Thread: My basic How to Gut, Pikau Carry and Skin a deer video tutorial

Originally Posted by Ross Nolan

Using a cable tie is an alternative to tying the tubes, especially if one end or the other has a bit of damage. Cheap, easy and handy for all sorts of things.

That is a great tip that someone posted on the forum a while back (may have been you?) that I now use doing muttons at home. I still haven't learnt to take a cable tie when I go hunting...

To tie off the oesophagus without a cable tie, free up the windpipe and oesophagus together, then cut the windpipe, leaving a section an inch or two long attached at the end of the oesophagus then tie a simple knot in the oesophagus (the bit of windpipe stops the knot slipping off the end).

At the works, to open the belly we made a small cut and put your hand and knife inside and run the knife down with the blade pointing out. I wouldn't recommend this method for general use as you need a knife sharpened right up to the handle, and you have to move quick to have the knife clear before the guts falls out the opening. And the carcass needs to be hanging, not lying on the ground.