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Originally Posted by bluefish
right on the spot. gut pile does not last 18 hours in Maine.



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Bears and wolves have learned that a rifle shot means a gut pile here. if at all possible i drag and gut at home. shot a whitetail 2 miles from the truck 3 years ago. sat on him for a while hoping my partner would show up and help drag. it started to get dark so i figured id quarter it and start packing. 5 minutes after i opened it up there were 7 wolves in a ring out 75 yards. buddy showed up to help and we were escorted back to the truck by a pair. the rest were dining i guess.


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[ What is the point of the gutless method anyway? [/quote]

Big animals by yourself esp in bear country a lot less work and less blood. Easier in my opinion


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Originally Posted by deerstalker
Bears and wolves have learned that a rifle shot means a gut pile here. if at all possible i drag and gut at home. shot a whitetail 2 miles from the truck 3 years ago. sat on him for a while hoping my partner would show up and help drag. it started to get dark so i figured id quarter it and start packing. 5 minutes after i opened it up there were 7 wolves in a ring out 75 yards. buddy showed up to help and we were escorted back to the truck by a pair. the rest were dining i guess.



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Where I hunt it might be several miles back to the road/truck. I want to get rid of the weight. Gut it where it falls.


You drag critters (sometimes) several miles? That's got to get frustrating.



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For the record, I never carry a knife on my belt, never have, they always reside in my pack. Hardly wear a belt, suspenders all the time



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I guess I've never thought about it, but I haven't done that either. I just carried a small folder in my pocket when I was younger, and buried a knife in my pack ever since I started carrying a pack. I don't think I have ever worn one on a belt.



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Gut them where they fall. Been doing it nearly 70 years. Keep and eat the heart. Buck knife on the belt.


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I almost always have fully field dressed the deer I've killed at or very near where the animal falls dead. I don't just remove the guts but the whole shebang -- lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, and as much of the larynx / esophagus as I can reach and leave it all there. The one time I can recall that I didn't was the biggest and heaviest deer I've killed so far. Coyotes were out thick that evening and several were within yards of us and it was almost dark. I wound up field dressing that deer at the truck which was about a 1/4 mile give or take from where it dropped.

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I will just throw this out there. As you get older and your back gets bad, you like to hang them up. miles


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Originally Posted by T_Inman
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For the record, I never carry a knife on my belt, never have, they always reside in my pack. Hardly wear a belt, suspenders all the time



Ditto


I guess I've never thought about it, but I haven't done that either. I just carried a small folder in my pocket when I was younger, and buried a knife in my pack ever since I started carrying a pack. I don't think I have ever worn one on a belt.


I'm of the belief that if you wear a fixed blade knife on your belt long enough, something bad will happen.

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I've never boned one out in the field. What all do you guys carry with you to do this. I'm thinking this might be the way I go moving forward, as I had heart failure not real long ago and have to be super careful about not over exerting my self. I'm thinking not hauling the whole carcass out would lighten the loat considerably. I'm thinking a couple different knives to work with, some cheesecloth sacks, and probably a bigger backpack then I usually carry, and some paper towels and a bottle of water to clean up with. Should I need much more than that?


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Gut ‘em in the woods and pee on the gut pile.


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Originally Posted by gophergunner
I've never boned one out in the field. What all do you guys carry with you to do this. I'm thinking this might be the way I go moving forward, as I had heart failure not real long ago and have to be super careful about not over exerting my self. I'm thinking not hauling the whole carcass out would lighten the loat considerably. I'm thinking a couple different knives to work with, some cheesecloth sacks, and probably a bigger backpack then I usually carry, and some paper towels and a bottle of water to clean up with. Should I need much more than that?


All you need is a suitable pack, a knife, game bags and experience with knowing where the joints and muscle groups are. I don't carry multiple knives nor paper towels.



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I’d never remove an animal from the field with guts in it. Typically I gutless quarter everything and haul it out that way. If I’m uphill from the truck and close to the road, I usually roll the guts out of them and drag them whole to the road (rare occurrence)

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If I shot a deer on the sheriff's front lawn, I would not gut it there..... but that has not happened... yet.


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Originally Posted by T_Inman
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I've never boned one out in the field. What all do you guys carry with you to do this. I'm thinking this might be the way I go moving forward, as I had heart failure not real long ago and have to be super careful about not over exerting my self. I'm thinking not hauling the whole carcass out would lighten the loat considerably. I'm thinking a couple different knives to work with, some cheesecloth sacks, and probably a bigger backpack then I usually carry, and some paper towels and a bottle of water to clean up with. Should I need much more than that?


All you need is a suitable pack, a knife, game bags and experience with knowing where the joints and muscle groups are. I don't carry multiple knives nor paper towels.


Thats about it. I have a small steel for touch ups, Use a plastic garbage sack to place meat on before placing in game bags sometime. Early season antelope I'll keep water jugs in truck for a washdown before meat goes in cooler. A good pack that converts into meat hauler is a must. Sometimes for elk quarters I'll switch out to a frame pack for return trips. Late season I'll use plastic toboggan. Its like filleting a fish. Why would you gut it first? Especially if you cut and process your own.

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Originally Posted by PJ65
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I've never boned one out in the field. What all do you guys carry with you to do this. I'm thinking this might be the way I go moving forward, as I had heart failure not real long ago and have to be super careful about not over exerting my self. I'm thinking not hauling the whole carcass out would lighten the loat considerably. I'm thinking a couple different knives to work with, some cheesecloth sacks, and probably a bigger backpack then I usually carry, and some paper towels and a bottle of water to clean up with. Should I need much more than that?


All you need is a suitable pack, a knife, game bags and experience with knowing where the joints and muscle groups are. I don't carry multiple knives nor paper towels.


Thats about it. I have a small steel for touch ups, Use a plastic garbage sack to place meat on before placing in game bags sometime. Early season antelope I'll keep water jugs in truck for a washdown before meat goes in cooler. A good pack that converts into meat hauler is a must. Sometimes for elk quarters I'll switch out to a frame pack for return trips. Late season I'll use plastic toboggan. Its like filleting a fish. Why would you gut it first? Especially if you cut and process your own.

And buy good quality game bags. Good ones can be laundered and used again.

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Originally Posted by gophergunner
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I haven't gutted a deer or elk in many years. Put the animal on its belly, slit the skin from the crown of the head down to the tail, peel off the hide, remove the backstraps and quarters, put the meat into game bags and haul them out by backpack, ATV, game cart or horse. I leave the carcass with the guts inside at the kill site.


This is it. Trickiest part is getting the tenderloins out but after doing a few you learn. I always cut up and process my own deer, elk, antelope. Enjoy it as much as any part of the hunt. Last time I walked into a game processing facility I about threw up. Amazing the [bleep] filthy carcasses that are brought in. Learn to process your own game. Invest in a solid commercial type grinder. You won’t be sorry

How do you guys get the tenderloins out doing the no-gut method?


Go in next to the hip. Be careful not to poke "the bag" and you can pretty much pull them out.


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Always gut where they fall and never ever take them to a processor . I enjoy skinning and quartering. Get a spare frig and some good meat pans. Leave in the frig for a week then process when I feel like it. Cut,Cube , grind,Wrap. All part of the fun

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I always gut them where they fall. I usually hunt alone (deer, antelope, elk, moose, sheep), and I see absolutely no reason to move the extra weight of the guts.

A few years ago I shot a whitetail buck in my pasture about 150 yards from my house. I gutted him where he fell, and the next morning I watched two more whitetails walk by the gut pile and one stopped and sniffed it. It was gone by the second afternoon.

On two separate days last winter coyotes killed a deer within 100 yards of my house. I noticed the first one when I got up that day at 7:00. I immediately walked up to examine it. There were already magpies on it and nothing but coyote tracks in the snow around it and about half of the meat was already gone. I kept watching it throughout the morning and the magpies were joined by ravens and a bald eagle. By noon there was nothing left but some of the hide and the bones. By the end of the next day there was only a spot in the snow.


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