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re: What knife or tool do you use to crack open the sternum on a deer?
Posted on 1/3/26 at 2:04 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Posted on 1/3/26 at 2:04 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
I’ve hunted several places that used walkins including my current place and we never split the ribs, there’s plenty of room to drop everything once the hide is off the neck, and no need to go for spotless inside the ribcage.
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Posted on 1/3/26 at 2:36 pm to LSUSUPERSTAR
I have an old Browning 3 blade that my grandfather left me. Skinning blade, guthook and saw. Since I always field dress, I use that to crack the sternum.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 7:58 pm to Barneyrb
Same thing we use.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:23 pm to LSUSUPERSTAR
I skin a bunch of deer and I don’t split the sternum. I just let the guts fall enough to get the tenderloins out. Cut the front quarters off, backstraps and hind quarters, and occasionally the neck.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 8:53 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
Your time doesnt count for the pocket knife challenge if you dont split the chest and the wishbone
Posted on 1/3/26 at 9:53 pm to LSUSUPERSTAR
When I was in a lease we used a battery powered sawzall.
Public land hunting I pack out the meat. Use a folding Milwaukee hand saw with the metal sawzall blade. So it’s about the size of a redbull can folded up. Use this for cutting feet off, cutting through the sternum, neck roast ect. Found the saws made for this have the bigger teeth and are a PIA compared to the metal blade.
Public land hunting I pack out the meat. Use a folding Milwaukee hand saw with the metal sawzall blade. So it’s about the size of a redbull can folded up. Use this for cutting feet off, cutting through the sternum, neck roast ect. Found the saws made for this have the bigger teeth and are a PIA compared to the metal blade.
Posted on 1/3/26 at 9:56 pm to Sparty3131
A stainless steel fine tooth blade is where it's at for recip saws
Posted on 1/3/26 at 10:30 pm to LSUSUPERSTAR
I use the big “limb loppers”. I just go straight down/up a the sternum.
Posted on 1/4/26 at 12:06 am to PlaySomeHonk
I skin a bunch of deer and I don’t split the sternum. I just let the guts fall enough to get the tenderloins out. Cut the front quarters off, backstraps and hind quarters, and occasionally the neck.
That’s the way most of us do it.
I want to go out West and kill something that I have to work for. That or Alaska.
That’s the way most of us do it.
I want to go out West and kill something that I have to work for. That or Alaska.
Posted on 1/4/26 at 6:30 am to LSUSUPERSTAR
Recip saw, I keep a few entire deer over the course of the year for sausage. Hang them whole in walk-in. Rest of them just leave guts in
Posted on 1/4/26 at 7:25 am to Rize
“want to go out West and kill something that I have to work for. That or Alaska.”
I skin one side of elk, cut meat off the bone, then roll it over and do the same.
I skin one side of elk, cut meat off the bone, then roll it over and do the same.
Posted on 1/4/26 at 7:34 am to LSUSUPERSTAR
Sawzall
By the way bud - here's a link for that knife you talked about. They got a bunch on eBay brother
eBay link to buck buster
By the way bud - here's a link for that knife you talked about. They got a bunch on eBay brother
eBay link to buck buster
This post was edited on 1/4/26 at 7:36 am
Posted on 1/4/26 at 8:46 am to LSUSUPERSTAR
Reciprocating saw for ripping sternun and pelvis. Use to cut off legs and head/neck. Use for butchering as well. Get a set of stainless steel blades from Amazon.
Amazon
Amazon
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