Just put a maxi pad in your panties, you should be fine
Now that was funny!!!
Grossness
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Now that was funny!!!
BigUglyMan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- New Scotland
Learn to gut properly and you won't need one.
BigUglyMan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- New Scotland
My Uncle and Cousin carry folding pruning saws to split the pelvis. Reach up and cut the esophagus and windpipe and then slowly drag everything out backwards, cutting free as you go. Everything just rolls right out between the legs. I've never seen someone pour the pudding out of a deer as fast as my cousin.
The only thing I would add to making gutting a little easier is if you can lay the deer on a slight hill/decline and let gravity help spill everything out as you cut away the connective tissue.
I find it somewhat amusing with all the modernized people who are high and mighty about how they only eat/buy "free range, no-hormones, organic, sustainably sourced" meat and then look at you funny when you say, "Ya me too. I am a hunter."
I consider it a point of pride: shot by me, gutted by me, skinned by me, butchered by me, cut, wrapped, homemade sausage etc. I did everything from field to plate.
I find it somewhat amusing with all the modernized people who are high and mighty about how they only eat/buy "free range, no-hormones, organic, sustainably sourced" meat and then look at you funny when you say, "Ya me too. I am a hunter."
I consider it a point of pride: shot by me, gutted by me, skinned by me, butchered by me, cut, wrapped, homemade sausage etc. I did everything from field to plate.
DragonFire
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It doesn`t bother me, just has to be done.
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BigUglyMan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- New Scotland
Yup. I'm with you on that.
The best way to deal with it is to learn how. My first time I watched an experienced hunter field dress a deer while he walked me through every single step of what he was doing, why he was doing it and what to watch out for. Second time I wielded the knife while he mentored at my shoulder going through every step. Like anything else the more you do it the easier it becomes.
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My brother and I were lucky enough to get two deer within twenty minutes and eighty yards apart this year. There were our first deer and having never seen field dressing before we Googled a you tube video on gutting whitetail bucks. The first one took a while and was a bit of a hack job, the second was way faster and cleaner. There was no offensive smell and apart from reaching in the body cavity to cut the windpipe free, no real squeamish feelings either. More interesting than disgusting.
To echo a lot of other posters, I felt a great deal of pride in shooting, dressing, skinning, then finally cutting and wrapping my first of, hopefully, many deer to come.
To echo a lot of other posters, I felt a great deal of pride in shooting, dressing, skinning, then finally cutting and wrapping my first of, hopefully, many deer to come.
cdn1canhunt
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- southwestern ontario
good on both of you!
prairie lover
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remember the deer has next to nothing inside of him that you or most mammals don't. its not gross at all, more educational. and I always inspect all the internal bullet damage.
I really don't understand this thread.
It's the killing I don't like and the last moments of an animal's life, particularly if it is wounded and you have to finish it off one way or the other.
I like the smell of a freshly opened up deer. And the blood from the heart lung shot doesn't bother me either.
Of course an exploded stomach is bad, no doubt about that, but I've never done that to a deer, just had to deal with some that others have shot.
It's the killing I don't like and the last moments of an animal's life, particularly if it is wounded and you have to finish it off one way or the other.
I like the smell of a freshly opened up deer. And the blood from the heart lung shot doesn't bother me either.
Of course an exploded stomach is bad, no doubt about that, but I've never done that to a deer, just had to deal with some that others have shot.
Chuckbuster
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
That's the way we do it too. As others have said, as long as you don't puncture the digestive tract, you're good to go.
When I think of it, it's all relative.... It doesn't bother me, even when gut shot...... In fact, the most objective smell IMOP is the rut smell a mature buck can get........
That all being said, we all have weaknesses..... Mine is heights...... Many would not likely be bothered by what bothers me....
That all being said, we all have weaknesses..... Mine is heights...... Many would not likely be bothered by what bothers me....
Suka
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Once was helping a newbie with his first kill; was just holding a back leg and giving him the odd pointer.........while eating a bananna. He just about hurled, said it wasn't the blood smell, but the bananna.
