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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2014 18:34:46 GMT -5
Is that a Buck #118, stroupy? Buck makes a good knife. This is the one I use and love.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2014 18:44:18 GMT -5
No it's a Buck pathfinder 105. It's a good knife I tried other knives with the gut hook and don't like the gut hook personally. I can do a better job with this and don't have to worry about the gut hook getting caught on any of the insides when your gutting.
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Post by fleroo on Jul 29, 2014 7:45:42 GMT -5
A well-sharpened knife should practically cut by pressure of just it's own weight when eviscerating game. That's why I don't really get the gut-hook on knives. I understand the principle, but like you said, that "hook" seems to catch on stuff I don't want it to catch on. Or maybe I'm just too daffy to know how to use one.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2014 7:59:39 GMT -5
I do own one knife with a gut hook. It is a Remington Big Game knife. As you can see from the photo below, it is a two blade folder. I have used one of these one time to field dress a deer and the gut hook worked OK. It is another one of those inventions that did not meet a huge pressing need IMO. The saw portion of the gut hook blade is also pretty much useless. I usually remove the anus and the rectum by cutting around it, tying it off, and then pulling it into the body cavity to remove with the gutpile. Usually I carry the Camillus I posted a photo of before. While folding knives do get some blood and guts in the grooves, they are much easier to carry. Of course, since I am a knife collector, I NEED a bunch of knives that I never use, right?
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Post by fleroo on Jul 30, 2014 9:13:20 GMT -5
The one you posted muttley, wouldn't be too bad, as you can choose simply not to use the hook, as it has it's own blade. The one's that didn't sit well with me, was a single blade, and had the hook on the same blade near the middle. So anytime the blade was sunk in the cavity, the hook may catch on "stuff".
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2014 9:18:50 GMT -5
I have no use for such a knife as the one you describe, fleroo, with the possible exception of wanting one for my collection. Obviously though, some do like them. The knife makers wouldn't make them if they didn't.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2014 8:50:17 GMT -5
A lil hefty to tote in dem woods but those BIG Mountain Sully County Deer needs a lil more than a puny pocket knife to do the job!! Got this as a gift when I became NRA Life Member:
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Post by acorn20 on Aug 7, 2014 10:48:51 GMT -5
I just can't muster up any feelings for my Buck folder. My neighbor boy gave me a new one thirty-some years ago to replace a pocket knife I had loaned him. I just couldn't seem to get it to hold any kind of an edge.
My grandfather gave me a fixed bladed knife like the one Stroupy posted. I always thought it was a Buck but didn't know why I could put an edge on it that would last seemingly forever and the Buck folder wouldn't. Then I noticed the name Marbles above the handle. That pretty much explained why I could get that knife to hold an edge.
I guess one of my favorite knives is a Case trapper. I believe that I may own one of the sharpest knives in South-Central PA. It's a homemade folder made by the late Harry Forsythe. I don't know how he cut the blade but it's made from a cross-cut saw. You can usually do up three deer before you touch it up on the steel.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2014 16:38:45 GMT -5
I agree Dan that the Case chrome vanadium steel blades sharpen-up and hold an edge better than whut Buck uses which is mostly 420HC stainless steel. I must say though that when I do my job in honing-up my 110 I can even shave off some of my ole faces tuff whiskers!!
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