good carbon steel slippie

[jpvjr]

Hmmmm. I cut up apples with carbon steel knives all the time. And one of our most-used kitchen knives is an old carbon steel Dexter boning knife. The Dexter gets washed with soap and a sponge in the sink after use, of course, but my pocketknives usually get nothing more than a rub-down with a napkin, t-shirt, jeans or whatever else is handy (sometimes with a little saliva for good measure ). 39 years and counting, and I ain't dead yet.

I mean you got to clean it if you're butchering things with it. Cut up beasties, & don't not clean it & you'd be eating all sorts of other little beasties.

 

[mnblade]

I mean you got to clean it if you're butchering things with it. Cut up beasties, & don't not clean it & you be eating all sorts of other little beasties.

Ah, now that makes sense. I'll keep that in mind next time I'm hunting. (Now who's going to take a 39-year-old newbie hunting for the first time!?)

 

[jpvjr]

Ah, now that makes sense. I'll keep that in mind next time I'm hunting. (Now who's going to take a 39-year-old newbie hunting for the first time!?)

Go to PA find an old Amish guy / logger, tell him you'll do up what ever gets got if he'll babysit ya.:foot: you'll learn more in a day w/ them than anything you'll read. I assume in Europe you can't hunt too much. I'm not so sure of NE, but in PA a license is good for deer, & general stuff. I say go for groundhog & work up from there. Then as a real test do up a skunk. (which by the way are DEEEELICIOUS!!!)