Who in here feild dresses deer?

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[The Kid]

I think it's just a cultural/climate thing. Joe, your doe wasn't that big and only about 150 yards behind the house if I read right, but you still gutted her? Also down here we NEVER clean a deer in the garage, which I can understand not wanting to bust a gut inside. The weather here does get into the teens, but generally we all have a place outside to deal with whatever we need to deal with but never ever in the garage. I guess now we're on the fourth page I can say that only me, al, and rhine are doing it right. :clown:

and me

[Buckhunter76]

i feild dress every deer i get but i dress it were it falls we have so many yotes out here it dose not matter if you gut it out in the feild

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Thats the truth, we have so many coyotes, the guts are gone the next morning, and it don't effect the next hunt, nor we encounter a odor problem, lol. Jake and I we're actually dragging a buck out once and we heard the coyotes coming to them and we wasn't but maybe 30 yards away from where I gutted the darn thing, lmao.

[Straight Shooter]

Down south here or up north in Ohio, I still drag them out and no gutting in the field. I haven't gutted a deer in so many years because of the way I dress out a deer I don't have too. I'm sure deer are curious of gut piles but I do know that they are scared of coyotes too. I've had foxes and coyotes follow a drag trail right back to where the deer went down, so a gut pile in the woods isn't going to happen for me.

I think its mainly preferance and prior old school tradition of gutting where they fall. I understand lighting the load a bit for a large bodied deer, so to each there own.

[unioncountyslayer]

I'm in the minority, but around here, with a deer processor less than 30 minutes from where I hunt, I load up the deer, drive to the processor, drop the deer off the truck and the processor does everything (gut, skin, butcher) for $50. In my opinion, that's smart. I think he charges $10 to skin and gut the deer. I'll pay that every time to not have to do it myself.

On the rare occasion that I kill a deer at my wife's family farm, with no processor within an hour, I drive up to the deer on my ATV, load it up, drive to the "skinnin' shed", remove the guts in a large bucket and put them on a large burn pile and shoot the coyotes that come in to feast.

[Hoosierbuck]

I drag them to the edge of the property if possible and do it there. If not possible, I gut them where they fall. Whatever, I gut them somewhere as quick as I can.

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[hutchies]

I do both.........On public land I normally gut where they fall. That being said we are so overrun with coons, opossums, and other critters thatI have gutted one in the morning. Walked into the stand in the afternoon and the gutpile is gone. I've never had a gut pile still there the next morning after an evening kill.

[PotashRLS]

Field dressing at or near the place of harvest is a tradition here. The act/art of field dressing is a right of passage in many ways.

[Buckhunter76]

Field dressing at or near the place of harvest is a tradition here. The act/art of field dressing is a right of passage in many ways.

I agree 150%, lol