anyone have gutting stories?

My first deer...I was wearing a white t-shirt and got so covered in blood while gutting, that when I stumbled onto the road in front of our truck afterwards, everyone thought I was shot :eek: They looked pretty pale, but once they realized it wasn't my blood :rolleyes: everything was fine :D Whether branding & nutting beef calves or gutting domestic animals/wild game, I always get that damn gag reflex for a couple seconds :rolleyes: No problem, I'll just live with it...KF
 
As a "Hide and Gut" man at the local slaughterplant and former skinner and flesher at a taxidermy shop, I had to check out theses stories.

Nothing overly funny has happened to me, at least not from my point of view, over the years, just the normal daily disgusting stuff.

One of the couple of times I nearly did gag involved the stench from an internally damaged, then rotten, then frozen, wolverine. Guess how I got to find out what happened.

The other incident was a bear hide that had to have the skull and paws skinned out. It was rolled up and frozen when we got it. When it thawed out, I found that it was turning green on the flesh side. The boss said we should at least try to skin out the skull and save the claws if the hide was no good.

The job got done, but I had kleenex up my nostrils before I was finished.

We also had a mountain goat from a game farm come in to get done. It had died of sickness and the owner thought he could make some money by tanning and selling it to some rich, absentee hunter to mount and to hang in his den.

This thing was skin and bones and green and slimy on the inside. I think it died from it's own smell.

A funny thing that happened was this last fall during deer season. I was told a deer was at the back door to bring in.

When I opened the door, there's a little convertible backed up with the power roof opening.

Guess who's in the back seat. :confused:

Yep, deer in a tarp! :eek: :D
 
I helped gut my first animal ever this fall, an average sized bull moose. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. That's the only thing that's really worried me about getting into hunting as I've never really gutted anything, but it was actually quite interesting. A moose sure has a lot of guts in there! I look forward to cleaning out a deer or two this season :D
 
fogducker said:
does not matter if a deer or a moose.they both smell like horse #### to me.. to me its no worse then stepping in a barn:D
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the smell doesn't bother me - mom says I was born in a barn, anyway...:)

I had to gut a young buck for a guy in our party one year - the moron had gut shot it with a 30-30 and made a nice mess. He couldn't even watch as I was shoulder deep into the body cavity (gotta love those arm-length latex gloves for that sort of work!) scraping goo out...
 
I can tell you guys of a story I allmost puked.

I shot a deer this year, second weekend of the season. I was hunting with farmboy. All the story about how it happened aside, but I dragged the buckfawn out to my Jimmy (yeah, I didnt bring the truck).
SO, I didnt gut it there, because of the blood I would have got all over my jimmy, so I decided to take it home to do it.

I got the deer all supported and loaded into the back of my Jimmy in and on Industrial garbage bags so I dont get any blood anywhere. (Which I succeeded)
All this has been outside in the open air.
After the deer was loaded, I waited for about 15 minutes outside of my truck for farmboy to come out, and no luck. It was dark, SO I went and hopped in my truck to start it, and I dont think my ass touched the seat before MY nose threw me out of my truck.
I've never thought to smell a deer up close before, especially in early Oct when its still warm.
F>U>C>K> do they stink! I'll sit with a bowl of green gut cereal brewing infront of me before I confine myself in a room with an ungutted deer with BO again.

I had a bottle of febreeze in my Jimmy, and 2 bottles of apple Buck Jam open. Good thing, or I would have puked my guts out on the drive home.
 
BIGREDD said:
Yummie??? More like Dummy! Ever heard of HGE? (this is only one of many diseases in the blood of deer!) and it can kill you bud. I suggest you read this before you ingest anymore raw deer flesh or blood.:eek:
http://www.uga.edu/scwds/topic_index/1996/POSSIB~1.pdf
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It happened once, and We wouldn't do it again.... In the future could you restrain yourself to refering to me and my buddies as dummies.... stating that it was dangerous would have been enough, no need for insults.... no matter how unpretentious it was....
 
Hey Goose, BR is a nice guy. But he is also half-poet.
You said Yummie...... can you find something to rhime with that better than Dummie?
I'm not jumping to defend him but I think the statement was about the danger of eating raw meat rather than You and your buddies.

BTW what did it tast like?
Please don't say : "like raw chicken"
 
We had an oops this year while gutting our moose. The guy on the knife was a little ambitious and managed to slice the stomach and nick the bladder. The guy in the photo is actually plugging the bladder with his finger.

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Hey Luv my, gutting with a chainsaw.....:)


Goose25 said:
It happened once, and We wouldn't do it again.... In the future could you restrain yourself to refering to me and my buddies as dummies.... stating that it was dangerous would have been enough, no need for insults.... no matter how unpretentious it was....
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Goose, you need a thicker Ninnernet Skin:D :D :D :D :D
It is a dummy thing to do anyway you look at it.
My old deer gang used to do the same thing with Liver on a guys first kill.
HAAH, reminds me of another puking story
Another Gunnutz guy was there too if I recall correctly.
(Paul, I cant remember if you were there, but if you were, chime in)

This was about 11 years ago, but it was funny as hell.

We had a guy hunting with us that was a big tough guy, or so his stories went. He was dating my cousin, and was a few years older than myself, but deathly afraid of her dad.
Anyways, 3 guys were walking in to push a chunk of bush called Smiths bush. (I didnt see it with my own eyes though, but was a part of the ribbing after) Kevin, Calvin, and Gentry. (Gentry was the tough guy, or so he wanted us to believe) Anyways, they're walking across the field to start the push when Gentry catches sight of a nice 6pt buck over on the treeline.
So he points at the pretty deer (with his finger not his rifle)at the same time Kevin Leveled it. :D

Calvin was a bit off centre, but one hell of a guy.

Anyways, they walk up to the small buck, and Calvin starts to gut it. NO sooner had he got the guts open, he poked his head inside, and pulled off a chunk of fresh, warm liver and ate it with the blood running off his face.

Well, Gentry hoofed his cookies all over the place.
So much for being a tough guy.
and, that was the last time I ever saw the guy:D

And torro, it tastes like raw onions, I swear.

I lived, but I dont think I'll do it again. :D
 
iluvmy300 said:
You'd almost think so by looking at the picture, but no. Someone just let the knife go too deep...
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I'll give your guys credit, you use sharp tools.
its sharper than some of the butter knives I've seen gut deer over the years.
If you want to see a guy get stitches, give him a dull knife to gut an animal.
Mama, I think that knife was a bit sharper than they realized. :)
 
nudder one

This is not a warm blood and guts story but rather the opposite. My avatar shows me in the process of starting to gut three caribou. My buddy (from my previous story) and I were hunting up the ice road about 5-6 hours from Yellowknife in minus 43 temperatures. I'm not trying to show how tough we are. It was last year near Christmas, we both had time off so come hell or high water (or minus 40's) we went on our caribou hunt.

Anyway, in the heat of the moment and concentrating on the gutting I didn't realize I was getting frostbite. After the second caribou my buddy took a look at me and said,"You should get back into the truck for a while." I was puzzled because I didn't feel anything but I got back into the truck, had a look in the mirror and just about s _ _ t my pants. I was white; not that pale white you get when you get a scare or a tap in the pills, but I was white like a glass of milk. With that kind of cold you don't feel pain and that's not good. Anyway, I turned the truck on and let the warm air from the defrost flow over my face. There may not be any pain when the skin is frozen but, sweet Jesus H. Christ, you go through agony when it starts to thaw.

We finished the gutting, with breaks in the truck, just to be safe. Despite the incident it was a good day which we finished off at his place with a cookup and several rounds of blood thinner.:D
 
Lord, you fellows have brought back some memories.
When we were a young bunch of rookie moose hunters, taking advice from a couple of the "Old Timers" we had our first moose down and Larry was taking directions on cleaning it, from one of the "OT's".
They didn't tell him to cut open the ribs and the chest to cut away the connecting tissue to extract the heart lungs and esopagus, but told him to "Reach Up, Higher" then pushed him in head first with a well placed boot.
Another picture, wiser now, we knew we should cut open the chest on the next moose, and had a clean chainsaw with all the oil removed and replace with cooking oil.
Ah Yes! The picture of John standing in the spray from the saw blade as he made the cut. And the mixture of cooking oil, bits of blood, bone, hair and meat embedded in his clothing, hair, face and eyes.
I think he ended up burning the clothes.
We use a small gardeners folding pruning saw now.
 
Goose25 said:
It happened once, and We wouldn't do it again.... In the future could you restrain yourself to refering to me and my buddies as dummies.... stating that it was dangerous would have been enough, no need for insults.... no matter how unpretentious it was....
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No offence intended Goose.... It was just meant to make a point... like Neil Young say's "Hey, thats just my style man";)
In the future I will refrain from leaving my cell-phone on ring in a tree stand only... and nothing else:p
 
One year a buddy and I were on a weeks elk hunt and one night got into the mauled wine. I woke up the next morning with the worst hang over one person ever told another person about. I thought if I ate breakfast I might feel better but after eating breakfast I thought if I could puke it up I would feel better. We had a bit of a late start so it was daylight when we departed and a short distance from camp came upon a herd of elk. I had a cow tag and picked a large cow which did not appear to have a calf with it and put it on the ground. I ejected my spent casing which fell into the snow so I was looking for it while my buddy headed up toward the downed animal. I was thinking how the hell I was going to get through gutting this animal without pukeing but by the time I got there my buddy had his sleaves rolled up and was already starting to gut it. We also had to check for a fetus as there was a study under way on the elk in this area and this was the last thing I needed. I did not let on I was feeling sick to my stomach as then it would be a game called "lets make the sick guy puke." In the end my buddy done all the gutting and it wasn't unil the animal was on the meat pole that I let on how I felt.
To this day, even the smell of mauled wine turns my stomach.
 
BIGREDD said:
No offence intended Goose.... It was just meant to make a point... like Neil Young say's "Hey, thats just my style man";)
In the future I will refrain from leaving my cell-phone on ring in a tree stand only... and nothing else:p
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You shouldn't have to appologize....
I was being a 'lil B*tch.
 
Don't mind dressing game at all ... but find most domestic birds like chicken & turkey stink when you open them up - far more "aroma" than gamebirds ( Had to clean a dozen chickens once for a farm lady in return for goose hunting her stubble fields pits in Sceptre, Saskatchewan - was it worth it - you bet ! - her husband was away at the World Series in the States ) Lots of guys seem to suffer the gag reflex ... generally the same type who can't change their kids diapers either ... now that stinks !!!

Did feel a little squemish once though, when a WoodDuck drake I shot puked up a couple of small garter snakes ! ( DON"T LIKE SNAKES !!! )
 
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