If they are old enough to hunt alone, they are old enough to take care of it. If not they should not be hunting alone.

Congrats.

Watch this video. I haven't gutted a deer in years. The only part i don't get is the ribs. I recover all other meat.

https://youtu.be/X4kJIrW1IDM?feature=shared

I was hoping he would be done and on ice before you made it home.

Heck it was 70 degrees last week during the sheep hunt. In the 60s when we've killed the last few elk in November

Providence Farm- Tell him nice job. Nothing wrong with that buck. 70% or more of SD deer hunters would have had lead flying at it. You people that get to gun hunt antlers in your home counties every year don't know what a good deal you have.




nvwrangler- You must hunt a lot of big game when its still warm out. The only thing I've ever cut up and put on ice are some antelope and a youth deer hunt one time. Rifle deer in November, and most animals come home field dressed but basically whole besides that. I've never had meat go bad coming home that way in November. The trick for late season deer hunting (in December) is don't let the field dressed animal freeze before you skin it. If that happens, its a real pain to get the work done.