Skinning knife

Apres

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What knife or style of knife do you prefer for the skinning of smaller animals? Think coons, rabbits, squirrels, etc. I've been using my deer knife but am looking for a dedicated smaller animal knife now.
 


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ive found that he best knives for skinning smaller game are short clip point knives. Much like a normal skinning knife, just on a smaller scale. Also, I love my havalon for general skinning and boning.
 

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Exacto knife or a similar shaped knife has worked best for me.
 

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when I skin out deer heads I have started using the old 3 blade old timer knife my grandpa gave me when I was a wee lad. thin blades and easy to touch up edge on a stone plus three blade shape/options to work with. Otherwise cheap exacto knife is handy.
 


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Case small Stockman is a pretty zesty small game knife. Neat as hell
 

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I haven't done any skinning, but I love my havalon. I use the one in the link that I provided. I use it for pretty much everything. From cleaning birds, to cleaning fish when my dumbass forgets the rapala lithium ion at home... It does ok on cleaning fish, not nearly as fast as the lithium ion. I also used it last year for deboning and processing my deer. The best thing about it is you can use every single replacement blade style that havalon offers with it.
http://www.havalon.com/double-blade-hunting-knife-hydra-red-xt-hydbrbs.html
 


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Old timers muskrat kife
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Old timer muskrat kife
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Never thought about using xacto type knife, great suggestions guys I will look into them.
 

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