good folding hunting knife?

[gobblergetter]

 

[Lunatic]

I am guessing your knife is a very soft steel.

[Live to Hunt]

30 years of hunting still have my first BUCK knife. 

[Buck154]

Havalon knives if you don't want to sharpening. Just replace the blade with a new. You won't find anything much sharper and easy. 

Edited June 21, 2018 by Buck154

[hammer4reel]

Buck 110 have been around for ever. Solid knife.

I love my work sharp for 90% of my knives but im not happy with it on the 110 

It's actually the only knife I won't use the work sharp on.

 

If would go to a sheath knife. The cutco with the double d edge is the last knife you will need.

I have one that had gutted over hundred deer before I sent it back you be  sharpened.

I keep it in my pack 

[Slayer1962]

I use havalon also. I carry a Spyderco which i sharpen on Ken Onion Worksharp . Its easy to use and can sharpen knives quickly 

[hammer4reel]

1 hour ago, Buck154 said:

Havalon knives if you don't want to sharpening. Just replace the blade with a new. You won't find anything much sharper and easy. 

Chris reeves knife makes a havalon feel like a butter knife.

But they are big $$$$.

 

[Buck154]

12 minutes ago, hammer4reel said:

Chris reeves knife makes a havalon feel like a butter knife.

But they are big $$$$.

 

Don't think anyone would ever need anything sharper for skinning or gutting a deer or any game.  Havalon are sharper than most guys would ever need!!!!!!!!

[not on the rug]

14 minutes ago, hammer4reel said:

Chris reeves knife makes a havalon feel like a butter knife.

But they are big $$$$.

 

Chris Reeves makes nice knives.  There are a ton of excellent makers out there nowadays.  My next hunting knife is probably going to be a Josh Scott. I'm also considering a knife from Builtwright Bladeworks, Black Roc, Josh Meyer, or maybe a Neil Kamimura.  All of these guys have lengthy waiting lists and I like all of their work so damn much that it's hard for me to decide sometimes.  

[hiking]

I also have the Cutco, Mine has the gut hook and came engraved with my name. I have only had it 3 years but based on the Cutco fillet knife that is 25 years old and still holds a great edge, I'm sure I will be happy with the deer knife.

[Pathman]

20 hours ago, vdep217 said:

Buck 110.. I have went to work sharp and love it..  I use two angles when sharpening and it seems to hold better..  when gutting deer I normally get 4 or 5 before I need to re sharpen

WHat do you mean by “using two angles?” I have a worksharp as well, just wondering if you’ve discovered some trick/tip that might make it even better?

[Lady Bird]

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30 years of hunting still have my first BUCK knife. 

Me too.  I also have my grandfathers Buck knife.  

Cutco make a phenomenal hunting knife.  I have the one with the gut hook.  they make it with our without.  Lifetime warranty includes sharpening.  It's super sharp, have the scars to prove it.  

[230jhp]

I have a shoe box sized bin full of hunting knives straight and folding. I am partial to Schrade and Case folding knives.  I have several straight knives. The only one I ever use is my 50+ year old Ontario with the hex pommel. I use it more as a good luck charm since I had it since my days in RVN. It is fastened to the fanny pack I use when scouting/hiking.  

I often lose knives when hunting. I had a Schrade Uncle Henry for many years and lost it about 20 years ago.  I had it in a velcro belt pouch (actually a magazine pouch). Backpacking the treestand must have unhooked the velcro. I realized it when I went to gut a deer. Thankfully there was someone there to borrow a knife.I cannot find the same knife anywhere. I found one similar, but smaller on Bud K. It's in my shoe box.  I have lost several knives on gut piles including a really nice Case Trapper. I also lost a custom made folder on another gut pile, but went back the next day and found it.  For this reason I never carry a knife on my belt and always carry several knives while hunting.

With regard to sharpening I bought one of those belt sander sharpeners last year. With that and a touch up on a hard Arkansas stone all my many knives "shave a har'" as per the Deliverance hillbilly. I also used it to sharpen a machete. I used the machete to clear some blowdown(snowdown) brush to access the TCA on the Pequannock River. It was cutting through 1"+ limbs in one swing

Edited June 21, 2018 by 230jhp

[vdep217]

3 hours ago, Pathman said:

WHat do you mean by “using two angles?” I have a worksharp as well, just wondering if you’ve discovered some trick/tip that might make it even better?

Not sure what its called but Im essentially making an edge than making a finer edge..  not saying its better then any thing else but it works for me...  I use the green guide with the red belt till decently sharp..  than put  the grey guide on..  2 strokes each side than use  there grey belt alternating sides every stroke until I can shave with it...

Edited June 21, 2018 by vdep217

[230jhp]

2 hours ago, Lady Bird said:

Me too.  I also have my grandfathers Buck knife.  

Cutco make a phenomenal hunting knife.  I have the one with the gut hook.  they make it with our without.  Lifetime warranty includes sharpening.  It's super sharp, have the scars to prove it.  

I have a Buck straight knife I only use to skin deer and I almost always bring deer to a butcher. A buck knife is supposed to hold an edge better then others. I don't see that with the one I have.  I have had to sharpen it several times.

I have a CUTCO  fillet knife that is awesome. The scabbard doubles as a hook sharpener and a forceps to hold a fish's lip while filleting . The blade can be extended from the handle to where it is almost a foot long