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GMMAT... you'd think that someone who kills as many deer as you do would have it all down to a right fine system by now. I don't gut my deer either... I hang them whole and gut them vertically over a bucket..... everything is right there.... hey look... heart... awesome... liver... I'm thinkin' finger foods. Neck meat... where is my crock pot? We've got a gambrel hooked up to an engine block hoist... flourescent lights... even a portable heater for the late season.

Your post about not using the shoulder meat on a "shoulder shot" deer is ludicrious. That is, unless you are shooting them through the shoulder with a high powered rifle, and even then there are plenty of trimmings that can be converted into hamburger or jerky or cut chunks for stews. I suppose we just come from two different backgrounds here, I've grown up hunting, my entire family is hunters, trappers, anglers, outdoorsmen, biologists (just one actually), conservationists... and I just wasn't raised that way. Sorry if my first post cut you a little deep... but maybe you needed it. Go ahead and "use the meat as you see fit," the game warden might well see it as wanton waste. You aren't hunting out west where you have to worry about packing out five extra pounds or being caught by a snowstorm and snow bound for a week in the back country. You are in sight of a house, road or your vehical in half the hunts in which you write of.... come on now!

If you are willing to go to all the trouble of all the scouting, all the homework... all the practice... all the theory... all the BS posts you make on here... you'd think you'd be willing to spend five damn minutes so that a little less of the animal that YOU killed was left for the buzzards?

To each his own... I don't lose sleep at night either. Have a safe hunting season, and please continue to be a positive contributor and ambassador of the sport we have all enjoyed for so long and hold so dear.