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#128760 - 03/30/08 06:25 PM Re: Yes, you can butcher a chicken with only a SAK [Re: MartinFocazio]
Leigh_Ratcliffe Offline
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You can skin anything up to and inclusive of Deer with a SAK.

SAK's are much underrated as a survival tool. I carry a SAK alox Farmer or a Huntsman. For shelter building (and we are not building a log cabin here) and basic fire/trapping techniques they are more than adequate.

As for dispatching something that you have just snared or trapped? Probably not. But you can use it to carve a dinkum club.

Which will do the job.
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#128773 - 03/30/08 09:12 PM Re: Yes, you can butcher a chicken with only a SAK [Re: Nishnabotna]
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Is THAT what makes their chicken so good???
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#128872 - 03/31/08 07:48 PM Re: Yes, you can butcher a chicken with only a SAK [Re: Leigh_Ratcliffe]
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Yep, I saw an Idaho Wildlife Officer field dress and quarter an 800 cow elk in the snow using just the blade of his Leatherman. That includes opening up the breastbone, removing all four feet, and dressing out all the rib meat, as well as removing the hide.

Field dressing a full grown elk is a big chore regardless of the tool(s) you will use. Of course, the bigger job then is to pack it all down to camp 5 miles away.
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#128873 - 03/31/08 07:52 PM Re: Yes, you can butcher a chicken with only a SAK [Re: benjammin]
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Wow! That's impressive, to say the least.

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#128953 - 04/01/08 02:01 PM Re: Yes, you can butcher a chicken with only a SAK [Re: MartinFocazio]
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I wouldn't have considered it prior to seeing it for myself. Now I know.
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#128989 - 04/01/08 09:33 PM Re: Yes, you can butcher a chicken with only a SAK [Re: benjammin]
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It doesn't compare to butchering an elk, but it is back on the chicken track: I worked briefly as a teenager at a large commercial poultry, I can't call it a farm, let's call it a production center. One of our jobs (in addition to shovelling out the droppings of around 6000 chickens each day) was to "euthanize" injured birds. We found the quickest and easiest way was to get a good, comfortable grip on the chicken's head with one hand, lift and and make like the bird is a New Year's noisemaker - give it a few quick spins. It snaps the neck quite efficiently and certainly doesn't cause any more pain or suffering than any other method. And at that point it is possible to tear the head off and let it bleed out, although that takes a lot of twisting and pulling and is definitely not for the squeamish.

I learned a few summers later that by starting at the legs where the skin is a little thin and loose, with a little finger strength you can actually skin (more like peel) a chicken without a knife. It's not as easy as with a rabbit, but you can do it. It's hard to get the wings out intact, though.

Compared to that, doing it with an SAK would be a breeze. As has been said, a sharp paring knife is better still. But it just goes to show what can be done if one must, as in a survival situation.


Edited by Frank2135 (04/01/08 09:33 PM)
Edit Reason: typo
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#129051 - 04/02/08 12:09 PM Re: Yes, you can butcher a chicken with only a SAK [Re: Frank2135]
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For some reason I have less success cleanly gutting birds than I do on big game. Must be a matter of scale that fowls me up, heh heh heh.

Yep, the old hand crank method works pretty well on a wounded duck too. Better to use both hands on a goose, or else jerk them hard like you are cracking a whip.

When I was 9 I was helping Grandad do up a dozen chickens and he let me take a swipe with the cleaver. I forgot and left my thumb sticking out and took off just the tip. Of course, he laughed like he always did when I screwed up like that.
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#129071 - 04/02/08 04:01 PM Re: Yes, you can butcher a chicken with only a SAK [Re: Frank2135]
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I use a similar method to Frank,

When I get into a flock of grouse during hunting in the fall, after you shoot the first one the rest are usually spooked and scatter a little. I move up to the one on the ground, wring it's neck so it does not get away and continue to put the moves on the others.

I have shot my limit from one flock doing this, it is easier to do with a .22 using sub-sonics because it is quiet.

Mike

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