Deer hunting knives #7 / Fox River & Recurve Fox River

[Schony5]

Do you still have the same feelings on the regular FR vs the Recurve? Been interested in these and had my eye on the recurve but not so sure now. Do you like using the Fox River more than the gameskeeper?

[virtuovice]

@Schony5 I don't have the Recurve Fox River now. It's because it had a flat portion on its spine side and its bevel was too steep to make a keen edge. Its edge was substantially duller than the regular Fox River. And I don't have the Gameskeeper now too. It's because its belly was too deep to get back straps fast and its cutting edge length was a bit short. I now think the rampless Bravo1 is a better knife for hunting. The regular Fox River is one of my top 3 hunting knives. Thanks.

[strawalker]

Those coleman stoves are great. Fox river or Gunny?

[virtuovice]

@strawalker The both knives are great for deer field dressing. Handles are very different but the belly curve are almost the same. I enjoy the both knives alternately. Thank you!

[NJDevilTactical]

You wast a lot of meat from the dear

[nqkoisi123]

@NJDevilTactical

Don`t you hear the crows in the back. Do you think they are there just to watch. Everything from a dead animal left in the woods its eaten. Except the big bones maybe.

[gunzfactory]

was that the lung expelling air?

[virtuovice]

@gunzfactory No, it wasn't. It was gas from the abdominal cavity. I guess the bullet injured the gut and this processing was done 2 hours after the kill. So the gas was made in the gut out to the abdominal cavity. Then I incidentally opened the cavity and the gas came out. Thank you!

[CIATadventure]

This place is MINAKAMI gunma-Ken?

[virtuovice]

@CIATadventure It's northern Hokkaido. Thanks.

[CIATadventure]

SUGOI!!!

[Acollyt]

Do you find sharpening he recurve more difficult than the regular fox river? Thank you, and wonderful videos.

[virtuovice]

@Acollyt No, I don't find any more difficulty on the leather stropping of the recurve Fox River. I can use the side of the strop fairly properly. Thank you!

[Grandforce89]

i am having difficulty finding the rampless gunny and rampless bravo 1. I have tried both knivesshipfree and crystal falls trading company. Can you advise me as to where else i can check

[virtuovice]

@Grandforce89 I just order them from KSF with a message " I need the ramp removed ". Then they sent my knives to Bark River and they remove the ramp and sent them back to KSF. This modification was for free. After the modification KSF shipped them to me. It took 2 more weeks. That's all. Thanks.

[Tanrichguy]

Once you field dress the deer and remove back strap and groin muscles, how long can the meat stay unrefridgerated?

[virtuovice]

@Tanrichguy I carry it back home in my car. So the temperature there is comfortable for me. I keep it in there 18 hours at the maximum. It is no problem. At home I keep it in the fridge for 10 days for maturing. In Winter I don't use the fridge. The temperature outside is freezing so that my garage itself is a big fridge. Thanks.

[Grandforce89]

so which is your number one the season. Is it the gunny or the fox river recurve???

[virtuovice]

@Grandforce89 I have some more knives unused, and the season continues until the end of March. But I would say the best deer dressing knife so far. It is the rampless Gunny. Thanks.

[DrunknShooter]

I've been waiting to see how the Fox River knives did. Outstanding job with these test videos.

[renrakali]

They just stand there and look at you! There must not be much hunting pressure there.

[virtuovice]

@renrakali You are correct. At the beginning of the season they are like that and easy to be shot. Thanks.

[DOUBLEHILT]

Here in usa we use all of the deer meat.Do you only eat the backstraps and the good meat from the legs?.Great videos .

[virtuovice]

@DOUBLEHILT Thank you! Yes, I do because I get around 50 deers a season.

[ndawgtkd]

@virtuovice To each his own, but isn't that wasteful? Do you at least sell the rest or something?

[virtuovice]

@ndawgtkd No, I have never thought of selling meat. It is banned with food sanitation law in Japan. So no meat buyers are here. And in the mid season at snowy mountains we cannot carry back much meat over ridges by walk. Japan is a very mountainous country. Thank you!

[ndawgtkd]

@virtuovice I see, thanks for the reply.

[Malideon]

is the sound you hear as you start the removal of the back-strap, the lung or something else. I know human Anatomy quite but being a vegetarian i do not know deer anatomy well. thank you!

[virtuovice]

@Malideon This deer got a bullet from its hip. So the bowels were perforated and the gas came out of them and filled its abdomen. Then I happened to make a hole to the abdomen and the free gas came out of the hole. Thanks!