>>2842180>>hunting knife>>scandi grind>do /out/ists reallyYeah man. It doesn't take a special knife to cut the throat and open up the gut. And I'm tired of you guys pretending that it does. If I draw out for a particularly remote/primitive area where I need to roll the meat off the bones and leave the skeleton, I bring my dedicated knife set. But if I shoot a deer or elk in my usual spots with my usual over the counter tags/ landowner permits, I'll just throw it in the back of my UTV after gutting it and take it back to my tractor to lift it up so I can skin it with a scalpel. Then hang it in my walk in cooler cooler.
>Why are you talking as if the two are interchangeableBecause they are. They just are. In the last 10 years of wildland firefighting, search and rescue for my remote fire/ems service, tour guiding, farming, hunting and year-round outdoor recreation; I have never used a fixed blade knife for anything that my leatherman could not have done.
>what about batoning???I don't do that. I don't even have strong opinions on batoning. Do it if you want. I've just never needed to. I've always been fine with squawwood (the dead wood in the lower branches of trees.)
I was taught this as a boyscout in the arid rocky mountains. And I thought it wouldn't work in wetter areas. But I spent a year in Washington and camped all over the pnw and squaw wood worked fine in a downpour.
> personally carry two fixed blades, a SAK, and I keep pliers in my tackle box.Are you saving that extra knife for eldenring 2? No clue what a SAK is other than what I dragged over ur mum's face last night. I need pliers more often than I need my tackle box.
>b-but muh half a pound of extra weightYou don't hike.
