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Usually a mora and a victorinox classic pairing or 4” boning knife. I never use the saw or axe. I usually do a gutless method and can remove all 4 quarters and the head at the base of the skull with simple cuts. The boning knife for cleanup. Victorinox makes many great inexpensive boning knives for the large meats, birds and rabbits. The steel is not really hard and can be sharpened to razor sharp in the field easily. The lightweight makes them easy to add and a simple leather or duck tape sheath can be made.
S.

My Howe Mountain medium drop point fixed blade for most of my work. This year I am trying out the gerber replacement blade knife in my kill kit for a walk in hunt this year.
I tried out the Outdoor Edge replaceable a few years back but I had trouble keeping the fat cleaned out between the blade and the blade support in the cold when skinning. Field dressing it worked ok.
I have some Buck Alfa folders that work great as well as a few Cutco fixed blades.
For cutting up boned out meat I use Victorinox boning knives.

I keep a Buck Folding 110 with me when I hunt.

We do a lot of our gutting at the meat pole. There, I keep a Buck 113 Ranger Skinner knife.



. . . and an $8 Harbor Freight Pull Saw



The latter has been doing well for over a decade, so I'd say that was acceptable wear for HF crap.

Me too, except a 102, why do you need saws and hatchets???

Limb loppers and a custom version of an Opinel My First Knife. Before the custom I also needed a ceramic stick to keep the Opinel touched up.

Buck 110 folder

Same here for me. Classic.

Anybody ever use one of these?





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqZ1Y5VCTTU

Same same

I’ll start the popcorn!!!!

Havalon, Leatherman and the gutless method for everything from Elk to Coyotes. Dragging deer is not a thing in Muledeer country. Gut piles are good for baiting wolves, bears and coyotes.


mike r

Gerber has done dozens, Ingram has 3-4.



Mike

I've used a number of different gut hooks over the years but find them a pain to sharpen. Now I use this S-Cut QE and just replace the blade as needed.

https://everythingtactical.com/product/s-cut-qe/

Off topic, but one time at -20 with a dead and completely frozen elk on the ground a friend and I used vegetable oil to lube a butter cutter chainsaw. It worked, but was by no means my "favorite".

We (or he, should I say) had to do something to get the elk broken down and packed out.

Gloves, bottle of cleanup water, little diamond stone, some paracord, 5x5 cotton ground cover, a few TAG bags and my Old Timer Mustang with a Mora on backup.

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I've had the knife that came as a combo with the Bahco saw you have pictured for a few years now. I think the reviews said it was a Mora with a Bahco label, and it looks a lot like the Moras in your pics. I think the whole combo was $30 at the time. Cut up several deer with it. I picked up second Morakniv since. They've both been excellent and a great value. I've used the saw more for wood cutting, but used it on some bone too.

People who leave the heart and tenderloins give me heartburn. Probably don't know how to cook the shanks neither.

A knife.

I'm not sure if it has been mentioned over four pages, but I carry a small set of pulleys in my pack. A double and a triple pulley set to be specific that I bought at a sailing store because they are lighter and better quality than what the local farm store has. A few years back I shot a 12 point that I knew I couldn't pack out before night fall. Hanging that buck up high enough to drain and be out of the reach of the varmints was really easy with those pulleys. Then another year I was helping the guys process our deer and an engineering friend was using only a single pulley and straining to lift the deer. He must have missed that physics class where they explained mechanical advantage of using multiple pulleys. Look at any crane used for lifting heavy equipment and you never see a single line pull.