My favorite is a stacked leather handlee,ss, CaseXX fixed blade .I have two of them in the same sheath,A large and small.Dad bought it for me as a present long ago.It has gutted and skinned,many,many whitetails and boar hogs.. What do you prefer to use for skinning?
Tg -- Do a search on knives on the forum. We have a bunch of threads, I just couldn't find them with the rearranged front page. You might look at posts by Valkman; he is a knife maker, and there are a couple others as well. I gotta tend to my audit, or I'd have another look myself. I have a Valkman original that is as nice a knife as I've ever handled, and he is doing better work now than he was when I got it.
I've even been suprised by the reaction I've gotten from my small skinners - I expected them to be used on small game but they've been used on everything from rabbits to turkey to deer to boar and black bear. One old guy said "This is the design I've been looking for for over 50 years!" That was neat. Here's one I just made for knifemaker Tom Krein:
They are very nice Valkman, skining needs a smaller knife than what most make, you have made the perfect skinner there.
I guess for me it would depend some on what I was skinning and if its in the field or at home. I butcher the vast majority of all the meat my family eats (beef, pork, chicken, etc)as well as hunting and butchering that stuff. For rabbits and such its usualy just a pocket knife or whatever. I do most of the skinning at home though and use a Forschner skinning knife thats shown in the butchering threads in back to basics.
very ,very Nic Valkman,,,Monkeyman I carry an old Boker canoe pocketknife too.It does its fair share of latge and small game skinning too,,,
I do have a Buck Trail Boss that has done a good bit of skinning as well as field dressing of large game and most of the time before I got my Forschner.