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That's what I use and they work great. You really get a much better grip than with bare hands.

Jeff

I use the dishwashing gloves with the gripper ridges. They help hold on to slippery parts as you pull them out. Other than keeping your hands clean and keeping you from catching anything they also protect you hands from getting cut by pieces of bullet, bone, or arrow blades. tom

I use plain latex surgical gloves.

Just got off the phone with our glove rep. He says he gets several of these requests every year ("samples" for cleaning game with little chance of a sale), and will send me a box of gloves. That one box will probably last five years, if I start using gloves for all my game and fish cleaning.

JonZ: Colorado has a low-cost testing program that I intend to use, but unfortunately I'll have to clean & pack out the animal before I get the results. Obviously a positive test sends the meat to the trash can. Also, your post says that 1700F is required to destroy the prion, and that raises some questions. All the material I've read advises thoroughly cooking the meat as a preventative measure, which obviously will not work if 1700F is required. Why the recommendation? Are they hoping to prevent transer of the other pathogens you mentioned through the relatively high profile of CWD? Are they misinformed?

Incidentally, Colorado's regulations book offers refunds of license fees and "reasonable" processing costs (or supplies if you do it yourself) in the event of a positive test. Anyone ever ask for a refund?

If someone wrote that thoroughly cooking will denature CWD prions, then I would say they are misinformed. Cooking, as you said will kill most pathogenic parasites, viruses, and bacteria (trichonosis, rabies, e coli), but prions are different because they are never alive to begin with and are just protein (viruses aren't technically alive either, but most have pretty narrow temperature tolerances and don't survive too long outside their host). So, no cooking won't kill CWD, unless you plan on incinerating it, but it works for most other pathogens.

Good luck on your hunt.
JZ

I use the Nitrile gloves talked about, or at least latex gloves. However, since latex and Notrile are so slippery, after I put-on the latex gloves I wear a set medium weight Neoprene gloves over the latex. The Neoprene gloves have a non-skid surface on the fingers.

I hunt moose and other large game, and carry my game bags in a plastic box that has a tight lid. These are the things I have in the container:

3 sets of latex or Nitrile gloves
1 set of Neoprene gloves
2 skinning knives (pre-sharpened)
1 hatchet
1 large plastic bag
1 ZipLock bag*
3 plastic wire ties

*In Alaska one must leave the game's evidence of sex naturally attached to one leg. I place the ZipLock bag around "the evidence," and tie it with a plastic tie. The plastic ties are also handy if you have to tie the intestine near the anus to avoid messing-up the leg meat. I imagine this is not a problem with deer, but a moose leg is heavy and hard to move around.

No-I do not use gloves and never have,infact,I have never seen anyone use them to gut there game.Gotta get alittle bloody or it just isn't huntin. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Jayco

Me neither, Jayco. I have worked livestock and dressed game all my life without gloves on and doubt I could work with them at this late date. If I know I'm not going to be around water then a few of the handy wipes in a ziplock takes care of clean up. If they will take grease, oil, dirt whatever off your hands they will do for blood. Then dry your hands off on your britches leg. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

BCR

Working LE, medic, and ski patrolI always had a couple pair of latex gloves in a pocket and still do,,,picking up trash gutting game, boning game, cleaning fish,,,,,helps hold those slipery buggers....

I agree with Coyote.. When I read Utah's post about stealing gloves at the doctors office, my first thought was that he is just a common thief.. And that opinion hasn't changed. I assume he want's his son to follow in his footsteps.

Coyote and JBP3

The water where y'all live is running a little high in righteous and judgment, perhaps.

My time bills out at least as high as my doctors', yet the HMO has a policy that requires me be there 15 minutes before the appointment, and yet they often keep me chilling in the anti-fleeing gown 15 minutes or more after its scheduled time to begin. Perhaps the symbolic act of taking a couple of pairs of gloves keeps them from putting me on high blood pressure medicine.

For a good reason to wear gloves, take a look at this web site:
http://www.wildlife.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=disease.main

When I start worrying about wearing gloves to gut my game..I won't eat the meat if the bloods gunna kill me.If the blood is so full of "Cooties" the meat is also not worth eating in my opinion.

Jayco

No gloves, no cutting myself.

How many of the local "Meat Cutters" in the grocery store wear gloves when tearing down the beef in chunks for Steaks/Roast or even Hamburger?

In my off months from logging to keep buisy, I used to work for Albertsons/Safeways/Smith Food King and the Old Buttery's and I never once saw a Meat Cutter(They hate the word..Butcher) wear Latex or anyother glove...

Course, I am over 39 and times change..

Jayco

A friend of mine never wears gloves while skinning and quartering moose. He has never contracted infections from moose, bears, birds, etc. However, since I am full aware of the chances I am taking when accomplishing such chores, I wear gloves. Quite a lot of Alaskans already know about an infection called "bear hands," while others have had what is called "seal hands." bear hands can be contracted while skinning bears, and seal hands from Alaska seals.

Regardless of how you feel about the subject of gloves while skinning and quartering game, cleaning birds, fish, etc., at least read the precautions recommended by F&G and other agencies. If you work in a lab and handle dead birds, read the cautions too:

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/martin/newsletters/newsarticles/wildrecipes/infsafety.htm

http://www.extension.umn.edu/info-u/nutrition/BJ578.html

http://environmentalrisk.cornell.edu/WNV/WNV-LArchive/0728.html

http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/hunting/guides/biggame/fieldcare.asp

http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=482&q=162501

http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/fish/fishregs/fishadvisoryextra.html

Yep I wear them when I remember to toss them in the pack.

Honetly I don't worry about the diseases and such when gutting. But I am around a fair number of defunct critters each fall and I wear them to keep my hands from getting so darn dried out.

Guess I am getting kind of panty waste in my older age (note I did not say old!!! grins I'll be 47 in Nov) Either that or I am getting smarter.

MD

growing older is inevitable growing up is optional

I use those cow gloves when cleaning deer too. Much easier cleanup, don't get blood on the sleeves of my hunting coat. Good farm stores have them or bum a pair from you're vet, they're cheap.

I cut the fingers off of the cow gloves and wear rubber gloves - blue nitrile because I have them anyway - for a better fit and much better feel of what I'm doing.

Rationalize it any way you want � its still petty theft which makes you a petty thief. Makes absolutely no difference if you make $5 an hour or $500.


Great values you are teaching your kid.