Anyone tried to use a Manbug as a hunting knife?

[Doc Dan]

I was wondering if any of you sportsmen have tried to use a Manbug or Lady Bug to skin a deer? My favorite custom skinning knife only has a 3" blade or so. What do you think? Are they up to the task?

[.357 mag]

Don't see why not.

[jackknifeh]

I was wondering if any of you sportsmen have tried to use a Manbug or Lady Bug to skin a deer? My favorite custom skinning knife only has a 3" blade or so. What do you think? Are they up to the task?

Geez DD, you really are a Manbug fan. :) Why not a grizzle bear??? :D I bet the Manbug would do better than you would initially think. I am sure it would be up to a lot of tasks on a camping or hunting trip that bigger knives are usually used for. I suggest you get some bright orange scales made first though for the times you drop the knife in a pile of leaves. Don't want to be digging around in leaves with your hands trying to find an open Manbug. :eek:



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[jackknifeh]

I was wondering if any of you sportsmen have tried to use a Manbug or Lady Bug to skin a deer? My favorite custom skinning knife only has a 3" blade or so. What do you think? Are they up to the task?

Geez DD, you really are a Manbug fan. :) Why not a grizzle bear??? :D I bet the Manbug would do better than you would initially think. I am sure it would be up to a lot of tasks on a camping or hunting trip that bigger knives are usually used for. I suggest you get some bright orange scales made first though for the times you drop the knife in a pile of leaves. Don't want to be digging around in leaves with your hands trying to find an open Manbug. :eek:

[jackknifeh]

Using my tablet editing my posts is kind of iffy. Sometimes I end up with two. Please forgive. I'll delete one of the above when on my PC.

[78lilred]

I plan to use my techno this year for skinning a deer.

[FrankH]

In The Spyderco Story, Ken Delavigne mentioned that Mr. Glasser told him that his friend's wife once skinned an Alaskan brown bear with a Ladybug.

[swampfoxoutdoors]

cool topic! I hunt with some regularity. I have used a few folders to dress rabbits but most people around here in the south general just take their deer to the local meat processor and pay to have them work it up into ground, cube steak and the best jerky!

But I could see it being done quite easily , the very few times we have field dressed a deer all 3 times my entire life we just used really sharp kitchen knives, I think the blade size and shape really doesn't matter as long as it is movable and handy in the the hand and is very very sharp. I think something with a blade like the curved stretch or UKPK would work great.

[Evil D]

It may not be up to the task of actually processing your kill, separating joints and such, but for the skinning part i think it would do pretty well with how up swept the tip is.

[jackknifeh]

I think the Manbug is up to about any task. In fact I think you could open your Manbug, jump on the back of an 8 point buck and take the deer down with only the Manbug. It might take all morning but I think you could do it. :D

[Blerv]

Ambition is all you need :) . They used to skin animals with rocks and volcanic glass.

[Mick]

No, but back in the 70's and early 80's I dressed out many whitetail deer with a small Jimmy Lile folder (2 1/4" blade) and it worked great. The Manbug has a a better blade geometry than the Lile folder so I have no doubt it would do the job.

[yobohadi]

Ambition is all you need :) . They used to skin animals with rocks and volcanic glass.

Those were the days... Back when the blade stayed sharp forever, but chipped like crazy!

[Ferris Wheels]

I don't think you would have any issues skinning a deer with a ManBug. If you know how to sever joints properly it will work fine for that task also as it is more about cut placement than anything else. I used my Sage1 for all aspects of processing my Mule deer this year and it worked flawlessly. I find smaller knives to be my preference when skinning an animal, usually something at or under 3".

That being said I do think you would run into a problem if you use the ManBug for field dressing the deer.

[APS]

I used my Sage1 for all aspects of processing my Mule deer this year and it worked flawlessly.

Ferris Wheels, was it hard to clean up your Sage afterwards? Thinking about using my Sage 1 or 2 this hunting season. Unfortunately I just sold my Manbug, lol.

[Ferris Wheels]

Ferris Wheels, was it hard to clean up your Sage afterwards? Thinking about using my Sage 1 or 2 this hunting season. Unfortunately I just sold my Manbug, lol.

APS, I am very picky about cleaning up my knives after doing something like field dressing and skinning a deer. The knife cleaned up great in a tub of hot soapy water but I wanted to make sure I got everything so I took it apart when I got home and gave it a thorough cleaning. There was a little bit of gunk that got between the blade/washers, liner/scales but overall not bad at all. It is a simple tear down and assembly, I know it voids the warranty but I am fine with that knowing my knife doesn't have any crud where I don't want it. I think you will be very pleased with the perfomance of either of your Sage's if you choose to use them. Mine stayed sharp enough I probably could have done another deer start to finish if needed. Now I need to start figuring out which knife I am going to use next year. I am leaning towards a Stretch or Dialex Junior, good thing I have a year to figure it out.

[APS]

Thanks!!

[Doc Dan]

Actually that is a good idea Jackknifeh for the orange scales. I was planning on some red and black carbon fiber.

[Doc Dan]

cool topic! I hunt with some regularity. I have used a few folders to dress rabbits but most people around here in the south general just take their deer to the local meat processor and pay to have them work it up into ground, cube steak and the best jerky!

But I could see it being done quite easily , the very few times we have field dressed a deer all 3 times my entire life we just used really sharp kitchen knives, I think the blade size and shape really doesn't matter as long as it is movable and handy in the the hand and is very very sharp. I think something with a blade like the curved stretch or UKPK would work great.

Being from the South is what made me think of it. I found that a big knife gets in the way but a small one with this type of shape does pretty well.

[metalhed]

Did everything on an Elk except cut the ribs and pelvis, with a Ladybug. Left everything in the truck, many miles away from the kill.