Field dressing a buck argument

[tippit]

If I shoot a doe especially during rut.  I usually carry a 60CC syringe and take as much urine  as I can get.  But most of the time at death the bladder evacuates involuntarily.  Also urine is usually sterile.  It's not the bacteria of urine but the odor of urine that can taints the meat...ever eat asparagus     Doc

[Brian Krebs]

Tippit
     That explains why nobody likes your margaritas.

[jhg]

I always cut around and tied off the anus then cut around and left attached to the rest of the hide the scrotum. The rest of the goods carefully out with the rest.
 

Joshua

[gregg dudley]

I noticed several of you mentioned that you spray out the body cavity with water.  Don't know where I got the notion, but I think that I read it somewhere that if you do that you should not use pressure nozzles because the damage done by the pressure nozzle can and will actually create more small tissue damage and areas for bacteria to grow and breed.  It was suggested that if there is a need to rinse the body cavity, then it should be done gently and then dried as well as possible.

As for the original question, if the deer gets gutted it gets the full treatment.

[Gordon martiniuk]

Just leave the pecker on up here we have to leave one nut on side with tag on .as far as bladder its under the pelvis and yes you  have to be carefull removeing it when you gut your deer ,, I like to split pelvis(Carefully) cut around anus fairly deep to seperate membrains from hind end ,, get ahold of poop shute and remove use your knife where you have to (its just that easy)

[Dave Bulla]

Gregg, I've heard that too.

I always use a bucket of salt water and a rag to clean out the inside.  Does a great job, the salt kills bacteria and minimal water used.

Just don't bend over the bucket with your cell phone in your shirt pocket.  Sprint say's it's abuse when you try to return a phone full of bloody salt water.            

By the way, I gut a deer and cut out a patch of hide in the pelvic area with the genitals attached but I don't cut the genitals clear of the deer.  Core out the but, split the pelvis, slit the belly skin and pull the guts and genitals all out together.  So I guess I'm in the don't cut 'em off crowd if by that you mean that they stay unsevered from the innards.  Dang sure cut them away from the parts I plan to eat though!  And carefully too.

[GingivitisKahn]

Originally 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.....      

Well said!

[Jack Whitmire Jr]

Grap his wacker , skin the scrotum off the hide but leave a little skin attached , so it is still attched to the hide. Towards the back of the scrotum you will see a tube running towards the anus. Skin this tube away from the meat all the way back. Now grap the wacker agian and cut the hide loose that is holding it ot the skin , lay it to the side . Cut the anus loose, gut etc.


 

[akdd]

I do it like Dave split the pelvis and remove everything together.

[maineac]

I cut it back, open the cavity, remove the bladder, then finish removing the rest of genitals and complete gutting out the deer. Te drag out.  Rinse with a bucket and hang once I get home.

[Bill Tell]

Well I think I can tell all of my card playing friends that removing is just fine with your field dressing.

[2treks]

Dave, That was some funny stuff "something extra" Funny.
Skin it back and cut it off or leave it hang. then empty the guts and EVERTHING will be out.
The first thing I do (most often) is cut around the dodads and back toward the butt, skinning free the pee tube as far back as I can go which is almost to the anus. I will cut it of and toss it and have never seen any pee come out. also the bladder will be full when I get inside to remove the rest of the guts. I used to split the pelvis and do it all at once but I always got picked on by my buddies when I would whip out my T-Hawk and go to choppin. Plus "They" say it is better to not expose the marrow in the bone if you have a chance at cwd.h1n1.copd.typyus or what ever is gonna get us next.
   The MOST important thing is to make sure you get it hung up and skinned out ASAP. Cuz when that happens you are just about 7-8 minutes away from a backstrap fry.
   Like the first guy said tho, how is a bucks rack gonna taint the meat?(now thats funny)(this was fun to read).
Chuck

[ALW]

Same way Jack and a few others have said.  My gut pile is all in one piece.  No hacking anything loose.  I don't split the pelvis either.  I think this lets the legs flop around while dragging and you take a chance cutting the bladder.  Plus I've seen more than one knife with the tips broke off.  No need to do it.

Aaron

[Doc Nock]

Originally posted by Brian Krebs:
Tippit
     That explains why nobody likes your margaritas.

You guys just ain't right...!   :rolleyes:    

[Blasterjdh]

It all comes off. The only thing I didn't see mentioned is that I use zip-ties to make tieing off the annus easy -- cut around - pull out a couple of inches - zip it...   Just easier for me then trying to tie it off...

[Tioga]

Am I the only hunter in the world that starts field dressing from the brisket? Cutting with the grain of the hair is the best thing since sliced bread and much cleaner. Making a short incision of a few inches from the brisket and stopping there allows for much easier trimming of the diaphram. Then, the entire time you are working on the rest of the cutting of the belly and gentitals, you can prop the deer up using each of your legs. After that, let the deer fall over on its side, trim the anal cavity and pull, and it's done and over with. Talliwhacker and all!  

[Builder]

Tioga,
There is at least two of us who field dress deer that way. Outdoor like had 4-5 sketches of how to dress a deer that I had seen 30 some years ago and have been doing that way ever since.

[LKH]

I leave them on.  

Never could figure out how the genitals of a dead deer could affect the meat.  I core out the anal cavity and pull the bladder and colon out forward.  I don't open up the pelvic area at all.  

Keeps the meat clean during drag out which is a dirty operation in the northern MN swamps.

[Pointer]

Count me with Tioga and Builder...that's the way I learned to do it 25 years ago.....my father taught me...don't know where he learned it but I've never ruined any meat.

[Morning Star]

Wow, to much process for me.  I whack off the junk when I'm making the initial field dressing cut.  In all my years, never noticed any urine unless I nick the bladder.