No wimpy thin skinning knives, for me, had a Gerber Skinner blade break off first try when skinning a bull elk yrs ago, finished the job with the trusty Buck Special, no need for sharpening, during quartering, when ya start with a sharp knife. Who packs all that shit many miles in? Then you gotta pack it back out. I traveled light, ya may have to jog 10 miles in the snow, alone in a wilderness area. Called hunting, most shots will be close, you can smell them, 100 yds about max, most are much less, as the elk are tracked down, in the pole thickets, many snowy canyons in. This is 100% sucessful year after year, but really hard young man's work. Your knife has to be a dependable tool, your life may depend on it.
To see if the advertisement was real at the time about 1972 a hunting friend, at the shop took a hammer and pounded his new Buck knife blade through a steel bolt mounted in a vise, with surprisingly no harm to the blade... a rather humorous endeavor.
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