Proper way to field dress deer

[Guest fishermanwhohunts]

What is the proper way to field dress deer? On a buck I need to know how to remove the genitals with out it leaking urine, and other specialized things for bucks and does.

[ODH]

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just start out down by his/her hind legs, cut up through until you hit the rib cage. cut open and gut out. You shouldn't have to worry if you do cut the urinary tract by accident, it won't hurt anything.

[buckee]

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Here is how I have always done it.

The anus cut is the most important cut, if you don't want bladder contents inside your deer. I always carry a few pieces of butchers cord on me during hunting season, to tie off the anus and penis after making the anus cut.

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[GWSmith]

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Quickly

...and what the other guys said too

[Guest lobsterman]

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just stick a knife blade in its stomach and run it up.....LOL thats what i told my buddy when he gutted out his first deer, funniest thing ive ever seen...

[MUDRUNNER]

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I find the bottom of the rib cage and start there and cut through the ribs, up to the neck.Then I turn the knife around and cut toward the rear end with the gut hook.After that I cut around the anus and split the pelvic bone.I cut the esophagus and,lay the deer on the side,and yank everything out.It usually only takes 5 or 10 minutes.

[wtnhunt]

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Right or wrong dont know, but I cut around the anus and free it along with the genital area. Tie off the bladder or penis and anus with floss, then I have always hung ours by the neck, and cut starting from the bottom of the ribcage down to the cuts around genitals. Then reach up inside and cut the esophagus and give a good tug and everything falls out on my garbage bags for easy clean up.

[Tominator]

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Deer are just big freakin' rabbits in my book.

I witnessed a truly special gut job a few years ago, and that's how I do it now. Cut around the anus, then cut from sternum to pelvis, reach up and drag it all out, then pull the the entrails up from the anus.

I saw a guy do this on my deer in about 2 minutes once and that's how I do it now.

[muggs]

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Deer are just big freakin' rabbits in my book.

I witnessed a truly special gut job a few years ago, and that's how I do it now. Cut around the anus, then cut from sternum to pelvis, reach up and drag it all out, then pull the the entrails up from the anus.

I saw a guy do this on my deer in about 2 minutes once and that's how I do it now.

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That's pretty much what I do Chris, but I run the knife along the spine (between the spine and the entrails) and free up that connective membrane tissue that hangs up a lot.

First time a had to field dress a dear in took for every, now I can do it in about 5 minutes or so.

[Nick]

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I do pretty much how the others do it. I cut around the penis first of all. Then, if your by yourself, here is a tip to cutting around the anus. Get the deer on its back, then pull both hind legs back toward the head of the deer and straddle the deer sitting on the legs and the body of the deer. This will put the anus up in the air and tighten the skin in that region making it easier to make the cut. After I do that, I un-zip up to the chest cavity and proceed to cut the wind pipe and all the diaphram and skin holding the guts in.If you got everything pretty well detached, you should be able to grab the wind pip and pull everything out. Usually the anus and penis pulls out from the inside with all the guts if you made a good cut. I always split the pelvis too and clean all the fatty tissue out of there. Using this process, I can usually do one in under 5 minutes, but it takes some practice!! Good luck.

[johnf]

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Pretty good advice so far. If you have a buck that you are going to have mounted make sure you don't cut anything passed the sturnum. If you can hang it up by the neck it make it much easier. After opening it up from stirnum to anus reach up under the rib cage and grab the gullet and wind pipe and give a good yank sometimes that works. If it doesn't go up as far as you can and cut both, then pull. You can pinch the anus and eurithra with one hand under the pelvis and pull out the innards with the other. Most of the time it all comes together.

Try this link it's got some better pics that will give you an idea of what we're all talking about here.

[WIwhitetailhunter]

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The best video I've seen for gutting a deer was on an episode of Spirit of the Wild. The Nuge gutted a doe. Basically, he did what was mentioned above. He cut the doe from anus to throat with a gut hook knife, reached in and cut the esophogus, cut around the anus, and everything pretty much just fell out.

[craig mack]

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Have your buddy do it.

[Guest HaDeRonDa]

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I carefully slit the hide on the stomach and then run up to the bottom of the rib cage. Then I sltk down to the pelvis. Then I cut the diaphragm and free everything from the back, cut the trachea esophagus, turn the deer on it's side and start yanking. This process takes me about 2 minutes. Being neat like the videos is NOT necessary and don't let anyone telll you that it is. Historically how many animals do you think were dressses out, "just so" and how many were just cut and yanked? So start cutting and yanking!!! LMBO

[HuntnMa]

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Here is how I have always done it.

The anus cut is the most important cut, if you don't want bladder contents inside your deer. I always carry a few pieces of butchers cord on me during hunting season, to tie off the anus and penis after making the anus cut.

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now that is awesome.....i just usually ring the pooty, cut the bone and grab it and slide it out .....now i'm going to tie it off, then do it.......woohoooooooo , it's the lil things in life that make me happy, lol......

[Tetro]

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I usually start by cutting under the skin around the area of the testicles and penis then removing the whole section. Then I start at the stomach and work my way to the rib cage, as most of you have already described. But before removing the guts thats when we cut around the anus and we keep an eye on the blatter to make sure it doesn't get punctured.

[Guest nwmobuckfan]

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My best friend starts by calling me on his cell phone. I then have to get up off the couch from watching football, jump in the truck and drive 1.5 hours to camp, help track it through the swamp, field dress as described above, drag his deer out of the swamp (he has a bad back!), put the deer in my truck (cant get his truck bloody), take the deer to the processor and "spot" him the money to pay for the processing (left his wallet in his truck), drive back home and go for breakfast (I had to pay for my own!).

This only happend to me once but I never let him forget it!!

[Guest ILclimber]

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Hey Fisherman,

I believe the best way to field dress a deer would be having deer on it's back. Then, find the point at the bottom of the ribcage, should almost feel like a V, make a cut right there and with a gut hook skin down. After you do that, you should be able to figure it out from there! I believe that is the easiest!

[Turkeygirl]

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I always start with making a cut below the rib cage into the chest cavity then I work my way down. Just be careful you don't stick your into the stomach or intestines or you will have a smelly time, not too mention that stuff is not good to get on the meat and leave it on the meat over an extended time.

[okiedog]

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Have your buddy do it.

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Thats what I'am saying. My hunting partner and I trade off on the gutting. He is a big and tuff ol boy, but when he gets a good smell he loses it. He carries a jar of vics vapor rub in his pack and smears under his noses before he ever gets started now.

[GWSmith]

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...Historically how many animals do you think were dressses out, "just so" and how many were just cut and yanked?

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Of all the Deer I have field dressed I can remember ONE that was dressed out "Just So".

I was going through nursing school at the time and separated each and every organ system after identifying it....the rest were "Cut and Yanks"

Okiedog...

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He carries a jar of vics vapor rub in his pack and smears under his noses before he ever gets started now.

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That seriously does work...I learned it regrettfully from an Ex-wife who worked with the department of children and families. She would have to go into houses that required that they used that process...they were that bad and people "Lived" in those houses

[Hoosierbuck]

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1) Cut around the anus, loosening the skin and connective tissue inside the pelvic girdle. Pull the loosened anus out and tie it off. I use garbage bag twist ties to tie off all the plumbing. Some use zip ties.

2) Make the cut from sternum to anus, going around the udders or penis/scrotum for does/bucks resepctively. Don't poke thru to the guts.

3) Free the udder/scrotum-penis and tie it off, then cut them off outside the tie off.

4) The penis plumbing goes between the hams back up and inside the pelvic girdle where the anus is. Loosen that so when you pull everything through the hole in the pelvis it can go, too.

5)On an animal you are not going to have mounted, take that sternum cut and extend it as far up the neck as you can, even to the jaw. Cut through the sternum, or along side it so you can get indise the rib cage.

6) Cut the windpipe as close to the jaw as you can and and put your finger in it. Start pulling back toward the other end, cutting if you have to to get it all out.

7) When you get to the diaphragm, I roll the deer on it's belly to drain all the blood out of the cavity, then back to it's side and sever the diaphragm on the up side, then roll it over, and cut the diaphragm on that side, then you should be able to pull everything else out.

Tools I use include a) Knife with a 5" blade for loosening the anus up inside the pelvis. b)Gerber gut hook knife c)twist ties d) blue nitrile gloves e) a bread sack for taking away heart/liver and garbage. Before the season, I wrap a pair of the nitrile gloves and several twist ties into a bread sack, then roll it up. I do a bunch of them and give them to my buddies, too.

HB

[too_pointer]

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Everything was covered very well. After getting the guts out, I flip the deer on his stomach and the

blood run out well The back legs should be lower than the front so it drains well. I also try to drag the deer by the antlers or head, it seems like it helps keep the ground junk out of the deer

too_