EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Wanted to see what everyone opinion is on their knives for sticking hogs.  Brand, blade length, sheath material, and blade almaterial so forth. Looking to get one soon but not wanted spend enough to buy a gun. Looking at the SOG tsunami ts-01.

K-bar would be the most knife of choice, i have a custom knife made out of a leaf spring on a truck

7 inch, hardened steel smithed to size, handle is leather and steel, sheath is old saddle

You want something with a 7 inch or longer blade, I actually bought mine and an old western store for $22 and its the best knife I have ever owned, my husband uses a bigger knife then I do, never get buffalo horn as your handle, we had it put on two of our knifes and they were cracked before we ever got to use them, personally I like leather sheaths... Its really just depends on your preference

http://stores.intuitwebsites.com/WildBoarUSA/-strse-Grunter-Hunter-Gear-cln-Knives/Categories.bok

i use a sog navy seal and i love the kydex sheath for ease of cleaning

  You dont need a expensive knife at all, when you lose it in the woods you'll be pissed off and you WILL lose one eventually. I bought a wild bill buffalo skinner bowie knife off ebay for like $5 and it works as good or better than most. I like a big knife, 12in blade and it has to be sharp. I also perfer a stainless blade and a good sheath. Check out ebay there are thousands on there and cheap as heck.

Everyone's got their own opinion. It's all up to the person using it. Depends on how much you like knives. I love knives and have lots of custom made ones that I use. Other's don't really care and will use any old cheap knife. Something to think about is what are you going to do after you stick a pig and how often do you want to sharpen it. I use my same knife to gut the hog, quarter it up, bone it out, even fillet fish with it. I like a very hard HIGH carbon blade. If you can find one forged out of powdered steel or someone that makes damascus steel and tests the hardness you'd be very happy with it. D2 and ATS-34 blades are pretty nice. I don't like stainless steel but that's just me. Get you a good sheath and keep it on your belt and you should never loose it.

These are my 2 favorites made by Bill Middlebrook.
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Best Pig Sticker I have owned.  It gets razor sharp in a few strokes on the steel and keeps the edge and the best part about it I only paid 22 bucks for it at academy got tired of loosing those hundred buck knifes in the woods.  This one is better than them and it don't get lost !  Lmao !

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Man I like that bottom one.  I am the same as I like a good knife and custom ones.  But I also understand about the part were you can loose one easy in the woods.  The SOG is online for $60 and I think I can use it to do everything with as well. 

Texashogdog,

Is that a winchester? It looks like a knife that buck made about 20-30 years ago.