Re: Is Field Dressing
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/13/21 06:42 PM
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charles
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I don’t field dress my deer because I can normally have my deer hung at my cleaning shed, skinned, gutted, rinsed to clean and pre-chill, then hung in our walk-in cooler within 45 minutes of the kill. In some cases it is even quicker. Depends on the farm and stand location.
No hair or debris touches my carcass. Haven’t drug a deer in 20 years. Either back truck or 4-wheeler up to them and away we go to the shed. All my stand locations are on lanes with easy vehicle access. I am a lazy hunter.
Last edited by charles; 04/13/21 08:23 PM.
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Re: Is Field Dressing
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/13/21 06:53 PM
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J Staton
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I dress mine, although sometimes I'll wait until I get into camp.
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Re: Is Field Dressing
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/13/21 07:03 PM
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cotton
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I gut my deer where they fall, no need in dragging em with guts in.
John 3/16
ifin your gonna be dumb ya gotta be tough VTA life member
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Re: Is Field Dressing
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/13/21 07:08 PM
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Bogmaster
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Get the insides--outside-- as soon as possible. Tom
If my feet aren't wet,I must not be trapping. Tom Olson MTA life member#100,also WTA life member
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Re: Is Field Dressing
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/13/21 07:12 PM
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danny clifton
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I never killed a wild hog. Often I even clean rabbits and squirrel in the field. Carry zip lock bags just for that. I think you get better meat when you immediately gut deer and elk. I keep fish alive. Throw them in a cooler with ice for the trip home if Im more than a half hour away. They get dressed as soon as i get home. I have also used used fish cleaning stations at the reservoirs. Put the meat on ice. I am a firm believer in taking care of your meat right away.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Is Field Dressing
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04/13/21 07:23 PM
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Monster Toms
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Rarely shoot deer farther than 10 minutes from the house. Bring them home quarter off the carcass, remove backstrap and tenderloin. haul the rest back out to the coyote pile. Same with elk take them home or quarter off the carcass if in the woods.
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Re: Is Field Dressing
[Re: That Fool]
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04/13/21 07:30 PM
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Turtledale
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Field dress where they drop. Just figured down by you in a warmer climate everyone did
NYSTA, NTA, FTA, life member Erie county trappers assn.,life member Catt.county trappers
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Re: Is Field Dressing
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04/13/21 07:37 PM
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Lugnut
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I field dress my deer. It cools the meat quicker and makes it easier to drag them out of the woods.
I field dress rabbits too.
Eh...wot?
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Re: Is Field Dressing
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04/13/21 07:40 PM
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The Beav
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The 2 deer I killed last season I loaded them up brought them home hung them and butchered them Never got Into the guts. I use to do It In the woods not anymore. All the moose and caribou I either shot or helped field dress we never gutted any of those animals. Sure Is a lot less messy.
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Re: Is Field Dressing
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04/13/21 07:45 PM
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NorthenTrapper
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We field dress the deer once they drop and are confirmed dead, then haul back and let sit for a day or two in the shed to tenderize ,then skin and butcher.
“We will visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footsteps of the Savior,” -Lincoln
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Re: Is Field Dressing
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04/13/21 07:46 PM
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If I field dressed the deer where they died then the ravens for the next day would let every hunter that drives by know a gut pile is there and my spots would be polluted with guys from Winnipeg real fast!
Cold as ice!
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