Field Dressing Questions-Gut shots
12-03-2021, 11:20 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Germany/Calif.
Posts: 2,664
I made a five-gallon plastic gas-type container with a faucet at the bottom. I've never gut-shot a Deer. My main malfunction is piercing the bladder. I've never worried about some random Deer berries. All my meat gets cooked well.
I'm not all that good at gutting, but I fail to see how somebody could screw it up that badly and leave guts in there. I always carry a little twine with me, tie off the esophagus high up in the neck.
The shape of the tip of the knife makes the process a lot easier, drop point works best. The tip on say a Buck knife 110 digs in. I gut on the ground. I've never hung one to gut. Grass actually works pretty well for cleaning the cavity out until you can get to some water to rinse.
I personally worry a lot more about parasites than I do random body waste.
I'm not all that good at gutting, but I fail to see how somebody could screw it up that badly and leave guts in there. I always carry a little twine with me, tie off the esophagus high up in the neck.
The shape of the tip of the knife makes the process a lot easier, drop point works best. The tip on say a Buck knife 110 digs in. I gut on the ground. I've never hung one to gut. Grass actually works pretty well for cleaning the cavity out until you can get to some water to rinse.
I personally worry a lot more about parasites than I do random body waste.
12-12-2021, 11:48 AM
#12
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Kountze, Texas
Posts: 5,231
If you are careful on a nasty field dress, the worst thing that is affected are the tenderloins on the inside. I have never done much with the ribs and the flanks. The skin should protect the rests if you leave it covering the inside of the hind quarters. I quarter my deer at our camp, and have the meat on ice for several days.
Between a nasty gut job, and skinning, wash hands, or change rubber gloves.
Most all of the meat can stay segregated from anything that might worry you
C. Davis
Between a nasty gut job, and skinning, wash hands, or change rubber gloves.
Most all of the meat can stay segregated from anything that might worry you
C. Davis
09-05-2022, 09:13 AM
#18
Super Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Trumbull County, Ohio
Posts: 9,159
Originally Posted by Oldtimr
A tracking dog will not do a thing to help him field dress a deer that he already found unless the dog is trained in the art of field dressing!
Where can I get that dog
11-08-2022, 02:15 AM
#20
Spike
Join Date: May 2021
Location: Reno
Posts: 4
1. What is gut shot?
A gut shot is a term used to describe the practice of using a sharp object (usually a knife) to cut open the stomach cavity of a live animal. This is done to remove the internal organs and then clean them out.
