make a little hole near breast plate, stick your fingers in there and lift up and "unzip" it like a jacket, cut membrane and split pelvis, reach up as far as you can and cut esophagus and give a good pull and heart and "tube" will come right on out. good knife will do it all and just simply dump out. If you hit the stomach, you are going to have a stinky mess, gag reflex will kick in :-) other than that no big deal to me, it is a great way to warm up hands in late season hunt too. heck we argue over who is going to gut one if its cold out.