Car-knife got used tonight.....

RemyKaze said:
In SC you can carry anything from a knife to a sword to a shotgun in your vehicle, and some on your person, as long as you have no intent to cause harm to others.

Also, I'm always being told by insurance and safety guys that when a deer jumps out it is best to hit it rather than swerve to avoid it and cause more harm to yourself.
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Yeah, living in MN where there are so many deer they are a real problem it is definitely better to just slam the brakes on (If it's not to slick out) and plow into the deer than it is to swerve and either roll the car through the ditch or go head on with another car.
 
I dunno man. I've had alot of hands on time with dead deer and I don't think that knife, in that situation, could do what you said you did.
 
rustyshackelford said:
I dunno man. I've had alot of hands on time with dead deer and I don't think that knife, in that situation, could do what you said you did.
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It would have to have been a fawn, IMO.

I don't know that anything smaller than a sword that could severe a grown deer's head in one swing. Even a fawn would have been difficult.
 
Better to hit it yes, but for the love of all that is sacred stop and help the poor animal or atleast try to wave someone down to do it for you.:/
Don't just keep on driving like nothing happened...
Good thing I got his plates to give the police, would not like to be him when the men in black knock on the door later in the evening....

But after this my car-kit got filled up with even more things.
Flashlight, space-blanket, reflective fleece jacket, spare gloves.
Axe and saw is always in there along with rope etc.. This because I always drive my company truck, and work in construction...
 
mcrow said:
Good work on not letting the deer suffer.

However, just a few pointers on the method:

Not that you did it it wrong but it may be easier to just do heart shot. On most types of deer you can just stick a knife between the ribs just behind the front shoulder and you'll get the heart. It can be done with a 4" folder unless it is a big buck or larger type of dear.
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I didn't know that. Learn something new every day. Thanks.
 
Ogien said:
I didn't know that. Learn something new every day. Thanks.
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It's also the same spot a hunter would aim if they were going to shoot a deer with a bow or gun.

There's spot right behind the shoulder that we call the "boiler room" that is about the size of your average supper plate. If you you get that spot you are going to most likely get the heart an lungs with a shot from a rifle/bow. Now with a knife you'd want to be a little more precise.

Find the shoulder blade, thenon the backside of it find the middle (equal distance from top of the blade and bottom), place the blade between the ribs and drive the blade in and twist it a little if you can. If you do it right the deer will die in less than a minute.

Sometimes that is more effective than using a gun to the head. I've seen a cop put 4 shots from a 9mm into a deer's head and it still was alive enough to try to crawl away. So, if you are going to use a gun make sure you have something that will get it done in one shot or you are better off with a knife.
 
Small deer, think Bambi... Grown deer maybe not, but a good swipe with over a pound of razor-sharp steel, and a good portion of luck hitting between the bones in the neck and it is not much to it really..
Up here in Norway we call it deer, guess maybe you have another name for it, sorry didn't
Think about names, and my wife wouldn't film it understandably.
The animal was about 44pounds I guess, or 20 kilos for you metric guys...
 
RemyKaze said:
In SC you can carry anything from a knife to a sword to a shotgun in your vehicle, and some on your person, as long as you have no intent to cause harm to others.

Also, I'm always being told by insurance and safety guys that when a deer jumps out it is best to hit it rather than swerve to avoid it and cause more harm to yourself.
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I just happen to be an insurance agent and the reason its better to hit the deer is 1) Hitting an animal does not affect your insurance rate as its a comprehensive claim and 2) Swerving to avoid is never a good idea safety wise.

Bobber, what you did took a lot of courage. Good job. About ten years ago I hit a full size buck on the highway going 70mph (112kph). I hit its hindquarters and it spun off into the drainage ditch next to the highway. I got out, it landed on its head neck broken, dead on impact. If it hadn't been dead, I would have called the police, because back when it happened, I was young and didn't think to have a survival kit or anything in my truck. I know better now. Deer and coyote's are a major problem here in Chicagoland, I see them dead on the side of the road all the time.
 
Bobber said:
Small deer, think Bambi... Grown deer maybe not, but a good swipe with over a pound of razor-sharp steel, and a good portion of luck hitting between the bones in the neck and it is not much to it really..
Up here in Norway we call it deer, guess maybe you have another name for it, sorry didn't
Think about names, and my wife wouldn't film it understandably.
The animal was about 44pounds I guess, or 20 kilos for you metric guys...
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OK, that makes more sense. Most of the grown deer here in MN are probably 120+ pounds with bucks being closer to 170.

We've even seen bruisers here in MN that are 300+ pounds. The state record whitetale buck weighted 500 pounds.

So a 44 pound deer here mostly was born a few months ago for a typeical fawn here in MN.
 
Guess they grow bigger in your neck of Tue woods, I think a fullgrown male here would average at maybe 100 pounds or something like that.
This was a year old or something.. They were two and jumped from the ditch after eachother, one made it, one didn't.
 
Nice job OP. With me not being a hunter and having it be such a small deer/fawn, I probably would've done the neck chop as well. Mother nature will dispose of the meat via crows, vultures, mice, worms, etc.
 
Since coyotes have been mentioned I'll add this- on any type of dog from domestic to coyote/fox/wolf the heart is located just inside of the rib cage at the point where the left elbow points at when the left front leg is brought back against the body. Just a little info incase anyone even needs to put a coyote/other dog down in a similar situation with a blade.
 
Sticking a beast in the heart is fine but should really be left to those who can humanely locate it. Taking off the head will always work and doesn't take much know how, and aslong as it's done fast it is perfectly humane.


Did someone mention a tire iron..? lol. Unless you're Richard Ramirez, I'll advise you stick to the more simple approach. :rolleyes:
 
Samon said:
Sticking a beast in the heart is fine but should really be left to those who can humanely locate it. Taking off the head will always work and doesn't take much know how, and aslong as it's done fast it is perfectly humane.


Did someone mention a tire iron..? lol. Unless you're Richard Ramirez, I'll advise you stick to the more simple approach. :rolleyes:
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On a deer it's not that hard, just do like I said above and you will more than likely get the heart. Bigger the knife the better chance you get more of it though. Also, in most areas of the US chopping the head off a deer with a knife just wont work and you'd be forcing more suffering on the deer. This just happens to be a small deer so it worked.
 
What did you have there? young reindeer or hjort [red deer] ? In a couple of weeks I'll be getting another young cull red deer ,about 250 lbs.
A skilled deer getter will hit a deer without any significant damage .I only broke some plastic grill in my only road kill !! For the cull I use a 45-70- rifle or 44mag revolver. I assume handgun hunting is not permitted.
 
I was actually thinking about doing the chop directly to the neck to severe the nerves in the brainstem, but didn`t want to stand on the "wrong" side of the hooves, and I thought that if the main arteries and Airways were severed it would`nt take long anyways.
Just in case I didn`t manage to do the severing in one chop.. (What is Your oppinion on this mcrow?)
Might have to do something like it again, maybe not, but I think I`d og for the same Method Next time too...
 
Bobber said:
I was actually thinking about doing the chop directly to the neck to severe the nerves in the brainstem, but didn`t want to stand on the "wrong" side of the hooves, and I thought that if the main arteries and Airways were severed it would`nt take long anyways.
Just in case I didn`t manage to do the severing in one chop.. (What is Your oppinion on this mcrow?)
Might have to do something like it again, maybe not, but I think I`d og for the same Method Next time too...
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Ideally, if you are going to try to kill a deer by chopping at the knew you'd probably want to chop back of the neck, not the front. There is a lot more meat and grissel in the front to chop through. If you can split the spinal cord they'd die quickly and that would be easiest from the back of the neck but like I said on a larger deer probably wouldn't work unless you have a sword.
 
Mete: this was a small one like Bambi from the Walt Disney cartoon, maybe 44 pounds..
In Norway that will be about a year-old or something like that..
Not allowed to carry any firearms here, and I think both my army-issue H&K MP5 and my S&W MP9 would be bad to use since I
have npo idea about taking the life of an animal With firearm, army don`t teach you that, LOL..
 
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