I love my Sharpfingers for skinning and cleaning deer. What other style knives are really good skinning knives ?

I've got a Gerber with good upswept to the blade that I like to use alot. Their mystery steel is also easy to keep sharp.

I've used a Buck 103 skinner for 45 years. It has always worked well, but I don't use it for gutting.

I now use a Havalon, love it for skinning.

One of my own. Out of all of my designs, this is the handiest to me when it comes to skinning and quartering.

Buck 110 folder currently. Hope to replace it with one of MikeC's design by next season.

I'm a fan of a blade shape like what MikeC showed. My particular knife isn't fancy, being an old KaBar. I use it for skinning and for gutting. The long blade is a big help with the gutting. For de boning the meat, I use an old Browning folder with about a 4 inch thin blade that really holds an edge. Been doing it like that for over 35 years. I've tried other type blade shapes from Puma, Gerber, Buck, etc, but though they were Ok, they weren't better.

Just to get fancy, I did ask a few guys about making me a KaBar with Damascus steel, but it would have been rather expensive. And other than being pretty, it wouldn't have skinned any better. Still...the thought keeps coming back to me.

Cant really remember how long iv had one of these..

also have something similar to this


loaded with these

I've been using a RMEF knife from Browning that has been great but I have a couple of new ones from MikeC and one from Kev that will get used this coming week. I'll report back.
The pic that Mike posted, the handle looks odd to me, but it is one of the best feeling and best balanced knives I've ever felt but he wouldn't let me 'borrow' it.

Top one is from Kevin's bench, bottom two are from MikeC

I love my Viscera. Works like a charm and stays sharp.

Real Avid Viscera

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I am a fan of the Outdoor edge swingblade, the blade is great for skinning and the unique gut blade works great. "opens game like a zipper".

By far the best non-custom American-made knives I have used are Bark River Knives. For skinning & caping, a set of these is all you might need...
In our elk camp a few years ago, we used these to skin 5 elk and never needed to re-sharpen them!


Bark River Canadian Special and Mini Canadian

You need a knife to skin deer?