail every year and used his SAK to do the honors.