do you gut your deer??
#21
RE: do you gut your deer??
I think the way to mentioned is a waste of meat, there is a lot more meet on a deer than the Backstraps, Loins and Shoulders. So to me, Its a Waste. But this is a first as far as not gutting them.
#25
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location:
Posts: 1,084
RE: do you gut your deer??
we gut them where they lay and then skin them when we get them back home, which depending on where were hunting can be 20 min. or a day or two, the meat shouldnt spoil even if you dont gut it right away.if it was to do that than why do some bow hunters let them sit over night when they get one towards dusk?
#27
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Gore, VA
Posts: 54
RE: do you gut your deer??
in virginia ITS THE LAW to field dress a deer before leaving where it was killed
Where exactly does it say this?
#28
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NewLowell ,Ontario ,Canada
Posts: 2,765
RE: do you gut your deer??
Takes me about 4 minutes to gut a Canadian WhiteTail.The others can have a smoke and its done about the same time. If I' m going to kill it , I' m going to use the whole thing...BT
#29
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Virginia
Posts: 705
RE: do you gut your deer??
Thunderdogg - I think you are right I don' t see anything about it anymore in the regulations book. I thought that years ago it was in the DGIF manual that you had to gut it before removing it from the woods. maybe not though. I would rather gut him in the woods anyhow
#30
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Shreveport, LA.
Posts: 200
RE: do you gut your deer??
I never gut the deer, unless it is a looong drag. I hang it up by the legs and skin it out. You don' t loose anymore meat than field dressing them. You can get the tenderloins. All you have to do is slowly cut the stomach lining (near the legs), and the stomach starts to fall out of the way. You can push the stomach out of the way enough to cut out the tenderloins. It may take a few times to figure it out. Field dressing a deer is too messy.