Interesting Article about Hunting Knives

[memphismason]

I like the looks of some of those knives at WalMart. How well do they hold an edge?

Mine has done ok so-far. Since I have owned it, I haven't had as many opportunities to use it as I would like, but so far, so good.

[whiskey]

I like the looks of some of those knives at WalMart. How well do they hold an edge?

I own one of the winchester knives. It will take an edge, but will not hold it long enough for my liking. I bought one on sale cheap and used it to skin and quarter a hog, which a test to any knife. It would probably be ok for 1 deer, but would need sharpening past that.

I have one of these and have been extreamly happy with it. It's a Boker 520HH. Size is small enough to work inside and big enough to feel right in my hand. They can be bought for less than 60.00 and well worth it. I carry a small folding saw, so I have quit hacking pelvis bones into. You can buy a small folding saw at Home Depot that takes standard reciprocating saw blades (sawzall). Then just get a fine tooth blade for bone sawing. You can also carry some wood blades and quickly convert it to a limb saw. They have blade storage in the handle.


Boker Knives 520HH Arbolito Fixed Blade Hunter Knife with Genuine Stag Handles - Knife Country USA


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[gregintenn]

It doesn't seem comfortable to me to carry a saw every time I go hunting. Could be I just haven't ran across the right saw.

[grimel]

Why are you breaking the pelvis and ribcage?

I use a Old Timer Sharp Finger and am considering really hard swapping to a Cold Steel Mini-Pendleton Hunter. Don't like folding knives for field dressing; too easy to not get it all cleaned out.

[memphismason]

Why are you breaking the pelvis and ribcage?.

When I field dress a deer I split the ribs. I like doing it this way better than reaching into the chest cavity blind. I guess that was the way I was taught, so that is how I started doing it.

Now I don't split the pelvis until after skinning and I start "working up" the deer meat.

[gregintenn]

Why are you breaking the pelvis and ribcage?

To remove the poopie pipe and the lungs, heart, etc. Without splitting the pelvis, I've had a lot of frustration removing the bowels. Without splitting the ribcage, I have trouble removing the heart, lungs, and other assorted stuff.

[inspecting1]

I have used a CaseXX yellow handle trapper on more deer and hogs than I can remember. It is also the one thing you can count on me having in my pocket any day of the year. Oh yea you don't have to split the pelvis you just cut to the ball and socket and your hind quarter is off.

[FlyntG]

I got a real education yesterday.

One of my hunting buddies used to work at a deer processing place. There were 3 does shot yesterday, and he gutted, skinned, and took them all the way to the cooler with my buck 110. By the last deer you could tell the knife was getting pretty dull.

Takes him less than 10 minutes per deer with nothing but gambrel, rope, knife, and a hacksaw that got minimal use. The last deer was done without benefit of the saw.