ishootaRUM300
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What you guys use to go threw the brisket and the pelvis?
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ishootaRUM300
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Kawboy let me just say trip from #*!! But I did put my first bull down and one of the guys got a great buck. I will do a write up once I get home and can post pictures.
ishootaRUM300
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You carry that in your pack?
Ok am looking for something light to carry in the field.
I had this little chain that was supposed to be a saw that you pulled back and forth but that broke after about two seconds. Call me a sucker.
Ok am looking for something light to carry in the field.
I had this little chain that was supposed to be a saw that you pulled back and forth but that broke after about two seconds. Call me a sucker.
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STEELSTUD
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The little folding saw by Gerber works great on bone as well as wood. easy to pack and less then $15.00
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elkun
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out door edge. has a saw you can clip to your pack. ive used it on deer elk and moose. and it works well'
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dreaminbouthuntin
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Browning makes a really nice, light weight collapsable saw. One blade for bone and the other for wood. Very handy! I carry it in my pack.
muleylover
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Learn how to quarter and bone and you will never have to carry a saw to cut any bones! Or gut them for that matter. Getting the head off without a saw takes a little work but can be done. I havn't gutted an elk in years, just cut meat off pelvis down to the hip sockett, follow the bone around the back up to the top of the butt. Go from hip socket to the short rib and the hind quarter comes right off. Front shoulders are pretty self explanatory. Bone out neck and rib meat. Getting the tenderloins can be done by positioning the elk so that you just push down innards and slide knife underneath tenderloins and use hand to pull them out. Pretty slick when you get the hang of it.
HorseCreek
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>Learn how to quarter and bone
>and you will never have
>to carry a saw to
>cut any bones! Or gut
>them for that matter. Getting
>the head off without a
>saw takes a little work
>but can be done. I
>havn't gutted an elk in
>years, just cut meat off
>pelvis down to the hip
>sockett, follow the bone around
>the back up to the
>top of the butt. Go
>from hip socket to the
>short rib and the hind
>quarter comes right off. Front
>shoulders are pretty self explanatory.
>Bone out neck and rib
>meat. Getting the tenderloins can
>be done by positioning the
>elk so that you just
>push down innards and slide
>knife underneath tenderloins and use
>hand to pull them out.
>Pretty slick when you get
>the hang of it.
+1
Traditional >>>------->
>and you will never have
>to carry a saw to
>cut any bones! Or gut
>them for that matter. Getting
>the head off without a
>saw takes a little work
>but can be done. I
>havn't gutted an elk in
>years, just cut meat off
>pelvis down to the hip
>sockett, follow the bone around
>the back up to the
>top of the butt. Go
>from hip socket to the
>short rib and the hind
>quarter comes right off. Front
>shoulders are pretty self explanatory.
>Bone out neck and rib
>meat. Getting the tenderloins can
>be done by positioning the
>elk so that you just
>push down innards and slide
>knife underneath tenderloins and use
>hand to pull them out.
>Pretty slick when you get
>the hang of it.
+1
Traditional >>>------->
elkantlers
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All you should need to break an elk down is a knife, nothing more.
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300wbymann
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gutless is cool, but not always the best. hit the vein in the pelvis right and you just push your knife through it- this is one the havolon knife just wont work for
mevertsen
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An elk will have to be quartered at some point to hang, so I just do it while its on the ground. Gutted my first elk, and had 4 more hours of work to skin, clean and quarter it. Learned the gutless method, and can do an entire elk by myself in 2 hours, and its 100% ready for the meat locker when I finish. More time for relaxing and drinking a celebratory drink
Oh, and no saw is required, just a 2 1/2" folding knife (I have an Uncle Henry).
Marcial
Oh, and no saw is required, just a 2 1/2" folding knife (I have an Uncle Henry).
Marcial
I've a Kershaw with a saw blade that interchanges with skinning and fillet blades. but for really quick work through the pelvis and brisket I prefer the Gerber EZ saw:
http://www.cabelas.com/catalog/prod...335&type=product&WT.tsrc=CRR&WT.mc_id=crrdtfd
http://www.cabelas.com/catalog/prod...335&type=product&WT.tsrc=CRR&WT.mc_id=crrdtfd
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LongRangeBangin
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$10.00 crosscut hand saw, (that I dont pack with me.) If I need the saw, I am in an area I am going to make more then one trip out any way. If I lay the saw down and lose it, oh well.
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fishinghunter14
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>>Learn how to quarter and bone
>>and you will never have
>>to carry a saw to
>>cut any bones! Or gut
>>them for that matter. Getting
>>the head off without a
>>saw takes a little work
>>but can be done. I
>>havn't gutted an elk in
>>years, just cut meat off
>>pelvis down to the hip
>>sockett, follow the bone around
>>the back up to the
>>top of the butt. Go
>>from hip socket to the
>>short rib and the hind
>>quarter comes right off. Front
>>shoulders are pretty self explanatory.
>>Bone out neck and rib
>>meat. Getting the tenderloins can
>>be done by positioning the
>>elk so that you just
>>push down innards and slide
>>knife underneath tenderloins and use
>>hand to pull them out.
>>Pretty slick when you get
>>the hang of it.
>
>+1
+1
Best way to do it easy fast and dont gotta worry bout cuttin bone gettin bone fragments every where and cleaner
$MAVERICK$
>>and you will never have
>>to carry a saw to
>>cut any bones! Or gut
>>them for that matter. Getting
>>the head off without a
>>saw takes a little work
>>but can be done. I
>>havn't gutted an elk in
>>years, just cut meat off
>>pelvis down to the hip
>>sockett, follow the bone around
>>the back up to the
>>top of the butt. Go
>>from hip socket to the
>>short rib and the hind
>>quarter comes right off. Front
>>shoulders are pretty self explanatory.
>>Bone out neck and rib
>>meat. Getting the tenderloins can
>>be done by positioning the
>>elk so that you just
>>push down innards and slide
>>knife underneath tenderloins and use
>>hand to pull them out.
>>Pretty slick when you get
>>the hang of it.
>
>+1
+1
Best way to do it easy fast and dont gotta worry bout cuttin bone gettin bone fragments every where and cleaner
$MAVERICK$
outdoorsdude
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Another vote on the Quarter and Bone ticket! In 35+ elk seasons, I have only gutted two, and those were way in and dark thirty, went back and did the Q&B in the AM.
Thank you Steve for showing me the easy way to do elk the first time I started hunting them!
Thank you Steve for showing me the easy way to do elk the first time I started hunting them!
If you want to saw on elk, get a Wyoming Saw. This works very well. If you are not mounting the head, it is nice to cut the skull cap off and leave the head sitting, rather than packing that out on your back. Likewise with the leg quarters. If you are packing that out on your own back, it is nice to be able to saw off the hooves and most of the hocks too that don't have much serviceable meat (ligaments mostly in there) and leave them in the field rather than packing them out on your back. If you've got horses or mules or llamas, of course, this surplus weight is less of an issue. I agree that rather than cutting up the pelvis just work your knife around the meat and cut loose the ball of the femur from the socket of the pelvis to remove the rear legs. The shoulder just comes off when you cut away the muscle.
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LAST EDITED ON Nov-14-11 AT 02:29PM (MST)[p]I really like the outdoor edge saw/swing blade combo pack, but most of the time I don't need a saw anyway, just a good knife to qtr an elk up.
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elkmtngear
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I have always been able to split the pelvis/brisket with my Cutco Drop Point knife. Never have used a saw.
Best of Luck,
Jeff
http://www.elkmtngear.com
Best of Luck,
Jeff
http://www.elkmtngear.com
