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How do you hang your deer, head up or down? Pros and cons. I'm sure up north( colder) than down south might be different.
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Usually head up. Done both, see no real difference.
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Head down always, though I rarely get critters out whole and normally just hang quarters and the trim meat.
This is for the same reason that some studies suggest not eating the meat from fish bellies….as that is where the heavy metals accumulate. Nastiness from the brain can migrate ‘down’ with gravity.
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Usually head up. Done both, see no real difference. +1
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Head down. Less hair on the meat in my opinion after skinning.
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Hide on head up
Hide off head down
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Why do you flip them after skinning?.....
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I hang them from the pelvis bone from a stainless s hook in my cooler if I skin them and I will remove the head. If I leave the hide on I hang them from the head so they drain out
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Horizontally by all four hooves.
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We’ve always done head down, easier to work on and pull skin.
They look better hanging head down too.
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I've hung them overnight up to about 50 or 55 degrees. I also hang them in a pole barn that stays cool during the day. I wouldn't hang them outside in the direct sun. If you have a good shady spot and can get ice in the chest cavity you should be good overnight into the next morning.
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Head down every time with one exception.
Head down leaves the open cavity to the top and allows for heat release, if hot out you can fill the ribs with ice to cool faster too. Also, it's easier to skin and keep hair off while doing so. Zero benefit to hanging them head up, unless you have to use a single tree.
When we antelope hunt that's all we have aside from a hitch mount skinning rack. If we drop critters at camp in the shade we hang them head up and prop open ribs to cool in the shade. It's easier to hang them from the back of a pickup that way. That's the only exception, and only temporary.
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Head down, try to get the hide off soon as possible.
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Less hair on the meat in my opinion after skinning. Why would that be? No snark - wondering why you'd have less hair skinning from the ass than the head?
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Hang with a gambrel by the hocks. Head down.
I don’t gut deer.
Skin.
Pull the back straps. Get the sweet meat / preacher meat.
Get the neck roast , front shoulders.
Pop the hip joints. Throw hams in cooler.
Done.
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Hang with a gambrel by the hocks. Head down.
I don’t gut deer.
Skin.
Pull the back straps. Get the sweet meat / preacher meat.
Get the neck roast , front shoulders.
Pop the hip joints. Throw hams in cooler.
Done. Ditto
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Head down always, though I rarely get critters out whole and normally just hang quarters and the trim meat.
This is for the same reason that some studies suggest not eating the meat from fish bellies….as that is where the heavy metals accumulate. Nastiness from the brain can migrate ‘down’ with gravity. I’m with you - I seldom get a whole animal out & also hang quarters and fiddle with them before they go into a clean bag. Never heard about the fish bellies! I’ll have to look into that.
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