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Matilda, CGC
made in Germany |
 | | Barked: Fri Jul 3, '09 11:32am PST | |  | |  | | Im going to start hunting this fall and going to take on the challenge of skinning and gutting on my own, when i kill something anyway. has anyone here done this? I would use every part of the animal so nothing would go to waste |  |  | |  |
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Atlas
An offense to- the Gods. |
 | | Barked: Fri Jul 3, '09 1:44pm PST | | | | | | I don't hunt, I would like to but don't have the money or time at the moment. My Dad does and passes on some of the meat to us. However I recently took up fishing (I live on the river) and am looking forward to walleye and catfish dinners for us and fish heads for Atlas. 
You must let us know if you get anything! Hunting is hard work!  | | | | |
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Tessa- Sue~*In- loving- memory*~
Gone. But the- ledgend lives on |
| | Barked: Fri Jul 3, '09 6:16pm PST | | | | | | I haven't actually killed a deer but I have skinned and gutted 2 deer and 5 or 6 goats, plus a bunch of rabbits..
I couldn't do it without a gambrel (well. I could, and have but it is extreamly hard).. With a fresh deer or goat, hanging on a gambrel and a sharp knife I could have the skinning done in 3 minutes flat. Gutting takes just as little time.. I to recommend if possible that you hang the deer from it's front legs, that makes gutting easier. The only reason that people normally don't hang them like that is because they take longer to cool that way since heat gets trapped in the rib cage.. But that won't effect the meat. | | | | |
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Rocket&Cassi- e
pointydogs- represent! |
| | Barked: Sat Jul 4, '09 12:18pm PST | | | | | | I have never gone hunting, but I have skinned and butchered meat rabbits for my dogs. It was pretty gnarly to work with a 10lb prey animal by myself, and I really can't imagine trying to tackle a big'un like a deer by myself... I'd want to have an experienced person show me the ropes the first time through.
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Vance
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| | Barked: Sat Jul 4, '09 1:35pm PST | | | | | | I have a question - If you're hacking it up for a dog, is there anything you can do wrong? I mean, they don't care if you do a sloppy job removing meat from the bone, or leave gristle in the tenderloin. I imagine you may even want to go about it unconventionally, so you don't end up with a lot of nice meat and a pile of nearly bare bones.
I know you need to get organs out ASAP, and I imagine you want to check for joints so you don't end up hacking bones into small pieces. Although I can't really imagine hacking through a bone in the first place when you could just find a joint. | | | | |
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Sirius- "Padfoot"- Black
Too clever for- Mom's own good!- :)
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| | Barked: Sun Jul 5, '09 7:19am PST | | | | | | I got to help a friend of mine butcher a deer when he hit it and had no room in his own garage to work on it, so he asked my aunt and brought it up to ours. I got home from work to find a bloody deer and my friend, handing me a sharp knife and saying "Let's get to work". Okay, I'm weird. It was fun.
I'm going to look for a hunter safety course this year and get my license to hunt. If I'm any good at it, I'll go buy a gun. Until I find out if I'm any good, I'll borrow one of my brother's. I suspect if he knows I'm going out, he'll come along. 
'til I can go hunting myself, I have other hunters who annually clean out their freezers, so they have room for the new, fresh stuff. My dogs don't care if it's tw0 or more year old frozen venison. If someone mentions they need to clean out their freezer, my hand goes up. "I'll take it!". A friend of mine came through with a big grocery bag full of venison for me this week! Yay!!Edited by author Sun Jul 5, '09 7:21am PST
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Tate
It wasn't me, it- was the cat. |
| | Barked: Sun Jul 5, '09 10:53am PST | | | | | | I'm lucky in that my dad goes deer hunting and gives me the deer. In the area he hunts, they're trying to reduce the herd size, so he gets multiple deer in a year. In two years, I've gotten three deer for Tate (one the first year, two last year). I have helped drag the deer out of the woods, hang it, skin it, and cut it up. The first time, I thought I'd be really grossed out, but it's actually kind of fascinating to help cut a whole deer up--we'd split it longwise into two halves, and then across into a haunch and a 'front half'--ribs and front leg.
Because Tate is so small, most of the bones end up as waste, though the ribs are perfect. He loves to gnaw on the shoulders as well, so I leave a good bit of meat on them and use them for meals for multiple days. We divide the ribs, and then cut the big ones in half. The rest of the meat is cut off of the bones and divided up into packages, so I can thaw out one and have enough meaty meat for about a week. I have a 12 cubic foot upright freezer, and the two deer from this past year filled the two big bottom shelves completely, with some overflow of ribs onto the upper shelves. The first year, I really did a number on a lot of the meat--it was sort of hacked to pieces. However, I'm getting better, and once you've seen one deer taken apart, you kind of figure out where you need to cut to get the meat off in nice big pieces. | | | | |
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