Breasting with a staney knife

[plexer]

Guys I know good sharp knives are important but does anyone use a stanley blade to breast with? I have one of those locking knives that takes a stanley blade and thought it may be good.

 

Shot 10 with 40 shots today which is brilliant for me and I have bought a few home with me left the others with the father in law.

 

Cheers.

[Cranfield]

Unless you have some special, longer than normal, stanley knife blade, I would consider it too short to neatly debreast pigeons.

I use a small filleting knife ,with a thin slightly flexible 5 inch blade.

[plexer]

Hi,

 

Yeah was thinking that will just have to sharpen a knife.

 

PleXeR

[shooter2]

also i would be careful as most stanley knifes are covered in grease or oil

[plexer]

True thought about that and was going to give it a good wipe down and clean before.

[tucker]

PLEX

I have one of those knives I got at the game fair and are a good standbye, sometimes use it on rabbit feet and head. ( tough bits )

But as CRANFIELD says you can,t beat a longer blade.

I mostly use an OPINAL knife for everything, ( including Deer )

The two I have are 10 years old now, and are still razor sharp, two or three strokes on the diamond sharpener when ive finished gutting and they are back to new. Most of the lads I go out with use them, and swear by them.

But as long as it has a long thinish blade any filleting knife will do.

 

Regards

TUC.

[jim_whitson]

I also have one of these, and I've used it succesfully to breast pigeon. In theory, with the right techique, you can breast a goose with a stanley! The trick is to make an initial incision as deep as you can along the breastbone, then put your left thumb in the gap thus created. Using firm pressure with that thumb, you can open the gap enough to free the breast from the ribcage with long shallow strokes of the blade toward the **** end. Then you just have to cut round the wishbone, pul the breast to one side and lop it off. :-) It helps if you've had a lot of practice (get a job in a butchery!).