Gerber

with these

Blades

Be careful buddy; don’t hurt yourself!

I used a scalpel for years as a taxidermist, caping and intricate facial detail. I will not use a replaceable blade any longer. Too sharp, too flimsy........cold hands, bloody hands blade changing.......no more.

A sharp folding hunter will suffice for all meat work, skin-gut-process.

Wyoming knife if you want disposable blades.

No hook blades for me, not after a slip and an OH S***!

Wyoming knife blades can be resharpened. Tedious, but you can do it.

Schrade Old Timer USA 194 OT. Got a couple of them. Not from Chyna !

Have one it’s nice, but I find I misplaced it and just use my boneing knife most of the time anyway. We take flank and rib meat so gutless isn’t really an option.

I use a Buck 102, Buck 685 with gut hook and Gerber Gator(?) also with a gut hook. I have done some with my Buck 110. I have had the Buck 102 for over 30 years. Love that knife.

I have done gutless and cleaned them on the tailgate, but this opening day I went old school and pulled out the gambrel and pully. The problem is we only have 1 oak tree on our place and the other million trees are Mesquites. I finally found one tall enough to hang and clean a deer properly. If I tried the golf ball trick, it would probably pull the mesquite tree over.

High carbon steel.
I bought some blades from Jantz Supply and built handles. They take an edge that stainless won’t.

I once made and sold fixed blade knives. Stainless out of ignorance. Then I got a high carbon industrial hacksaw blade and decided to turn it into a knife. I still have it and it CUTS. Then I did some more and compared them to stainless. The high carbon wins every time.

Then at a gun show I found a guy selling high carbon knife blades. I bought some and put handles on. He told me about Jantz. Now, if I want to do anything that cuts, I pull up Jantz on my PC and see what they have. Just slap a handle out of craft wood and I have a cutter.

Stainless is for looking at and high carbon is for cutting.

I use a Benchmade Grizzly Creek with the gut hook that folds up in the handle. Best use of a daily pocket knife and a handy hide away hook!

I have a foldable Browning I gut with and have a separate skinning knife with a gut hook. Can't remember the mfg. I will say, most of the Youtube guys and shows on Sportsman channel etc use Benchmade. But man they are expensive.

I tried a fixed blade Gerber with gut hook for a while. It worked pretty slick till it got dull. Was a pain in the kester to sharpen the gut hook and got thrown in the knife drawer. I’m back to a razor sharp Eye brand or chrome vanadium Case pocket knife with a drop point like most rednecks use.

Got it as a bday gift and used it to clean the last 2 deer. It worked better and was sharper than even my havalons - Benchmade saddle mountain skinner with gut hook. Really liked it

Dad got a Wyoming knife back in late fifties and used it for years, put new blades int several times

My favorite knife is my grandfather's old western high carbon steel knife. 2nd favorite is a cheap Kershaw drop point. Both take a crazy sharp edge. I do carry a stone so I can touch up in the field. I've tried the replaceable blade knives. They're too flimsy and don't feel safe to me.

This is my favorite.

Moore Maker knife with gut hook

I keep a utility knife with a roofers blade in it.


Not much of a fan of gut hook on knives I do carry this though blades cheap and most all home improvement stores have them.

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