Ok maybe its me, and I'm reading this wrong, You don't take any meat?? You have to gut it to get any meat, and your saying you don't gut it so to me that means you shoot the animal, then only take the head? Like I said maybe its me but that how I'm taking your response.
You don't even need a knife to get the tender loin's, just pull them out. YUM YUM!!!!!!
Yes I take meat....and NO...you do not have to gut it to take any meat. You actually don't have to gut it to take ALL the meat.
you don't gut your deer??
Out of 17 bow kills.....(and one done for someone else)....I've NOT gutted about six of those. Various reasons why I choose NOT to gut a deer, sometimes.
Seems if your going to the trouble to kill the deer, might as well get those too....easily accessable by not gutting, so not much excuse not to get them other than being lazy.
Lazy? Yeah....lol. I practice all year long......hunt numerous times a year......drag my deer out.....quarter it, dispose of the carcass....and I'm "lazy".
Boys...it's a piece of meat about 2X (becasue there's two of them) the size of a small banana. MANY people would say you're "wasteful" if you don't take neck meat, rib meat, heart, etc....
I don't always take them. Sue me. But "somthing" eats really well on them. NOTHING goes to waste on a deer. It's all consumed.