Originally Posted by MILES58
Aw Jesus!



I cannot for the life of me understand people using loppers, reciprocating saws, hatchets, axes, etc. for this work! I can and have many times taken a deer from just killed to stripped carcass in a little better than an hour with just a little knife like that. A Buck 110 will work about as well, but the steel is crappy and after one deer it's time to sharpen it again. I do use a reciprocating saw to cut up the bones to fit in the garbage. What the hell do you use a loppers, hatchet, saw gizmos and cleaver for? I sometimes use a big Santoku I had Dale Atkerson make for me out of very thick D2 as a cleaver for chicken parts, but I wouldn't have a clue what to do to a deer with a hatchet or a cleaver. I did watch my dad kill a deer once with an axe, but I got well clear of that rodeo and watched while I tried not to pee myself laughing. I have done almost all of it with a little bitty pocket knife with a 2 inch blade, and i have done more than a couple with a Gerber LST.


I very much enjoy making "hill country wind chimes"

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However I don't always just take the quarters and the the loins! LOL



I do like pork chops, or even putting a 1/2 pig split long-ways on the pit.

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I find a sawzall very convenient for cutting the animal lengthways along either side of the backbone when it comes to making chops.

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ever see a butcher use a saw?


Compound loppers work well for cutting off feet, head.


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I hunt out of a camp, don't field dress

the time of day,

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and how many I have to skin also are part of the equation as to whether its a "social thing" with my buds, or whether I'm on the production line!

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Works for me,

YMMV.

ya!

GWB


Last edited by geedubya; 10/26/17.
A Kill Artist. When I draw, I draw blood.