Here's my new one I didn't need

[Purebred Redneck]

The St. Louis Cabelas store has these things (house brand) on closeout for like 22 dollars. Regular price was 150 (of course no one's likely ever paid that)

They had the guthook/serated as well as the straight blade. Since I happen to think a guthook is the most useless invention known to mankind, the straight blade is now mine ;D

Sharp as a razor (which means it's yet another perfectly good knife that I'm eventually going to ruin by my horrid sharpening skills)

Made in China though. But what isn't

[dovehunter]

Jun 3, 2009 22:26:40 GMT -5 Purebred Redneck said:

...I happen to think a guthook is the most useless invention known to mankind

I'll have to agree with you on that - a solution looking for a problem. Some people must buy them I guess or manufacturers would stop making them.

[Purebred Redneck]

You know, my brother uses a guthook and he really likes it.

With the straight blade you keep having to move your two fingers following the knife and holding the guts down. He says the angle of the blade pretty much keeps the stomach from getting cut.

Call me skeptical; plus it doesn't look as good.

[Jack]

Red, that's a nice looking knife!
I'm not fond of gut hooks, either. I must say, though, that a guy I used to hunt with had one and really liked it- and he'd gutted more deer than all of us put together.

[jimiowa]

That's a nice looking knife and you can't go wrong at that price.
I have never liked a Gut Hook they look Dorky to me.
I found butchering hogs and beef as a young man the best tool for the gutting was a $3.00(Well their probably $6.00 now?) Stanley Utility Knife.

[jmarriott]

They now make hook blades for the stanley utility knife. JimIowa give them a try you might just change your mind.

i like gut hooks to use, i don't like the looks of a gut hook on a knife, My old remington Big game has a regular knife blade and a bone saw/gut hook blade. Works well and safer than a regular blade.

I have also used a pair old electrical snips and a box cutter (LONG story).

[jimiowa]

I do keep some Hook blades in the shop.
They are outstanding for things like carpet, Vinyl and shingles.
Never tried them on game?

[jmarriott]

The electric snips and box cutter day was a wild one.

I was dating this chick that was just smoking hot. She had her own place in Indy but normally stayed with me out at the old farm house I was renting from my uncle. It was the night before thanksgiving and my friends had invited us out for a few drinks. I left at 10 pm because I have not missed a thanksgiving day morning deer hunt since 1979 and even if this chick was smoking hot I was going hunting.

I got a ride home with my hunting partner and his girl and she used my 1980's desiel VW rabbit and went to see a band with her girlfriends. Needless to say she should not have been driving to my place in the shape she was in and hit the 12 point buck my hunting partner and I had been seeing all deer season. She was 1/2 a block from my place and walked (ERRR swayed) down the road to my place in the rain in a white top and black skirt and heels. It was now 4:30 am and I had coffee on was getting dressed when she comes in all crying about hitting a deer and totaling the car. I fed her some breakfast made here some coffee tucked her into bed and got redressed (Hey temptation and I knew I had al least one deer and some this morning). I went to go walk to car after calling the cops out to the accident. Cell phones were not common in my circles then.

The cop finally came at about 6:30 am and he is the older brother of my hunting partner. He hands me a semi pre filled out form on a deer collision with the place time and fills in my info and leaves to go to another deer car problem. Never even asks me any question about what happened. The girl knew that somehow she was going to jail. He said that is one expensive deer you have in the ditch and gave me a car tag to check it in .The one thing he did not do was help me with anything on the car or the deer . While fumbling around after my early morning wake up I did not bring my knife that dad made me and I had a tool box in the trunk and found a box cutter and a pair of snips and a pair of nines. The deer had gotten into a fence at the roadside and was stuck upright kind of at the field edge. I had the car running and had some music and lights on, the cops top lights had been on for the 5 or 10 minutes he was there and we were not quite.

It was almost light now and I look over in the ditch and an 8 point buck is just nailing the dead deer into the fence like mike tyson. I shot that deer right in the ditch not 25 30 feet from the car. He never took his eyes off the dead deer once to look at all the noise i WAS MAKING. Now i have 2 deer in the ditch and a box cutter and snips to field dress them.

It was one of the best morning hunting (Production wise) I had up to this point so I field dressed the deer in the ditch covered them up with some brush and drove/limped the VW a half block home and got the jeep and the trailer. left a note at my partners truck on the 100 acres that I would meet him at the diner when he got off the stand. I had two deer and one messed up car taken care of and it was not even 8:30 am. Better yet at the time I got the deer in the trailer it really strated to rain.

The next year Opening morning I had a 8 point i was draggin out of the field and a button buck came running accrossed the field and followed us dragging the deer out so I shot it. I filled both my tags on the first morning that year and I hated it. 13 more days of deer season and I could not get another tag. I quess those dumb jeans were weeded out after that cause they don't fight or follow around me anymore.

Oh and the girl paid to fix the car.