trevort wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2019 5:41 pm
Works very well as a skinner
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A good knife makes it easier when the animals cold, like so often after diesel stalking and punching a skin off - really works best on sheep and goats, and to a certain degree - poorly fed/non fatty deer, when they are warm.
When they have a reasonable fat layer over the arse, and you dropped the guts earlier, I have found they are finicky bastards around the tail and rump, easy to blow through the skin.
Buchan skinning = any which way that works.
I hang the deer where possible with the skin on for 4-5 days, and curse that same process when it comes time to skin and break down the animal - I think it ages better without the hard meaty "scab" that wastes soo much meat when you hang an animal without a humidity controlled coolroom, or breaking the animal down into major cuts/muscle groups and wrapping with wet newspaper and putting it in the bottom of the fridge - but both methods work.
But then, between Buchan and other shooting (note: note "hunting") I do - I guess I only shoot and break down around around 12 - 15 deer a year - your experience may differ.
Sorry Trevor, thats a really nice looking knife.