ORIGINAL: Beezer
ORIGINAL: hillbillyhunter1
LOL...anybody that doesn't field dress their deer (or at least have their wife do it, if they don't know how
)unless under some highly unusual and infrequent circumstance is a complete idiot. This is basic stuff.
Why? I don't have to field dress minebecause I live about 15 minutes from the processor. They'll gut it, skin it, cape it or whatever I want and it isn't an extra charge. It's my meat, guaranteed. They're trustworthy and do a great job. I chose and will choose to again not because I can't, but because I don't have to. For what reason would someone need to be classified as a complete idiot for not field dressing by choice?
LOL!!! Perhaps your processor thinks you're a "special needs" hunter that needs all the help you can get. He doesn't tie your shoes for you too (without additional charge), does he??
Those who think it takes away from the experience are completely within the realm of choice. It may take away from their experience, but not mine. I clean my own fish and steaked and fileted huge sharks, king macks, grouper, snapper and amberjacks filled with worms. I'm not missing anything in deer guts that I haven't seen before. I'm not missing anything.
I just think it takes away from the dead weight you have to fool with and to me it does add to the experience as much as anything that is neccesary to be an effective hunter.
Not to mention that I personally would consider it RUDE behavior to drop off a deer to a processor or anyone, that has not been gutted.
Many times growing up, my friends and I would kill squirrels and rabbits while out hunting and then decide for one reason or another that nobody really wanted them. So we would take them to somebody's house (usually someone of very modest income) that we knew would appreciate them.
However, even though this meat could be considered a gift (for which, technically they should have been grateful for, no matter what), we would have never have been so rude to drop off the animals unless they had been properly cleaned. Just the way I was reared.
It has something to do with respecting the animal as well, as others have mentioned.
Inmy experience, those whojudge the choices of others on such trivial matters tend to bethe complete idiots.Why be so close-minded and judgemental?To say it take away from YOUR experiencemakessense to me. To call someone a "complete idiot" over it tells me exactly what kind of hunter and person you probably are.
I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings, still, it is the way I feel and I'm just being honest. One thing I guarantee is that many on here if they are experienced hunters,whether they will express their opinion so directly or not, would, if they saw an anonymoushunter driving down the road with a dead and UNGUTTED deer in the back of his truck, generally remark "look at that idiot who hasn't even gutted his deer" to their companions.
Of course it is different if your processor has alterior motives for WANTING the guts or, like I said their are other special and unusual circumstances.