What's your standby Whitetail hunting knife?

[iwearshorts]

Benchmade Steep Country. The original version.

 

[Bleeb]

My own design that I made from a chunk of one of my grandfather's old stone chisel. I made a few out of old leaf spring chunks for others.

 

[STLJake]

@NDGuy Do you have any Ingram blades or Charles May you're looking to let go of?

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[IW17]

I'm a bit of a knife nerd, so I've had my fair share of different knives over the years. However lately my go to for everything but skinning has been the boker bark beetle. I like the long slender profile and a nice sharp tip. Great for cleaning out the anus, as I don't split the pelvis, and the tip allows me to nip parts of the organs in the chest cavity without needing to turn the blade to use the edge.

 

[left hunter]

Kestrel short ovis hunter. But it’s my favorite hunting knife regardless of the animal

 

[wyosam]

Never owned a hunting knife. Always just used them afterwards.


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[jaedewill]

Gene Ingram Slim

 

[Thorntoe89]

Mini bush


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[NDGuy]

RS won't let me PM you

I don’t sorry

 

[NDGuy]

Can’t wait to get this one bloody

 

[OftenOutdoors]

Gene Ingram Slim

Always a good choice!

 

[eidsvolling]

Helle Arv

Close, but it’s not Ulven. ;-) Fjellkniven below it for another comparison.

 

[STLJake]

Gene Ingram Slim

can you post a picture of the Slim?

 

[OftenOutdoors]

can you post a picture of the Slim?

You were not asking me but the one on the right is the Slim.

 

[kooch]

I’ve got too many knives. But one of these two always seem to be my pick when I head out.

Spyderco Enuff gen 1.
Grohmann Canadian Belt Knife.

Edit - spelling


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[LottieDog]

I’ve been using a western L66 and it has been one of my favorite blade profiles.

 

[minas stiris]

My suggestion would be a Buck Vanguard.

 

[cheezstake]

ill be using an outdoor edge APX this year, has replaceable blades

 

[HGL]

Wayne Hendrix Y2K small skinner with buckeye wood handle. 25 years young this year, still works.

 

[eidsvolling]

And now for something completely different. My sister and her husband gave me a birthday gift of a Strømeng Samekniv in the 9” version a couple years ago. ( Being Norwegian/Swedish/Finnish, I was introduced to the Scandi grind a few decades ago.) It’s patterned after the knives carried by Sámi reindeer herders in Arctic parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland.

I put it to use today for the first time on a roadkill spike whitetail, and I was impressed with its handling. There’s a reason the reindeer herders favor these for butchering their animals, gathering firewood and prepping shelters, all while wearing mittens at subzero temperatures. It wasn’t that cold today, but I am looking forward to giving that a go later this year.



Some details about the design are here:

STRØMENG KNIVES