Re: Is Field Dressing
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/13/21 09:57 PM
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I field dress everything I hunt, ducks geese grouse pheasants rabbits squirrels pigeon and deer. I even bleed my fish out. No idea why anyone would bring the mess home.
Not saying it's wrong, I just don't understand it lol
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Re: Is Field Dressing
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/13/21 10:02 PM
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If I am close to home that mess gets dropped into a lick tub but if I am out away or made a less than perfect shot I always field dress
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Re: Is Field Dressing
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/13/21 10:19 PM
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Gcp, we use everything minus the guts. The intestine is only used for real special meals. Heart and liver are cooked up. The ribs (deer and elk) are some of my favorite parts to eat. Thinking about it. Small game is the only game that we don't field dress.
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Re: Is Field Dressing
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04/13/21 11:11 PM
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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.
Seems harder to get the ribs, heart and liver though.
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Re: Is Field Dressing
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/14/21 12:13 AM
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We never took the heart or liver and the ribs are pretty easy. Even the tender loins are fairly easy to remove with out gutting.
When I trapped In the south just about every one loaded up the deer and took It back to their skinning shack to do any butchering.
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Re: Is Field Dressing
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/14/21 04:41 AM
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. Same thing with filleting fish, it's just not something that's really done
Do they just gut fish and cook them whole? My brother was married to a woman from Thailand and she cooked the fish with the guts in it. All she did was scrub the slime off and bake. When it was served family style she would peel skin off and "roll" the guts out then pull the meat off with a fork. Meat tasted good but the house stunk up! Me I fillet and skin.
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Re: Is Field Dressing
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/14/21 09:33 AM
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I would guess it comes to few things
1,if you shoot a deer are you done hunting for the day or at least until you get it in a cooler , or to a processor?
2, do most of your deer or hogs go to a processor that will take them that way or do you do it all at home
3 do you have a setup that better deals with it at home
4. do you break down into quarters to haul out like elk out west?
1 we only stop hunting long enough to get it gutted and in the truck , it is almost always less than 40 when we are deer hunting often with some snow on the ground with only 9-10 hours of light to hunt , it's burning daylight
2, when I was a kid we did take deer to a processor , there was a wood shed at the back of the building your deer got tossed in there until they could skin it and bring it inside , that was a day or 3 after you shot it , and hauled it home , field dressing was a necessity to getting it to cool and keep, on my first deer when I was 16 I learned that if you skinned it you leap frogged all the other deer and went strait in to hang and get hosed off. some of the field dressing jobs on the deer in that shed were nasty.
3, where we hunted other than the last 2 years we are there for the stay , 5 hours from home my aunts house has plenty of trees for hanging and I bring a folding table with leg extensions I skin them and quarter hanging in the tree outside the garage and bone them out in the garage , we have to clean it all up when done like mop the garage floor leaving no blood , we have Colman coolers and the cold weather not freezers or walk in coolers. we have buttered all of our own now about 20 years I butchered my first while in my college apartment , paid a classmate a case of beer to show me how to break one down in the garage at the house he and a few others rented off campus. I then took it back and boned everything out in the kitchen of my apartment. bones and hide in the dumpster in a black plastic bag.
4, we just drag deer out and get them on the truck or in the tree by the garage if it was shot in the backyard,
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Re: Is Field Dressing
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/14/21 09:47 AM
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I shot the deer got the truck got It loaded hauled It home backed Into the fur shed. Hooked up the cable from my Skinner to the deer winched It up and out of the truck. Skinned It quartered It and removed the loins. Back the truck back In the shed lowered the deer back Into the truck drove back to the farm and dumped the deer In my carcass dump. No muss no fuss.
Know of corse If I had made a bad shot (gut ) and or would have had to drag It any distance I would be field dressing on the spot. But the 2 places I hunt are very truck and ATV friendly. So dragging a deer very far Isn't the norm. And If I kill a deer I'm done since most of the time I'm hunting alone.
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Re: Is Field Dressing
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Gcp, we use everything minus the guts. The intestine is only used for real special meals. Heart and liver are cooked up. The ribs (deer and elk) are some of my favorite parts to eat. Thinking about it. Small game is the only game that we don't field dress. I like deer heart gravy , liver well I have a cousin we give all those too. just not my thing but I have tried it most of the time I use the elbow length disposable field dressing gloves , grab the heart turn the glove inside out , grab the liver turn the glove inside out tie the 2 together and toss them in the truck , when we get back to the house they go in a bucket of water.
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Re: Is Field Dressing
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The only big game I did not field dress on the spot were the bears I trapped in Maine. Those had to be taken (whole) to the nearest tagging station and weighed guts in.
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