Tongue's in the photo.

[Gutpile]

I sure as hell ain't going to spend 15 minutes

15 minutes to put the toungue in the mouth?   Hmmmmm.  It takes me less than 15 seconds to put the tongue in the mouth and wrap brack tape or a zip tie around it to keep it closed and wipe the blood off. If it takes you fiteen minutes to plop the tounge in how long does it take you to gut the thing?

I don't care what others do with there pics but it's undenyable that a pic with a relatively clean animal without the bloody toungue looks better. Thats just a fact. I don't care what others do with there pics but it's undenyable that a pic with a relatively clean animal without the bloody toungue looks better. Thats just a fact. I don't care what others do with there pics but it's undenyable that a pic with a relatively clean animal without the bloody toungue looks better. Thats just a fact. I don't care what others do with there pics but it's undenyable that a pic with a relatively clean animal without the bloody toungue looks better. Thats just a fact.


I've seen this subject come up so many times and it's funny how pissed some people get at the thought of taking a better pic.

[rasbo]

Im with gutpile on this one!

[DBake]

I wouldn't mind a mount with the tongue hanging out...

[luvtohnt]

About the Slit Throats, I don't personally do it, but if you have ever witnessed a good butcher.  That is the first thing he does after the kill so it must do something.

It  is a method to bleed the animal out, because hey are usually shot in the head (not much blood flow). A deer or elk being shot in the lungs or even the heartwill be bled out before you get to them, thus making it unnecessary to slit the throat. My dad was a butcher for many years and he never once slit the throat of a wild animal.

Brandon

[Antlershed]

I'm guilty of it in the past (hell, even last year) of not taking the time to shove the tongue back in. It really only does take a few seconds to do. This year I told my buddy to shove the tongue back in when I was taking his field pic. He looked at me funny for telling him to do so, but I think it made the picture much better. You focus on looking at the animals rack in the pic rather than the tongue flopping around. I don't think its so much about PC as it is just having a better picture.

[Triplebrow]

I personally could care less if the tongue is hanging out or not.  The deer is dead, dead deer usually have their tongues hanging out.  I take a picture to remind me of the moment and that is what it is for....to remind me, not to win a photo contest for having the prettiest dead deer picture.

[WACATHUNTER]

I'm with triple, and as far as bragging and having antis see it, don't brag, I am pretty aware of the folks I show my photos to.  If you think about it at the time of kill then great if not who cares.
WACAT

[croix]

I don't care what others do with there pics but it's undenyable that a pic with a relatively clean animal without the bloody toungue looks better. Thats just a fact.

Gotta agree with Gutpile here. I want to emphasize "I don't care what others do...". I wouldn't personally like to see tongues hanging out in my photos.. but then again I'm cooler than most 

[Gutpile]

I'm guilty of it in the past (hell, even last year) of not taking the time to shove the tongue back in.

I never used to even thing about it. I took pics with the tongue out, pics with the skinned deer in the pickup, dismembered deer etc, etc but the older I got I just wanted better pics that I could frame and hang, thats all. So I started tucking the tongue in and wrapping with elec tape. I'd Gut the deer and by the time I finished the tongue will usually stay in by itself. I'm no photo expert but I do try. Sometimes the adrenaline is flowing and I forget, but I do try to get the best pic possible.

This is a pic of my oldest daughters first deer. I kick myself for not cleaning it up a bit. Not a bad pic but it sure would have been better if I rememberd to just wipe the blood off a bit.


Now here's my youngest daughters 1st deer. Which pic is better? I tried to wipe the wound but it just kept seeping.  


Again it's of no consequence to me how someone else takes a pic, but for me I want a pic I can frame and really enjoy showing off to friends and family who may or may not hunt.

[Antlershed]

Again it's of no consequence to me how someone else takes a pic, but for me I want a pic I can frame and really enjoy showing off to friends and family who may or may not hunt.

+1

[DeerHarvester]

About the Slit Throats, I don't personally do it, but if you have ever witnessed a good butcher.  That is the first thing he does after the kill so it must do something.

It  is a method to bleed the animal out, because hey are usually shot in the head (not much blood flow). A deer or elk being shot in the lungs or even the heartwill be bled out before you get to them, thus making it unnecessary to slit the throat. My dad was a butcher for many years and he never once slit the throat of a wild animal.

Brandon

Thanks Brandon that makes sense. 

[elkaholic_74]

hey gutpile, what is brack tape? 

[elkaholic_74]

I thought this was a hunting site, not a professional photo site with professional critics!! With so many professional photographers on here ready to run down everyones photos I think I'm done posting photos!

[backwoods_boy]

SEND THEM TO ME!!!!!! i will remove all tongues and blood and make them pretty instead of gross....
:-)
so you can show everyone

[Gutpile]

Who ran down a photo? I missed that.                                            its black tape. Oops