Arac,
Most of the time African game isn't even field-dressed. Instead it's transported whole back to the lodge or camp. This is partly because highly-skilled skinners and butchers do the job either in what's essentially a professional butcher shop, or in a tent that's similarly set up. But it's also partly because many black Africans like to eat all sorts of innards, which are considered a valuable by-product of safari hunting. I've seen many African game animals as large as eland and Cape buffalo taken back whole.
These skinners and butchers generally use whatever knives they can get. They'll gladly accept good knives as tips from clients, but they can do a very fine job with what many Americans consider junk. That's because the skinners/butchers of many safari operations process hundreds of animals a year, and perhaps over 1000, so get far more practice than all but a very few Americans.
