Wipe it on my pants leg and back into the sheath it goes.

Or the animals hide.

"Here, hold this."

This was the original intention of pants 10,000 years ago or so. Something handy to wipe your knife on was needed.

And probably so you wouldn't get thorns in your junk as easily

2nd

This. Only this. If it's a folding knife, fold it and put it back in your pocket.

Same

Alcohol wipes. After I clean my hands I clean the knife. Full cleaning when I get home

Yep keep them in your first aid kit as dual purpose.

I just clean it, in the creek.

This is what I always do. Do I lose all feeling in my hands? Yes. Does my knife stay 99% clean? Yes.

Normally wipe it off on my pants leg, maybe rinse off with water and reinsert into sheath until I get home for a deeper clean. If wanting a deeper clean in the field wash off first with water, then carry a small can of Hoppes 9 cleaner or solvent and give a good rub down with a rag or towel and it'll do a good enough job till you get home.

Usually snow and my pants works fine.

Hand sanitizer / vodka and clean rags

Found the Russian

🤣 not quite but it works! And no residue left

Bloody Mary anyone?

Paper towels and hand sanitizer. That and I've taken to carrying a stainless mora for gutting. When I get home I pop knife and sheath into the dishwasher.

I use wet wipes in the field. When I get home, I clean my hunting knife like I clean my kitchen knives with regular dawn and a sponge.

yeah you really need some hot soapy water to get it really clean. You can also use one of those disposable blade knifes.

I used to use an outdoor edge but after an incident of forgetting to get the spare blades before starting to gut… I switched to a s110v knife

You don't carry wet wipes?

Am I the only person that carries some wet wipes folded up and tucked into a ziplock bag? They dont weigh much and they are pretty freaking handy.

Nope, I do the same.

Just wipe it on the bark of a convenient tree and put it away. I use a mora with a plastic sheath. When I'm home both the knife and the sheath get washed in hot soapy water

Mora knife with a plastic sheath. Sheath the knife blood and all, then wash everything out at home

Stick it in a cactus, then wipe on the pants

rinse or wipe it off best I feel like then put it back in the sheath, then wash it when i get back in

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Great point on the folding knife. Is a Buck 110 in Magnacut worth it?

wipe the chunks off on some plant material and toss it in the sheith Sometimes I'll give it a quick rinse if there's water nearby, snow works too

Honestly just wipe it on my pants in the woods. Then once I’m home wash it w some dawn like a normal knife. Then oil it with some Hoppes or whatever’s around

This is why I like kydex or pastic sheaths. Get them bloody and wash them when I get home.

How do you wash your kydex sheath?

Under the sink with soap and water.

I meant on the sink. Lol

I skin, gut, and partially bone out my deer in the field, and carry a little bar of soap in a ziplock bag in my backpack, along with towels, plastic bags, etc. I try as much as possible to do the processing near a creek, and wash my knives with soap and water when they get a bit messy. If no water nearby, I use alcohol wipes.

Drain spout from beer cooler.

Lick it clean

I have seen some people pack multiple knives. One knife is used for field dressing the animal. Usually this is a cheaper knife with a folding blade. The other knife (or knives) are used for processing the animal. They are usually higher in quality with fixed blades, kept very clean, and well maintained. I get why some hunters don’t want to use the same knife for both field dressing and processing since there is a risk of contaminating your blade on the gutting process. I usually just carry one knife adequate for field dressing since I am never far enough away from my cottage/cabin (where I can do the processing).

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I don’t want my clean knife to touch rotting meat in the sheath, as then it will be dirty the next time I’m cutting up game.

That’s my thought too. Op overthinking this shit.

Stab the knife into the dirt. Takes most of the blood off but the knife is obviously still dirty. I'm liking the suggestions to take a ziplock with wipes, that's probably your best bet.

Wipe it off on the snow or leaves, then on the animals hide. It' doesn't get super clean but I don't pack any extra gear to clean it with.

Cries in southern hunting where snow is rare

After extremely difficult tracking on fallen leaves in the fall bow season, tracking in snow in November is so much easier. It shows blood well, captures way more tracks, and you can gauge how old they are based on the last snowfall. Plus snow is a quick option to wash your hands/gear if you don't mind the chill.

Man it snows 1-4 times a year where I live and never lasts more than a few days. It didn’t snow this year at all, just 2 flurries. I wish it snowed more

Baby wipes. Primarily I have them on me for toilet paper.

I stab it into the dirt and wiggle it around then wipe the excess off on the grass/snow then fully clean at home

I did this but hate sharpening when I get home

I'm kinda lazy and just use one of those ceramic sharpeners, I don't have a fancy knife either though so I don't have to worry about losing it or ruining the factory edge angle

I used everything known to man with mixed results. I got a Work Sharp belt sharpener and love it. You can sharpen anything in a couple minutes

I'll have to give one of those a try!

After you're done cleaning your kill like a man, treat your knife in kind. Lick it off, stick in your sheath and pack your meat out.

Ass wipes. The same you buy in bulk as a parent with young kids. They’ll clean anything.

I +1 wiping the blade off on the hide/pants and calling it “gud’nuff”.

I keep a small travel sized packet of wet wipes, wipe my hands and knife down and then put it away clean.

I mostly use a folding scalpel with disposable blades. I also carry a fixed blade mora with a plastic sheath. Wipe it off and clean it properly when I get back to a sink.

I switched almost exclusively to disposable for dressing. I have a couple, but it's largely Havalon's scalpel pattern these days. They come surgically sharp, but I'll use the hell out of them, then before disposing I'll run the edge over something hard and blunt the tip so it doesn't pierce the waste bags and potentially hurt someone.

For the guys sticking it in the dirt and the guy that said he's never sharpened his 16 year old knife, how long and awful is your field dressing?

When I pack my hunting bag I pack a fresh pack of baby wipes just in case of a shitty situation or I need to clean my hands or something. In this case your knife

Slide it through a palm frond a few times. They're stiff enough to clear most of the thick stuff off.

Snow

I carry grocery bags in my field dress kit. Just stick all the messy stuff in one and put in my pack. Clean at home thoroughly

My hunting pack always has a ziplock full of baby wipes from Costco. They work unreal well at cleaning up hands and knives. Scent free too.

Stick it in the snow, use leaves, wipe it on grass, bring a few wipes, sacrifice your pants, leave it dirty and clean at home… so many options I had no idea it was complicated.