Show Us Your Rabbiting Knife

[Smelly Yeti]

I bought a Herbertz damascus years ago. Didn't have a sheath as nice as KB's. The scales weren't a very good fit and the blade and tang were out of line. There was a kink in it somewhere. I sent it back and bought something else (I'm very particular when it comes to knives). Shame. It was a pretty thing and I wanted to like it - but it was suspiciously cheap. Maybe I was just unlucky and got a Friday afternoon knife.
Came with a good edge though.

Lol - on first glance it looked to be of a far finer pedigree…. you’d have thought I’d been in enough nightclubs over the years to have learnt that lesson by now! Guess I’ll be sticking to the maligned Opinel after all.

 

[Gameking]

GD knife technique here at 11 mins in .



HTH

 

[BenBhoy]

There was a video doing the rounds a few years ago - maybe on here I saw it? - of the knifeless paunching method. It basically consisted of squeezing all the rabbits guts out of its backend. Looked very clean and efficient. I tried it a few times, and it definitely works (although on very young rabbits they sometimes split open in the wrong place), but there was something a bit nasty about the feeling of doing it.

I've done it that way plenty, my preferred method tbh, no mess on hands. sometimes bit tricky on big bucks.

 

[User00035]

GD knife technique here at 11 mins in .



HTH

I notice he doesn't thumb the bladder to empty it before unzipping. I always do that. And then pinch out the bladder and the remnants of the rectal canal. Stops urine droplets and stray dung pellets getting into the cavity.
OTT possibly but that's how I was taught from my earliest ferreting days.

I'll try his knife hold but I can see myself nicking the guts.

 

[Bowland blades]

I notice he doesn't thumb the bladder to empty it before unzipping. I always do that. And then pinch out the bladder and the remnants of the rectal canal. Stops urine droplets and stray dung pellets getting into the cavity.
OTT possibly but that's how I was taught from my earliest ferreting days.

I'll try his knife hold but I can see myself nicking the guts.

Its very easy , go minimum on the exposed bit . Took me two or three to get it 100% . Always Pee them out as soon as you pick them imo, Its a video that will have an amount of editing and i am sure he will be peeing them out

 

[VSS]

I notice he doesn't thumb the bladder to empty it before unzipping. I always do that. And then pinch out the bladder and the remnants of the rectal canal. Stops urine droplets and stray dung pellets getting into the cavity.
OTT possibly but that's how I was taught from my earliest ferreting days.

I'll try his knife hold but I can see myself nicking the guts.

I wondered about that too. While he's gutting one of them you can see a stream of urine squirting out. Should have emptied it first. Also noticed what looked like a couple of dung pellets still in one of the rabbits that he held up to the camera to show how "clean" it was.

 

[User00035]

I wondered about that too. While he's gutting one of them you can see a stream of urine squirting out. Should have emptied it first. Also noticed what looked like a couple of dung pellets still in one of the rabbits that he held up to the camera to show how "clean" it was.

The pellets usually stay in the canal initially, but if it's not pinched out straight away I find you end up with them loose inside the cavity after the carcasses have been rolling around on the truck - hence I always pinch out.
As Bowland blades says though, it's an edited clip to show his unzipping technique. He probably does the same.

 

[User00035]

Its very easy , go minimum on the exposed bit . Took me two or three to get it 100% . Always Pee them out as soon as you pick them imo, Its a video that will have an amount of editing and i am sure he will be peeing them out

Will definitely give it a go.

 

[Klenchblaize]

Just make sure you use a decent-looking knife that is worthy of featuring in this thread please!

K

 

[Overlay]

Here's a few of mine. Anyone of which can and does get pressed into paunching the odd bunny or three (apart from the crook knive!)
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just when I thought I had enough knives i’m small change by the looks of things

 

[Ade8mm]

just when I thought I had enough knives i’m small change by the looks of things

Haha. That is an old picture, it need an update showing the new additions

 

[Bowland blades]

This was a little experiment, its a smaller take on my muntjac Model a knife that many including myself like for rabbits in itself

 

[hedge hunter]

This was a little experiment, its a smaller take on my muntjac Model a knife that many including myself like for rabbits in itself
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Little beauty

 

[Klenchblaize]

This was a little experiment, its a smaller take on my muntjac Model a knife that many including myself like for rabbits in itself
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Are those scales made from fruit wood? Looks like plum to me but could be apple!

K

 

[Dunwaters]

It works for deer too.

 

[sh1kar]

Top one was my grandfathers

Can’t recall where I got the other

 

[kenbro]

Apart from the usual Opinel.....

One Pat Mitchel and two David Boye dendritics
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I’ve (finally) grown out of buying them but I’ve still got a drawer full of interesting knives that never get used now....including these Pat Mitchell’s complete with their original Stencraft Leather sheaths and another Boye dendritic ...

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The bottom one must be early?

I’ve no idea how much these would be worth now.

Cheers

Fizz

Top one looks all write.

 

[Bowland blades]

Are those scales made from fruit wood? Looks like plum to me but could be apple!

K

English yew, tree came down during the big storm in the mid eighties .

 

[20-250]

Not many rabbits around here, but my Oosik handled Jim Downie with 2 1/4" blade would be my favourite.

 

[Klenchblaize]

Not many rabbits around here, but my Oosik handled Jim Downie with 2 1/4" blade would be my favourite. View attachment 338124

Very nice and not too dissimilar to the knife that opened this thread.

K