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Old 12-12-2007 | 09:49 PM
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Many ways to do it. Here is what I do:

Hang it by the neck. Cut the circumfrance of thefur all around the neck. Cut the fur from thethroat side of the neckdown to the chest. Pull down on the fur and cut where you need to get the deer skinned. You will need to cut the fur a foot or so above each hoof. Be careful not to get hair on meat as best you can. Cut the hooves off.

Cut off the front and hind quarters. This will take a little time to figure out the right way but after you do it a couple times it will be easy. The front quarters will fall right off and the back quarters have a ball joint you need to workthrough.Cut down along each side of the spine. Then Cut at a 90 degree angle to the spine to remove the back straps. Look inside the cavity and take out the inside tenderloins.

At that point the deer is quartered and most of the meat is out. You can work on getting scrap meat off the rest of the carcas.

I then start on the quarters and figure out how the muscles go together and make cuts to get the muscles off the quarters. Some of that meat is ground and the rest is used for steaks and roasts. The backstraps are cut into 6 -8 oz cuts for the grill.

It really is easy after you do a few.

Good luck
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