re: Anyone use a sawzall to 1/4 their deer?

I debone my while hanging, I hate the little bits of bone in my meat.

I used one a couple hours ago. I used the long wood blade to split it up after skinning. It will get deboned tomorrow and make smoked sausage .

I bought this LINK in the spring time.

I used it this past week to clean 6 deer and it worked great. The difference between it and others is you can use it one handed while holding the deer with the other.

I used it to cut leg and pelvic bones.

nah, no hot water at the camp meant the sawzall stayed nasty. We tried an oscillating saw, and while it was cleaner, soft tissue would gum up the blade. The limb cutter can just be hosed off

Yep, much easier.

We just use a good set of loppers.

Yeah that cat spends more time a day with a knife in his hands than I do with an ink pen or a computer mouse.

I'll stick to my sawsall.

I use a black n decker $30 jigsaw. hasn't failed me yet.

Sheers to cut the legs. Neck cut around then twist off. Front's just use your knife. Ill look for a video but just cut the hams off inside then filet the outside off. No need to take home the bones for the hinds after you can take all the meat off in less time than getting a saw out.

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How do you cut through the pelvis and backbone to remove the hams with a skinning knife?

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You don't have to.

At my shack in MS I use just a knife. I slice off the backstraps, pull the tenderloins out, slice off each shoulder quarter and then cut out the hindquarters at the ball n socket joint. Shanks/hooves are cut off at the joints. Any other exposed meat around the pelvis or neck is sliced off in chunks. The rest of the carcass dragged off into the woods for the yotes.

Two times in this situation I wanted the rack. It was a little brutal just twisting and cutting the head off, but it got done.

It is much easier at the Arkansas camp with hoists, sawsalls, lights and a hosepipe under a skinning shed.