Skinner?

At our deer camp it is the tried and true Buck 103 skinner. Not real pretty but one great skinner. The one we use is over fourty years old and looks like it would easily make it another fourty. It probably has about 200 deer under it's belt.
 
Last year I used this David Farmer custom in L6 tool steel and bamboo handles. It does an awesome job!

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I picked this one up from David Lisch, J.S. at BLADE this year. It's W2 steel and stag handle; I'm gonna try it this year.

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Last year I used an ESEE-Izula. Skinned 3 bucks with it with only a strop in between. The year before that I used my ESEE-3. I used to think the coated blade was going to cause me additional problems with the fat, but they worked perfectly. I preferred the Izula over the 3. I love the light weight of the Izula.

This year I'm going to use one of my own garage made knives.

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black mamba said:
Last year I used this David Farmer custom in L6 tool steel and bamboo handles. It does an awesome job!

FarmerSkinner.jpg


I picked this one up from David Lisch, J.S. at BLADE this year. It's W2 steel and stag handle; I'm gonna try it this year.

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I like that Farmer. Dose it come with convex edge?
Thanks for all, some nice blades there.

Jozsef
 
I used to use a Buck Vanguard, which had a nice combination of blade belly and field dressing blade. I recently started using this SOG team leader in Duratech 20CV, which is razor sharp and holds a great edge, especially on tough hog hide. Blade shape seems to work pretty good for all around game processing (big game, not fowl).

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a fallkniven H1 would be my choice.

I havent used it for deer yet but a good friend of mine uses it for wild boar and deer all of the time.
 
This small doe is just field dressed as opposed to skinned but my Becker BK11 worked perfectly for the job. Ready to use it again as soon as we get this silly non-hunting season thing out of the way. :D

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Jnyiri said:
I like that Farmer. Dose it come with convex edge?

Jozsef
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Yes it did, Jozsef, but after two whitetails last year I touched it up on a diamond steel before doing my third deer.
It chopped right through a thick ribcage with NO chipping of the blade. L6 is tough stuff.
 
I have skinned more deer than I can count with an old carbon steel old timer sharp finger. lots of other game too!!
Roy
 
I have used my AG Russel woodswalker with great ease. Enough handle to hang onto and enough blade to get the job done without cutting off a finger of your own in the process.

I bought several of these from Jim Rehrer a few years back and my dad reports they work very well also. No dimensions here so not sure if they were closer to the top or bottom knife but very similar in blade style.

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Jnyiri said:
Some interesting choices.
Thanks for the ideas.

Jozsef
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Let us know what you choose.
Would love to know what you think of your choice also.

I like reviews of knives because what one person may love another might hate.
 
these are what i use. top is a buck skinner (not sure model), second is a Ka-Bar Skinner (not sure what model) and the bottom is a Gerber. i use the Gerber more since its older. the Buck was free and is my back up knife. i also use the Ka-bar along with the Gerber to skin deer. those knives should last me a lifetime.

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hung-solo said:
these are what i use. top is a buck skinner (not sure model), second is a Ka-Bar Skinner (not sure what model) and the bottom is a Gerber. i use the Gerber more since its older. the Buck was free and is my back up knife. i also use the Ka-bar along with the Gerber to skin deer. those knives should last me a lifetime.

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IIRC, the Gerber Freemans are S30V. I had thought of picking one up without the gut hook, for quite awhile, just never did
 
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