Any pics of favorite fixed blade hunting knives

[gcrank1]

For some the 'best' knife has changed. for others no so much.
Any pics of what you used to use and if that has changed and why?

[cwlongshot]

As a boy, just starting hunting, my pop gave me a Buck 112. Just a lil smaller than his 110. I used and carried that knife daily I wore it all thru high school. It always worked and dressed countless game form squirrels and rabbits to Deer and hogs as well as Pigs, Roosters and a beef steer. some years later, I began using a pack and went to a straight knife. I did not feel comfortable carrying a straight knife on my belt.

I have been using a BUCK Vanguard... I have had it for twenty years and it only comes out of my pack for dressing duties. Its good buck made in USA steel.

http://www.buckknives.com/index.cfm?event=product.detail&productID=2925

About ten or so years back I bought a Cold Steel Master Hunter Carbon V

http://www.coldsteel.com/Product/36JSK/MASTER_HUNTER,_STAINLESS-CONCEALEX.aspx

I do have a gut hook that I like. Its a Whitetail hunter. Its like a push knife but with a short fat blade and a gut hook on the back. Its SUPER hard steel made by Outdoor edge before they where popular. Its hard to get a edge on but holds it well.

http://www.outdooredge.com/Whitetail-Skinner-p/whitetail%20skinner.htm

CW

[gcrank1]

Figured I could count on you CW when you found this 
The CS-MH is pretty close to several of my older and modded butcher knives. It is a size Im comfortable with and like the clip to a real point more than a drop point. Thought about buying one since they came out, should have way back when they were cheaper.
My wife has liked the old Case drop point I got her with about a 2 3/4(?)" blade and she did well with it on WI Whitetail. It took over from a '60's vintage German made 'hunter' with a straight 6ish" blade that her dad gave her.

[Ranger99]

the master hunter is a pretty decent knife.
i've had one for a while, but i've never got
used to it. since i got shed of my expensive
cutlery, i've been using one of those c-s
outdoorsman lite. (or is it lite outdoorsman?)
it's long enough to suit me and the handle
isn't tacky like the master hunter. i really
wish i'd have bought a quantity of those
c-s wooden handled butcher knives they
had back a while ago.
i also use a couple of herter's/murphy
"improved bowie" knives.

[gcrank1]

I couldnt picture that Herter's/Murphy, Ranger, so I had to Google up, now I recognize it. I think I'd like the smaller 4" Bull Cook's Knife version than the 5" Improved Bowie (what a misnomer).
I could have dug out my old Herter's catalog, circa 1967? but Google was eaisier. The catalog is a hoot to look through; those were the days!

[cwlongshot]

I remember learning to load with my uncle as a boy. He had all kinds of Herters pieces parts everywhere!!  I still use a few of there things to this day.

Fond memories looking thru there catalog with my father.

CW

[Drilling Man]

  I couldn't even tell you how many moose, blk and white tail deer, caribou, blk. bear, brown bear and many other animals i've skinned/cut up with these three knives,



  They are Gerber "custom series" that I bought new, MANY years ago...

  DM

[gcrank1]

Which one do you tend to favor, DM?

[Drilling Man]

Which one do you tend to favor, DM?

  Must be the "middle" one, I see it's been sharpened the most!  lol

  DM