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Any more we just Debone it in the woods.Makes it easier to get out.

Get it to the House cut it up and package it.

big rockpile

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What I meant by the post is......

I know guys who wouldnt hunt if they didn't have a place/person that will take their deer WHOLE (and I know a few guys like this). I give 'em credit for not killing deer with nowhere for the meat to go......but the lack of any interest in (in my opinion) "completing" the hunting experience (by at LEAST field dressing their animal)....means something to me.

If I were a butcher....I wouldn't take onethat wasn't at least field dressed......on principle.

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South Cakalacky

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As such, to each his own. But, I think you really understand my point also. I've been around and helped field dress deer, I have no problem with it. First day of gun season the guy hunting on the other side of the road shot at first light. Couldn't find his deer and needed help tracking it, so he called me for help. We tracked the deer for over and hour and a half through horrible thickets, pouring rain and huge mosquitoes. Once we found it, it was gut shot and we'd jumped it. It ran another ten yards and dropped, he finished it off. We field dressed it on the spot, because we had to drag it out. By the time we got it out of thickets no bigger than a dog door and back into the open to get the ATV to it, it'd been three hours. My point, it was necessary in this situation. If this deer had been hit good, only run 50 or so yards and dropped in a more open area we could have scooped it up and had it to the processor before the sun was up in the sky.

There are situations, and it's no problem when necessary. But, I personally don't see it as completing the experience so I choose not to unless I absolutely have to so that it saves the meat.

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Once again, you prove your ignorance when it comes to comprehensive reading. If you wereto read and comprehend, you'll notice that I never said I didn't know how to do anything involved with the process. I'll capitalize it so you can't miss it.....I CHOOSE NOT TO BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE TO. I never said no one around here field dresses either. I said they don't have to andalot make the same choice I do. The letters and sentences appear more clearly when you don't take the advice of your idol Bocephus.

If the animal is taken ethically and legallyin a swift manner with as little suffering as possible and all meat is used why do you seem to care either way? It shouldn't matter if the animal taken with a blow gun or a straw and spitball. Nor should it matter whether or not someone else chooses to rub blood all over themself or hang genitals on a string from their neck. I, myself, find these two things to be more disrespectful to the animal than not field dressing or butchering. By doing things such as these, you're celebrating the death of the animal rather than peacefully thanking nature for allowing you to harvest it.

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Yea I think gmmat has way too much free time.Really some of the things he comes up with.

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I think he secretly wants to entertain us during the dull moments. LOL He's trying to create some meaningful dialogue. OR., his wife isn't home.

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At least everyone should field dress their own deer that is how i was taught . I process my own and my friends deers but I guess not everybody enjoys doing that

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I just feel like it's a big part of the total experience. Maybe I should have just said it is FOR ME.

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Do you have A.D.D. and I am serious?