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The dude in the video was a Texan and didn’t show me one instance where the saw saved more than a minute over a knife. I did enjoy his “method” for removing back straps, only left a 1/4 of one on the top of the ribs.

Not sure exactly what the OP wanted to do with a Sawzall but I use one generally if I am quartering the deer after it has been gutted and skinned to remove the legs, split the hind quarters apart and to cut the spine in front of them and the removing the head. That's it easy as all get out. I also use the same blade for cutting brush for blinds and to trim in the way limbs. Try that with your Buck knife and just try to keep up using your loppers!

Yeah that's the one I use also.

I use one of these for the pelvic bone:



$10 @ Harbor Freight. I've gotten them on sale for $7.



For dealing with antlers I have a Harbor Freight Reciprocating saw:

https://www.harborfreight.com/6-amp...ting-handle-reciprocating-saw-62370.html

$29


It goes through skull like hot butter.

It seems somehow wrong to use a saw on a game animal. I’m old and old fashioned, don’t like direct deposit, don’t like paying bills online, don’t like vehicles without keys, don’t like anything new to speak of.

I use a sazall at work a lot. I hate the noise they make.

The OP ? Is Anyone using a recip saw ?

NOT If anyone approved. ! ! !

Jerry

I'd like to see these guys cut the antlers out of the head with their Buck 110 folder.

You can use anything you want as long as you don’t disagree with jwall. Lmao.

Been a long time since I cut antlers off. Last time I think I used a meat saw. Time before that was a chain saw. But...no meat I’m keeping there!

Small hatchet

My wife actually "hinted" about wanting a reciprocating saw as a Christmas gift maybe a decade ago, specifically for cutting up big game animals--though not usually deer. We take elk and moose pretty regularly, an since she writes game cookbooks, she like to experiment with all cuts, and especially found a saw useful for ribs on BIG game--though also for some other uses. While she knows how to take apart an elk with only a knife (in fact has done it in the dark more than once), she finds the power saw handier for some butchering.

I have also taken apart big game weighing up to 1500 pounds with nothing but a knife--at least enough to haul the pieces out of the wilderness. But am not averse to quicker methods, when possible.

She got her Christmas gift and was very pleased with it, especially after using to take apart various kinds of megafauna.

I’d like to see someone carry a Dewalt 6 miles back in the mountains to cut up an elk.

Hey zone. I promise that you are mis reading or mis understanding me.
I simply pointed out that the OP was NOT asking for approval or disapproval.

Jerry

Yeah folks can do anything they want. I was just curious what the fire’s experience was using recips for deer work. Brother in law is a engineer with black and decker/Dewalt and could get a saw for nil. Figured donating a cordless recip to the hunt camp would be a cool thing to do.

What blade works best?

I've used them on moose. Makes some tasks easier, and if hunting off an atv the extra weight/space is not an issue. Couple extra batteries and you've got a camp tool and meat saw. Done plenty of them by myself with just a knife tho. Works good for antler removal, a bit more precise than an ax for not messing up burs.

Woodson

What blade ?

Bama Rick uses 12” Milwaukee axe blade.

I use the most aggressive blade in my kit, Normally used for limbs.

Jerry

Thank You.

I use Wood blades.

I'm just giving you sh'it.

Well........alllright !


Jerry

Haven't used anything other than 3" outdoor edge razor knife to get all the meat from a few dozen whitetails and one elk the last few years. Did use a hacksaw in the Trinidad Holiday Inn parking lot to remove the skull plate from the skull on my elk though before I crossed state lines.