Post by Icarus on Mar 24, 2008 11:32:37 GMT -5
Field Dressing Deer:
1. Make sure the deer is dead. If it's not dead, shoot it again or cut its throat with a knife.
2. Once the deer is confirmed dead, wear gloves during the process to prevent disease.
3. Lay the deer on its back. Find its sternum. Cut from sternum to crotch, penetrating the hide and the membrane below. Do not, however, pierce the guts.
4. Pull the guts out, starting from the crotch, while also cutting the membranes linking the innards to the spine. Take care not to cut too close to the spine or you may cut the tenderloins.
5. Keep pulling guts and cut the diaphragm. Don't be shocked if a lot of blood spills. It's expected.
6. Find the last membranes holding the guts inside the carcass, sever them, and pull the guts free.
7. Cut through the center of the pelvic bone using a zip saw, bone saw or by pounding your knife through. Cut the skin around the anus and pull the colon out of the body cavity.
8. The heart, lungs, liver, and anus can be removed now, but you may find it is convenient to remove them later.
Method #2:
1. Definitely put on rubber gloves.
2. Have a heavy duty rope available in your vehicle.
3. Tie the rope to the neck (or antler base if you are going to have the deer mounted). Throw the other end over a stout tree branch a foot or two above head high.
4. Pull the deer up off the ground so the hind legs are barely touching, either by hand or with a 4-wheeler or other vehicle.
5. If not mounting the head, cut the throat all the way thru the wind pipe so that it falls down into the body cavity.
6. Start an incision at the crotch, going all the way up to the beginning the sternum if mounting the head. Otherwise, cut all the way up thru the ribs to one side of the sternum.
7. If mounting the head, reach up in the body cavity as far as you can and cut the wind pipe from the inside.
8. Pull the wind pipe down so that it falls into the body cavity and cut the first membrane. The guts will fall down to the second membrane.
9. Cut the second membrane and the guts will fall out on the ground.
10. Do as suggested above squeezing feces out of the intestine, cutting it and tying it off. Also, be careful of the bladder.
11. If you have a gallon of water, you can now wash a lot of the blood out of the body cavity.
12. Let the deer back down to the ground and you're through. This is a much easier and cleaner method than trying to clean the deer laying on the ground.
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1. Make sure the deer is dead. If it's not dead, shoot it again or cut its throat with a knife.
2. Once the deer is confirmed dead, wear gloves during the process to prevent disease.
3. Lay the deer on its back. Find its sternum. Cut from sternum to crotch, penetrating the hide and the membrane below. Do not, however, pierce the guts.
4. Pull the guts out, starting from the crotch, while also cutting the membranes linking the innards to the spine. Take care not to cut too close to the spine or you may cut the tenderloins.
5. Keep pulling guts and cut the diaphragm. Don't be shocked if a lot of blood spills. It's expected.
6. Find the last membranes holding the guts inside the carcass, sever them, and pull the guts free.
7. Cut through the center of the pelvic bone using a zip saw, bone saw or by pounding your knife through. Cut the skin around the anus and pull the colon out of the body cavity.
8. The heart, lungs, liver, and anus can be removed now, but you may find it is convenient to remove them later.
Method #2:
1. Definitely put on rubber gloves.
2. Have a heavy duty rope available in your vehicle.
3. Tie the rope to the neck (or antler base if you are going to have the deer mounted). Throw the other end over a stout tree branch a foot or two above head high.
4. Pull the deer up off the ground so the hind legs are barely touching, either by hand or with a 4-wheeler or other vehicle.
5. If not mounting the head, cut the throat all the way thru the wind pipe so that it falls down into the body cavity.
6. Start an incision at the crotch, going all the way up to the beginning the sternum if mounting the head. Otherwise, cut all the way up thru the ribs to one side of the sternum.
7. If mounting the head, reach up in the body cavity as far as you can and cut the wind pipe from the inside.
8. Pull the wind pipe down so that it falls into the body cavity and cut the first membrane. The guts will fall down to the second membrane.
9. Cut the second membrane and the guts will fall out on the ground.
10. Do as suggested above squeezing feces out of the intestine, cutting it and tying it off. Also, be careful of the bladder.
11. If you have a gallon of water, you can now wash a lot of the blood out of the body cavity.
12. Let the deer back down to the ground and you're through. This is a much easier and cleaner method than trying to clean the deer laying on the ground.
www.wikihow.com/Field-Dress-a-Deer