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Recommendation? Solid all-around Hunter prototype - Critique wanted

:thumbsup: This is an honest, no bullshit knifemaker.

ETA: that thumb was supposed to point to J. Doyle lol, the new page wasn’t expected.
 
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Never meant for this to be 'one of those' threads. There has been a lot of great advice and some interesting discussion. I appreciate all of you for that.

Hope you all are having a great Sunday evening and making some really cool knives. :cool:
 
This is a good thread. Its not 'one of those'. This is open, honest discussion....and as far as I can tell, everyone's been polite and respectful.

Thank YOU Brock! :thumbsup::cool:
 
I would take that design and go two ways with it. Fish knife, and hunting knife. I have a fishing knife prototype in the works right now too, combining deba blade elements but with a more woodsy bushcraft/hunter type of handle. The idea being you want what a deba can do but with a grippy and secure handle while your cleaning fish off the back of a center console fishing boat. I think a blade like yours in conjunction with a larger western filet would make a hell of a team on the ocean. I am calling mine a "captains boat knife" :) I really dont see the need to combine fishing and hunting though. When are you doing both at the same time? :P I have never cleaned any land aminals and only watched a deer being processed a couple times. There is a difference in the tools you need while cleaning/gutting an animal and actually breaking the carcass down isnt there?
 
timos- said:
I would take that design and go two ways with it. Fish knife, and hunting knife. I have a fishing knife prototype in the works right now too, combining deba blade elements but with a more woodsy bushcraft/hunter type of handle. The idea being you want what a deba can do but with a grippy and secure handle while your cleaning fish off the back of a center console fishing boat. I think a blade like yours in conjunction with a larger western filet would make a hell of a team on the ocean. I am calling mine a "captains boat knife" :) I really dont see the need to combine fishing and hunting though. When are you doing both at the same time? :p I have never cleaned any land aminals and only watched a deer being processed a couple times. There is a difference in the tools you need while cleaning/gutting an animal and actually breaking the carcass down isnt there?
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I'd be very interested to see your field deba Tim. Sounds pretty cool. I will probably do as you suggest and break the functions apart.
Hunting and fishing combined. I could tell you the story of when I went rabbit hunting with my dad's 30 carbine, and came back with a 12 lb bass tucked under my arm. Shot clean through it was.
 
timos- said:
There is a difference in the tools you need while cleaning/gutting an animal and actually breaking the carcass down isnt there?
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There are a variety of functions needed. Many use one knife and make it work. It is probably far better, especially if you do it often, to have multiple tools.
Gut hook, skinning, slicing, boning, splitting ribs, and sometimes hacking / sawing bone.
 
I’m not sure I understand mixing a fishing knife with a big game hunting knife. I get the bird and trout of fishing and small game, but I’m not sure I’d want a deer and trout knife. Along the same thinking, perhaps I just don’t understand the Japanese use of such a knife, and I would get it if I saw it, but I’m struggling to understand how that knife would be used on any fresh water fish. I don’t even like a fillet knife for cleaning fish in the field (fillet knives to me are clumsy for a shore lunch). A nice little bird and trout can nicely handle anything from a bluegill to a salmon.
 
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I’m not sure I understand mixing a fishing knife with a big game hunting knife. I get the bird and trout of fishing and small game, but I’m not sure I’d want a deer and trout knife. Along the same thinking, perhaps I just don’t understand the Japanese use of such a knife, and I would get it if I saw it, but I’m struggling to understand how that knife would be used on any fresh water fish. I don’t even like a fillet knife for cleaning fish in the field (fillet knives to me are clumsy for a shore lunch). A nice little bird and trout can nicely handle anything from a bluegill to a salmon.
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Yeah, it is probably asking too much of a blade. Growing up my hunting gang all had one knife. The herters Canadian style. We used it for EVERYTHING. Growing up poor made that a necessity, but it was not optimal.
 
Id love to see that baby in action!
 
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