Knives for field dressing can be as versatile or as specific as you want to make them. Regardless of the animal you’re hunting, if you have a successful hunt, you need a knife that makes it easy to ...

You really want a small hunting knife to field dress a deer. What you’re doing is akin to surgery, and you wouldn’t want a surgeon to pull your appendix out with a bowie knife. That said, it helps to ...

Learning (or remembering) how to field dress a deer can feel overwhelming, but if you have a sharp knife and a reasonably strong stomach, you’ll be able to figure it out. If you manage to do so ...

Field photos and blood don’t mix well. For bloodless field photos, take them before you field dress your deer. Photo courtesy of Steve Sorensen It was an October morning a decade or so ago when a ...

So you’ve downed your first twelve-point buck of the season. But don’t break out the brewskis just yet: You’ve got some dirty work to do. “The minute the animal dies, it’s starting to decay,” says ...

So you’ve downed your first twelve-point buck of the season. But don’t break out the brewskis just yet: You’ve got some dirty work to do. “The minute the animal dies, it’s starting to decay,” says ...

The first time you clip a deer’s stomach and hot digestive gasses spray into your face, you’ll want it to be the last time. Once the dry heaving subsides, you’ll have learned an important lesson: The ...