Could you field dress a deer with a Case Peanut if you had to?

A girl friend who was very handy with a knife skinned a 1,000 cow using a 3" blade in abut 18 minutes, it was a packing house skin, she even faced the cow which added time to what is usually done in the field.
 
When I was a kid deer hunting with my Dad, and my uncles (my Mother had 5 brothers, Dad had 4), all any of them used to gut and skin a deer were pocket knives. Case and Tree Brands were their preference as I remember. Early 60's time frame.
 
While working cows I came across a chert knife laying on the prairie, a short distance form where the knife lay I found a larger rock with a bunch of flakes laying around it.

I believe a stone age hunter made a kill and made his knife near the location by busting up a suitable rock, when he was finished he simply left his new knife laying where he did his work and took the meat.

Another event, a friend was hunting when he heard a shot near by, came across an Alaskan native who simply hammered out a blade from the 30-30 cartridge he used to harvest the animal. Then dressed out the deer and left the cartridge laying next to the gut pile.

It does not take much of a knife to dress out a game animal when you know what you are doing.
 
I think the consensus is that it can be done! I'd prefer a larger and easier to handle knife for field dressing duties but should the need arise I feel I'm up to the task given any sharp instrument, peanut included!
 
Historically people used to do everything with flakes of flint, so a metal blade would be considered luxurious...

When I was at the ABS (american bladesmith society) class in Maine, a welding instructor asked why anyone would need a blade bigger than the case sod buster he uses as his moose hunting knife...
 
So if I can skin a deer with Case Peanut what do I tell my wife I need all my fixed blades for? :confused: :)
 
I have field-dressed deer with a Stockman, so the Peanut would not be too much of a challenge. It might take a bit longer, but the Peanut is more than enough knife.
 
Field dressing a deer with a Peanut would definitely be doable with a sharp edge. You could also skin the deer with said nut. For quartering and whatnot, I like a bigger blade.... actually, I think a 4 inch blade is about right for completely processing a deer.... so that's generally what I use. You could probably make due with a nut, but it would be a lot of work, your meat would look mangled, and you'd need to clean stuff out of the joints before you oiled them.

Fixed blades are just easier to clean after processing game.
 
I used to work in a butcher shop, and we often used disposable razor blades. It's extremely messy, tedious, but when your skinning 15-20 animals a day it's easier just to get a new blade every 20 minutes then to sharpen knives thought the day.
 
quattromori said:
Disclaimer: I know nothing about field dressing a deer, and I'm no hunter. :)
Yet, I assume that anything can be cut, providing you know what you're doing and have a sharp object at hand.
Whether it's comfortable or not, or if it makes any sense (aside from "unpredicted" situations) that's another story... :rolleyes:

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Same here.But...
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A mans got to know his knifes limitations!

At one stage it would have been given to the women and they would have used diddy little flints to do the work.
So I'm saying YES but you need a nice hot shower afterwards.
 
Could you field dress a deer with a Case Peanut if you had to?

Prolly could, but I think I'd ruther do it with my teeth, if it came to that. :rolleyes:
 
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