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RE: Field dressing essentials!

i rarely gut my deer, the check stations on our public land normally do it for you. if they don't, i skin and quarter it while hanging. the only thing you gain by gutting is access to the tenderloins (which aren't worth the trouble on our 100-130 pound deer). so i leave the guts intact with the rib cage and dispose of the carcass.

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ORIGINAL: CamoCop

the only thing you gain by gutting is access to the tenderloins (which aren't worth the trouble on our 100-130 pound deer). so i leave the guts intact with the rib cage and dispose of the carcass.

thats about themost rediculousthing ive ever heard. you throw out the best part of the deer? the heart/liver and tender loins? also they dratg alot easier and cool better. you dont want all that nasty stomach acids getting in the meat

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40 bucks where you at here it runs 70 if you skin it with bone in 80 for everything

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I have a Buck two knife set and keep two otthers in my pack as back up. I don't worry about splitting bone in the woods. Get the deer back to the house, hang in the garage and skin it while it's still warm. cape comes off much easier. Then after it's good and cool the bone saw comes out. Or I just spend the $40 and take it to the butcher and they do it all. There's no reason why you need to split the brisket or pelvis to field dress you animal. Just reach in and scoop it out.

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my thoughts plan is one of two things if i get or make a hitch deer winch not sure what there called but it is just a piece of steel with a winch on it i will pull the deer up with it and gut it when it is hanging

or i will drag it back to my truck throw it on my trailgate and gut it waist high which due to a bad back will help alot

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The Butt-Out tool was a great invention . It simplifies field dressing deer . I use a small tie wrap rather than a piece of string .

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It sounds as though everyone pretty much has his own variation for field dressing, yet all are pretty similar in most ways. Everyone who has done this a couple of times develops personal preferences, which is just fine.

I've had the following available on my website for several years and it seems to be useful, especially for those who have had little experience. I hope it helps someone again.

www.angelfire.com/bc/canuck2/gutting.html

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to each his own but don't call someone elses practice rediculous. i have never ate the liver or heart (so i guess anyone who doesn't eat these are less of a hunter and rediculous). also, i see you are in Maine...where your deer are commonly 300 pounds (my grandfather use to be stationed up there and told me stories about the 300 pound deer in Maine). if i shot a 300 pound deer the tenderloins would be worth getting. the tenderloins on a 100 pound deer aren't even big enough to fill a small non zip lock sandwich bag. also i don't drag deer, that's what my game cart is for and there is no nasty stomach acid if you don't gut shoot deer or bust the stomach while field dressing.

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I agree with you that there's no need to call anyone's method ridiculous. As they say, there's more than one way to skin a cat.
Butto ensure the best quality and taste of your game, you need to field dress the animal immediately after the harvest even if you don't want to remove the inner loins. Autolysis begins as soon as the animal dies and leaving the bowels and other enzymatic organs in the animal will have a negative imact on all of the edible meat.
Also, I'm not sure you are getting all you can from your animal as the inner loins are more than a sandwich-bag-full even on a fawn. Regardless of their size, they are the best cut of meat on the deer. There's no way I'd leave them behind!

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i know you shouldn't leave the guts in for any lengthy period of time but i have never gutted a deer right after shooting it. i have also never tasted any bad or tainted venison from the guts being left in for a little while. what happens to these deer that are shot and left until the morning? even with cooler temp.'s the "stomach and bowel acids" are left in the deer for hours.

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ORIGINAL: IAhuntr

I agree with you that there's no need to call anyone's method ridiculous. As they say, there's more than one way to skin a cat.
Butto ensure the best quality and taste of your game, you need to field dress the animal immediately after the harvest even if you don't want to remove the inner loins. Autolysis begins as soon as the animal dies and leaving the bowels and other enzymatic organs in the animal will have a negative imact on all of the edible meat.
Also, I'm not sure you are getting all you can from your animal as the inner loins are more than a sandwich-bag-full even on a fawn. Regardless of their size, they are the best cut of meat on the deer. There's no way I'd leave them behind!

I agree with you there! Whatever way works best for you is the way you should use. I personally never heard of anyone not gutting a deer before but if it works for you then use it. I was always taught to gut a deer ASAP to cool down the meat. Once I find a deer, usually within an hour I'll have the thing gutted and spread open.
I also can't image leaving the tenderloins behind. Ive shot a few fawns before and they may be a little small, but you won't find any better cut of meat on any deer than the tenderloins of a young deer! My mouth water just thinking about them!!:)