all around knife?

[Mike Bolin]

A question for the experts.....what is your preference as far as blade style and length for an all around big game knife? I have a fondness for drop point blades in the 3"-4" range and have been happy with them on black bear and whitetail. Is a larger blade useful on larger game....elk, moose? I have always wanted one really "fine" blade and I am building my "retirement kit" (canvas tent, knife, better cook gear ect.) over the next couple of years and was wanting some expert input! It doesn't sting the wallet as bad when you add a single quality item once a year! Possibly a camp knife in addition to the a skinner/meat knife? Let me know what you use and why you prefer it. Thanks,Mike

[kbaknife]

I like a 4 1/2" inch blade. It's just what I like.
I've got a customer that dresses his elk with a 10 inch Bowie!!
I've never had that opportunity, so I can't say if it's any advantage or not.
If you like 3-4" drop points, then it seems like you already have your sights set.
You have the Indy 1500 Gun and Knife show in your back yard I think 4 times a year. It would be worth a trip over to Indy and see if you can find what you seek.
I'm an hour north of Champaign. Swing by.
I'll buy you coffee and we can talk knives.

[Hattrick]

I`m looking for the perfect knife also. I like a longer blade 5-6" no wider than 1"  in a drop point. I`m still trying to find it, but thats my perfect knife spec. The advantages i see is big enough for camp use  an slim an long enough for cuttin  butt hole when dressing big game an butchering in the field.. I`m not a knife maker but hunter an this should fill all my needs in the field

[Lin Rhea]

I like your style Hattrick.    Lin

[TxMoon]

Yea that would be one all around knife, from the butt holes in the field to the cookin at camp.
That is my one and only knife I want for Christmas.
      just funnin Hattrick

[kbaknife]

What about the **tt holes in camp?

[Hattrick]

Sorry i didn`t no how else to explain it...I get no complaints from the guys that eat my fried taters in camp.. They tell me, best they ever had..     if they only new were my knives have been.....

[JMR]

I like salt and pepper on my taters without the extra "seasonings"! However I like your idea of the perfect knife, it sounds just about perfect, as long as there is soap and hot water in camp.  

[tippit]

In our camp if you complain...you cook!!  So I'd have to say...thems the best **tt hole taters I ever had    Doc

[d. ward]

well said Doc well said.......bowdoc

[Hattrick]

One other thing if the drop points just right, it makes easier us to clean ur toe nails  

[Mechslasher]

this is my favorite design, so far.  a 3" blade with a deep hollow grind.  i like a hollow grind for cutting everything from taters to butt holes.  the best taters i've ever had were scrubbed off in a mudhole and cut up with a rusty knife that i had just used to cut bait with.  when i questioned my cousin about the safety of the taters, he simply said, "there's nothing that can live in that hot grease".  how could i argue with that?
 

[Ray Hammond]

Hattrick,

If they don't like where your knife has been tell em the next morning you're gonna make FUMUNDA cheese biscuits.

That'll fix em.

[Hattrick]

Thats funny Chris!... I have a similar store about axle grease fried tators i`ll tell some day...Ray i had my eye`s on ur knife when i was huntin with u last june.. been there done that as a camp  cook     Wish i was with Bob, Fred an Andy last trip just couldn`t make it