I’ve got grandma’s old hand crank! It works better now that I flattened the plate and sharpened the knife. Downside is that my right arm is now 3x bigger than my left…
I hunt open country with old, long-barreled, open-sight rifles that I don’t trust beyond 100 yards. I stalk as close as possible and then use this pair of adjustable shooting stick/bipod things whenever possible from a kneeling position. But I don’t know how much my experience is worth to you...
Since I process my own deer I can’t donate it to a food bank. In our household we reach a point each year where things are overflowing so we have “freezer only” weeks - preparing meals only from stuff we have in on hand, minus a few grocery items like onions.
2” is what I like. More of problem for me is that I can never remember what cut the “steaks” came from lol. Even after 12 years of butchering things myself I’m still confizzled when I dive into the hind quarters