Gutless method... where's Fred Eichler when you need him!

[9.3mauser]

Forced by circumstance to try this out today...

Not so easy when you're going from memory after having only seen it on video, and months ago at that. Got it done, but decidedly untidy, and took a damnsight more than 10 minutes too.

Sorry, no pics, ( not good ones anyway ). Preoccupied with other things at the time.

 

[M12shooter]

We did that with a moose one year...way back in the bush.

 

[sheephunter]

It gets easier with practice!

 

[billdick]

I've been doing it for probably twenty years. The quicker you get the meat off the bones and cooled down the better it tastes.

 

[9.3mauser]

It would have helped immensely if I'd been with someone who'd done it before... in fact, it would have helped immensely to have had someone to help drag Bucky out of the swamp!

 

[Gatehouse]

If you do your own butchering gutless shouldn't be too confusing. You basically do the same thing with a whole hanging carcass anyway.

 

[xeon]

I've done both ways and prefer gutless for bears, and the "traditional" way for deer so I can get all the meat off.

I don't know if I'd be too keen on slicing through the hair, I'd rather skin it on the ground and take off quarters. I find dirt washes off a bit easier than hair.

 

[trevj]

All I see when I watch him work, is a whole LOT of cut up hairs ending up in everything. His knife-work is frikken atrocious, IMO.

Takes a second or two more to poke the tip of the blade in, and cut through the hide from the inside out, and it saves a bunch of cleaning later. Far fewer cut hairs.

Cheers
Trev

 

[billdick]

I get all the meat. You have to open the belly to get the tenderloins and if you haven't gut shot it pull the hanging tender out of the sack where the diaphrams meet the spine.

 

[Kelly Timoffee]

I think I will keep the hide on until I get the animal off the ground and in the air.

Doing that in the bush is a dirty adventure it looks like, doing it without snow looks even dirtier.

 

[Big Jon]

If you could walk and chew gum, you could keep meat clean when you break 'em down like this....nothing to it.

 

[xeon]

All I see when I watch him work, is a whole LOT of cut up hairs ending up in everything. His knife-work is frikken atrocious, IMO.

I've never even heard of anyone using a multi-tool before to quarter an elk. He didn't even need to use that to prove a point, I think he just forgot his knife.

 

[horshur]

you need to cut it up a bit different if preparing for taxi...

 

[deerfarmer]

That is some food for thought. Never know when you might find yourself far from the beaten path and need to pack it out.

 

[Gatehouse]

You don't need to get hair on it. You can get every scrap of meat. You can keep your meat clean. It all depends on you.

 

[Lead Loader]

I did this a month ago, found a deer on the way home, a nice 8 pt, he was quite mangled up front and didnt want to get into the exploded insides, so i did the gutless method till i hit the front upper part of the legs to the backstrap that had bone fragments everywere, took me about 2-3 hrs to seperate every muscle group and bag it all.

 

[sheephunter]

I get all the meat. You have to open the belly to get the tenderloins

No you don't...just make a slit in the flank along the spine and reach in. They are right there.

 

[xBrokenswordx]

Just tried this for the first time on Saturday for my first elk. This was the easy part

 

[Norton]

http://hog-blog.com/backcountry-bre...o-field-process-game-with-the-gutless-method/

This is a good video for doing a deer gutless.
His technique of folding the front leg inside a hide cut and taking it off is a good tip.
Personally I think a lot of people carry too big of a knife for handling deer, my knife of choice is a little Buck knife with a 3” long blade.