Originally Posted by
Cypress32
Since it didnt go through and through sounds like he shot him with a .243. If he hit him square in the gut area it probably destroyed everything inside that deer and would have been fatal anyways. Also who field dresses deer these days? Thats what processing plants are for. I just toss them in the trunk of my cadillac like some snitch a wiseguy just offed and drive them 10 miles to be processed. Well also because I have no clue how to do it anyways and they wont acept field dressed deer. And since I dont know how to make sausage, hamburger, and cube steak from a deer carcass I pay someone else to do it.
Everyone I know and hunt with field dress their own deer. Sometimes it is done in the "field" and other times we do it at our club skinning shed. I then take mine to the processor.....who by the way charges an extra fee if the deer is NOT gutted. I want to gut my own deer because I know it was done right and all entrails were removed.
To the original poster: You did a good thing, IMO.