Hog Knife

[Hog slayer]

Lets see you hog knives, this is a new one that I just ordered and had not have a chance to use it yet, maybe nest year or sooner.

 

[eoats]

Looks grand!

What, if anything, would be different for dressing out a hog verses a deer or other game?

 

[sancho]

dang!! a beauty!!

i am going OPPOSITE of the spectrum. i got a high carbon steel knive from Sweden. a Mora. it is razor sharp. literally like a razor blade. and it cost $15. i've always wanted to find the nearest rock and try to hammer a blade up the sternum..and thru the pelvic bone. for $15, buck, i'll try it smiling. from what i heard, it will survive. it is shaving sharp.

got my brother one too! his eyes lit up when he felt the edge. it is sharper than my broadheads.

 

[myfriendis410]

We've been using the Outdoor Edge Swing Blade. Very nice knife and not expensive. Sharp as all getout from the box and touches up very well as you go.

 

[KTKT70]

never got to cut a hog yet but i have had a SpiderCo on my side since 1994. I dont have the same one i satarted with but have had one or another for past 18 years. Good knifes and never let me down. Other than new price. lol. i paid $89 for the Endura4 that i carry roght now. I hope this SC will get my first hog done. If not i will soon b looking for sumthing new. Mayb I will start eith the $15 one i have read about. Sounds neat. I have always thought a good knife will not b cheap.

 

[MapleSyrupSmuggler]

I've used a Finnish Marttiini knife, for the most part I try to keep it on my side whenever I hunt pigs ever since I was charged by them. I skinned a yote with it and it was ok - I am no knife expert but it seems to me that their blades are extremely sharp. It seems like the blade is tapered different than american blades that I have seen which makes it pretty sharp - but blunts easier. One time I cut myself on the finger with it and it almost went all the way to the bone. It took months for me to regain full strength on that finger dur.

My model is this one:

http://www.marttiini.fi/epages/Mart...ectPath=/Shops/MarttiiniShop/Products/2230010

 

[MGDeer]

Fellows, I like my knives too. I use my old Marine Kbar, a very old Uncle Henry and an early model lock blade. All 3 go with me hunting to finish the job & each has it's particular task. Yep it's good to mention our silent parteners. Have a good men. Later.

 

[bsanders8181]

Both knives of Alaska. Dig 'em. I 've only sharpened the orange one once. The fillet knife needs to be sharpened more, but I like the shape and stiffness.
The orange one is high carbon, so it has to stay oiled, but holds an awesome edge

 

[bisonic]

One knife not to be without when hog hunting: a cheap box cuttter with replaceable blades. Use it to make long vertical cuts thru the sheild while skinning - far easier to peel these down (think of a bananna) than to try to peel the entire hide all at once. Sometimes I only need one cut down the spine, other times when the sheild is thicker I may make the strips 3" or so wide.

Also whatever knife you have, make sure you keep it sharp while skinning. The hide, hair, and inevitable mud and dirt will dull the blade a lot faster than when you skin a deer.

 

[Uncle Bambi]

One knife not to be without when hog hunting: a cheap box cutter with replaceable blades. Use it to make long vertical cuts thru the sheild while skinning - far easier to peel these down (think of a bananna) than to try to peel the entire hide all at once. Sometimes I only need one cut down the spine, other times when the sheild is thicker I may make the strips 3" or so wide.

Also whatever knife you have, make sure you keep it sharp while skinning. The hide, hair, and inevitable mud and dirt will dull the blade a lot faster than when you skin a deer.

The box cutter is a good tip.

I use a Schrade Old Timer with a gut hook as my primary knife to skin out hogs. and it has faithfully performed for me over the years. The salient point in bisonic's post is the last bit about the hide, hair, and inevitable mud and dirt dulling knives very quickly. Because of this, I like to carry 4 or 5 sharp and ready to use knives on a hunt, along with the appropriate sharpening tools. Sure - you can more than get by with 1 or 2 knives and a good stone, but I find it easier and faster to just switch knives during the process. I get done quicker, and I don't have to sharpen knives with gore-covered hands.

My other knives include a Buck 119, a Buck 473, a one-off Davis custom knife that I inherited from my father, and another Schrade. They are all in the truck with me when I hunt, and I carry the Buck 473 with me in the field. The 473 is a cheaper Big 5 Chinese made knife, but it is more than adequate for zipping open a hog in the field and creating a nice gut-pile.

 

[mr sunset]

SOG mini aegis, and a BUCK 12 point omni. the SOG goes with me daily and both go hunting

 

[nickstone530]

I'm a big fan of a box cutter with disposable blades too

 

[easymoney]

Nice blade, I have many. The important thing is the sharpening device, diamond or good stone can make even poor steel sharp...

 

[thewolfman]

I m feeling alitle funny here....I saw this big guy with his big expensive knife cutting up a big pig...half way in...his knife got dull...I offered to lend a hand with my little fish fillet knife....after everything was done...he still couldn't believe my little knife did a grand o job....my most expensive knife is a buck knife which I use for chopping thru spine and rib cages....my deer knife is a fillet knife...works well with skinning and deboning...but remember... its not the knife but the hand that knows how to use it is what my old man taught me...lol...my 2 cents

 

[sancho]

I m feeling alitle funny here....I saw this big guy with his big expensive knife cutting up a big pig...half way in...his knife got dull...I offered to lend a hand with my little fish fillet knife....after everything was done...he still couldn't believe my little knife did a grand o job....my most expensive knife is a buck knife which I use for chopping thru spine and rib cages....my deer knife is a fillet knife...works well with skinning and deboning...but remember... its not the knife but the hand that knows how to use it is what my old man taught me...lol...my 2 cents

seriously.

i watched an elderly rancher do the MOST AMAZING thing. my buddy shot a 60 lbs pig. we were tossing it into the truck when he said.."oh no..leave the gut pile here"..we started pulling out knives. he got impatient fast and took out a tiny CASE knife. i kid you not..no exaggeration. maybe 20-30 seconds. he zipped the cavity opened. he used that case, and stuck it behind the pelvic bone, lifted and it snapped opened..then he used that case to open the sternum to the neck..pop!! it opened!! then he just lifted out the guts unhindered. only his fingertips got bloody!! 30 seconds MAX! we vowed to video the next pig when we begged him to do it again. but us loser couldnt kill anything else.

later in camp, he took that same CASE and took off the rib cage so we could slow cook them. he said you "have to know where the weak points in the bones are"..he said there is a tiny seam in the pelvic bone. find it, insert knife perfectly..

this is why i got the Mora. i want to try to find that weak point the the pelvic bone. it was amazing. figured i'll learn on a cheap knife.

another rancher guy showed us how to skin a pig fast. we were using box cutters. he rolled his eyes and said, "watch and learn son"..

 

[mr sunset]

seriously.

i watched an elderly rancher do the MOST AMAZING thing. my buddy shot a 60 lbs pig. we were tossing it into the truck when he said.."oh no..leave the gut pile here"..we started pulling out knives. he got impatient fast and took out a tiny CASE knife. i kid you not..no exaggeration. maybe 20-30 seconds. he zipped the cavity opened. he used that case, and stuck it behind the pelvic bone, lifted and it snapped opened..then he used that case to open the sternum to the neck..pop!! it opened!! then he just lifted out the guts unhindered. only his fingertips got bloody!! 30 seconds MAX! we vowed to video the next pig when we begged him to do it again. but us loser couldnt kill anything else.

later in camp, he took that same CASE and took off the rib cage so we could slow cook them. he said you "have to know where the weak points in the bones are"..he said there is a tiny seam in the pelvic bone. find it, insert knife perfectly..

this is why i got the Mora. i want to try to find that weak point the the pelvic bone. it was amazing. figured i'll learn on a cheap knife.

another rancher guy showed us how to skin a pig fast. we were using box cutters. he rolled his eyes and said, "watch and learn son"..

That kind of information is priceless, I would pay for lessons from guys like that.

 

[Hog slayer]

Nice to see all of the different knives. How about sharpening them. I have an Arkansas stone which is very soft to get the edge started. I then use a very hard stone to finish off the edge. I am always looking to keep an edge sharp on a knife but it is hard to keep that edge while skinning a large hog. Two knives are always better that one when it comes to skinning job. What kind of sharpening stones do you hog hunters use?

 

[QEU]

Lon Humphrey Brut de Forge
Bark River Classic Loveless Hunter
Bark River Trail Buddy



Hmong knives. All unknown high carbon steel except the 3rd is D2.


Bark River Trail Buddy III - regrinded to represent a Hmong knife
Bark River Trail Buddy


All sharpened on Chosera water stones. I usually finish mine in the 1K or 2K stone followed by black and green compound on the leather.

 

[QEU]

This $5 replacement pack with a handheld box cutter beats any hook knife. I don't carry it with me but it's always in the car or at camp.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/t/202504022?productId=202504022&storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&ci_sku=202504022&cm_mmc=shopping%2d%5f%2dgoogleads%2d%5f%2dpla%2d%5f%2d202504022&ci_gpa=pla

 

[cali-carnivore]

We've been using the Outdoor Edge Swing Blade. Very nice knife and not expensive. Sharp as all getout from the box and touches up very well as you go.

+1. I just got one a year ago and it did great on two hogs and a deer.