i recently bought a Buck Alpha i havent cleaned a deer with it het but its a very nice heavy knife i think it`ll work out really nicely its a smaller fixed blade knife but the blades real thick and heavy and its one of them where the blade is the handle(if you under stand what im saying) it not like them ones where they have the blade thats sorta stuck in a piece of wood this one has some rubber pieces "rivited" to the blade and it feels real good to hold dosent feel like it`ll break easy but we`ll se how it does cleaning it has a ood shape so it should do excellent but before this one i was useing a old timer fixed blade i dont think it had a model but it was a good knife it was like a $20 walmart knife but it kept a good edge