What makes a Bird and Trout knife?

[seionage]

What makes a bird and trout knife, a bird and trout knife?

To me those are paring knives with larger handles.

I don't fish for trout, or bird hunt for doves or anything. I usually partridge hunt, but you can clean those using your hands and a paring knife.

So, what makes a bird and trout knife, a bird and trout knife?

Thanks!

 

[Dragonman1959]

Bird knives have a gut hook. for pulling their guts out their arse when cleaning in the feild.

 

[22-rimfire]

It's just a small bladed knife. My general reference is the Randal bird & trout. Honestly, that was the first one I had ever seen, and I still use it as my reference point. But you have it about right. I use a pocket knife myself.

Link: http://www.randallknives.com/catalog.php?action=modeldetail&id=11

 

[seionage]

Dragon:
I've heard something like that (I thought was a notch for cutting bones, but I could be mistaken). In any case, can you point me to a link with a good picture that shows the gut hook?

Thanks!

 

[StretchNM]

I think it's just a thin, medium length blade with a mild taper at the belly and a sharp point. None of the ones I've seen have had a gut hook - not implying they don;t normally, I just haven;t seen any.

Here's BRKT's Bird and Trout: http://www.knivesshipfree.com/Bird-and-Trout-508

Here's a little "unnamed" B&T knife: http://www.thegreatindoors.com/shc/...01P?prdNo=12&aff=Y&sid=TAx20081402x00002Tier3

Browning's B&T: http://www.cabelas.com/field-care-browning-woodsman-bird-trout-knife.shtml

And then there's Grohmann's. They call it a Trout and Bird knife: http://www.grohmannknives.com/pages/r2s.html

 

[BP Green]

I think it's just a thin, medium length blade with a mild taper at the belly and a sharp point. None of the ones I've seen have had a gut hook - not implying they don;t normally, I just haven;t seen any.
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+1. That was always my understanding of it. I think it's mostly just a loosely common name for the style rather than a hard and fast standard. . .

 

[StretchNM]

There's a BP station in Sault Ste. Marie. Does that have anything to do with your username?

 

[BP Green]

There's a BP station in Sault Ste. Marie. Does that have anything to do with your username?

You're waay off. . .

 

[Flatlander1963]

Buck 102. Best Bird and Trout value on the market.