Gralloching with a penknife

[Antonyweeks]

I like this guy - have watched several of his no nonsense videos and always found them informative and useful to watch. Anyway, saw this one and thought I'd share. I recently came back from the Stalking Show with a great new knife which I'm looking forward to using, but I saw this and it was a bit of a 'doh' moment! Anyway, he does this gralloch with a keyring SAK...see what you think.

 

[Bo Diddley]

I'll hold my hands up and say I've had to do it.... I won't divulge the exact story as I would get slated...

 

[Bowland blades]

Who cleans all under the scales and the pivot points etc after though ? You certainly don't need as big a knife as many think ! The Swiss army knife really is a much sweeter knife again if its re-ground with a lesser angle than they come with

 

[Cranhill]

Been there done that

 

[Dunwaters]

A vet I stalked with used a scalpel blade for field work, just the blade no handle.
He made it look easy, I spent years trying to copy him, I’m not as good as he was, but I’m a lot better than I was.

 

[VSS]

A vet I stalked with used a scalpel blade for field work, just the blade no handle.
He made it look easy, I spent years trying to copy him, I’m not as good as he was, but I’m a lot better than I was.

I've never yet seen a vet use a handle on a scalpel blade for anything.

 

[Mr B]

New EKA swing blade disassembles for cleaning, based on customer feedback

 

[bogtrotter]

It's a fact that you don't need a big knife in fact you don't need a knife full stop.
Just imagine you have just shot a deer to find you have lost your knife or worse
forgot to bring it.
Help.is at hand just take your spent shell look for a couple of stones and hammer the neck flat
You will find it sharp enough to perform a gralloch.
I read this somewhere many years ago,tried it and yes it works.
I'm not suggesting we should all stop carrying knives but if ever caught out without one
this will get you out of a hole.
All donations please to Boggies fund a Stuart Mitchell knife appeal.

 

[Donkey Basher]

All donations please to Boggies fund a Stuart Mitchell knife appeal.

 

[Buchan]

He’ll be too modest to mention it but a vet on here gralloched with the blade in the swiss army credit card

 

[devon deer stalker]

First deer i ever did was with a vintage Puma pocket knife, game keeper said 'if you get one gut it like a rabbit'

 

[EssBee]

A nice sharp 3 inch Opinel is ideal!

 

[paulst]

Yep, I have gralloched, head and leg off and skinned a muntjac with my SAK. Only took me about 5 minutes longer than usual.

 

[Tim.243]

I like this guy - have watched several of his no nonsense videos and always found them informative and useful to watch. Anyway, saw this one and thought I'd share. I recently came back from the Stalking Show with a great new knife which I'm looking forward to using, but I saw this and it was a bit of a 'doh' moment! Anyway, he does this gralloch with a keyring SAK...see what you think.

Chris and I both forgot our knives "once" when out ferreting, there was a few decent flints laying around so we tapped a few bits and got a sharp edge each then did the 16 rabbits we had caught that morning.
Watched a lot of his video's and took on board how he goes about things.

 

[Sol]

Spent casing can gralloch pretty well from what I've been told, as the person mentioned above hammer it flat with a stone and Its pretty surprising what It can do in a pinch.
I carry a knife on me at all times It never leaves unless Its been used and needs cleaned, If a friend shoots a deer when I'm out I cant say I've never not went with them to retrieve it there's a few times now where I've actually helped them because they forgot it back in the vehicle.

Might be dull in the case of opinal because they lose there edge in moments lmo, but a knife Is a knife.

 

[Antonyweeks]

Had a red on the deck this morning and did consider using my SAK, but decided to use the main knife instead!

 

[Heym SR20]

I have a wee caping Knife on its way from @Bowland blades. Had a good look at the stalking show.

I am looking forward to using it - I have no dought, even the largest of deer can be gralloched, and jointed up with a little knife very easily. Big knives are just cumbersome.

I have gralloched deer in the past with an empty cartridge case - bash the case mouth closed between two rocks, and then sharpen on a rock. Crude, but when your knife is sitting back in the kitchen of lodge a few hours walk away you get creative.

 

[Nickb]

I've used barbed wire in the past

 

[Happy stalker]

A piece of flint does the same job

 

[Heym SR20]

A piece of flint does the same job

Not much flint on Scottish Mountainsides covered in peat hags. Perfect for Chiltern hills. Flint is the perfect tool for opening up knees - learnt this when as a kid I tripped, flew through the air and landed on a flint in our garden on the top of Chiltern - i still have a large scar on my knee and makes me still wince just thinking about it.