yoderjac
Well-Known Member
I received the Coast 1919 Reserve Shift knife yesterday. I just thought I'd pass on my impressions. It is well built and well engineered. It comes with several blades. It uses standard box cutter blades, but two of the blades that came with it, the drop point and gut hook, are much heavier duty. I know the purpose for most folks is to be able to interchange blades with one knife, but that is not my objective. I actually purchased 2 of them. One will go in my deer dressing area at the farm and the other at my retirement property. I don't every plan to use the drop point or box cutter type blades in it. While I found changing blades in this knife pretty quick and easy, I just don't want to bother with swapping blades for different chores. I have a separate skinning knife at each location.
My objective with this knife is to avoid sharpening gut hooks like I used to try to do with my old Whitetail Skinner. The gut hooks are true gut hooks and should not accidently nick the stomach like the roofer or carpet hooked blades I had been using. The replacement blades are inexpensive. It cost me about $12 bucks for a pack of 12 replacement gut hooks on Amazon. If I get a year or two out of each (3 to 5 deer a year), I'll be in great shape.
All in all, I'm glad I got it. If I find any issue in actual use when gutting deer next year, I'll report back.
My objective with this knife is to avoid sharpening gut hooks like I used to try to do with my old Whitetail Skinner. The gut hooks are true gut hooks and should not accidently nick the stomach like the roofer or carpet hooked blades I had been using. The replacement blades are inexpensive. It cost me about $12 bucks for a pack of 12 replacement gut hooks on Amazon. If I get a year or two out of each (3 to 5 deer a year), I'll be in great shape.
All in all, I'm glad I got it. If I find any issue in actual use when gutting deer next year, I'll report back.
