Thread: Field dressing - best methods/process (not including hanging)

Originally Posted by Tahr

Here's a couple of things.
If you are right handed take the back steaks out from this direction (in pic). Make your first cut right along hard against the back bone and then start from the front (open the shoulder from the top where you start to get the max amount of backsteak). On the other side start from the hip/pin bone. If you are left handed do it the other way round.
This saves having to do gymnastics and it it comes off cleaner.

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Next I take the HQ's off leaving the shoulders on to use as levers if I have to manoeuvre the carcass. Preferably I will hang the HQ in a tree or bush, or drape them over a scrub bush to skin and bone them. To let the meat cool I do this (bone them to the hip joint) and then just one cut drops it into a bag or my pack.:

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That meat looks grass fed. Nice fotos. .

Have a small clean cloth rolled up with your pillow slips. Like a well used but clean dish cloth. Handy for wiping hair and debris of the meat. A lot quicker than picking off bits of hair with your fingers. As mentioned don't wet this with water before you start wiping clean any meat you need to. Water and raw meat is going to promote bacteria quickly. Then once meat is put away you can wet the cloth and give your hands etc a decent clean.

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Originally Posted by TeRei

That meat looks grass fed. Nice fotos. .

You can see their home territoryin the bottom pic.

Some awesome tips and notes. Thanks for the diagrams Tahr I found a video that has a similar method and they had a pretty clean result. They have the animal facing uphill instead of downhill like your video ~ 2018 though (minor distinction).

https://youtu.be/nbnp82DWMCE

Agree re: the plastic garbage bag - it's certainly playing with fire., However I've never left meat in their long, nor put it in warm and so I've thankfully got away with it so far.

Looking at getting those Argali meat bags from pointssouth when they are back in stock as I've heard good things & are super breathable.

I'll have to take a few photos on my next attempt / field dressing for y'all to critique

cheers all

mate have a butchers at my skunked again thread......my last photos are not a method often seen or used...takes about 20 minutes on the hill and another 20 minutes at home to get meat off skin...I did a photo essay of it on www.huntingnut a few years back.if anyone wants I will link it.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

mate have a butchers at my skunked again thread......my last photos are not a method often seen or used...takes about 20 minutes on the hill and another 20 minutes at home to get meat off skin...I did a photo essay of it on www.huntingnut a few years back.if anyone wants I will link it.

Will have a geeze now mate. Always keen to learn aye & if you can be bothered definitely fire the photo essay link this way.

Cheers man !

https://www.huntingnut.com/index.php...wtopic&t=10864