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pdg929 · 11-12-2012, 09:51 AM

im on the market for a good resonable priced knife for deer hunting knife. now i know some are gonna say a ka-bar but i dont like the leather handle and i think the blades are kinda big i want a 3-4 inch fixed blade...thank you in advance

MSGT-R · 11-12-2012, 09:58 AM

Ka-bar makes a shorter version you may like. Also, go look at what SOG offers.

http://sogknives.com/store/fixed.html

carver · 11-12-2012, 10:04 AM

Old Timer Sharpfinger, or the L'il finger: http://www.knivesplus.com/oldtimerknife-sc-152ot.html

ka64 · 11-12-2012, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by carver

Old Timer Sharpfinger, or the L'il finger: http://www.knivesplus.com/oldtimerknife-sc-152ot.html

Wow, that was my first knife. Gramps bought it for me when I was 10.

pdg929 · 11-12-2012, 10:13 AM

carver i have the old timer good skinning knife not so much for gutting a pain to break that pelvic bone

carver · 11-12-2012, 10:16 AM

What holds that pelvic bone together? Just a little gristle. Find that sweet spot, and the pelvic will open right up. I have done this with a pen knife. It's not hard at all.

MSGT-R · 11-12-2012, 10:21 AM

And gloves, lots of gloves (messy).

carver · 11-12-2012, 10:24 AM

I have never used gloves, blood washes off, and it won't hurt you at all!

pdg929 · 11-12-2012, 10:43 AM

yea cant feel anything with gloves

carver · 11-12-2012, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by pdg929

yea cant feel anything with gloves

MSGT-R is talking about surgical gloves.

pdg929 · 11-12-2012, 10:49 AM

i know

Country101 · 11-12-2012, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by carver

I have never used gloves, blood washes off, and it won't hurt you at all!

Tell that to my uncle...... He got some kind of disease cause he had an open sore or cut himself while skinning one. I've heard of others catching something as well. Not that that makes me wear gloves, just sayin.....

The SOG Seal Pup does a good job. Not the IDEAL skinning knife, but in general, it does awesome. It'll cut thier throat like the grand canyon: deep and wide..... So far, I love mine. Takes an edge easy enough and holds it relatively well.

howlnmad · 11-12-2012, 11:14 AM

I'm assuming since you said it's for deer hunting you want it for field dressing abd skinning, not survival. Look around for a Buck alpha series. They come in straight or folding version with a 3" blade and with or without a guthook. They have a great feel, hold an edge well and the guthook is a dream to use.

Roadkil · 11-12-2012, 11:31 AM

I have a Scharde (Old Timer) folding lock back hunter knife that I have used for the past 13 years. Believe that I bought it @ wally world and it came with a sheath. Never had an issue with it and still have/use it. Not expensive either, at least back then it wasn’t, not sure what they go for today.

hardluk1 · 11-12-2012, 11:38 AM

I bought a pair from knife of alaska about 7 or 8 years ago. They have been the best knifes I have usedr. Never wanted a big blade knife ether for dressing out deer. http://www.knivesofalaska.com/item.a...2Easp%3Fc%3D35

polishshooter · 11-12-2012, 10:11 PM

For thirty years or more I used the "Edge Brand" "Solingen Steel" stag handled "Buffalo Skinner" I bought new when I was 13 years old at W.T. Grant as my all around hunting knife, for gutting and skinning, deer and small game, and LOVED that knife...

UNTIL I lost it in the woods when the third or fourth sheath I had to buy for it failed!....

I had a Western Drop Blade Hunter in my knife drawer that I acquired some time ago that I let my son use as a hunting knife when he used to hunt with me...that I began using as my "hunting knife," It is absolutely the GREATEST knife I have ever used to gut a deer...

THEN I acquired an Old Timer classic Skinner knife on clearance at Dick's for a song, and I am now CONVINCED.

You NEED a decent "Drop Point" as your "Field Knife," and a dedicated "Skinner" for skinning....using a "Skinner" for gutting, and you will be hamstrung a little, using a "Hunting Knife" for skinning and you will be also hamstrung...a LOT!

"Compromise" knives that can do several things means they CAN do several things, but none of them WELL....

You need a good DROP POINT for Field Dressing, and a good SKINNER for skinning...and NEVER the 'twain shall meet....

Just as you need a good stiff knife for BUTCHERING, and another nice flexible Fillet knife for BONING...

IF you hunt AND butcher deer, you will need a MINIMUM of 4 good knives...GOOD, not necessarily EXPENSIVE...

While my Western Drop Point is no longer made, there are plenty of good 4" drop point stainless belt knives Made in USA by several manfacturerers, Buck, Case, Gerber, Kabar, etc, ...that are available and that will hold a good edge....

You will have a hard time beating an "Old Timer" $19.99 Classic Skinner carbon steel Skinning Knife for what it does, large enough for skinning, small enough for "caping," as long as you oil it after you are done before you store it...

If you are lucky enough to find or have a Case XX Fillet Knife, it will be the knife you use the most for deboning AND butchering....

And an Old Hickory Carbon Steel Butcher Knife that you may find used at yard sales or flea markets for a song ($5-$20) (mine is the one my Dad bought in North Carolina new just after he married my Mom, when they were at Ft. Bragg in 1944, for $2.00...) is about the best carbon steel kitchen/Butcher knives you can find....they REALLY hold an edge...

RYANINMICHIGAN · 11-13-2012, 08:26 AM

I have carried a Buck 119 for many many years it has served me well. It is a little bigger then what you want but it is a great knife.

RYANINMICHIGAN · 11-13-2012, 08:26 AM

oh and gut hooks are a waste of time IMO. I had one never liked it.

pdg929 · 11-13-2012, 09:40 AM

im not a fan of gut hooks either

carver · 11-13-2012, 09:42 AM

Man has hunted, killed, gutted, and skinned animals for thousands of years. He never had a gut hook, or a butt plug, didn't need them!

Country101 · 11-13-2012, 01:31 PM

I will say this, gut hooks on a knife are worthless to me. The razor blade "guthooks" are awesome though! They basically look like some of the letter openers you may have seen. I consider them pretty disposable, but they are handy. Make your cuts around the legs and then slide that puppy down. Makes short work of it. Anywhere you can get the tip in you are away and cutting. You are cutting naturally from the inside of the skin, so no having to cut through the hair or hold your knife just so to have the angle to do the same thing. It can sure save you some frustration if your knife isnt razor sharp and several minutes.

nmckenzie · 11-13-2012, 05:42 PM

My favorite is a Schrade Old Timer "Sharp Finger". The lady of the house prefers her Wyoming Knife.

45nut · 11-13-2012, 08:59 PM

Buck #104, 106, 110 (folding lockblade) Uncle Henry - Schrade sheath & folding knife are good too.

Didn't see the anti gut hook talk. My experience is just the opposite. I can gut a deer without it, but to just slip the gut hook in and unzip my deer is the easiest part of gutting now. Mine is on a Great Western Skinner and it works fabulously. Don't have to worry about nicking a gut bag.

Hawg · 11-14-2012, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by 45nut

Buck #104, 106, 110 (folding lockblade) Uncle Henry - Schrade sheath & folding knife are good too.

Didn't see the anti gut hook talk. My experience is just the opposite. I can gut a deer without it, but to just slip the gut hook in and unzip my deer is the easiest part of gutting now.

+1. I use an Old Timer with a gut hook and it unzips a deer hide really fast. The only thing I don't like about it is the handles get slick when they get bloody. I've had this one for about 20 years but they sell pretty cheap on ebay. I don't really like a folder for meat work. Too hard to clean compared to a fixed blade.

RYANINMICHIGAN · 11-15-2012, 12:20 PM

I guess by the time gut hooks were main stream I was alreadsy hunting for many years so I have no need for it. I have gutted prolly 100s of deer and I can say without a doubt I have never cut into the guts. What if you knife was also a survival tool and you had to repeatedly stab something. Would the gut hook get hung up?

11-12-2012, 09:58 AM	#2
MSGT-R Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: SoCal Posts: 898	Re: good deer knife Ka-bar makes a shorter version you may like. Also, go look at what SOG offers. http://sogknives.com/store/fixed.html __________________ If you suck, go back to the range.

11-12-2012, 10:04 AM	#3
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,227	Re: good deer knife Old Timer Sharpfinger, or the L'il finger: http://www.knivesplus.com/oldtimerknife-sc-152ot.html __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

11-12-2012, 10:13 AM	#5
pdg929 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: NJ Posts: 111	Re: good deer knife carver i have the old timer good skinning knife not so much for gutting a pain to break that pelvic bone __________________ "GOD MADE ALL MEN, BUT SAMUEL COLT MADE THEM EQUAL" " A SHEPARD MUST TEND HIS FLOCK,AND AT TIMES FIGHT OFF THE WOLVES"

11-12-2012, 10:16 AM	#6
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,227	Re: good deer knife What holds that pelvic bone together? Just a little gristle. Find that sweet spot, and the pelvic will open right up. I have done this with a pen knife. It's not hard at all. __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

11-12-2012, 10:21 AM	#7
MSGT-R Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: SoCal Posts: 898	Re: good deer knife And gloves, lots of gloves (messy). __________________ If you suck, go back to the range.

11-12-2012, 09:51 AM	#1
pdg929 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: NJ Posts: 111	good deer knife im on the market for a good resonable priced knife for deer hunting knife. now i know some are gonna say a ka-bar but i dont like the leather handle and i think the blades are kinda big i want a 3-4 inch fixed blade...thank you in advance __________________ "GOD MADE ALL MEN, BUT SAMUEL COLT MADE THEM EQUAL" " A SHEPARD MUST TEND HIS FLOCK,AND AT TIMES FIGHT OFF THE WOLVES" -->

11-12-2012, 10:24 AM	#8
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,227	Re: good deer knife I have never used gloves, blood washes off, and it won't hurt you at all! __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

11-12-2012, 10:43 AM	#9
pdg929 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: NJ Posts: 111	Re: good deer knife yea cant feel anything with gloves __________________ "GOD MADE ALL MEN, BUT SAMUEL COLT MADE THEM EQUAL" " A SHEPARD MUST TEND HIS FLOCK,AND AT TIMES FIGHT OFF THE WOLVES"

11-12-2012, 10:49 AM	#11
pdg929 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: NJ Posts: 111	Re: good deer knife i know __________________ "GOD MADE ALL MEN, BUT SAMUEL COLT MADE THEM EQUAL" " A SHEPARD MUST TEND HIS FLOCK,AND AT TIMES FIGHT OFF THE WOLVES"

11-12-2012, 11:14 AM	#13
howlnmad Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Harriman, Tn Contributor Posts: 2,565	Re: good deer knife I'm assuming since you said it's for deer hunting you want it for field dressing abd skinning, not survival. Look around for a Buck alpha series. They come in straight or folding version with a 3" blade and with or without a guthook. They have a great feel, hold an edge well and the guthook is a dream to use. __________________

11-12-2012, 11:31 AM	#14
Roadkil V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: SW Ohio Posts: 183	Re: good deer knife I have a Scharde (Old Timer) folding lock back hunter knife that I have used for the past 13 years. Believe that I bought it @ wally world and it came with a sheath. Never had an issue with it and still have/use it. Not expensive either, at least back then it wasn’t, not sure what they go for today.

11-12-2012, 11:38 AM	#15
hardluk1 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: nc mountains Posts: 293	Re: good deer knife I bought a pair from knife of alaska about 7 or 8 years ago. They have been the best knifes I have usedr. Never wanted a big blade knife ether for dressing out deer. http://www.knivesofalaska.com/item.a...2Easp%3Fc%3D35

11-12-2012, 10:11 PM	#16
polishshooter Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Indiana Contributor Posts: 7,859	Re: good deer knife For thirty years or more I used the "Edge Brand" "Solingen Steel" stag handled "Buffalo Skinner" I bought new when I was 13 years old at W.T. Grant as my all around hunting knife, for gutting and skinning, deer and small game, and LOVED that knife... UNTIL I lost it in the woods when the third or fourth sheath I had to buy for it failed!.... I had a Western Drop Blade Hunter in my knife drawer that I acquired some time ago that I let my son use as a hunting knife when he used to hunt with me...that I began using as my "hunting knife," It is absolutely the GREATEST knife I have ever used to gut a deer... THEN I acquired an Old Timer classic Skinner knife on clearance at Dick's for a song, and I am now CONVINCED. You NEED a decent "Drop Point" as your "Field Knife," and a dedicated "Skinner" for skinning....using a "Skinner" for gutting, and you will be hamstrung a little, using a "Hunting Knife" for skinning and you will be also hamstrung...a LOT! "Compromise" knives that can do several things means they CAN do several things, but none of them WELL.... You need a good DROP POINT for Field Dressing, and a good SKINNER for skinning...and NEVER the 'twain shall meet.... Just as you need a good stiff knife for BUTCHERING, and another nice flexible Fillet knife for BONING... IF you hunt AND butcher deer, you will need a MINIMUM of 4 good knives...GOOD, not necessarily EXPENSIVE... While my Western Drop Point is no longer made, there are plenty of good 4" drop point stainless belt knives Made in USA by several manfacturerers, Buck, Case, Gerber, Kabar, etc, ...that are available and that will hold a good edge.... You will have a hard time beating an "Old Timer" $19.99 Classic Skinner carbon steel Skinning Knife for what it does, large enough for skinning, small enough for "caping," as long as you oil it after you are done before you store it... If you are lucky enough to find or have a Case XX Fillet Knife, it will be the knife you use the most for deboning AND butchering.... And an Old Hickory Carbon Steel Butcher Knife that you may find used at yard sales or flea markets for a song ($5-$20) (mine is the one my Dad bought in North Carolina new just after he married my Mom, when they were at Ft. Bragg in 1944, for $2.00...) is about the best carbon steel kitchen/Butcher knives you can find....they REALLY hold an edge... __________________ The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living. Last edited by polishshooter; 11-12-2012 at 10:12 PM..

11-13-2012, 08:26 AM	#17
RYANINMICHIGAN V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 223	Re: good deer knife I have carried a Buck 119 for many many years it has served me well. It is a little bigger then what you want but it is a great knife.

11-13-2012, 08:26 AM	#18
RYANINMICHIGAN V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 223	Re: good deer knife oh and gut hooks are a waste of time IMO. I had one never liked it.

11-13-2012, 09:40 AM	#19
pdg929 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: NJ Posts: 111	Re: good deer knife im not a fan of gut hooks either __________________ "GOD MADE ALL MEN, BUT SAMUEL COLT MADE THEM EQUAL" " A SHEPARD MUST TEND HIS FLOCK,AND AT TIMES FIGHT OFF THE WOLVES"

11-13-2012, 09:42 AM	#20
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,227	Re: good deer knife Man has hunted, killed, gutted, and skinned animals for thousands of years. He never had a gut hook, or a butt plug, didn't need them! __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

11-13-2012, 01:31 PM	#21
Country101 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Dardanelle, AR Contributor Posts: 2,026	Re: good deer knife I will say this, gut hooks on a knife are worthless to me. The razor blade "guthooks" are awesome though! They basically look like some of the letter openers you may have seen. I consider them pretty disposable, but they are handy. Make your cuts around the legs and then slide that puppy down. Makes short work of it. Anywhere you can get the tip in you are away and cutting. You are cutting naturally from the inside of the skin, so no having to cut through the hair or hold your knife just so to have the angle to do the same thing. It can sure save you some frustration if your knife isnt razor sharp and several minutes. __________________ Gainfully employed= shooting somebody elses bullets and getting paid for it Country101

11-13-2012, 05:42 PM	#22
nmckenzie Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Sitka, Alaska Posts: 1,921	Re: good deer knife My favorite is a Schrade Old Timer "Sharp Finger". The lady of the house prefers her Wyoming Knife.

11-13-2012, 08:59 PM	#23
45nut Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 3,428	Re: good deer knife Buck #104, 106, 110 (folding lockblade) Uncle Henry - Schrade sheath & folding knife are good too. Didn't see the anti gut hook talk. My experience is just the opposite. I can gut a deer without it, but to just slip the gut hook in and unzip my deer is the easiest part of gutting now. Mine is on a Great Western Skinner and it works fabulously. Don't have to worry about nicking a gut bag. __________________ A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that. Shane Nemo me impune lacesset We recall the case of the Shoshone war band which showed up complete with one 30-30 rifle per man the week after Pearl Harbor, and simply wanted to have the enemy pointed out to them. "We hear there's a war going on and we want to go fight it." Jeff Cooper *KCCO* Last edited by 45nut; 11-14-2012 at 10:24 AM..

11-15-2012, 12:20 PM	#25
RYANINMICHIGAN V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 223	Re: good deer knife I guess by the time gut hooks were main stream I was alreadsy hunting for many years so I have no need for it. I have gutted prolly 100s of deer and I can say without a doubt I have never cut into the guts. What if you knife was also a survival tool and you had to repeatedly stab something. Would the gut hook get hung up?