A long time big game guides favorite up here has been a Victorinox 3 1/4" paring knife.

Small, easy to sharpen, cheap, and cuts up a moose just fine.

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"I don't care how you catch them, as long as you treat them well and with respect." Lani Waller in "A Steelheader's Way."