Thread: I wing gutting an animal every time

after 50 years on this planet..45 of those have been spent with knife in hand gutting animals,started with possums to feed the dogs at VERY young age...I learnt something a month or two ago.....IF your shot could be a tad bad and MIGHT have hit gut bag....remove all the outer meat first,including the hind legs,THEN gut animal to get tenderloins and heart....that way if there is any smelly stuff it doesnt get into the crutch regeion and make hind quarters smell bit funky as can happen when gutting animal first.... really simple and logical when stop to think about it...but never have done so before...the whole carcass mentality from meat hunters was at fore when I learnt and never questioned the wisdom untill now.

there is another way to process animal which works well if a little time consuming. you start at brisket and ope nanimal up so all the meat stays on skin,basically only taking out the guts spine and rib cage plus pelvis...leaves you with four quarters and backsteaks on skin...if you gut it first you can leave flaps meat on there too. when you get it home can drape it over a rail and remove all the meat from skin..sort of skinning in reverse.... works well as can drape the whole deal over your shoulders to carry it out and meat stays mostly clean. you can get real fancy and remove leg bones too if really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X0bXTp2oGY

Cheats way. LOL .

Originally Posted by TeRei

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X0bXTp2oGY

Cheats way. LOL .

One of the best episodes ever ! never seen it before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4-q...Q7Khm&index=12

Look at vid timed at 5.00 minutes. Fast culler style.

Originally Posted by TeRei

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4-q...Q7Khm&index=12

Look at vid timed at 5.00 minutes. Fast culler style.

Damn, thought we were going to get some useful old time knowledge there, not a shitfest! I'll pass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPfzNNuOGsk

Not this way ok?

This is something you do get better at the more you do it, I am by no means fast but I consider myself proficient. It just comes with practice.
As others have said cut in around the poop shoot (a nice knife with a good point and reasonable length helps) also cut around the wind pipe where it enters the chest after cutting the wind pipe further up closer to the head. Carefully open the gut cavity using your fingers to stop the point of your knife puncturing the gut bag, pull the poop shoot out along with the gut bag, then trim around the diaphragm and pull the heart, lungs and osophegus out (cutting around the wind pipe as mentioned earlier really helps free this up and makes it easier to pull out).
That's how I do it anyway, just need to get hands dirty and learn, best way is get someone else to talk you through it whilst you do it, I found I learnt far more by being instructed on it rather than reading about it and watching.
That's my 2 cents