Tips for the selection and care of hunting knives

There are innumerable knives specifically designed for the hunter available in the market. These vary in price from $ 20 to $ 1000 or more, depending on the construction, design and materials used.

Fixed blade knives are stronger and essential for handling large games.

Knives suitable for large games.

Care and sharpening of knives you cannot expect a knife to be manufactured cheaply, or as well as a knife made with top quality materials. When selecting a hunting knife, consider when it can be used and how long you intend to keep it. The money that is saved with that cast knife has no consolation service if the sword breaks while the tapes are a record book in some isolated ravine.

Most of us, including myself, often abuse knives in the field, trying to play that are beyond their design capacity. Using knives, screwdrivers or axes is tempting when they are the only tool at hand, but often results in irreparable damage, most importantly, damage that makes the blade inadequate for its original purpose.

My advice to anyone trying to buy a Damascus steel hunting Knives is to buy and buy the smallest knife suitable for the intended task.

Outdoor knives come in a variety of sizes and can be subdivided into small, medium and large utility knives and games.

There are two basic designs: fixed and folded sheet. The folding blades with locking blades are the safest and easiest to carry. However, they need to be well built or again to be careless and dangerous. Fixed blade knives are stronger and essential for handling large games. However, it must be transported on a very resistant base or roll of blade to ensure its safety in the event of a fall. Several hunters have been separated by tombs by sheathed knives that pierce the body in the falls.

Small knives

Small animals, such as foxes, hares, rabbits and birds, without the need for large heavy knives for dressing or combing.

The majority can be skinned with the minimum use of a small knife to make the proper starting and starting cuts, with the skin arranged by hand.

Most beginners make the mistake of buying a knife that is too big for work. A small folder with a short blade is all that is required. The length of the blade should not exceed three to six centimeters.

 Knives suitable for small games. Above: Winchester drop point folder, made of brass: this small knife with a four centimeter edge is ideal for game birds such as quail or duck. These knives were available in Winchester in the 1980s for $ 20 plus the top four packets of shotgun shells. Although small, it is made and thin, an ideal pocket knife. Puma Hobby Tech folder: a thin straight tip blade, ideal for general use in small games. The Buck Caper fixed blade: this blade is specifically designed for delicate capping jobs. It has a hollow ground and pointed blade with a thick back. He discovered that this blade design is more useful for husking oysters than for covering. Buck folder: another example of a drop point, with a hollow earth sheet that is solidly constructed. This is the knife I use most often to cover and clean trout when hunting Sam-bar. Bottom: Remington waterfowl folder: with a second serrated edge knife, throttle tool and punch, it was a versatile knife in the era of semi-automatic shotguns.

Medium knives

The deer and the game of similar size, of thin skin, like the pigs and the kangaroos, many offer little resistance to the knife and the skin. A medium-sized knife with a six- or eight-centimeter edge is all that is needed to achieve a field-dress game of this magnitude with the skin and the field.

Beginners can find a small seed for bones useful to remove the head, but with experience, it should not be difficult to locate the keyhole where the spine attaches to the skull and cut the cartilage and ligaments with the minimum strength of your knife.

Image 3: Knives suitable for medium games. Cover: Fixed blade flayer Shake: this African flayer, handmade and heavy blade, fits well in the hand. The blade of ten centimeters is a little more than what is needed for deer, but the occasional occasion that reminds me of the wonderful times in Africa. Puma, fixed blade, Hunters Pal: is a practical fixed blade knife for medium games. Dewey fixed leaf skinner: an excellent deco