Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Does your significant other help field dress/ clean game ?

My little Chinese gal not only helps me when I skin and quarter, last year she helped me drag three out, one in the dead of night. I dragged the first one this season out myself, a short trip, but if I tag another one way back, I’m going home to get her again.

All this gun and hunting stuff is totally foreign to someone that grew up in Mao’s China, but she’s all in on “free” meat and fish. She has yet to experience dressing out a deer, but she’s the designated fish-cleaner here. I taught her how to fillet, something the Use-it-All Chinese don’t usually do, and she does a good job on the slimy hatchery rainbows we catch.

I call her my cheap foreign labor…..

Start, to finish !



Team sport, for the whole family.

Curious Paul, why do you leave the silver skin on when freezing?

She will hold a leg which is a big help. After that I skin, quarter, and chunk. She does the rest and the chunks are clean as a whistle before packing. Ironically she will not eat whole muscle but all of of the ground is used in lasagna, spaghetti etc.

Its nice to have it ready to go. Cutting into uniform thickness is much easier partially frozen. The freezerburn thing would have been real but with vacuum sealing that is a thing of the past.

But, I get it, hard to change how you always did things! Kind of like skinning, head up or head down.

Either way, they all eat the same.......great!