Your prefered style of hunting knife.

[pharaoh2]

Yeah I know, there is a blade forum you know, blah blah blah.

What do you prefer as your primary hunting knife, a clip point or a drop point?

 

[blasted_saber]

Drop. Practicality I dont really think is any different, I just prefer the look.

 

[trevj]

Drop. Practicality I dont really think is any different, I just prefer the look.

Can't put it better than this.

Cheers
Trev

 

[trebor2880]

Can't put it better than this.

Cheers
Trev

 

[sheephunter]

Personally I carry one of each as they both serve very different purposes. If forced to carry just one it would be a clip point as it allows you to do a lot of the finer skinning associated with caping and also for splitting joints.

 

[Drillbit]

Don`t know the diff.

I use a Cutco or a BoxCutter.

I don`t care what it looks like, as long as it`s sharp.

 

[senior]

I like the drop point of my Russel, it allows me to run my finger the length of the blade back so I can slip open the belly of a venison without knicking the yucks

 

[Eagleye]

Drop point, blade quite short, with a handle that allows a full grip.
Designed my own, then had a builder make it for me.
Wish I had made 3 instead of one.
That builder is gone now.
Eagleye.

 

[rookie wildcat]

Don`t know the diff.

I use a Cutco or a BoxCutter.

I don`t care what it looks like, as long as it`s sharp.

mine would be a drop point. Clip point pricks too many other things. I have heard of the box-cutter use, but never actually tried it myself.

 

[cdncowboy]

I'm with the drop point fella's. I like the surgical precision that you can work the tip when gutting large game and as others had mentioned you don't knick anything you aren't suppose to. It also is a great bushcraft blade design.

I've never seen the boxcutter in action either, nor have I tried it. I would think it would be rather "clumsy".

 

[woodchopper]

something that I can whack with a hatchet to split bone

 

[cdncowboy]

something that I can whack with a hatchet to split bone

...mental note: when hunting with woodchopper bring crappy knife not my good one ...

 

[Ardent]

Mora

 

[BigUglyMan]

Drop point. I have several handmade and versions and they are the ones that get used all the time. I don't own a clip point hunting knife.

 

[MusicianShooter]

I had a deer hit out at by the mother in law's farm, and just for kicks used a scalpel. Best tool I've ever used for skinning and gutting! You can just replace the blade halfway through too.

 

[SuperCub]

 

[SuperCub]

 

[joe-nwt]

I like the drop point of my Russel, it allows me to run my finger the length of the blade back so I can slip open the belly of a venison without knicking the yucks

I have both, prefer the drop for this ^^^^ reason.

 

[senior]

something that I can whack with a hatchet to split bone

Interesting enough I have a Lakota that says right in the instrctions that the knife was made to do exactely that! It is an excellent knife but because of the blade design won't go up thru the brisket of a deer like the little Russel will.

 

[cainesy]

Last 3 moose I shot we're cleaned with my Leatherman Blast, the best knife I ever had. I never leave home without it.