Spyderco vallotton for hunting?

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Does anyone carry and use a spyderco vallotton when hunting? And use it to skin, debone or dispatch game for birds and deer sized game? I don't like carrying fixed blades and I want to know if anyone uses this knife in this role and what their experiences are with it? Reason is I really wanted to get a tuff for this roll but noticed that everyone says the lockup on this knife is solid. Thanks in advance
 
Welcome to Bladeforums!

I moved this to a forum with more people whose interests match your intended use. I'm also a big fan of Spyderco knives. The variety of designs and materials give us a lot of choices. I prefer fixed blades for anything like food prep, but many of our outdoorsmen find folders are very effective.
 
Hey Esav, thanks but can you please tell me where you moved it to? I'm not too familiar with this whole thing and I can't find it? Thank you
 
:D I moved it with a "redirect" which is a link to its new location in Hunting & Fishing. Look at the heading, just above the thread title. You're good to go.
 
It will spark a ferro, no problem. I wouldn't use it for processing game, however. Too thick to be a good skinner, imo.
 
I like the valloton, quite a bit, only reason I sold mine is because has a very thick tip, everything else is great and very solid, it's heavy though too. Knkw you said don't like fix blades, but fixed blades are a lot easier to clean up after skinning a deer, or what have you. Many the same size as valloton are lighter,less expensive, more durable, easier to carry. Bk14, sykco scrapper 5, smaller bark rivers I'd rather have than a valloton.

That said I did use a Benchmade Adamas to skin and process a deer last year, worked fine, I'm sure the valloton would work just as well, the amount of deer gore you will get in a folder is quite a pain to clean out, if that matters to you, if want to clean out completely will have to take whole knife apart.

Anyways, I'm sure it'll be descent for you if have your head set on it, give it a try let us knkw how it is, otherwise get a fixed blade. And as for folders I'd rather use Cold Steel folder of some sort than anything, blade isn't as tough as valloton, adamas, but the grinds on most of their knives are much thinner making them cut better.

I'd give a valloton a try though if was you, just cause.
 
Almost any knife will work if you're dead set on it. The Vallotton should do fine. I feel as though the Stretch or Gayle Bradley would make a better hunting folder due to blade shape.

I prefer fixed blades for such tasks. I hate cleaning all the gunk out of the action and locking mechanism.
 
Thanks guys, we'll see still thinking about it. But I guess I'm kinda set on it already... I have some fixed blades for hunting but I got tired of it being on my belt when stalking and moving. But then I also have a survive 5.1 on order that's taking forever to be built that I'll probably carry in my pack.
 
no reason the Vallotton would not do a fine job. It's certainly not ideal, but yeah, it will work. Heck, my son processed a deer on his property recently, with just the Case Sodbuster JR he had with him.
 
Mannlicher said:
no reason the Vallotton would not do a fine job. It's certainly not ideal, but yeah, it will work. Heck, my son processed a deer on his property recently, with just the Case Sodbuster JR he had with him.
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