what's your hunting knives?

[BlackGT]

I use an Outdoor Edge Swingblade. It works great for me. I do not understand anyone who needs anything to dress a deer but a sharp knife.

Difference in Dressing a deer and Dressing, skinning/caping, and quartering a deer.

[bybotie]

Difference in Dressing a deer and Dressing, skinning/caping, and quartering a deer.

Fixed.

[jyro]

lots of tools to make it easier, sawsall, branch cutter, skinning knife, folding razorblade knife, lanolium knife.

I cut around the legs with the razor knife and make a cut from the inside leg to the belly on all 4 legs, and a line from front to back in the belly area with the lanoium knife hook, all just through the skin. I use the limb trimmer to cut the tail off even with the back bone. Skin the deer to the top of the neck, it basically peels off the back after you get the skin off the legs.

Cut deep around the butt avoiding going too deep and nicking the blatter. open a hole in the rear under belly area avoiding nicking the gut. insert the lanoium knife blade and use your fingers as a guide to keep the gut back, cut to the cartldge in the rib cage, push the stomach back and insert a skinning knife and pull toward the head area hard, it may take a few tries to cut the cartlege through to the neck. At the lease we have a concrete cleaning area with running water. the only time I have to do field dressing is when the game is too heavy to load by myself and I need to drop the load some. at the clreaning area we have a 2x4 saw horse with a v area in the top that you can slide the pigs into, we hang deer by the hind hoofs from a winch with a pipe with cable loops on the end to hold the legs open.

Gut the deer, we have a 50 gallon heavy black plastic tub from tractor supply for a gut bucket, you can clean 3 or 4 deer or pigs between dumping if you have help loading it to take to the boneyard area for dumping.

Quarter the deer. I cut around the hip bone and get into the hip joint cutting the joint apart and that leaves both hams with no part of the hip bone attached. I use the limb trimmers to cut the hoofs off. I use the sawzall to cut off the head and the hip bone that's left off the spine. we usually don't keep the rib cage. we cut out the 4 loins. the front legs are removed by cutting around the shoulder blade and the hoofs are removed with the limb trimmers.

Since we hunt a managment lease, we can harvest hundreds of deer with almost no limit on does and cull spikes. we can also hunt till the end of Feb. We have a lot of deer to clean.

[BlackGT]

lots of tools to make it easier, sawsall, branch cutter, skinning knife, folding razorblade knife, lanolium knife.

I cut around the legs with the razor knife and make a cut from the inside leg to the belly on all 4 legs, and a line from front to back in the belly area with the lanoium knife hook, all just through the skin. I use the limb trimmer to cut the tail off even with the back bone. Skin the deer to the top of the neck, it basically peels off the back after you get the skin off the legs.

Cut deep around the butt avoiding going too deep and nicking the blatter. open a hole in the rear under belly area avoiding nicking the gut. insert the lanoium knife blade and use your fingers as a guide to keep the gut back, cut to the cartldge in the rib cage, push the stomach back and insert a skinning knife and pull toward the head area hard, it may take a few tries to cut the cartlege through to the neck. At the lease we have a concrete cleaning area with running water. the only time I have to do field dressing is when the game is too heavy to load by myself and I need to drop the load some. at the clreaning area we have a 2x4 saw horse with a v area in the top that you can slide the pigs into, we hang deer by the hind hoofs from a winch with a pipe with cable loops on the end to hold the legs open.

Gut the deer, we have a 50 gallon heavy black plastic tub from tractor supply for a gut bucket, you can clean 3 or 4 deer or pigs between dumping if you have help loading it to take to the boneyard area for dumping.

Quarter the deer. I cut around the hip bone and get into the hip joint cutting the joint apart and that leaves both hams with no part of the hip bone attached. I use the limb trimmers to cut the hoofs off. I use the sawzall to cut off the head and the hip bone that's left off the spine. we usually don't keep the rib cage. we cut out the 4 loins. the front legs are removed by cutting around the shoulder blade and the hoofs are removed with the limb trimmers.

Since we hunt a managment lease, we can harvest hundreds of deer with almost no limit on does and cull spikes. we can also hunt till the end of Feb. We have a lot of deer to clean.

Basically the same process I do, except for the hip bones. I just use my saw to cut through the middle and seperate from the spine for the 2 hams and also to remove the hoofs. Not much room in a backpack for limb trimmers...

[dee]

Here's a pic of my homemade knife I use a lot. Also use a Schrade I picked up for $5 when a sporting store closed out, it gets used mainly for the gut hook.

[Sleeper]

Ive got a shrade old timer as well. Its skinned alot of fur. Its the old mans from the 70s-80's.

He has ruined it by sharpening it on a nasty grinding wheel. Half the blade is gone.

[white88]

Esee Izula II is an all around great knife, comes razor sharp from the factory all I do is polish the blade and it becomes hair popping sharp it also holds an edge for a long time.

[Sleeper]

Just got the lone wolf knives ordered for 99.99 woot.

[BlackGT]

Not a bad deal. Give us a first impressions review once you get them, and then a functional review once you use them.

[aggie97]

still haven't gotten home to take photos yet but here is the link to the guy making the knives we bought last weekend...pretty cool.



Well, crap, the two links I have are similar but not....

https://www.skknives.com

www.stevedunnknives.com is similar...

[aggie97]

wow, spend an hour looking up custom knife makers named Steve! How many could there be right? A LOT. turns out the one I was looking for is located in marble falls and does not have a website.

Seems like an awesome hobby/business for artisans.

[CJ]

[Sleeper]

Nice cj, now you just need to grind in some serrations.

[Sleeper]

I got the knives today. I was actually expecting the caper to be bigger than it is. But in reality its the perfect size. The skinner with the drop point is nice as well.

Pro's
Sharp as fuck out of the box. im not even going to mess with them. the caper shaves my arm with no pressure at all.

Size, they fit well in my hand.

cons

Id never wear the sheath they give you out in the woods.

the scales dont seem to have any protection from stains. I might be wrong here.



Last note dont set these down in the woods or you will prob loose them. The blade is not polished and the handle will blend in. they actually have a orange scaled version.


I can already tell that im going to get years of use out of these things. And since they prove they can get things sharp I will prob sent them back to be sharpened when needed in the off season.

[dee]

Look pretty darn nice.