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Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 8,545 Likes: 46
14 point
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Joined: Oct 2000
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$25-$40 to gut a deer. Dang I’m living in the dark ages as my kids tell me. Used to be $10 extra. I need to go to work just gutting deer October thru February.
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Joined: Aug 2013
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Old Mossy Horns
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Joined: Aug 2013
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Theres a processor close to here that has a "drop off room" for deer. You pull up and chunk your deer in there. My stepbrother used to skin deer for them. I have helped him. Not unusual a few years ago to walk in there on monday and deer would be piled up knee deep. Never got any meat from them icould eat.i quit deer hunting several years because of them. I was tired of throwing deer away so i just quit killing them. After i got back in church, someone gave me a pack of meat from Weavers. Weavers gave me deer hunting back. They hang every deer from the time they leave the tailgate untill they cut them.up, usually two weeks later. Thats a gamechanger. Brothers in Hanceville also does that. To me it makes that much of a difference and thats how i want mine handled I've heard great things about Weaver's. Over an hour away, but I'm still considering taking some there.
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Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Jul 2011
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One I'm keeping for myself will either be gutted in the woods or as soon as I get it back to the cabin , hoisted up and hosed out with cool, spring water.
"Why do you ask"?
Too many people spend money they don't have , on things they don't need, to impress people they don't know.
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10 point
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Weavers is the best around
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Booner
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Booner
Joined: Feb 2003
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I don't gut them at all. Get them to the skinning rack as soon as possible and skin them. Then cut out the front shoulders, back straps, and tenderloins. Separate the hind quarters and dump the carcass for the scavengers. We've had a bald eagle around to get his share.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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14 point
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Joined: Jul 2010
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Sounds like the real problem here is that possibly a deer just ain't that good. I know some folks love them and need to kill 25-30 to keep the neighborhood fed. Same thing... a cow that comes right out of a pasture ain't that good either.
They taste better if you feed them corn.
No government employees were harmed in the making of this mess.
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Joined: Dec 2010
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I don't gut them at all. Get them to the skinning rack as soon as possible and skin them. Then cut out the front shoulders, back straps, and tenderloins. Separate the hind quarters and dump the carcass for the scavengers. We've had a bald eagle around to get his share. Me too. I will gut one in the field if I need to reduce the weight to load by myself.
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Joined: Sep 2004
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Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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I never gut a deer. I lay em on the tailgate and remove all edible meat w/o gutting or skinning. Feed carcas to the buzzards.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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I Deer hunt mostly on my land near the Cabin. Having the time.....I only go in January.....during COLD Spells. Neck shoot Deer.....go get tractor.....hang Deer with tractor bucket.....Gut.....wash cavity with well water. At most it is about 45 minutes from kill to being washed out.Go inside and make a Maker's Mark Whiskey Drink if it's a late afternoon hunt. Leave it hanging until things warm back up.....then skin and cut up. Make my own Sausage,Hamburger, Cube Steak. I remember seeing Ole-Time Rabbit hunters "Slinging" the guts out of a Rabbit the minute they kill them and never getting a any blood on there hands.....amazing how they could do that!!
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Booner
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Booner
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Depends on how far I am from the truck or atv… haven’t gutted one in years…
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If you see me gut a deer, it's because he is to damn big to drag. I usually get mine cut up on the tailgate within an hour or so. With temperature being cool, I really don't see how an hour or two will hurt the meat at all. Damn all that gutting........
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Hell bowhunting I may wait an hour before even tracking him. It could be 3-4 hours minimum on a not such a great shot. Never noticed a difference in the meat. ..
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Deer temps about 100 degrees. Your meat has a layer of leather and hair retaining that heat unless you guttem its going to be slow to cool. How many hours yall comfortable leaving meat from the store in your truck bed on a hot summer day? 2 hours? 4? overnight?
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I think there is a difference in gutting a fresh killed animal and chicken left on a 102 degree tailgate. Trust me I'm an ice fanatic. I want the meat cold pretty quick. But if that doesn't happen in an hour I'm not going to worry about my hamburger....
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But chicken, man if it smells a little off I'm trashing it. I'm funny about poultry....
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Freak of Nature
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i took its life, I will gut it ASAP and process it myself.
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
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I think there is a difference in gutting a fresh killed animal and chicken left on a 102 degree tailgate. Trust me I'm an ice fanatic. I want the meat cold pretty quick. But if that doesn't happen in an hour I'm not going to worry about my hamburger.... I wasn't meaning you in particular and I don't mean one hour is the difference maker. I just think there's too many people that are a little too comfortable letting a deer go undressed for hours after they've recovered it when it takes no time at all to handle one way or another.
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Theres a processor close to here that has a "drop off room" for deer. You pull up and chunk your deer in there. My stepbrother used to skin deer for them. I have helped him. Not unusual a few years ago to walk in there on monday and deer would be piled up knee deep. Never got any meat from them icould eat.i quit deer hunting several years because of them. I was tired of throwing deer away so i just quit killing them. After i got back in church, someone gave me a pack of meat from Weavers. Weavers gave me deer hunting back. They hang every deer from the time they leave the tailgate untill they cut them.up, usually two weeks later. Thats a gamechanger. Brothers in Hanceville also does that. To me it makes that much of a difference and thats how i want mine handled I've heard great things about Weaver's. Over an hour away, but I'm still considering taking some there. Don't forget your wallet and your checkbook... they are good but you definitely pay for it. Take your meat to them in a cooler quartered up you will be better off
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Old Mossy Horns
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I've waited pretty long on some hot dove days lol
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Ben Franklin
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Mine get gutted usually within an hour,and more importantly,never mixed with anyone else’s…
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