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The Pits Bro.....I am confused....how can you say that the muck is better as a hunting knife and then in the next line say that the BD is better at pretty much everything that a average hunter will be using a knife for.

The question is; What blade is better for a hunter? I am a hunter and have been a long time. I carry a knife that will allow me to complete the task of processing game on site. The average "hunter" takes a knife that will allow a multitude of game processing possibilities. It also depends on what the intended game is. If I were going deer hunting I would want a knife that would allow me to gut, skin, and butcher a animal of that size. A Muck would be great at doing such and for that matter so would a Bird Dog. With that being said, if I was going rabbit, squirrel, bird or any smaller game hunting the Muck would not be as useful as a blade design like the Bird Dog.

So in my opinion the Bird Dog is "overall" a better multi-purpose hunting blade for a guy that really does not have a good selection of knives to start out with.

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the lack of a sharp filet style point on the muk makes it harder to skin with it than it would be with the bird dog. while capable of doing the job the muk is better suited to slicing and chopping, and batoning, something i wouldn't try with a bird dog.


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