A hunting knife worth twice it's price and more

[Taidog1]

First, I’m likely a lot older than you. Not smarter, not better, just older with a lot of hunting years and experience behind me. For whatever that's worth.

Over those years I’ve used ordinary hunting knives to gut & clean my game, from Pheasants to Deer, Black Bear and Elk. Nothing special about the handles & blades, they all worked OK. Sometimes happy...sometimes not.

For use at home in the kitchen & dining room, wife & I are huge fans of Cutco knives. Sharp 24/7/365 & durable…both understatements. 5-Star customer service should you ever need it. Doubtful.

Not too long ago, I bought this knife, orange handle. https://www.cutco.com/p/drop-point-knife

Henceforth and forever more, it will be THE knife that resides in my back-pack or on my belt 24/7…regardless of hunt. Razor sharp is an under-statement. Cutco will sharpen it for you…free. Do yourself a real favor…take a hard, serious look at this knife. And NO, I’m not in any way connected to Cutco. IMHO, this is a knife that will serve you well for the rest of your life, regardless of what you ask of it. It’s already exceeded my typically unreasonable expectations. We all know, really, really good tools are hard to come by. This is one. You can thank me later.

God Bless & Happy Holidays.

[big honkin jeep]

Nice, Glad youre enjoying your Cutco.
Buck 119s are a darn fine option too that I feel the same way about.
They have become the tradition in my family as a gift from Dads. Mines been going strong since the early 1970s and a fella could shave with it if he was careful and then gut skin and cut up game like nobodys business.The ones my grandsons received in the last few years from their dads seem to be of the same quality as the one I received 50+ years ago. Cant say that about many products these days.

[Taidog1]

Good on you BHJ. My 119 was stolen many years ago. Should have bought another 119, excellent knife. Over these many years I've grown to favor a serrated edge.

[Stumpkiller]

For the last few years I have been carrying two hunting knives in my pockets. A CRKT Homefront and a CRKT Homefront Hunter. I field dress with the Homefront and I skin and flense the hanging carcass with the Homefront Hunter. They are folding knives that quickly disassemble to clean the internals. After field dressing a deer I toss the Homefront right in the organ bag with the heart and liver and clean it up at home. Both are small enough I can lay my index finger over the spine to prevent puncturing things I don't want to puncture.

[Taidog1]

For the last few years I have been carrying two hunting knives in my pockets. A CRKT Homefront and a CRKT Homefront Hunter. I field dress with the Homefront and I skin and flense the hanging carcass with the Homefront Hunter. They are folding knives that quickly disassemble to clean the internals. After field dressing a deer I toss the Homefront right in the organ bag with the heart and liver and clean it up at home. Both are small enough I can lay my index finger over the spine to prevent puncturing things I don't want to puncture.

Good to know. Thanks!

[J.Baker]

I have both of the Savage EDGE knives - one fixed, one folding - that they came out with back round 2005 or so. Very nice knives made by Seki in Japan, but I've only used the fixed one on game once at this point. Mostly I use an Old Timer Guthook Skinner that my dad got me the first year I went deer hunting (1988).

For small game like squirrel, rabbits and dove I just use whatever pocket knife I have on me at the time. Could be the blade in my multitool, could be one of several Buck knives, could be the dainty little SOG Flash 1, or one of a hand full of Victorinox knives I have.

[PhilC]

A late 70s Buck Folding Hunter and mid-80s Old Timer skinning knife w/o gut hook did everything I needed done. Keep 'em oiled and sharpened even 'tho not hunting anymore, paper target clean ups are quick and easy. LOL.

[RCE1]

Cutco tried to get me to sell their knives door to door many years ago. I'm not that interested in their products, but if you like them, I'm glad you've found something that works.

[Fjold]

I've cleaned a lot of small, medium and big game animals with everything from a 3" blade Old Timer pocketknife (because I forgot to pack a knife on an antelope hunt) to a $1,500 custom damascus blade with mammoth ivory scales (my brother's knife) and all work fine.

Three years ago, Wifezilla gave me a Cutco similar to yours but with a gut hook. I used it on the first deer that my daughter took off our farm in 2022 because Wifezilla was there and wanted to see me use the knife she gifted me. Since then, it's the only knife I've used on about seven deer. It's the first knife that I ever had with a gut-hook and it works surprisingly well. It just seems to fit my hand well and is the right size working inside the cavity. I haven't cut myself with it yet, which is another plus.

[Whynot]

For small game like squirrel, rabbits and dove I just use whatever pocket knife I have on me at the time. Could be the blade in my multitool, could be one of several Buck knives, could be the dainty little SOG Flash 1, or one of a hand full of Victorinox knives I have.

The local butcher uses Victorinox knives.... He gets them bulk with the big plastic handle because they go through them pretty fast (so no reason to get anything fancy) and the handle has good grip when wet. I'm sure they make a ton of different options and this one would not be a great all around knife because of the thinner blade- but they hold an edge and are scary sharp -it actually made me kind of nervous how sharp they were because one mistake and you were loosing something- Nothing like the old swiss army knife I had as a kid that was made by them.
Also really like buck- they are made close by and you can go on tours of the factory. They have lots of good options from nice steels to ones that you don't mind using as a pry bar or screwdriver (as long as you get the us made ones- they now import some lines.)

[Fuj']

Family has always leaned on Case. For my use, a Case original pocket folder, 315 Hunter, and a Bowie 1836.
Boning and fish fillet knives are mainly Schrade's with steel, that were my grandfathers.

[prdatr]

I bought a Cutco 1769 and used it once. I wasn't impressed with it skinning a deer. They sent me another one so now I have two and still am not impressed. Probably the best all around knife I ever used was a Rigid Bowie that held an edge like no other and the added weight made quick work skinning deer or elk and rarely needed sharpening. It belonged to a friend who moved away and gave it back to him in 08 after keeping it for about 15 years after he moved away.
I had an old timer change the factory edge on a Buck 110 back in the mid 80's and that thing was razor sharp. I have a 110 Auto with the SV30 that is my EDC but I can see a lot of chatter on the bevel of the edge and the bevel on each side is uneven to the opposite side.
I'm not good at putting an edge on a knife and can only get one reasonable sharp. I usually carry an Outdoor Edge knife with replaceable blades but they are not as sharp as the Havalon Piranta. Still use the old Kabar Hunting Knife my brother gave me almost 45 years ago. Keeps an edge and is easy to sharpen.