Processing it is what I would like to have them for. I have a meat saw & grinder, but good knives that hold the edge can be worth their weight in gold.Are you talking about just gutting your deer or actually processing it?
JA Henckels is it's own company, has been for close to 300 years in Solingen, Germany. Victorinox AFAIK is a Swiss company, and entirely seperate from Zwilling/Henckels.Forschner and Russell are pretty much standards for meat cutting. The Old Hickory knives that everybody's grandmother used are good carbon steel knives but they are now sadly made in China. Victorinox are very good also. Their kitchen knives are sold under the name Henckles.