Your thoughts on hunters...

My idea of extreme hunter

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Both these knives have a number of deer under them, I'm going to say
I probably prefer the Oak Crotch handled knife over the Box Elder handled
one. Box elder is cold blued 01, Oak crotch handled knife is Ats-34.

Ken
 
I prefer this type style for gutting & skinning. I sell a lot of them locally every year and all I get are good reports. For processing I use boning knives and a large knife that butchers call a "breaking" knife. I use the breaking knife for large jobs like quartering and cutting roasts. I use the boning knives for everything else.
I've thought about making a cleaver but never have because I have a bone saw for that type of work. I hate the bone meal the saw makes but I think shards of bone would be even worse.
I lost all my pics of that stuff but I may try to take some tomorrow. Me and my dad used to process game commercially but just don't have the time for it anymore. Sold a lot of the equip. too. Used to have a bandsaw, meat tenderizer, & wrapping machine. All we have now are the knives, hand saw, meat grinder, & sausage stuffer. We also used to smoke our own slabs of bacon, hams, hock bones, tasso. Now about all we make is a couple of 30 lb. batches of sausage every year.
 

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A little W-2 hunter I will have at the Blade show. Table 16Q in the ABS section
 

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For deer and general hunting I like small guardless full tang knives. However I gutted and partially skinned my first moose last year and was really happy by buddy had one of those folders with the replaceable scalpel like blades. The moose fell on a dirt road and with all the dirt and grit in and on the hide, my blade was not razor sharp for long and with his I used three or four blades but had a razor sharp edge for the entire process. I will buy one of those before the next moose hunt.
 
For me, I definitely prefer a clip point of some sort, or a blade that isn't very tall. Around here the big thing is whitetails, and the way I was taught to gut a deer, we don't break the pelvis. Stick the knife in, run it around the bone by the anus and pull it back through into the cavity with it still attached to the rest of the guts. Guess that's why I like a blade that isn't tall; It would be too hard to get the knife where I want it to go.

This one's not as extravagant, nor perfect as some others here, but I made this for one of my brother's friends. The design still needs some work, and apparently my photography skills do too. . .

 
There are several hunting knives, and every hunter based on its experience, prefers a form and size.

These are some types that I make to Italian and European hunters:





 
Gorgeous.


And a timely resurrection for this thread!!! Put the trail cam out a couple weeks ago, myself, and it's almost time to check in on it...
 
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