Big folder or smaller fixed blade?

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which do you prefer to carry out there while you're hunting/camping?

a big lock blade folder or a smaller fixed blade belt knife?
lets say if they are both about the same size and weight..:confused:

[not these shown samples,they are just for comparison/argument sake--there are many,many different makes out there in both concepts that will fit this catagory]

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both have their advantages and disadvantages,
but which do you prefer?
yes ,ultimately it propably will come down to personal preference ,but why this specific choice?
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willem you sure like your knives :biggrin2: i can see i have probably caused you problems giving you that website to check out!! :laughing: mind you my saved shopping basket on it is frightening ......:fear: :beer:
 
Small folder and a small fixed blade.
 
I usually prefer a fixed blades as I think most folders are difficult to get totally clean and dry after gutting an animal.

But I really like to bring this knife when out hunting. Sometimes together with a fixed blade.
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The Smith&Wesson Power Glide.
I don't hang it on my belt. I just have it in a pocket.
 

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Pure "Old School". My father's knives from the 1960's. I use them today.

I do not like a knife in a sheath hanging from my belt. Lost a few that way. Knife stays in the hunting pack.

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I carry a medium ish sized folder 6 inch blade made by bench made, I have had it for 5 years carry it everyday with no problems
 
Smaller fixed blade every time...
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Smaller fixed blade every time...
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Smaller fixed blade every time...
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Smaller fixed blade every time...

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Leatheman surge in my pants pocket.
On my hunting pack an 18 in tramontina machete and a mora knife.
 
I carry a folding combo knife from Cabelas although it's not smack. It has a blade with gut hook, a saw and a fleshing knife!
 
After "just going to briefly glass there" then walking more than a mile from the truck, dropping a mule deer in a rugged ravine just before dark and realizing my knife was in the pack left in the truck. Never again. A Cold Steel Pendleton Mini Hunter is always in my bib pocket. Handy little knife, can gut and skin deer and antelope. A little small for moose and elk.

http://www.coldsteel.com/Product/36LPME/Pendleton_Mini_Hunter.aspx

I have way too many knives, including 3 Rick Menefee custom knives. I am almost afraid to use them for fear of losing them or using them enough that I will have to sharpen them and manage to screw them up in the process. Truly practical works of art.
 
I have made my own knives since I lost an expensive one in the early 70's and have always taken a fixed blade for actual field use but I am never without a small liner lock I made a few years ago. Had always carried a smaller folder and like this one better than the factory models I had had before hand. It would do the field work if needed but I very much prefer the fixed blade.
 
Never out bush without a fixed blade on my belt. Usually have a leatherman and a small back up in my pack.
 
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