Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting Gutting a deer through its side

I've heard of the gutless method, and of course the traditional method. I was talking to a guy who hunts the Adirondacks a lot and they gut the deer without opening up its stomach. They make a incision in its side about 10 inches long and pull the guts out that way. They do it that way so they can carry the deer on their back without getting covered in blood. Anyone else hear of gutting a deer this way

I’ve never been stout enough to carry a deer on my back. If he needs packing I go gutless and quarter. I have never heard of that but I suppose it would work, you’re getting To the same place just through a different door

Seems like the long way around the schitt house.

Sure seems that would be the way to go to me too.

What's his method for avoiding the deer's ticks?

I've never understood people dragging a deer 2 miles or carrying one out on their shoulders.

This right here. I’ve quartered whitetails around here if I couldn’t get a wheeler or truck to them, if I have to drag it more than about 50 yards it ain’t getting drug.

It used to be illegal to quarter in the field in MN.

I never did two miles, but a little over one with a mature buck resulted in the purchase of a game cart.

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Back to the OP: that makes sense but I have never done it. I would be interested in it for sure if anyone has any info. Soaking myself in blood gets old.

I lived in North East PA. , we used to get the deer moved with guts in because the swamps were so thick it was easier to tie them to a pole and carry them through brush. carrying them on your back is a good way to make a back ache and game carts were to burdensome in brush. Now here in the prairie a game cart stays in my truck from Sept. til January.....

Ditto.

Being Thanksgiving, and all, I am thankful for game-carts.

I can see it working but also can see it being work getting all that and my hand/arm through a 10” incision. Would be nice not to have that belly open for drag/carry and could see it being cleaner. As it sits I quarter and bag everything.

Apparently they turn the deer into a sort of backpack skinning out the fore legs cutting the bone and tying the front and back legs together to make each strap for the deer backpack

Ive seen the deer backpack pretty often up here. Usually results in a mess. Would be interesting to see the side cut work.

I've done the backpack version, but did the whole opening. The slit would be nice to know

I've done the backpack version, but did the whole opening. The slit would be nice to know

The deer backpack is definitely a rite of passage for young men up here. Shoot em and pack them yourself.

Been in beach mode. Pretty fun as it’s been good and a nice change from the wet woods. I deploy the packraft. Paddle in and and put the stalk on. When the deed it done the boat driver pulls up, tosses a line off the bow, and pulls the buck off the beach and floats it out to deeper water. Pull it aboard via the swim step and tuna door. I gut in the boat. Heater hunting rocks this time of the year.

Now that sounds like some fun!

Must be fun when a deer is loaded with ticks.

Screw laws, it's cut up and put in a pack.