We hang them by the neck here … because that’s how we’ve always done

… and I think they peel faster thataway

… how bout ya’ll

By the back legs. That was the way my grandpa taught me how to do it. I’ve hung them by the head, put prefer to process them hanging by the back legs. Eric

… and why ?

Back legs. Only cause mine never have any antlers lol

I think the idea is to drain blood out when you cut the throat

Hind legs

How I saw them done when young plus....what else do you skin from the head end?

back legs. just what my deddy does and his deddy

… do does the same way … only time they get skinned upside down around here is for a shoulder mount

… hope you get yourself a nice buck this season smasher

haha mine are split 50 50 sm time antlers sometimes not haha

That line of thinking makes some sense… but I like to bust them behind the shoulder and let em pump out the blood on the run…. I’ve seen purple hams on neck shot deer … why I won’t shoot them there unless I have no choice

Always by the horns or neck, just like yours Savell. Didn't know there was another way.

we also hang by neck Hang to strong beam, limb or tractor bucket. after we work the neck down far enough, we put a rock or golf ball in the lose skin and tie a
rope around the lose hide and pull down with pickup or fourwheeler. Works good

I do both, easier to gut if hanging by neck. Nice buck btw

… we do it similar… but me and the boys grab holt and yank the hide off … those suckers are swinging when it breaks free lol

Hang by the legs is how we do it. Same way as skinning everything else. The way I butcher deer, face down works better for me. Take shoulders off, get burger meat off neck and brisket areas, then back straps,Cut carcass free of the back legs, lower legs to working height and debone them.

I hang by the legs, or occasionally through the pelvis. Mostly because I think they are easier to skin that way, and dad taught me to hang by the back legs.

Hind legs .....peel down and pull head off with the hide

Easy to bag that way , keeping tics , Flys, and yellow jackets off the meat

Same as Savell by the neck unless skinning for a shoulder mount.

By neck. Better hold and then I can cut around neck hook barge rope to neck skin with 4 wheeler to jerk hide off. Then go to work little hair remains. Now days with cwd regulation. I live in a non cwd unit but because I harvest in cwd unit. Probably because a high employee MDC unit not cwd I shoot what regulation allow. telicheck. Process were it fell ungutted. Then throw head in back of my truck. Take to check point. Go through process. I did know all the workers. Most likely do not know any now because they retired or moved on. They always ask if I wanted head and they smile I told them I could not take into my unit so do what ever you want with it. At my age I had very little field 1/4 ing experience for years you had to take deer to a check station (miss the old days. ). Then get home throw in coolers and ice and worked up in my fur shed. Only bad thing I had to pick hair off for a while. But small detail when you always followed the regulations and always will

Laying on ground, or tail gate is easier on my back. Slit skin down back and all legs. Peel off one side and take out hind quarter and front shoulder and the back straps then flip over on skin and do the other side. Last I gut and save the catfish and the carcass is for dog food.