What do you use to Carve a Pumpkin?

[Halfneck]

Last couple years I have been using my PBJ paring knife.

 

[Zulus]

100 grams of Tannerite
150 if pumpkin is firm and juicy

 

[Jdottinger]

 

[rpttrsn]

Any Filet knife I grab from the drawer.

 

[Oklahoma Outlaw]

I hire someone to do it.

 

[The Grendels]

My Ka-Bar BK2 is perfectly suited for the fine carving work...

Pretty much any paring knife is more than adaquate, until they start making pumpkins of sterner stuff.

 

[SuburbanBarbarian]

We've been using the saw on my SAKS. They work great and even the kids can use them easily. You just gotta rinse them off good later.

 

[Bloodloss]

I know this is a knife forum but I wonder how many people actually own an X-frame here. It's definitely the bee's knees for pumpkin busting, so long as you like hauling the boat anchor of the handgun world and supplying it with ammo. I usually stick with "weaker magnums" like .357 and marvel in the fact that we live in a world where .357 magnum can be called "weak" by comparison.

The .500 versus .460 is another mass versus velocity, only way out on the "totally bananas" end of the spectrum.

There's nothing like that S&W trigger. Darn fine guns!
I enjoy hunting pumpkins with a Super Redhawk in 454 Casull.

With a 300 gr solid at 2050 fps: these beasts have been used to carve up an elephant's "pumpkin".

Bob, if you keep showing that thing, we're going to have to see it in action!

As for jack-o'-lanterns, I'm thinking of using a jigsaw...

 

[DocJD]

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In the spirit of Halloween , the knife co . name reminds of Dexter , the TV series .

 

[Chronovore]

BTW, the Girls with Guns channel had the same idea as some of the posters here.

 

[yoko]

Spyderco military or my mossberg 930 spx when I get frustrated lol

 

[xraso]

Use whatever my EDC is for that day to start a cut, then use a hacksaw blade to make the cuts - makes cutting curves easy as pie

 

[SCTorrero]

 

[Steely_Gunz]

I use boring pumpkin carving tools. They just work better for me, and the number of "misses" I've had where I jammed myself in the finger or hand with the dull teeth of of tool would have ended up being anatomy lessons with my EDC.

I do use a 16 year old Old Hickory Cooks Knife to take the tops off. I have used this blade every Halloween since my wife and I have been married. We got it for a wedding gift. Kind of the only set tradition I have regarding the carving of the pumpkins since we were married on October 15th, and the Old Hickory was the thinnest knife we had in our young house...being that most of my other knives at the time were 3/8" thick khukuris

 

[sailfish]

My mini trapper made a pretty good pumpkin knife.

 

[Rupestris]

I have usually used a paring knife. Once or twice I have used one of those serrated pumpkin carving knives they sell in the the stores this time of year.

Same. I use a J A Henckles paring knife that's thin and just flexible enough.

I've used a Buck 110 once and didn't care for it. The blade is too thick.

 

[SCTorrero]

The tools:

 

[AntDog]

My son did this one years ago.



This is the knife he used.

 

[arondee]

Giant Mouse Ace Grand did well for cutting off the tops of pumpkins this year.

 

[Chronovore]