RE: field dressin
g5...look no farther.....i wouldnt say i LOVE to do it....but i dont MIND it in the least and am the guy that when i hear a gunshot from my hunting party i show up with the knife out and ready to go at it...me and the drive leader are the deer gutters...noone else likes it or is fast enough at it....ours aint pretty...and a little messy...but its done quick and painlessly..start between the hind legs...open up the hide up to the breast bone...farther if you want..then do the skin underneath the hide the same way.....cut open diaphram...reach as far up the windpipe as you can go and CAREFULLYslide your knife in and cut it as high as you can....most everything should spill/tear out now....but not the intestines and such...for that you gota cut around the anus and pull that out...and remove the bladder without puncturing it.....then spill it all out...i can drain the blood myself right there by picking up the deer by its front legs..i just grab it and lift it up....most guys cant...most guys cant even drag a deer themselves....when im back at the farm we rinse them out with water from the hose and hang em up....i dont care whats what inside of the deer..the basic priciple is if its in there get it outa there one way or another...theres little tricks and such and everyone got their own method...mines not exzactly scientific....and i usually always forget the bladder..sometimes if i dont feel like it ill leave the anus.....i take it to a butcher so i really dont care and never noticed anything diffrent..my first deer..the guy i was with helped me gut it...took us like an hour.....i never wanted to shoot another deer again....it was like a danged science project...there was no mess...no nothing..we cut off all the glands...genitals anus etc etc....it was CLEAN...but took way to long..after that i knew what needed cut and just started doing it my way...i dont mind blood and guts...part of the end result of hunting.....and my hands are normally FREEZING...nothing warms them better then a warm gut pile....gutting deer really isnt hard though....you can make it hard and time consuming like that one guy did with me...but to me...that deer tasted the same as any other deer......ive took them straight to the butcher...ive waited a week.....glands...no glands...etc...they all taste the same.....to olddddd deer are tough though.... i just dont buy into that"gamey" taste stuff...to each his own......and we all got a diffrent way of getting the guts out....i know a guy that uses and exzacto knife...i know guys that saw pelvic bones...(which will break easy with a decint pocket knife and i do do sometimes..when i feel like it lol)