This is another site with pretty good step by step instructions and pictures...
http://www.angelfire.com/bc/canuck2/gutting2.html
http://www.angelfire.com/bc/canuck2/gutting2.html
Gutting Moose and Deer?
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Gutting Moose and Deer
One little trick that has helped me save my own flesh and blood is to wear 2-3 pair of surgical gloves while doing this task. I always used to get several nicks (some quite deep) by being a little too eager with the cutting. Wearing a couple pair of gloves gives you a few extra layers of safety and eliminates this. It also makes cleaning your hands a snap when you are done, and wiping blood off so the knife doesn't get too slippery is very easy as well.
As the outer glove gets knicked or covered in blood, guts, etc, merely take it off and add another pair. Repeat as necessary.
One little trick that has helped me save my own flesh and blood is to wear 2-3 pair of surgical gloves while doing this task. I always used to get several nicks (some quite deep) by being a little too eager with the cutting. Wearing a couple pair of gloves gives you a few extra layers of safety and eliminates this. It also makes cleaning your hands a snap when you are done, and wiping blood off so the knife doesn't get too slippery is very easy as well.
As the outer glove gets knicked or covered in blood, guts, etc, merely take it off and add another pair. Repeat as necessary.
I do not hack up the tail bone but rather keep a short piece of string and a short pen knive and cut around the anus and tie it of with the string and when i pull the guts out it comes with it. For the eshouphgus [sp] I cut just below the jaw as hard and as deep as i can and then pull the air tube out from the chest cavity. After fully gutting and it is ready to load in the truck i hide it out fully. When i hang it i check that the eshoupgus is all out as it wiil turn the meat green in a hurry.
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- Surrey, BC
w w w.huntingnet.com has a couple good field dressing articles. There's one that's deer-specific, and another where the author field dresses an antelope. The antelope one I found especially interesting, since he semi-butchers it by removing both front legs, both rear legs and the tenderloins, no gutting involved. I'm not sure how legal such a method would be in BC or other provinces, but it looked pretty slick and easy to do. Worth checking out, in any case.
Using the proper knife will help alot in this task.Many people use knives that are way too big for gutting, esp for deer. Trying to navigate around the insides of a deer with a 6" clip blade is quite hard and a bit dangerous too boot. Good way to get your hands cut up in the field. 
A 3" drop point knife is lots for both deer and moose.
I use a Russell #1 Original.
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A 3" drop point knife is lots for both deer and moose.
I use a Russell #1 Original.
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