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I did not know they have the Internet in heaven. Well I do envy you. I always wanted it that easy myself. I once had a plan to use a fishing rod to catch moose in the mouth and drag them back to the truck, just never could get them to take. Once I got an old cow to come in the garage with mountain laurel for bait, she just did not like the garage door closing on her and didn't do the garage much good before I had to let her out. Hard to get a shot off inside a garage with a rampaging cow moose is going for your toys. Once I did get a blacktail to come in on a pancake, now that had to be some of the best Swiss steak I've ever had. The only downside was the park officials heard the shot and we barely got out with our hair. Keep that meat locker full Grizz ( I bet it's faster to cut and wrap when you can use somthing other than a flashlight)! Big AlGrizzly Adam wrote:Big Al ...
We have over 50 deer per square mile right here where I live ... but we're running a little short on moose, elk, and caribou. Got 700+ pound black bears, but our deer aren't too big, far as whitetails go. A mature buck would average 125 pounds, and a doe around 90. Some get bigger, if they live more than three years.
I don't cut a bone on deer, period. I hunt on my own farm, and I don't (typically) have to do anything in the field except drag 'em to the truck ... and in rifle season, I try to eliminate the drag! I bone 'em out on the gambrel and leave nothing but a denuded skeleton hanging there.
Many deer I kill are hanging on a hoist within a half hour of death, and are butchered and dumped within the next hour. You develop a certain efficiency in processing over the years. Once the boned meat is safely in the fridge, my wife and I work together in converting it into various venison delights. It's the good life!
Grizz
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Any good drop point will do. I'm the odd guy out here in that I hate gut hooks. Great for cutting the deer open but an absolute pain in the hind end while working inside an animal especially larger ones like moose. Those hooks are always getting caught on something and doing damage. Used one once and never again.
I think a great knife for the money is a Buck Vangaurd.
http://www.buckknives.com/catalog/detail/219/222
I think a great knife for the money is a Buck Vangaurd.
http://www.buckknives.com/catalog/detail/219/222
Grizzly Adam,
Would you mind picking your knives' models here
http://www.knifecenter.com/knifecenter/ ... ctkit.html
Would you mind picking your knives' models here
http://www.knifecenter.com/knifecenter/ ... ctkit.html
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I have a Camillus Buckmaster knife that my girlfriend got me for xmas last year...used it for the first time lastnight and I was amazed at how nice the guthook worked...and its sooooo much lighter to carry than my old fixedblade buck knife...and I find the rubber handle on the new one is much easier to hang on to when you are up to you elbows in blood..doesnt slip in ur hand as badly..
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Here are my grandfathers Buck knives and my hunting knife. The Buck knives in the double case are old, maybe the 40's or 50's but I'm not sure. I've been told they are rare and worth some money so I never use them. My grandfather told me the little blade was to remove the tarsal glands only, and the large blade did the rest. It has a nice drop point on it.
My knife was a gift from my dad, and is an "Edgebrand", Soligen, Germany. It works for me.
My knife was a gift from my dad, and is an "Edgebrand", Soligen, Germany. It works for me.
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Thanks, Grizzly Adam,
what do you do with flexible boner, things like ribs?
I used to grow, slaughter and butcher pigs many many moons ago,
I haven't done that many deer, but they're pretty close...
I prefer to split pelvic bones, but agree with you it's not neccesary to gut,
I usually just split the belly to the sternum and cut everything out
what do you do with flexible boner, things like ribs?
I used to grow, slaughter and butcher pigs many many moons ago,
I haven't done that many deer, but they're pretty close...
I prefer to split pelvic bones, but agree with you it's not neccesary to gut,
I usually just split the belly to the sternum and cut everything out