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Author Topic: Field dressing a buck argument  (Read 1570 times)

Offline Jeremy

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Re: Field dressing a buck argument
« Reply #40 on: December 11, 2009, 08:38:00 AM »
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Originally posted by tippit:
urine is usually sterile.
Glad I'm not the only one who caught that.

I've never split a pelvis and everything comes out in one pile.  The buck's junk stays with him until he's skinned for the "proof of sex"... just habit now more than anything else.
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Offline lpcjon2

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Re: Field dressing a buck argument
« Reply #41 on: December 11, 2009, 10:01:00 AM »
All urine has bacteria in it.And there are many types of bacteria.Urine is usually sterile, I hope your deer doesn't run around having sex with multiple partners and one of having a urinary tract infection...LOL it's a crap shoot with the urine, error on the side of caution. Or you can smell his urethra and if it smell like cologne leave it alone.Think about a scrape and the way it makes the ground smell for days,Imagine a roast with that smell! you gonna eat that!!!
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Offline joevan125

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Re: Field dressing a buck argument
« Reply #42 on: December 11, 2009, 10:14:00 AM »
You guys make this sound a lot harder than it is. I just cut around the anal cavity then go in and pull out the part of the anus that i just cut.

While im doing that i simply remove the bladder and throw it all to the side.

A lot of times if we have the deer hanging we dont even field dress the deer, we just take the straps out cut off the front shoulders and then just cut the deer in half right where the hind quarters start.

Most of the time we take the deer to the butcher and he takes the guts out for us and lets them hang for a week, you really cant beat that especially down here in the south where it stays pretty warm.
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Offline Grizzlymike

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Re: Field dressing a buck argument
« Reply #43 on: December 11, 2009, 02:29:00 PM »
WOW! Never knew this was suppose to be a problem.
After all these years of field dressing deer. Now something new to worry about. LOL

Offline LKH

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Re: Field dressing a buck argument
« Reply #44 on: December 11, 2009, 02:50:00 PM »
Butcher I know in MT charges about $20 if you leave the anal cavity in.  Wonder where they learned field care???"?

Offline Autumnarcher

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Re: Field dressing a buck argument
« Reply #45 on: December 11, 2009, 11:24:00 PM »
I cut his package off, skin the white tube all the way bac kto his be-hind, make my cut around his Hiney, then open him up carefully. If the bladder is full, I flip it to the side away from the deer, and nick it with my knife tip and drain it. Sometimes if I have a container like a water bottle, I squirt it in there. I'll use it to freshen scrapes.

After I get him open, I use my wire saw to split the pelvis, and pull everything up and out. Friend of mine told me once its good luck to hang his 'nads in a tree. I like to use as much of the deer as possible. If he's a mature buck, or just blessed, you can skin out his nutsack, turn it inside out and flesh it, salt it to dry it outreal good. When you do that, form it so its open, and you can give it to your boss for a candy dish for his desk. Then you'll have more time off to go huntin. Or, put it on the table full of almonds, pecans and walnuts at Christmas time. You'll need a nutcracker if ya have walnuts.

Another guy I work  with has killed a lot of bears over the years. They actually have a bone that gives them a ....well you get the picture.

Anyway, he saves them, cleans em up and keeps 'em in a cup on his bar for swizel-sticks.
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Offline PAPA BEAR

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Re: Field dressing a buck argument
« Reply #46 on: December 12, 2009, 12:48:00 AM »
quote:posted by dave bulla.

Uh, maybe I'm stupid but if you don't remove the genitals, where exactly do they end up???? Don't remove them from what? From the hide? Or from the carcass? I'd hate to end up with a steak that had something extra attached.....

hahahahahaha...thats rich dave,right on. daves steak came with a toothpick and two stressballs.  :D    :D    :biglaugh:    :biglaugh:    :D    :D
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Re: Field dressing a buck argument
« Reply #47 on: December 12, 2009, 06:18:00 AM »
I core out the anus first, then I start at the bottom of the rib cage and use a guthook to open up the cavity. I like my knife to travel with the direction the hair lays. as far as cutting the rack off first, that is the last thing I worry about, that will keep for years but the meat wont. I do cut the whipper snapper off and other associated tackle, I don't want that in my ground   :scared:
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Offline olddogrib

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Re: Field dressing a buck argument
« Reply #48 on: December 12, 2009, 08:12:00 AM »
That's what ya gotta love about this site.  Four pages of spirited yet respectful debate on an issue that probably keeps Obama up at night...the proper way to remove a deer's pecker! On several other sites this would have long since deteriorated to a threat to demonstrate this operation on someone with differing views. My hats off to all of us who never had the money to make it through Urology school!
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Offline Doc Nock

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Re: Field dressing a buck argument
« Reply #49 on: December 12, 2009, 08:41:00 AM »
Richard, I tend to agree this is pretty entertaining and rather interesting to boot.

It all makes me remember my first deer, a buck, shot when I was 18 hunting on "pot hunt day" up in our PA N. Country with Dad's boss. Never knew anyone and on Monday opener, everyone hunted on their own, drove organized drives rest of week.

I shot a big spike. I'm standing there stripped down to my shirt on a cold day ready to start this guttin thing I never seen. Figured weren't much different than guttin a rabbit, eh?

So first thing, I get the ole buck (young) positioned on his back with my knife in one hand and with the free had, I grab his unit... well, right about then, my whole world sorta started spinnin cause up to that point in my 18 years of life, it dawned on me I never EVER had any other "unit" in my hand but my own precious one.  Between something of embarassement and bewilderment and confusion as to how to proceed, n' wonderin if the Lord thought this was a right minded thing to be doing... I hear someone speak over my shoulder.

I dang near knifed myself as I jumped about 3' in the air turning in mid jump to see a kindly gent standing there grinnin at my delemma like a freakin cheshire cat! He calmly states, "First, deer, Sonnie."  I am sure my face was the color of my woolrich outfit I bought for the hunt!

He sets me down and says, "watch close so you learn to do this right..." I never saw a thing he was doin...I was so danged embarassed my eyes were dartin all over the woods wondering who else saw my stumblebum antics!

Ah...memories...
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Offline Autumnarcher

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Re: Field dressing a buck argument
« Reply #50 on: December 12, 2009, 09:43:00 AM »
Doc, thats funny. Reminded me of my boy getting ready to gut his first. It was a button buck, and he was gettin all sqeamish about latching in to the goods to remove 'em. LOL Funny stuff.
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