What knives are people using?

Opinel 5" carbon steel, nice and thin on the back. £30.00 so you can loose 3 and be under your sub £100.

I use mine for the clean out, head and feet. I have a xl Norton 1000 grit stone which puts a very nice edge on it.

Tim.243
 
Bds are selling the Alan wood designed casstrom I believe, really good steel, really good knife at well below a £100.00

Casstrom’s #10 in flat grind are also very very good knives and good value for money
Both will serve you well
 
Not sure how you’re supposed to keep an opinel clean / sterile? Also, they get pretty slippy when wet / covered in blood - shouldn’t be an issue if you’re using it properly mind you!
 
Not sure how you’re supposed to keep an opinel clean / sterile? Also, they get pretty slippy when wet / covered in blood - shouldn’t be an issue if you’re using it properly mind you!

Worst thing about opinels is when the wood gets wet and swells up, as its really hard to open up the blade.
Prefer Mora's myself. Cheap and cheerful, but very effective.
 
ESEE Cody Rowen 2.5 and reprofile it slightly so it is a bit more slicey. It is one hell of a strong thick knife for its size. A proper workhorse that feels perfect in the hand.

If you shop around you will find one for about £100. Carbon steel, so you will get a proper edge that will keep and if you use it regularly, it will patina nicely and build character. You can get a powder coated one as well but a bit more money. Good quality micarta, nice small sheath and can go in your pocket (I hate sheaths on belts personally)

If you are dealing with bigger deer, you may want something bigger but I prefer something small that cuts with a high carbon content.
 
Knives are a fetish like rifles etc,

A mora and mora tripe knife are all u need,

Have I got custom jobbies??? Of course I have( I have an opinel no 9 and no 7 ( carbone)with red stag antler handles that a good forum mate crafted for my girls) I also have a cracker that can do red etc

A butter knife ground down and finished to razor sharp will do the job

Cave men used Flint for christs sake

Alan wood design by castrom do a mini Safari hunter ????it's a cracker for 70 squid

But I always use my moras, sharpness is key the rest is fetish

Kjf
 
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Not sure how you’re supposed to keep an opinel clean / sterile? Also, they get pretty slippy when wet / covered in blood - shouldn’t be an issue if you’re using it properly mind you!

I am surprised that people post they send their deer to be cut up by someone else who you have no idea how they treat the caucus in the time it is away from you!

Regarding sterile lots of people still on lead pipes, well water and cutting up the Sunday roast with bone handled steel knife.....

My understanding is a blunt knife is far worse a tool than a sharp one....

:tiphat:

Tim.243
 
ESEE Cody Rowen 2.5 and reprofile it slightly so it is a bit more slicey. It is one hell of a strong thick knife for its size. A proper workhorse that feels perfect in the hand.

If you shop around you will find one for about £100. Carbon steel, so you will get a proper edge that will keep and if you use it regularly, it will patina nicely and build character. You can get a powder coated one as well but a bit more money. Good quality micarta, nice small sheath and can go in your pocket (I hate sheaths on belts personally)

If you are dealing with bigger deer, you may want something bigger but I prefer something small that cuts with a high carbon content.
Thank you i will look into them.
 
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