What Knife Do You Carry When Hunting?

[Pack Rat]

I was just putting some touchup words to my truck skinnin document and realized there is another "bladed" tool I use in addition to the knives and cordless saw. I carry a pair of the long handeled tree trimmer branch nippers in th truck during hunting season.

Good for clearing trails, but has become invaluable at the cleaning station. Easily nips the lower part of the leg off and saves trying to cut the joints with a knife or saw with the hack saw. and easier than trying to use the cordless saw for not being able to hang on to it and the leg. Anything to speed up the process.

Get the big nippers... little ones wont cut it....

 

[muskrat man]

Interesting thought on the lengthened clip. Are you talking about a longer blade? Or more like the difference in a very early 110 and a new 110?

And you got me curious about the thinner bolsters so I weighed and old 1/2 inch bolster 110 and a new Idaho and there is only an ounce (give or take) difference in weight. So wouldn't be a big issue for me.

And you gotta quit taunting me with those Osage scales!!! :thumbup: Those should be a custom shop option

Sorry for the long wait on the reply. This is the blade of my user 110, the bolsters aren't as thin as the other osage handled 110 I have but I still thinned them a bit.

My thinned bolsters are less than 1/2", The start of the clip is reground to be back at the pull, and then I just flatgrind from there. I have another in the works that I still need to finish, it has a narrower blade than the above osage handled 110. This one will have either buffalo horn or desert ironwood, I'm leaning towards the latter. The main reasons I like the drop and modified clip point blades are:
1. the narrower more acute point will slide under the tailbone of a squirrel much easier than the stock blade

2. It is easier for ME to sharpen a flatground blade, and I can get them sharper

3. The doawnward curved point is actually curving away from the guts when you gut that big buck you just shot, or rabbit ect. It makes for much easier gutting.

4. If forced to use in a defensive situation it will penetrate the flesh easier than the upswept blade. All the force is coming from the handle and the very point of the blade will be the first thing to impact whereas the upswept blade, the very point would not be the first thing to impact. you get my point?

5. who else will have one

and a couple pics of osage, just because

 

[Buckaholic]

Awesome Pics...
I'm in Muskrat Love with that osage.

 

[TerryM]

You guys just crack me up....

Terry M,,, will shoot you an email on vehicle skinnin...

I got your email and thanks very much! I was showing some of the guys here at work your email and one told me his camp does much the same thing only they use a golf ball! Now they're thinking the Texans stole their idea! Deer hunters...can't live with em, can't live without em!!!

Thanks again, it's much apprecitate!

Terry

 

[Pack Rat]

I got your email and thanks very much! I was showing some of the guys here at work your email and one told me his camp does much the same thing only they use a golf ball! Now they're thinking the Texans stole their idea! Deer hunters...can't live with em, can't live without em!!! Thanks again, it's much apprecitate! Terry

I said baseball just for emphasis. Whatever will hold without slipping when ever one of the grand kids tosses the skinnin rock off in the brush.

Maybe us Texans did steal your method.. Only been seeing it done that way bout 25 years down here.

Deer hunters,,,cant live with em.....oh well.... .

 

[gixxer]

I was just putting some touchup words to my truck skinnin document and realized there is another "bladed" tool I use in addition to the knives and cordless saw. I carry a pair of the long handeled tree trimmer branch nippers in th truck during hunting season.

Good for clearing trails, but has become invaluable at the cleaning station. Easily nips the lower part of the leg off and saves trying to cut the joints with a knife or saw with the hack saw. and easier than trying to use the cordless saw for not being able to hang on to it and the leg. Anything to speed up the process.

Get the big nippers... little ones wont cut it....

The check station @ the management area I hunt has a community pair of pruning shears also. They sure do make whackin lower legs off a cinch. BTW I carry a Vanguard, Knives of Alaska light hunter, and a Gerber big game cleaning kit. I ended up using the bone saw for branches, and the hatchet for firewood. The Gator is nice, it actually has 154cm steel on it. It's about to be replaced by a s30v Mini Alpha and s30v 110, this time without the stag.

 

[Guntotin_fool]

Last year I used a little woodsman, a vanguard and a small Barkriver mini canadian. I retired the woodsman this year as it was a gift from my Dad in 1972 and don;t want to risk losing it. I made a shadow box for it and a couple of pics from hunting with dad. I will buy another or a pathfinder and let my son have it and when I am on my last legs hopefully it will mean as much to him as to me. The vanguard is a great knife and does a good job, I am pretty sure it is 440c but not real sure. It is first or second year in age. The Bark river mini canadian really acts like a durable scalpel and is amazing in how fast you can field dress a deer with it. I have a ATS 34 mini alpha that I really like except for the feel of the handle, I wish it had full sized scales that covered the whole tang. Otherwise the blade shape and feel is excellent.