Susan:

You can always visit the Roy Rogers museum and get instructions on how to be permanently stuffed and mounted so your loved ones don't have to bury you when you pass on. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Bountyhunter <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

they'd still be burying most of you seeing as how taxidermy only requires the skin. <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

FWIW, a number of folding hunting knives have dedicated gutting blades that would be very safe to use to cut clothing away from the body. The blades frequently have convex spines, rounded tips (decidedly non-pointed), and the first 1/4" or so of the blade unsharpened. A well known example is the gutting blade on a Victorinox Hunter.

John

Geez,
All this worry about cutting someone/hook blades for gutting etc

Back when I was first shown how to gut a deer, I was shown a VERY simple way to prevent from nicking the guts - works well for other situations too. I _WILL_ admit it works BEST with a fairly shot blade (say 4" or less)

Choke up on the knife - way up, and put your index finger along the back of the blade - basically, you cover the POINT of the knife of the blade with your fingertip! Your finger goes "inside" (towards what you don't want to cut)

No special blades needed - just a nice general purpose blade

I have a guthook on my Buck PBS Crosslock. It's got a saw too. I love it. I'd EDC it if it had pliars and screwdrivers <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
It's the S30V version of this one:
http://www.buckknives.com/catalog/detail/378/224

Regards, Vince

That's a nice knife. Never seen that one before.

"Guthook". That's a new one to me. Is it to hook the gut or AVOID hooking the gut???

Sue

If we are talking feild dressing then it is to avoid it. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Hooking the gut = messy messy messy. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Vince,

That's a good looking knife.

John

When Cabelas carried a special run of them in S30V I had to have one. But then I got skunked on last years elk hunt so I don't yet know how well it works. Maybe this year.... <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Regards, Vince