Thread: field butchering

Originally Posted by Beaker

You better bring some in May!

I will. Just enough for me

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Originally Posted by R93

I will. Just enough for me

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Perfect - I was going to buy a sea anchor, but I won't need to with you coming.....

Originally Posted by Beaker

Perfect - I was going to buy a sea anchor, but I won't need to with you coming.....

LOL! You will be too busy making sure my whiskey glass makes a clinking sound

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Originally Posted by R93

LOL! You will be too busy making sure my whiskey glass makes a clinking sound

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True that. And a reminder to find that $8.95 whiskey....

Getting back to the OP question, what are some recommend vids on field dressing ?

Originally Posted by Bonecrusher

If breaking it down don't store your meat in plastic bags pinch some of the better half's pillow cases out of the linen cupboard, it will give her an excuse to spend $$$ . I use a Huntech meat bag and pillow cases

I take a visit to the sally's shop or St Vincent de paul and buy a few pillow cases and duvet covers. Inexpensive, wife doesn't care if I get blood on them (as long as she doesn't have to clean it!) and I put a few $$ to charity at the same time. Works a treat.

Thanks for everybody’s input, I hope it continues

I think josh James has a video on gutting somewhere. Point south has an excellent video of how to get a cape from an animal.

I've only ever pit the gutting video to use on a home kill sheep

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I have taken a few deer apart over the years but last year I was with an old Mate who has done many years as a guide for US big game hunters - I shot a spiker and started the process to gut the animal when Neil said to me - hey wait a minute - tie off the esophagus (at the front end) - he ripped it clear of the neck and tied it in a knot - the esophagus is the feed pipe to the rumen which is full of all that green stuff - no gut contents are going to spew out of that when you pull the guts out of the animal - so simple and it took me 50 years to learn it!

Ask better half for any old pillowcases to use. I would be furious if they were just taken. Mr H. asks for all sorts of things and I never sayn he cant have them. I find the ones that are dispensable and hand them over; sheets, pillowcases, duvet covers, tablecloths. Us old people have way more shit than we need. now we can add meat to the list. I feel like i live in a butchers shop!

I wonder if Mr H knows that?

Heat, moisture and contamination can cause meat to spoil. Contamination can come from the inside of the animal (i.e. bacteria from gut) and the external environment. Hunters can't avoid these factors entirely, but the aim should be to limit them as far as possible.

Originally Posted by Herindoors

Ask better half for any old pillowcases to use. I would be furious if they were just taken. Mr H. asks for all sorts of things and I never sayn he cant have them. I find the ones that are dispensable and hand them over; sheets, pillowcases, duvet covers, tablecloths. Us old people have way more shit than we need. now we can add meat to the list. I feel like i live in a butchers shop!

Pillows cases are great. Absorb moisture, breathable and something of a barrier. Cheap and easily washed.

This very thread right here has as good a video as any
https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....utorial-78390/
But youtube is your friend here, there are a gallzillion vids out there. The first one by @Projects above is a good one. Check out Steve Rinella's Meateater vids, they have a North American approach to them on account of him being American but the video quality is very good

Cheers

Z

Originally Posted by imaca

This very thread right here has as good a video as any
https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....utorial-78390/
But youtube is your friend here, there are a gallzillion vids out there. The first one by @Projects above is a good one. Check out Steve Rinella's Meateater vids, they have a North American approach to them on account of him being American but the video quality is very good

Cheers

That vid has no tie off of the windpipe. Also the pizzle and balls are not taken off, nor the bung hole released and tied before pulling the guts out. Then at the end there is a wipe out with grass. If the windpipe is tied and freed from the neck and the diaphragm is cut round after the guts are out it is a simple reach in, grab the windpipe and pull everything down leaving a spotlessly clean job as a membrane lining the chest cavity will pull down and carry any blood etc out.