Favorite style skinning knife???

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I’m looking for a good skinner. I used to just grab whatever knife was closest and sharpest. Usually use a NWTF gut hook knife but it’s to thick and big, I don’t like it. I have used the Outdoor Edge knives with replaceable blades. It’s better. Recently found a box of knives I’ve collected over the years and found a James R Largent that I got for Christmas back in 1995. I used it on my last deer and it was great. Just looking to see what yall use and like?


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I personally don't like the replaceable scalpel type knives. I don't want a razor sharp blade. I was taught to skin using a buck 110 folder or similar style pocket knife. With a sharp blade but not scalpel sharp. And a simple pocket knife is still what i use. Once I get my starting cuts done I peel the hide off and only cut what I can't peel. I've got a good friend who went out and bought one of the skinning type kits with bone saw and all this other crap that ain't needed when he started hunting. I helped him with his first deer several years back and pulled out my pocket knife and had the whole thing cleaned and in the cooler in about 30 minutes. I showed him how to cut around the leg joints so they would just pop off without making a mess sawing bones. He asked why the hell I didn't tell him it was that easy before he bought the cleaning kit.
 
Been using one of these for close to 40 years. I've lost count on how many deer I have skinned, quartered, and deboned with this knife. Hundreds I guess. I'm on my fourth or fifth one. Eventually the point wears down and I get a new one with the old one ending up in the kitchen. :)

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HandyDave said:
I showed him how to cut around the leg joints so they would just pop off without making a mess sawing bones.
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My grandpaw taught me this when I was young. I taught someone this trick the last deer I killed. I don’t like bone dust all over my deer. He was amazed at not having to hack the rump bone.
 
Of all my knives, I typically grab these 2 for skinning and breaking down a deer. I have also used a Case 3 blade medium stockman to skin a lot of deer.

Buck Zipper with a gut hook signed by Chuck Buck back in 2000 and a Ka-Bar 1440 that they have discontinued.
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Each year, @thrillhill processes a lot of game of different shapes and sizes. He is my go to when looking for this type of info. Maybe he will chime in.
 
Average Joe said:
Each year, @thrillhill processes a lot of game of different shapes and sizes. He is my go to when looking for this type of info. Maybe he will chime in.
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Pretty much this. All I would be doing in here is parroting something he taught me anyway. I mean, I'm not saying I copied his deer processing kit right down to the same size plastic tub but...I totally copied his deer processing kit. In fact he even gave me some of the things in it.
 

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I've used a Wyoming knife for many years. There is definitely a learning curve, and it doesn't do that much for butchering. But for skinning, I really like it.
 
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