Havalon Piranta opinions?

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What's everyone's opinion on the Havalon Piranta and the other interchangeable blade knives?

I'm toying with the idea of getting one, but not 100% sold on it yet. Intended use would be skinning, quartering game mostly. Likely deboning too.
 
The small one with replaceable blades works great for skinning skulls and paws. Not sure how well the thin blades would stand up for basic skinning/gutting. Hard to beat a good sharp fixed blade knife for that part.
 
Used one for the first time this year on my Spring Bear.
Super Sharp, and easy to work with.

But definitely more fragile than a conventional knife.
 
They're ok. I prefer a traditional style of knife in a quality steel but I've found if you use them like a knife should be used they are more than adequate.
 
I love mine, just be extra careful if you're sticking both hands into a body cavity blindly to cut the windpipe. That thing will cut you before you deep and fast.
 
I have the Havalon and just bought the Outdoor Edge Razor-Blaze Knife. The outdoor edge blade is more sturdy but both are dangerously sharp. If you're not paying attention you can cut yourself deep quick.
 
They're great but you will break blades. Blades are super sharp but don't take much to dull, you've got to change them out frequently. I'm not real organized and mine spends lots of time MIA. Victorinox paring knives bought by the handful and a steel work as well for me.
 
Good for skinning bears, cleaning out paws and caping heads and notching tags. I find them too small for most everything else and too sharp for small fur animals. I find it better to use it in conjunction with a hunting knife, not replacing it.
 
Dogleg said:
Good for skinning bears, cleaning out paws and caping heads and notching tags. I find them too small for most everything else and too sharp for small fur animals. I find it better to use it in conjunction with a hunting knife, not replacing it.
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That last part is where I was thinking of picking one up - the thin sharp blade would be very useful for the initial cuts around the rear-end of animals to not knick anything and release all the various tubes.
 
demonic2020 said:
I have the Havalon and just bought the Outdoor Edge Razor-Blaze Knife. The outdoor edge blade is more sturdy but both are dangerously sharp. If you're not paying attention you can cut yourself deep quick.
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If you had to pick one, which do you like more? Seems the Havalon has cheaper blades, do the outdoor edge blades last longer?
 
I just bought one. I plan to use it for fine work alongside a fixed blade. Hopefully I'll be able to try it out on a mule deer in a couple of weeks.
 
This is the first year with the outdoor edge. I have field dressed a deer yesterday and plan on skinning it tomorrow with the Edge. After field dressing it is as sharp as when I started. The blade is a little thicker and more durable than the havalon. I carry both but I doubt I will ever pull the havalon out again while hunting. I plan on moving it over to my ATV survival bag.
 
demonic2020 said:
This is the first year with the outdoor edge. I have field dressed a deer yesterday and plan on skinning it tomorrow with the Edge. After field dressing it is as sharp as when I started. The blade is a little thicker and more durable than the havalon. I carry both but I doubt I will ever pull the havalon out again while hunting. I plan on moving it over to my ATV survival bag.
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Do you happen to know if the regular Edge and the Lite use the same blades? (One come with a sheath, the other a belt clip on the knife)
 
saltednutz said:
I use mine for gutting and skinning. I also carry a fixed blade for reaming out the bunghole.
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Haha, id imagine that comment too a non hunter would get quite the reaction! Probably similar to my old lady asking what that orange, plastic t shape thing with my hunting gear was.
 
saltednutz said:
I use mine for gutting and skinning. I also carry a fixed blade for reaming out the bunghole.
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What kind of fixed blade do you have? My ergohunter is too tall to do the bunghole nicely.
Watching Rinella do this deer with a piranta was what made it seem like the perfect bunghole reamer:
 
I use a havalon baracutta, love it for gutting, skinning and deboning. Always carry it with an assortment of regular skinning blades , fillet blades and bone saw blades.
They make one now that has both the piranta size blade and baracutta, that's what I'd get.
 
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