So you can get dressed up, but do you dress deer?

[billygoat]

Alright, Linda, now that the truth is out... how many of you other women will confess to not dressing your deer? I will give you some credit though, Linda, sounds like you gave it a good try (B) for effort. My wife continues to refuse to field dress deer although she has gotten more involved w/ processing them.

[outdoorgirl]

i have ...it don't bother me at all....but for some odd reason it's always a man that loves to get his hands bloody....lol.....my boyfriend loves to gut deer..lol....hey if the men want to gut it...go for it !! he says i don't know how to gut a deer....he leaves the pee pee on the deer...i like to cut it off !!! lol ....to eaches own ...

[Gus]

Doesn't bother me a bit. I clean and quarter all the deer that me, my mom, sister and cousin kill. Then my mom and dad do the processing part, works out great

[HuntingInMaine]

I never said I didn't do it, I said I had never done it before, so when it came time to cut the stuff up by the neck, that part was done for me. But I was also up to my elbows in guts and all that good stuff, so I am thinking I have earned more like an A-. I have been cleaning small game ever since I can remember, so it's not like the guts were gross, it was just something I had never done before!

I have seen men who couldn't clean their own deer because they couldn't stop gagging though! lol

[billygoat]

Thank you Linda, I stand corrected!!!

[buckee]

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I have seen men who couldn't clean their own deer because they couldn't stop gagging though! lol

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I have seen that too Linda, even a few friends of mine were a bit queezy, first couple times watching me gut their deer ..LOL. I love it when, (after gutting a few deer for them) they down a deer, and I walk over and ask them if they brought their own knife this time...the look on their face is priceless and it's fun watching someone gut for the first time too. They look and act like student surgeons, with the deer's life in their hands...LOL.

[need2hunt]

I almost forgot how to dress a deer Sue gutted all of my deer last year and 4 of the 5 we got this year... the next deer we get (if we get anymore this year) we are going to bring out her oldest daughter to field dress it... we are going to video tape her so she can play it for her biology class Oh, Sue and I butcher our own deer too.

[JimT]

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But I was also up to my elbows in guts and all that good stuff

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[superguide]

I need to give the ladies here a lecture on how to 1/4 a deer without even gutting them-that's what I do works awesome. O.k.listen lay deer belly down-split the hide down the back from tail to back of neck-run knife down backbone on each side and cut the backstraps off-skin out front 1/4's and remove them-skin out back 1/4's and remove them-trim any sausage meat you want off the neck-in about 20 minutes your deer is done. No blood hardly and no guts-We do all our deer this way now-if you want to keep cape just skin back a bit furthur behind the front shoulders.

[ladyluck]

I have to confess I do not gut my own deer. Usually that is because the men that I hunt with are so excited when I get something that they cannot wait to get "bloody hands". I do help hold the legs while they are gutting, help drag the animal, and help process the animal. I feel that I would be competent enough to do it as many times as I have watched.

[womanwhohunts]

I do mine and anybody elses that needs it too.I rather enjoy it.I always like to follow the entry and exit wounds and study what kind of shot was made.You wouldn't beleive it but we've got tons of pics of half gutted deer where we said'Check that out!"LOL.As far as skinning a deer without gutting it....you're leaving the best cut of meat a deer has in there.We call it sweetmeat.I think most folks call it inner tenderloins.Our kids love it.I almost beleive they could it raw.They fight over whos sweetmeat it is.Congrats to all you ladies that take on the gutting.It ain't so bad.

[chicks_hunt_to]

ya i do i say u if your are big a big enough girl to shot it you can gut it

[superguide]

Well if your by yourself it's just a way to get a big deer out of a deep coulee or the thick bush or to get one done in -30 before hide freezes on.

[TheViperess]

even though I have not killed a deer yet I have field dressed a few for my sons and even pushed the hubby out of the way so we could get it done. LOL

[elkoholic]

Superguide, that is the way I bone out an elk, but you still have to get into the abdominal cavity to get to the tenderloins (or sweatmeat), which is by far the best meat on the critter. I think there is some confusion over the difference between the backstraps and tenderloin. The tenderloin is on the inside and is often overlooked, especially on a deer, but on an elk it can be a fairly large quantity of meat. In using this technique care must be taken to keep the meat clean. Even if you can drive to the animal, game bags are a good idea, and if you cannot drive to it you must be willing and able to put it on your back and carry it. Unless you are going to process the meat immediately, the skin is the best way to keep the meat clean and keep it from drying out. As for the gutting process, if you shoot it, you darn well should be capable of processing it. If you gag and puke, just move off to the side until you are done retching than get back to the job at hand. No sympathy here. Congratulations to all you women who are hunters and not afraid to get a little blood on your hands. It is just part of the experience.