What knife do you use for field dressing?

[Jdubs]

Just curious what others are using.  This Piranta is scapel-like sharp.

[Team Hoyt]

Buck knife, works great

[Marion]

I use my benchmade grizzly creek and my piranhtah

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[Nomad]

Old Timer , carbon steel Stockman .

[turkeyfeathers]

Gerber lock blade I've had for years. Haven't left it in a gutpile yet but almost every time. 

[NonTypical]

I have several, but my original Schrade Old Timer gut hook is my favorite. 

[moog5050]

I have a few benchmades.  They all stay very sharp.  

[Elmo]

1 hour ago, Jdubs said:

Just curious what others are using.  This Piranta is scapel-like sharp.

I use the same.

[Estobles]

Old original Buck knife my Dad gave me about 50 years ago.


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[turkeyfeathers]

13 minutes ago, Estobles said:

Old original Buck knife my Dad gave me about 50 years ago.


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I've been thinking about asking my Pop to give me a knife for Christmas this year so I have a special knife. He's 93 and he sadly won't be around forever. But a special hunting knife will give cherished moments in the field. 

[Pygmy]

I have about 20 quality knives, Bucks, case and pumas....Then 3 years ago my Canadian buddy gave me one of those Havelons....That is all I have used since and my field dressing chores have never been easier....

[vizslas]

Gerber folding drop point with the gator grip

[biggamefish]

I love hellas but the knife I carry is a puukko. It is an amazing knife!

[Pygmy]

29 minutes ago, turkeyfeathers said:

I've been thinking about asking my Pop to give me a knife for Christmas this year so I have a special knife. He's 93 and he sadly won't be around forever. But a special hunting knife will give cherished moments in the field. 

 

29 minutes ago, turkeyfeathers said:

I've been thinking about asking my Pop to give me a knife for Christmas this year so I have a special knife. He's 93 and he sadly won't be around forever. But a special hunting knife will give cherished moments in the field. 

I ahve a couple of very special knives...One is a Buck 110  that my ex-wife gave me the first year we were married...I used it for many years and went back several times to paw through gutpiles to recover it..In September of 1989  in Alaska, I used it to butcher two bull moose by myself in one day..I no longer carry it for fear of losing it..  My another special knife is a Puma folder that I bought for my Dad in the late 1970's...I re-inherited it when he died in 1994....It is a great  knife and I used it a lot...

[Dom]

I use a Kabar with a 4.5" fixed blade 

[Daveboone]

for years I used my Buck 110, but allways thought it on the clumsy side. for about the past 20, my favorite has been a 3" drop point caper I put walnut handles on. great little knife, my all time favorite but the fat thick little blade left something to be desired loosening the rectum (kinda odd sounding) and needed frequent rehoning. The past couple years I have gone over to a vintge Schrade Sharpfinger.....probably the best combo of design and edge holding I have used so far. After using it a few days ago on my ML spike horn, I had to take a minute to realize just how dang effortless it made the task. 

[crappyice]

Careful changing the blades of the havalons...somehow my buddy did this to his finger, prepping for his first hunt of the year.

 

Can't post the pic- pretty healthy gash in his left index finger

 

 

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[goosifer]

4 hours ago, Jdubs said:

Just curious what others are using.  This Piranta is scapel-like sharp.

I had one like this, but lost it last year. I still have the refill blades. I was looking into buying a regular surgical scalpel handle and seeing if the Havalon Piranta blades would fit in it. There are several different sizes of scalpel handle sizes, and I am not sure which one, if any, would fit (I'm guessing a #4). Any doctors or vets on the board that would know? In the meantime, I bought some disposable scalpels that I am going to try out in the field.

[Jeremy K]

Just my benchmade that i wear on my jeans everyday. I did plan on getting a havalon this year but i went way over my budget on hunting  stuffthis year.

[Jdubs]

16 hours ago, Estobles said:

Old original Buck knife my Dad gave me about 50 years ago.


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This just reminded me that my parents gave me a nice buck knife many moons ago when I was a Boy Scout.  I'll have to dig that one out.

[coonhunter]

I have an old Remington that I use. That knife has skinned who knows how many coon, and gutted and butchers every deer I ever killed. Barely have to touch it up and it is as good as new.

 

[Larry]

A SHARP ONE

[fasteddie]

Here is a whole thread from last year 

 

[grampy]

Mostly,  I use a one of two old four inch folding Buck knives. And every now and then, a fixed blade Old Timer.  All honed razor sharp by me, on an Arkansas whet stone I've used for decades. One of these knives will go to my grandson when he field dresses his first deer this year.

[Hock3y24]

Browning model 127, and a sog switch hunter. I found the browning by a gut pile one year and that thing gets scary sharp with just a stone. the sog has a bone saw and i just cut through the pelvis with it.