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Re: Favorite Skinning Knives [Re: WillTheThrill] #1632551
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I've been using a Bolen pelting knife lately, I like it and it holds an edge real good, cheap too, about $15.


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Re: Favorite Skinning Knives [Re: madtrapper] #1632584
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Chicago Cutlery blue handle like jimbo4 has a link to.

Re: Favorite Skinning Knives [Re: ] #1632905
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chicago cutlery wood handled paring knife. 3 1/4 inch blade.


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Re: Favorite Skinning Knives [Re: bad karma] #1633066
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5 dollar 6" fillet knife from walmart.

Re: Favorite Skinning Knives [Re: Zeak] #1633159
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This is my homemade beaver knife. I was gonna change the blade shape but i like it like it is. Its like having a razon for a finger...lol...shane


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Re: Favorite Skinning Knives [Re: shanemoss] #1633259
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I could not be without my Bolens but I also like this custom skinner.

Re: Favorite Skinning Knives [Re: ] #1633273
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Nice looking knife right there...shane


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Re: Favorite Skinning Knives [Re: shanemoss] #1633350
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Shane, you and 2 poor both are bragging! Wish I had either one of those knives. My dad sold my grandpa's old knife.

It was something like this, with a homely garden hose and copper rivet handle;

http://www.texasknife.com/vcom/product_info.php?cPath=119_299_381&products_id=623

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Re: Favorite Skinning Knives [Re: Ole Hawkeye] #1633374
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No need to be fancy to cut, right?...lol..an employee decided to buy a new blade for my pipe cutters i've had for 18 years with nothing wrong with the old one. So i slapped a "temporary" handle on it to see how it woked for skinning and aint put it down since. Growin up about all our butchering and kitchen knives were homemade and somehow i managed to keep up with em all these years. They are made like your grampa's i imagine...made too work and made to last....shane


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Re: Favorite Skinning Knives [Re: shanemoss] #1633407
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The handle isn't the business end. That old piece of a pre WWII canvas garden hose and copper rivets were ugly, but comfortable and the knife part did what it was designed to do. I see people pay big bucks for knives that have pretty handles and sheathes and the blade has a shape they like and they don't even know what kind of steel or how it was tempered. Might not hold an edge long enough to skin a mouse, but it sure is pretty!


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Re: Favorite Skinning Knives [Re: Ole Hawkeye] #1633430
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I have about 6 knives I use in the shed for different stuff. Mostly boning style knives and a couple of 4" skinning knives and I have one beaver knife (don't even know what brand). I don't care what kind of knife you use, as long as it's sharp and you have a good sharpening system. Much more important than the knife you use (except on beaver).


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Re: Favorite Skinning Knives [Re: Ole Hawkeye] #1633445
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I cant say nothing, i have a few of those myself...lol...Pocket knives are the same way. Im set with old timers though...my dads boss used to buy him a new one for christmas and his birthday every year but he used the same old one for long as i remember. I got a bunch of brand new "old" old timers still in the box....shane


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Re: Favorite Skinning Knives [Re: Ole Hawkeye] #1633751
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Originally Posted By: Ole Hawkeye
I see people pay big bucks for knives that have pretty handles and sheathes and the blade has a shape they like and they don't even know what kind of steel or how it was tempered. Might not hold an edge long enough to skin a mouse, but it sure is pretty!


blade is D2 and it will hold an edge long enough to skin a Buffalo. Besides I have spent more on a good drunk in my earlier days ! wink

Re: Favorite Skinning Knives [Re: ] #1633787
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"cub Bear" made by knives of alaska.

Re: Favorite Skinning Knives [Re: jimbo_4] #1633949
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Originally Posted By: jimbo_4
This is what I have, it works well on everything, and it's very sharp.

Skinning Knife

I don't take it in the field, I only use it at home skinning, but does a great job.


I'm with you . I bought 4 at the 2008 convention at Evart. They were sale priced at $7.00 or (4 @ $20). Mine have black handles ??
An occasional steel and crock-stick on edges, and has worked on everything that goes thru my shed.


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