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Or you can pay the butcher to skin, cut and vacuum pack.
I try to own as many as possible, i am covered.
I always wanted one of those Predator (movie) knives/short swords.
This would be a reasonably timely article if I trusted ASJ.
Considering trying to get my first deer this season. Never hunted before, but we have 30 acres and I have a reasonably good chance of being able to take one on our property - more if I start baiting (which is legal here in WV).
Anyhow, pretty sure finding and shooting the deer will be the easy part. The hard part is going to be field dressing, then extracting the carcass mostly on my own. Have a side-by-side with a small winch. Hopefully it won’t come to that.
I just ordered a Morakniv Companion for the field dressing. Fixed blade, orange handle (so I don’t lose it). Recommended on various forums.
Just curious if that’s a good choice. It was reasonably inexpensive.
I’m building an old Savage 325 30-30 that was my late father’s, although he never used it for anything but occasional plinking. Putting on a Nikon 3-9x40 scope, bedding the action and floating the barrel. Should be more than adequate for the ranges I’m looking at once I get the scope dialed in. Our acreage is a bowl-shaped half of a holler with several creek depressions leading to a gully so I’m not going to be taking any long-range shots, but I may have to drag the carcass out of a steep ravine if it bolts before it falls.
Been reading about how best to process the deer afterwards. Kind of overwhelming and plenty of conflicting opinions about the aging and butchering.
Guns and hunting can be far more complicated than it would first appear to an outsider.
I've always just used a 3 - 4 inch drop-point hunting knife for field dressing & skinning; sometimes a buck folder or Mora Clipper. Chef's knife for butchering.
