What's your standby Whitetail hunting knife?

[NRA4LIFE]

I do carry a Gerber gut hook to zip them open.

 

[Sinistram]

Life is too short for ugly knives fellasView attachment 885554

Im drooling over the Ingram (?) knives in the top row. I agree with you on the ugly knife part. Our time out there is so valuable, why sully it with inferior cutlery?

Browning folder . Has two blades for zipping and cutting and a saw blade which has been handy for trimming small branches if necessary.

I have lusted after one of those tri-blades since I was about 10 years old. I'm considerably older now and should probably seek one out!

 

[TacticalSquatch]

I have a Benchmade and a MKC that I take with me. Both are great.

 

[The Truth]

I have a Buck Vanguard that I carry out in the field and I’ll use it to field dress. Pretty much every other part of the process I use an Outdoor Edge replaceable blade knife

 

[NDGuy]

Im drooling over the Ingram (?) knives in the top row.

From left to right are
Wayne Walker Bobcat in Maple
WW Pack Lite (My design) in Koa
Grizzly Forge Ridgeline in Spalted Maple
Charles May Trace in Curly Siamese Rosewood
Gene Ingram Spearpoint in Jade G10
Gene Ingram Utility Hunter in Linen Micarta
Gene Ingram Drop Point in Koa
Gene Ingram Drop Point #4? in Buckeye Burl
Charles May Buk95 in Amboyna Burl
Charles May Buk95 in Natural Micarta
Wayne Walker Classic Loveless Drop Point in Koa

 

[long hunter]

Actually carry three one is a early old timer three blade pocket knife USA made one is a belt clip Kershaw basically these are EDC when it comes to fixed blades I’m a bit of a snob and lean towards hand crafted knives the current one that gets used the most now is from a blade smith in Texas whom I worked closely with in the re-search for the build it is a Horace Kephart clone (as close as we could get to the original)very sturdy knife and excellent for the field, also sometimes carry a Nessmuck that was built buy a smith in up state N.Y. Also a nice knife, partial to drop points retired a very fine drop point a few years back that was commissioned when my son was about 8 months old he is now heading towards 50 A smith named Labree near Harpers Ferry WVa Built that knife speciall handled in Caribou to fit my left hand it has been through a lot of animals,have a Shawn Webster belt knife that’s also very good would like to find a Bill Moran some day

 

[long hunter]

MKC sharptailed is what I used last year and I was quite happy with it, its small but nearly ideal.

My dad bought me a blackfoot shortly before he passed this spring so will most likely carry that this fall, actually with likely have both on me...

I carried my dads pocket knife after he passed, then one day thought I had lost it searched high and low end of story I left it lay on the re-loading bench when the boss lady needed something done right away, Was a great relief now it only goes when I hunt Wyoming we always talked about hunting there when I was younger but guess it wasn’t in the budget for him, My way of taking him along.

 

[Elkhntr08]

Benchmade North Fork is my go to for about everything. Also carry a Benchmade Saddle Mountain Skinner.

 

[juniatahunter]

I use an outdoor edge knife currently, but I’d like to get a fixed blade.

 

[Pilsner]

After taking somewhere near to 200 whitetails I have yet to take one with a knife that wasn't already hit by a bullet or truck.
Joking aside, any quality steel knife of about the same size as my index finger will do everything one would expect of a whitetail knife. Gutting, caping, skinning, etc.

 

[Sinistram]

For a bunch of years up to last season, it was a Silver Stag Elk Skinner I won at a Friends of the NRA banquet. Silver Stag. I like the size, feel, and steel (D2), but the sheath was bush league leather. I made a kydex one for it and solved that issue. D2 can be tough to sharpen in the infrequent event it gets dull, which I didn't like.

This year, I'm planning on using a kit knife I made from Knifekits.com. They come shaped and mostly sharpened, and you add the scales and take the metalwork the rest of the way home. It was a fun project and I'm looking forward to giving it a test in a few months!

 

[mitchellmountain]

Years ago my trusty Buck 119 was the knife that always went with me to the woods but it ended up seeming a bit overkill for deer. For quite a few years, now, my Buck 102 has become my choice for general tasks and field-dressing, along with my Buck Omni Hunter 10-Point knife for skinning duties.
What knife is your first choice for the Whitetail woods?

for field dressing, carry my Civivi elementum. Just a small pocket knife. For quartering and packing out, little fixed blade anything and a sharpener. That being said that civivi will skin and quarter a whole deer before needing sharpended, just will be getting duller toward the end.

 

[SuperSeal110]

Gene Ingram - Slim

 

[01Foreman400]

Nothing fancy, just an Outdoor Edge that I just keep sharpening with a cheap sharpener because I’m cheap. LOL It’s gutted around 80 whitetails now on the same blade. I have had to pull out a new blade a couple of times when cleaning more than 4 at a time though. Might not have to do that with a better quality knife.

 

[Tupp]

I’ve been using a couple different Gerber’s for a while. Haven’t had any issues but just picked up an Iron Will K2.
So I’ll be excited to see how that works this fall.

 

[SlimTim_MN]

No idea what mine is called/made by....but my Gpa gave it to me as a kid and its my fav thing in the world! Just used it last fall, best part of the harvest for me.

 

[Loper]

Buck 102 for me.

 

[Brian Fahs]

Buck 110 and a havalon piranta

 

[BigNate]

Deer are small enough that I gut them and drag it out almost as much as gutless. I usually know where I'm going, usually carry the exact same gear regardless. My favorite knife so far was a Canadian belt style. It disappeared. Just ordered a replacement from Hereinaz (Dixie Zipper).

 

[Tiger243]

bench made hidden canyon, looking for a back up or replacement