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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 26, 2009 8:45:38 GMT -5
MULTIPLE CHOICES....
When you field dress, do you?
Cut the pelvic bone
Cut the Breastbone
Start the main cut at the breastbone
Start the main cut at the penis/utter
Remove the tarsal glands
Cut the esophagus at the very top of the neck
Remove the wind pipe
Wash the cavity with water
Remove the bladder before the guts
Use gloves
Use a "butt Out" tool
Leave the kidneys in
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Oct 26, 2009 9:04:33 GMT -5
Put on latex gloves. Open-up the hide from base of jaw to butt with my knife. Open the ribcage & pelvis with my saw. Cut the windpipe & lungs loose and pull everything out thru the split pelvis using the windpipe as a handle. Remove all blood & clots with water..........
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Post by oldhoyt on Oct 26, 2009 11:24:58 GMT -5
To me, field dressing is what I do in the woods. It takes about 10 minutes without hurrying. I start at the rear end with a circular cut around the anus, then slice the skin only up and around the twig and berries, then up to the sternum. The cut through the outer membrane at the sternum with the tip of the blade, blade oriented up. Then cut all the membranes down to where I started from. Then cut around diaphram, reach up and cut esophagus/windpipe and pull. Everything comes out pretty easy. Then make sure the bladder is out. Time to drag.
When I get home, I usually wash the cavity with water and hang head high so no water collects. Depending upon the shot placement (whether or not there was any involvement with the paunch), it may be necessary to trim off some skin, or even a rib or two in rare cases.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2009 11:38:00 GMT -5
If you hunt out of state, there are several states with rules on field work. In Co. you have to leave proof of sex, so you have to leave the teat or split the balls and leave part on each quarter.
Water is not good in the field normally, just wipe out the crap and let the blood crust over. If on an extended trip in the field, use game bags that have been treated with a critic acid mix to keep flies and bugs off.
Not really a bad job unless it's on a gut shot animal, if it is, have a barf bag ready.
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Post by raporter on Oct 26, 2009 12:26:27 GMT -5
To me, field dressing is what I do in the woods. It takes about 10 minutes without hurrying. I start at the rear end with a circular cut around the anus, then slice the skin only up and around the twig and berries, then up to the sternum. The cut through the outer membrane at the sternum with the tip of the blade, blade oriented up. Then cut all the membranes down to where I started from. Then cut around diaphram, reach up and cut esophagus/windpipe and pull. Everything comes out pretty easy. Then make sure the bladder is out. Time to drag.
This is pretty much the way I do it to. No longer process my own so it is now time to put in the bed of the truck, take to checkin, then to processor.
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Post by hunter7x on Oct 26, 2009 13:15:24 GMT -5
never have cut the pelvis I dont see the need, field dressing to me is ike said above 5 minutes max n get outta there.
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Post by drs on Oct 26, 2009 14:03:38 GMT -5
First thing I do is make sure the Deer is dead. Then place the Deer on it's back securing the hind legs so they won't be in the way. Then I place surgical gloves on, then make a 4" incision below the Sternum into the Abdominal Cavity until I hear a "hissing" sound. Then I use the blunt end gutting blade and carefully cut using my left hand as a guide so not to cut into the Stomach cutting all the way to the genitalia which I remove being careful not to puncher the bladder. Then I return to the area of the first incision and cut up to the neck and cut the windpipe. Pull this our until I reach the lungs, heart and the upper "G.I." area & Liver. At this point the Viscera can be carefully removed. Going to the anus I use a pair of heavy prunning shears and cut away the two bones lifting out the bowl. When all Viscera is loose I roll it out & wipe out the cavity. At the house I hose out all blood and other matter wipe dry and hang the Deer to drain. I take my time and it usually takes 30 minutes as I like to examine each organ to see if there is anything unusual about them.
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