Hi knife hunter, welcome to AH.
I started using the Piranta's last season in our buffalo camp for processing Trophy capes and thus far have found them excellent for this purpose.
You get the surgical sharpness of a scalple blade for the finicky jobs such as splitting ears, lips and nose cartlidge with the control of a small knife.
We also use them as the main de-fleshing tool to remove all fat and meat from the capes.
They are small enough to be very handy to cart around and yet a handy enough size to still maintain control where you need to cut. I got the blaze orange handle ones as these are harder to loose if you drop one in the grass, or at night.
They do not have the physical strength (in the blade) to make the initial cape cuts on something as thick as a buffalo hide, but this is irrelevant for me as I use a proper knife for this work.
Think of the Piranter as more of a detail, or finishing tool for de-fleshing meat and fat from hides, removing cartlidges in ears, splitting lips and nose etc.
At this stage the replacement blades are relatively cheap enough to replaced frequently so that you can have razor sharpness throughout the caping proceedure. About 2 blades per finished buffalo cape.(buff are tough on any blade).
They would also be an excellent tool for dressing/skinning smaller game where the blade strength is not required.
One "handy" ( pardon the pun ) tip, is USE A KNIFE PROOF GLOVE with these knives !! I'm not typing this response with only three fingers for no reason !!!
If you want further details, feel free to p.m me.
Welcome again,
PaulT.
