What Knife Do You Carry When Hunting?

My question about the 120 was a serious one...If the 119 is a good choice...and we know the original 119 was available in optional blade lengths...and the 120 was finalized as the "long 119"...then why didn't anyone name the 120 as their favorite hunting knife...???... :confused:

Someone (many someones in fact) requested the 120 as their favorite, or Buck wouldn't have made it for so long...how come no one likes it anymore???
 
I dont really know Trax!
Maybe the extra length is just a little too much?
I dont own a 120 so thats why I dont use one:D
 
I bought my 119 in 1991 for an elk hunt. If Walmart had a 120 then, I probably would have bought it. I have used a 120, but I prefer the 119 to it, and don't mind using a 102 or a 118. Do some of you guys hang your kill by the neck? I've never tried it.
 
Scott Hartman said:
I bought my 119 in 1991 for an elk hunt. If Walmart had a 120 then, I probably would have bought it. I have used a 120, but I prefer the 119 to it, and don't mind using a 102 or a 118. Do some of you guys hang your kill by the neck? I've never tried it.
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Only Deer, or big game.
Ducks lay in the bottom of the boat :D
Just kiddin Scott.
 
wh4f said:
How else do you do it?
With a gambrel by the hind legs?
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What's a gambrel??? :confused:

FWIW, I've always been taught to hang them by the hind legs to drain the blood...I don't know why it wouldn't drain by the neck...
 
Never tried the rope thing... We just started hanging by the hind legs last year but noone got a deer :(
Otherwise for the past 20 years we hung them by the neck.
Seemed to work o.k. they still cool down and drain O.K.
Oh and skin 'em down - with a Buck 103 :D
 
I'll give a quick shot at this....

Hang them by the neck tight up against the ears. Not by antlers unless you want to take a chance breaking one.

You have already cut from sternum down, now just slit the skin from sternum up to the rope

Slit all four legs around the first leg hoint (elbow?)

Cut a long slit on the inside of each leg up to the open cavity or to where you have already cut from neck to pelvic. Pretty much as you would normally skin one

go up to the neck and start skinning it back to the point you can put a baseball size rock, or a baseball if one is handy, under the skin in the middle of the back up high just under the neck. .

With the rock under the skin, work the skin around it to the point you can loop another rope or guy wire type cable around the rock and pull it down tight. Now you would be looking at the inside of the hide around the rock.

Tie the other end of the rock rope on a vehicle and begin pulling,,,slow.

If you made the cuts right, this will pull the skin off completely without tearing up any meat at all. Wayyyyy faster than skinning one. And it won't tear up the hide if you want to keep it. Watch out as the deer will swing back as the hide is being pulled off....

Maybe you get the picture...
 
chickentrax said:
Lemme see if I got this right, from that other thread...you hang the deer by the neck, then you stick two fingers in the hole, jam the blade in as far as it will go, and start sawing upwards...when you hit the Sternum, you saw (or break) the bone...and keep sawin' away, until you hit the windpipe...then spread the chest/ribs, scoop out the [yuch] guts [ aw, :barf: ], and cut off each end of the digestive tract...
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Trax, you have an incredible visual imagination:D :eek: :D.

If you go on that Texas deer hunt, I want to go as an observer and reporter...video cam the whole experience:p :cool: :p.

My first deer was something like the above quote. I couldn't get much help from my hunting buddies...not because they didn't want to help...becuse they couldn't ROGLTAO. I was pretty much covered with every part of deer...think I threw those clothes away;).

I just use a branch(as/instead of a grambel) to keep their legs spread, and hang it by the hocks with two pieces of rope. Saves carrying another item. Preston
 
Using those methods,,, Trax taint goin on no Texas Deer Hunt! :eek: :rolleyes: :D

I should add, if ya gut shoot, or gut cut one,,,,,ur on ur ownnnnnnnn :D
 
I never did get a deer, although I went out at least three years/hunting seasons [shotgun]... :(

But the knife I carried was similar to a 119, but slimmer; it had an aluminum pommel, probably an aluminum guard, and a white grip...it had spacers, not sure of number/color...the blade shape was the same as a 119, but only ~5"...this was back in 1967 or so, and the knife was a couple years old then...I *think* it was a Buck, but I don't know what model...it had a blood groove, and a clip point...maybe a 102 Woodsman???... :confused:
 
For years we just used a stout stick and rope to hang our deer. Cut a slit behind the leg tendons; push the stick thru and tie a rope to the stick and hoist the deer up. Peel the hide from the back legs down to the head and cut off the head. Then we rub the deer down with vinegar, then cover your deer with a deer bag or a sheet to keep the bugs off.

Now we use store bought steel gambrels they work the same as a stick.
 
jb4570 said:
For years we just used a stout stick and rope to hang our deer. Cut a slit behind the leg tendons; push the stick thru and tie a rope to the stick and hoist the deer up. Peel the hide from the back legs down to the head and cut off the head. Then we rub the deer down with vinegar, then cover your deer with a deer bag or a sheet to keep the bugs off.

Now we use store bought steel gambrels they work the same as a stick.
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What does the vinegar do?
 
Pack Rat said:
What does the vinegar do?
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Helps to get a good glaze on the meat (the acid in the vinegar keeps it form spoilling longer and helps to keep the bugs off). In Calif we get to hunt in the hot months and you may have to hang your deer in camp for a week or more. At least it's already aged by the time you get home to butcher & pack the meat.

jb4570
 
118 is what I and the top gun in our camp use. I'm thinking of having a local knife maker put an ivory handle on it. The 119 imho is too large.
 
chickentrax said:
Lemme see if I got this right, from that other thread...you hang the deer by the neck, then you stick two fingers in the hole, jam the blade in as far as it will go, and start sawing upwards...when you hit the Sternum, you saw (or break) the bone...and keep sawin' away, until you hit the windpipe...then spread the chest/ribs, scoop out the [yuch] guts [ aw, :barf: ], and cut off each end of the digestive tract...
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Trax,

To us hunters "Happy ness is having your arms up to your elbows inside of a steaming chest cavity in the cold morning air, tugging on a pair of lungs" :D .

jb4570
 
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