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Trappers do a lot of skinning. In order to be productive, safe and efficient, it’s always been critical to have a sharp knife at the skinning table, but hasn’t always been easy. I still have the skinning knife I used in my early days of trapping. It’s a simple, small plastic-handled knife that hardly has any blade left after all of the sharpening it’s been through. I spent a lot of time sharpening knives back then and never could quite get a skinning knife as sharp as it was when I bought it.
With the new Piranta knives, though, I doubt I’ll ever go back to those old knives for skinning fur. These knives employ heavy duty stainless surgical blades that you simply discard and replace when they become dull.
I was given my first Piranta knife (The Piranta Edge) as a Christmas gift a few years back. I still have it, but I have since bought another one so I don’t have to keep track of one knife, considering all of the places I use it. I usually keep one Piranta in my pack or vehicle to take wherever I go, and leave one at home. They aren’t cheap knives, but are very heavy duty. I like the orange color (easier to find when you drop it in the grass) and the replaceable blades hold their edge for quite a while.
If you do a lot of skinning, I recommend you give the Piranta Edge, or another of the Piranta line of knives a try. You’ll pay for it up front, but the knife makes the chore of skinning much quicker and easier. Just be careful not to cut yourself – those blades are sharp!!!
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