What Is A Gut Hook?
A gut hook on a knife blade is a highly specialized feature designed to open the belly of a downed deer, elk, or another critter, the notion being the gut hook will make a single purpose easier. After opening the belly the hunter would then use the primary edge to dress out the animal.
Four Gut Hook Hunting Knives
The four knives are the Camillus Prym1 Veil, Gerber Myth Fixed Blade Pro Gut Hook, the Fremont Knives Hide Glider and the Outdoor Edge Wild Skin.
The Camillus, Gerber, and Outdoor Edge are familiar hunting knives with the gut hook on the spine. The Fremont is a wild card, the blade having no point and a semicircular edge similar to the ulu, an all-purpose knife traditionally used by Inuit and Aleut women to the skin and clean animals, cut food, and trim blocks of snow and ice to build an igloo.
Overall knife length is 11 inches. We use Deer Horn on the handle and Carbon Steel for the blade. One-of-a-kind gut hook skinner knife. Sharp blade. I hope you like this custom-made hand-forged knife. Thanks.