Congrats to you and your buddy on a very successful hunt! Great to have the kids there to experience it to.
I noticed a small Rapala knife in your picture. I have several Rapalas that I use for cooking, butchering chores. I use the same knife you have for boning. Works great! Wishin some of those sausages were at my house. Wouldn't last long!
Yessir that 5 inch and 9 inch Rapala’s are nice. I have have been toying with getting some new ones and replacing the wood handles.
Backwoods Savage the Rapala knives are a mass produced fillet knife of Swedish steel available most anywhere at reasonable prices. I just find that the 5" works very well as a boning knife, just the right amount of stiff and limber and easy to control and keep sharp. The larger knife is good for slicing steaks from muscle groups and excels in removing the silver skin from a loin just like skinning a salmon or lingcod fillet. I imagine that Ropes experience is similar. As Rope alluded to, a more durable handle that you could throw in the dishwasher would be nice!
I also use the Rapala knives for butchering. Good affordable steel. Sent from my SM-G930VL using Tapatalk
metalcuttr hit the nail on the head. They are a great knife, the wood handle in a nice shape and works well, a dishwasher safe handle would put it over the top. The small knife would be the first to pick up, should be $10-15. Easy to keep sharp and holds a edge, makes short work of silver skin and gristle.
Man that looks fun! & delicious. I’ve started making summer sausages and snack sticks & such. I made a bunch of brauts & snack sticks out my bear two years ago. I wasn’t into meat making that deep back when I shot my moose, I wish I had one now