How do you leave the bladder in? Think I'd have to go out of my way to do that.
Just leave it isolated by itself in the pelvic girdle recess.
Most times they are empty anyways.
You can pinch and cut em out easy then
If I see it is ballooned up .
Just let it be now.
DGAF about it.
Hose out body cavity with good water flow back when me and the girls ate deer.
Punch it with knife tip with hose on it.
Squeeze and flush out with hose washing it all away.
Use to carry a syringe and bottle long ago to drain em and use it for scent.
I stopped using scent 15 16 yrs ago.
Used to buy interdigital hoof scent sold here local
Used to use tarsal glands.
Did all that stuff and pine bough scent box for my hunting clothes.
Just gave up on it all....
Too much hassle
Hunt the wind, terrian, travel corridors, fringes of bedding areas.
I have delibrately hauled deer to creeks to gut out and get em rinsed out cause of full bladder issues spilling onto meat.
Espeically tenderloins and exposed inner hams.
Punch that bladder under water last thing after everything else is gutted with lower body in flowing water.
Helped gut out a doe for a mutual friend of rick and me last fall.
Aggravating me watch him struggle with his "sharp knife".
Handed him the buck 110.
Coached him thru everything.
Seen bladder was full.
Told him leave it alone and this is what we are gonna do
Got the bladder issue addressed in a creek after rest of guts.
He woulda punched that bladder more than likely and polluted meat for hrs before he got it home.
Bladder in slumlords deer was a deflated balloon.
This one let his go when he got shot and died.
Whizz all inside his hind legs
1/ 4th full when I gutted him at the most.
Didnt really give it a thought after seen it.
Got it to slumlords hosed it out.
Got it to the meatlocker.