Thread: Various Knives

Originally Posted by Bavarian_Hunter

I'm curious on your thoughts, I've always taken one knife into the bush but I'm considering taking two. One for cutting off heads and skinning and one for breaking down/boning/sticking. Inevitably at some point when butchering animals the knife begins to dull. Never used to bother me and I just pushed through but these days I appreciate a sharp knife that glides through its duties. I figure I either take a knife and a steel or two knives.

What do you do in the space of a breaking down/boning/sticking knife? Do you think it's worthwhile?

As an aside, I read a lot of history and can appreciate now why french and american settlers in the america's typically carried 3 knives on them at any one time during the 18th century.

I apolagise for the delay in answeing but have had a few other things going on lately and havent been on the forum.
It depends on your hunting style. I have always carried my light hunter design and use that for gutting and heading and carry out to the truck and have a set up at the truck with hanging bar and a breaking down table so have my skinning, breaking down and boning knives there. If I was to look at doing it in the bush I would carry a knife to gut and skin and a 5 inch general purpose knife for breaking down and boning out for a carry out. .
This a Tahr Hunter that would perform the first gutting and skinning tasks .



And the general purpose knife is suited for all else down to boning and breaking down