Field dressing is beyond normal here. Often times game is taken where vehicles aren't allowed or can't go. Nearly every elk we've ever killed landed up in the canyon

I do it both ways...if I can get it home and hung within an hour, I’d rather skin then gut. Much cleaner that way. I have a chain block and tackle on a gib arm in the garage, and I put a big Jet Sled on the floor to collect all the mess. Haul everything away with the quad when I’m done.

The only deer I ever dressed at home was one of the two that I killed at home. Like said above, get the insides outside. No hogs here. The only bear I shot was brought back whole to camp, and the guide hung it and gutted it.

Lots of guys do the gutless method on deer around here....Ive tried it a few times and find the the meat is alot more bloody the when we field dress em

Intresting to hear. I'm still trying to figure out why no one dose it here. Deer hogs ect, field dressing is just not a thing. I remember last time I field dressed a hog with someone they where looking like they where about to have a panic attack the whole time. It seems the idea is you shoot it bring it home and string it up no if and or butts ,it's just how you do it. Same thing with filleting fish, it's just not something that's really done

Used to but I’ll take my chances with the guts still in than dirt, leaves, and swamp water all in the meat. Seems much cleaner to do it at the house or let the processor do it. It’s included in most processing fees.

Why would you want to bring the guts home!

Got sons to help drag and load. Get them home, hang em up and get on with it. Once we get them home, we can them weighed, skinned and gutted and rinsed down in under 15 minutes. We have been timed at having one done in 7 minutes, ready to either hang in a cooler or break down and put on ice.

The only time we field dress is out of state hunts on land where motorized vehicles are not allowed.

I do the same nowadays lot less mess, and its not necessary if working it up quick.

Do you have a lot of dog runners in your neck of the woods Wolfy? They do not gut in the field because the dogs will eat the guts and refuse to run for the rest of the day.

around here the only people I have ever met that don't field dress are the Mung

but they don't field dress for a different reason the guy I asked if he needed to borrow a knife as he was dragging out a nice big doe , said no his mom , grandma and sister did that

the men hunt the woman clean the game , you could say they use everything but the squeal the heart , the liver , wash all the intestines out boil the bones for broth ,everything

I have done one no gut , it was road kill and you can't gut on the side of the road.

I would do others no gut if I can get to butchering right away

when we group hunt , I often do all the gutting as I am the fastest and we have more hunting to do , burning daylight
by the time you can get the truck I am easily done with 2 deer.

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Elk get disassembled

For the last 8 years, I have shot the deer I killed within sight of my house. I just drag them up the hill, cut off the lower legs and head, hang them, skin them, take off the front legs at the shoulders, take out the loins and then gut them to get the tenderloins, heart and liver. It's so quick the guts don't bloat.

Keith

Most are commenting field dressing deer but are you field dressing hogs?

Depends -- if it is within easy equipment distance and not more than 10 min from home ---- I'll take the easy route. If I have to carry very far (or drag), or cannot get equipment to it easily field dress.

Well I'm talking about game in general, bout all I really kill are hogs currently but I end up helping process or drag out deer alot

Water I can understand though if I have to cross creeks I wont dress the deer until I get to where I dont have to worry about water. I dont have leaves or dirt get into the cavity dragging deer out. Only time I ever had to deal with such was when my dad always insisted on splitting the chest, pelvis and putting a spreader stick in the chest. You almost have to intentionally put leaves into the deer or have a wind storm blow em in as your trying to dress the deer. The cavity lays closed when your dragging it unless your prop it open.

Must be nice to hunt wide open terrain. You drag a deer through some of these places and that joker will be full of everything in the woods, lol. We split from tail to throat. Much easier for me just to attach a rope or if small enough to throw it around my neck and go. At 53, the rope gets used more now.

All my deer are killed in oak/hickory woods

Cleaning out the deer cavity is worthless or even harmful in any case unless you gut shot it or busted the stomach in dressing.

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