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Old 09-13-2002 | 08:47 AM
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GeoffM24
 
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Default Ok, lets say get one, now what?

Opening day in CT is this Monday.

Let's say I get lucky and get a Deer in the opening part of the season. Here is what I'm going to do after I get it but I still have some questions.

1) Shoot
2) wait
3) Track
4) Recover
5) Pictures
6) Field Dress
7) Drag home being careful not to get dirt in the deer
8) Now What?

I have a local butcher that I will take the deer to but most of my hunting will be done in the evening so he will surely be closed until the next morning. Right now it is 70-85 degrees out and was even in the 90's last week. Do I put it in the cellar? Will it start to rot?

So let's say I get it to the butcher and tell him I want the loins whole and the backstraps whole? Do I tell him I want sausage and ground meat too?

Lets say its a buck and I want to mount the head, do I field dress any different?

Thanks guys, I don't want to be a pain but I don't want to kill a deer and then spoil the meat beacause I didn't know what to do ahead of time.

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