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Yes, then made Let them do the next one. +1, They are close and helping hold legs, etc. I show them how then they have a good idea on the next one.
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Taught many - even had to walk a guy through it on the phone once because he didn’t shoot his first until he hunted alone…
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All; Morning all, I hope that wherever you are reading this that you and those you care about are well. In the spirit of some of the recent "Have you ever?" threads, I mentioned in an answer that I'd done this a time or two over the decades, so with your kind permission I'll sally forth with the tale. In the photo, we can see that when I headed into the mountains behind the house on Carly the Appy, I at very least looked the part! Someone once described me as looking like a 3/4 sized Marlboro Man and that sort of fits I suppose. One particular morning I was out cruising the mountain when I came upon a young fellow standing over a mulie 2 point looking quite lost. I need to note here that Carly the Appy was part Thoroughbred and she was by far and away, the fastest horse I've ever been on. Our method of hunting was a wee bit like riding a hot dirt bike in that she liked to run and I'd let her! We covered incredible amounts of ground in a short time that way and through the years I learned the spots we'd see bucks and would slow her down there. Anyways all that to say we came up on the young man in a big hurry! Perhaps he must of thought I was going to give him what for or something, as he looked a wee bit confused and a tad frightened. When I congratulated him on the tasty looking buck, he visibly relaxed somewhat, but then said that it was his first and he had really not the first clue as to what to do next. I chuckled, slid down off the horse and said, "Well this isn't my first rodeo, so hang onto Carly and watch". He mumbled something about not knowing much about horses, to which I replied, "Hold the end the food goes in, watch the end it comes out and you'll be golden". Perhaps I should add now that since I've been the community eviscerating specialist since I was a wee lad, it didn't take me long. When I was done, I cleaned my hands on the grass, took back the reins and asked the youngster if he needed further help? He said that he had buddies in a pickup down on a dirt road below so would be fine - and so I checked the cinch, mounted up and let Carly Gal go straight into overdrive as she preferred to do. When I got home and was telling my good wife about the morning, she turned to me and started laughing. "Can you just imagine," she began, "how his friends are going to react to his story? When they ask how he managed to gut his first deer, he's going to tell some wild story about a little cowboy looking guy who came riding up out of nowhere, hopped off his tall horse, gutted the deer, hopped back on and rode off into the sunset!" "They'll never believe a word he says again!!!" Of course I had to admit that hadn't occurred to me......😮 Thanks for reading and all the best to you all. Dwayne That is a great story, Sir! Thank you for sharing.
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I’ve lost count of doing that, Dwayne.
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Dwayne, good morning. I bet that young guy didn't tell the story of the mysterious cowboy. He probably told his buddies that he did it all by himself and that he was a natural born gutter.
I gutted my son's first and second deer when he was 11 and 12 years old. Then I told him that he was on his own. So over the next 18 years he's always done it himself, so I never really watched how he did it. Either I'm not there, or he has it out of the woods before I can get there. A couple of years ago he shot this really nice 8 point and it went for a run and ended up dying near me so I got to watch his technique. I told him that he looked like a monkey f^@king a football. I proceeded to give him a little bit of instruction to make it a little easier and cleaner. You learn something new everyday.
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Not only gutted but skinned and also butchered a few times for others.
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I dressed my own first deer...I was all alone and had no choice.
Fast forward a few years. My nephew had taken his first and was completely unprepared, having not an inkling. Didn't even have a knife with him. I lent him my knife and offered guidance. He punctured the rumen despite my warnings. Then he struggled mightily with the pelvis. A this, mind you, after listening to him talk for days as though he knew all about these things and had done it many times. I stuck my hands in my pockets and let him do for himself. I learned later he was telling the family how he f'ed up his deer because I didn't know what I was doing.
Mean old uncle that I am, he won't be hunting with me anymore and he hasn't spoken to me in years. C'est le vie.
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nope, i have supervised, however.
on my farm if you shoot it, you clean it!
i have some wonderful pictures of first timers with their arm way up in a cavity.
last year my nephew shot his first two deer with my rifle. in about 30 seconds he had both down and i supervised him gutting both then he helped us cut them up also. he can probably do it all now.
best story i did not get to see. my stepson went elk hunting with us and killed a bull. my partner came around the trail just as he was getting ready to make a mess. no, no, dont cut there, we got a better way. and he sat on a rock and supervised the gutless method. even stepson laughs about it. that and me leaving him at 4 am on the trail and telling him to walk up the trail till it ends and hunt. he said it got real dark when i left.
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Great story, Dwayne. While I've never gutted a deer for someone, I have helped friends out, but never ran acrost a stranger needing such help.
Hope you have a great week!
l told my pap and mam I was going to be a mountain man; acted like they was gut-shot. Make your life go here. Here's where the peoples is. Mother Gue, I says, the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world, and by God, I was right. - Del Gue
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Kids and grand kids, Field dressing I do the first one. Supervise the second. Laff when they describe the third time.
Skinning generally seems to be a communal thing. Whoever is around jumps in and helps.
I am generally the butcher. Usually solo. Occasionally a few hands to help with wrapping and putting in the freezer.
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Dang! What a skinning shed! And I’m proud of my lean to out back. That's what I said! We were all just happy to have a cheap cooler and ice.
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I don’t gut mine anymore, can load them right on the side by side, haul to camp, pull up on skinning rack. That's the method we got going on now. I grew up with and still hunt some with a guy that loves it but he can't gut nothing without heaving up everything. He will do it if he's alone but when I'm around I do it for him. He has cut up and bagged a lot of deer for me. If we are hunting together I'll gladly swap a gut job for him processing the rest of it.
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I clean my dad's deer and help my wife. My boys will get tutored on the methods, and be set on their own soon enough.
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They didn’t work for the kill, they may as well work for the meat. LOL
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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I clean my dad's deer and help my wife. My boys will get tutored on the methods, and be set on their own soon enough. “First one is on me” is what I tell any new hunter.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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I clean my dad's deer and help my wife. My boys will get tutored on the methods, and be set on their own soon enough. “First one is on me” is what I tell any new hunter. That's a good idea. I just don't want their next one to get ruined due to lack of experience, so I'll roll my sleeves too. I also don't think I will ever allow my wife to clean her own, JMO though.
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I have and they figured it would have taken this old man over an hour to drag the deer 400 yards across a field to friendly territory so they missed the gutting part and were in awe of my speediness!
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Nope, but I have stood there and coached quite a few first timers through the process. Everyone has to have a first time. It might as well be on the first one they kill.
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I have done both their first deer and first hog for all my nieces & nephews.
Gave them all a new Cold Steel hunting knife when I finished. A Mini Penalton model. Told them they get to do the next ones.
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