Donate deer to food shelves

[DeanC]

its an ass puller, but its completely unnecessary in my book

I agree. I just wanted to gross the guys out.

[hammAR]

I agree. I just wanted to gross the guys out.

I would strongly suggest to not carry that in you back pocket while hunting,
would be a mess if you slipped and fell...........................

[Pinnacle]

Or you can donate it to the Unsuccessful Hunters Anonymous.

PM me and I'll get you in contact with the organization's President.

All donations must remain anonymous.

I have never deer hunted before because I worried that with my luck I would get one and I can't eat a whole deer by myself

I have been reading the rulebook and looking at maps all morning, I'm kind of excited about this now

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I am glad that you are going out hunting.

I do hope that you are going to go with someone that has a little experience in the woods deer hunting at least the first time.

Have fun and worry about eating a whole deer - if you shoot one.

Field dressing is not that big of a deal. Just use a sharp knife - with a small blade of no more than 3" in length (Rambo need not apply here) wear some latex gloves and be very mindful of ticks after the fact.

Try to be as careful as possible not to cut into the peretoneum - you do this well and all should slide out aside from the connection points of the anus and the esophagus and trachea. There is some other stuff that will hang on to the guts and this needs to be trimmed off as well.

Cut around the anus and the penis - being very careful and everything should slide out - the penis is the tough part - no cutting the urethra and releasing all of the pee from the bladder. Carefully cut around the animals genetalia and slide it out of the pelvis - or you can certainly split the pelvvis with a saw - I find this a pain but it can be done.

Get the deer hung and cavity open ASAP to get that puppy cooled off. Lets hope for highs in the 40's and lows in the 30's

You can quarter off the primals - 4 quarters with a knife ana little logic (things go together one way and the come apart easily with a sharp knife and the proper leverage int he right direction. )

Loins come off easily - both inside and outside loins. You can skin and sawcut the carcas on the hook vertically if you would like - I prefer to de-bone.

I think that I have a video here demonstrating animal processing. I will see if I can dig that out.

My neighbor and I processed 12 deer last fall on his deck -

All were skun - de-boned and butchered in less than 4 hours. It was total carnage.





Get pee on the meat and you may as well forget it.

[1911fan]

That last line applies to any of the digestive juices as well,

A friend who was a butcher was being free liberal with the trimming knife once and I asked.

His comment was if you "take 99 pounds of venison and add in one pound of ****, you end up with 100 pounds of ****." so cut away the crappy stuff, and throw it away.

The bone saw we use has a little cap on the non handle end that allows you to not worry about cutting in to the innards when sawing the pelvis.

[MsT]

hammAR - what happened to the parrot ? I thought I had a bug on my computer screen - and I hate spiders !

Guys -- on the "field dressing" of deer ... I do my own. It's part of hunting. The first time I got to watch - and my question was "am I going to throw up ?" I didn't.

I was very surprised to see that everything comes out in a pretty neat little bundle. The guys I hunt with prefer that we bring the whole deer up to the farm yard, hang it, and field dress it hanging. I do much better if it's laying on the ground instead of swinging by a rope - it's a strength and stature thing. It's just not that big a deal.

[ttousi]

hammAR - what happened to the parrot ? I thought I had a bug on my computer screen - and I hate spiders !

He got all whiney cause someone made fun of his bird ............(not me)

[hammAR]

hammAR - what happened to the parrot ? I thought I had a bug on my computer screen - and I hate spiders !

He got all whiney cause someone made fun of his bird ............(not me)

Yea, some Navy puke picked on me......................
Parrot is fine and going to Boca Chica for the winter,
give me a couple of day and Mac will come out and play.................

[goalie]

Make me want to go deer hunting just for that reason. But i have a hard time cleaning a fish and knowing my luck i would pass out in a gut pile.

Or you'd have a nice happy look on your face:



Like everyone has said, the field dressing is no big deal, you just need a good, sharp knife. I prefer my laminated steel Helle knife over anything else I've ever owned. You can split the pelvis, or you can cut around the anus and reproductive organs, tie off the colon, and pull it all out clean when you dump the guts.

It's easiest to go with someone who knows what they're doing and watch the first time, then have them talk you through your first time.

BTW, I won't be joining any unlucky hunter's club this year. I got a nice doe with that buck, both on opening day. We took 5 deer total, 4 on Saturday, one on Sunday, and they're all being donated to our freezers.

[Pat]

Make me want to go deer hunting just for that reason. But i have a hard time cleaning a fish and knowing my luck i would pass out in a gut pile.

Or you'd have a nice happy look on your face:



Like everyone has said, the field dressing is no big deal, you just need a good, sharp knife. I prefer my laminated steel Helle knife over anything else I've ever owned. You can split the pelvis, or you can cut around the anus and reproductive organs, tie off the colon, and pull it all out clean when you dump the guts.

It's easiest to go with someone who knows what they're doing and watch the first time, then have them talk you through your first time.

BTW, I won't be joining any unlucky hunter's club this year. I got a nice doe with that buck, both on opening day. We took 5 deer total, 4 on Saturday, one on Sunday, and they're all being donated to our freezers.

Yo, Goalie,

Congratulations! We heard of your tremendous success on our way back from getting a field mouse (no, really... pic below of beast early on in its attack).

Hey, wasn't your pic taken after dark? How did you manage to get one of those after-dark-with-a-genx-gizmoscope licenses? I thought those things were lottoed out...

[goalie]

I shot it with about 3-4 minutes of legal hunting time left opening evening. Since I use a Summit Viper climbing stand, and I usually watch the deer on the ground for a while to ensure that it is not wounded and won't jump up and run away while I am climbing down out of the tree or walking up on it, by the time I climbed down, unharnessed, and got my hunting partners over to take pictures, it was time to be using the LED headlamps.