Pull up your chairs for a hunting story! And a man that loves his Argo called Cartman

[tj_od]

Nicely done! Great pics...

[trevorakm1]

saw, one more thing to add to the tool list, good thinking. i butcher my own deer also, gives me more appreciation for the whole hunt. i can't imagine how long it takes to butcher a moose or bison, team effort?

[rapidroy]

Team effort for sure...although in our camp we started packing cordless tools. A battery powered sawzall with a long blade makes nice work of splitting Mr Moose and who cant use a battery drill for setting up camp! The chainsaw is a standard around any campfire. Kolpin makes a handy chainsaw clamp to mount on the machine to keep the saw handy and the blade cover is a must.

[Rock Doctor]

saw, one more thing to add to the tool list, good thinking. i butcher my own deer also, gives me more appreciation for the whole hunt. i can't imagine how long it takes to butcher a moose or bison, team effort?

I can butcher a Moose in about 4-5hrs, depends on how it was Quartered. Most times now I do the Gutless Method for Field Dressing, cuts down on weight big time. I don't cut bone when I butcher, so wrapped and packaged boneless. One thing that really makes a difference on how long it takes is how you want it cut IE, Steaks, Roasts, Hamburger, ect. I've done a lot of Moose and Elk.

RD

[DerekF]

First time I saw the gutless method was last March. We had 3 bison down at one time. I thought we would be there for days, as I had gotten bison before and to even gut them takes forever, but my cousin had been on a Dall Sheep hunt the previous fall and showed us the gutless method that the guide had used. We (four of us) had the bison done up in 2 hours, loaded up in Boggans and headed out. If someone had told me that you could put two bison in one boggan and have done it that quick I would have laughed him out of the room, but you can do it with that method. Still a major load to pull but the no bones cuts down alot of weight.

I am hoping to go out with the avenger this month for a bison. I got a set of track tuners last week and hopefully they make the rubber tracks easier to use on the hardpack snow.