What do you use to cut the chest bone on a moose?

[horseman2]

We cut it with a knife along the seam on both sides of the brisket, all the way to the front of the ribs where it attaches to the spine. The brisket comes off in one whole piece.

You do not need a big, heavy, knife to do it. Just stay on that white seam, and it cuts easily.
Ted

A hunting knife cuts through the "white nubs" joining the ribs to the brisket with very little effort and no mess.
Once the brisket is removed the entire front of the animal is exposed for better cooling and easier cleaning.
You now have a cut of meat that when slow cooked for 10 hours at 200-225 F. that you will never find more tasty. A moose brisket is large and long so it is best cut in half and the smaller piece laid inside or on top of the larger section. If turned so as to face down and on a rack most of the grease will end up in the bottom of the roaster. If turned up the larger section becomes a collection bowl so you might wish to cook it facing up for 8 hours then roll it over for the last two. A moose brisket will feed a large group. Onions, root vegables and potatoes can be added in the last two hours.
The same can be done with elk and deer. The brisket from a large deer with feed four.

If your butcher is going to try and salvage meat from the brisket it is not economically feasible.

 

[Mauser98]

A Husqvarna

 

[H4831]

We cut it with a knife along the seam on both sides of the brisket, all the way to the front of the ribs where it attaches to the spine. The brisket comes off in one whole piece.

You do not need a big, heavy, knife to do it. Just stay on that white seam, and it cuts easily.
Ted

Ted, when I saw the heading on this one, I was going to skim through them, then say, "The bush Natives didn't cut through the brisket bone, but removed it in a wedge shape with their knife."
You old rascal, you beat me to it!
As a side issue, the brisket is one of the finest pieces on the moose, for choice eating.

 

[Dogleg]

Usually a Gerber folding brisket saw, the last one was a made in China princess auto meat saw, cause I couldn't find the Gerber.

 

[jaydog]

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*but*....a couple years ago I bought a tiny little Stihl chainsaw for the task. For "chain oil" I use canola oil and the saw gets used ONLY for dressing and quartering.....works better than you could even imagine

This. We have a little chainsaw that has cut nothing but moose its entire life. After 20some years that is a ton of moose! Quartering in the bush has never been easier and the end result is perfectly clean. Cutting one moose into quarters by hand would be fine, but several a year tends to take the fun out of it.

 

[mikeystew]

Small arborist chainsaw with crisco in the oil resivoire. You can use it to quickly quarter the whole moose.

 

[riden]

This saw works for me.One thing though,if its a BIG moose it would be good to have a little longer blade.These are compact and easy to clean.And keep an eye on them as they seem to end up in other gangmembers back packs.

One of the reasons these make fantastic Christmas gifts.

Dead serious too, I think I have given one to everyone in our camp at one time or another.

AND I had one given to me last Christmas.

 

[GunGuy34]

Never looked into a nice bone saw, will have to check that out.

 

[CTS]

Don't split the chest, just quarter, take neck meat, backstraps, and tenderloins from the outside. Thats it.

 

[prosper]

I've never needed anything more than just a knife. Separate the ribs through the white cartilaginous material easy peasy

 

[stuckon308]

Makita 18V cordless sawsall with Diablo metal cutting blades. Works well on every animal I've tried so far.

 

[chinook]

buck saw

 

[John Y Cannuck]

At camp, for quartering, we use two axes, one to cut, one to hit. Use it for the spine as well.
If we take a moose out whole, we'll use the sawzall.

 

[waltman]

X3 on the sawzall

 

[GunGuy34]

funny pic i just was sent.

 

[Cinch]

i've never needed anything more than just a knife. Separate the ribs through the white cartilaginous material easy peasy

x 2

 

[grizzly416]

lil stihl chain saw with veg oil for bar oil

 

[ben hunchak]

.45/70 or 50/90

 

[stuckon308]

.45/70 or 50/90

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[Scott_N]

I'm another one who carries a Wyoming Saw in my pack.