this post is terrible...I have never seen such ignorance out of anyone. Cuchilian you ned to go and talk to your local conservationist and find out all the rules and regs. Next subscribe to your state conservation magazine and or hunting mag and do some reading.

Brother i really hope you just dont know any better, if so thats okay you can learn, but if your trying to stir shyt in here, we got something for people like you!.............If you really dont know, i advise you to check with conservation officers and your local game warden, sounds like you have a long way to go partner. I pray that you practice with that bow and rifle!.......newbies...........how did you get interested in hunting and not know anything about it?

The one part about your post that stands out to me is the "Are the antlers or anything else worth taking to sell". Heck of an attitude, and in some states it is illegal to sell wild game.

Well I don't like to waste stuff. But I dont like having body parts laying around my house. Maybe antlers if I built a cabin but I wouldnt keep any trophies really, just the fur. I just prefer to eat the deer. The scavengers of the forest will take care of the carcass.

If you're a city guy, what do you know about cleaning chickens? They're already cleaned in the store.

cuchullainn - Welcome to Hunting Net. Let me give you my personal thoughts on the topic.










< Take it to a butcher and be done with it.

Takes me about 10-20 minutes to skin the deer, change gloves, and then about 3-4 hours to take apart the deer and clean and cool. I usually debone the next morning or the next night after work. All in all...3-5 hours to do the job right.

Public forum - but it appears there may be a "pot stirrer" showing up here and on several other forums. Some of the posts appear almost bizarre.

Sounds interesting. How many of you hunt and then head back to your truck and then home? Do some or most of you hunt from cabins? So you have somewhere to go back to and cook and clean your kill? I might build a cabin for hunting, cause I dont want to haul a deer all the way back to the city. I just hope a forest ranger or whatever you call them in canada dosent happen upon it. Cause I cant afford to buy land.

don't listen to them cuc. You are right to butcher the deer in the woods. That's why I always pack freezer paper and amagic marker in my back pack. I know what you mean about having animal parts around the house YUCK!!. That's why I always grind up my deer horns into a fine powder and sell it to oriental restaurants. They use it in their shark fin soup--Yummy. Sometimes, if the deer is too far away to even pack the meat out I'll just dig a hole and put the meat in then cover it up with a 50/50 mixture of rock salt and lyme. Then I can just take whatever I want w/me for dinner that night. Don't worry about taking the hide (fur) off. it will fall off and completely dissapate (sp) when you cook it. good luck. Let us know how it turns out.