Field Dressing

[Beargravy]

I prefer to get the guts out asap so you buy yourself all the time you need to skin ,bone out,ect. safely.Most people that do gutless method leave a lot of meat behind .I hunt Idaho every year and you better get all the meat between ribs,tenderloins, neck.ect. or you will get a ticket if your meat bag is too light.To each his own but I am in no hurry while carving on a carcass with a knife miles from the truck.

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I prefer to get the guts out asap

That's what I have always thought.  The liver and heart are always a prize to me also, even more than the tenderloins.

[Jpmiller]

If you're hunting close to your rig, then by all means, field dress, drag to truck, and skin at home. It would be an impossible feat where I do most of my hunting. And yes they had a lot of hair on the meat, that doesn't have to happen when doing the gutless method. Its pretty easy if you take your time to keep most of the hair off.

What I don't get, and I made a post specific to this a while back, is why guys insist on fighting through the guts to get the tenderloins. Just wait until you've gotten all the other meat off and then spill the guts and get them easy peasy?! Am I seriously the only one that thinks this makes sense?

If I'm understanding you correctly this is something I have always wondered as well. I haven't had to try the gutless method as I hunt private property I can access within about a hundred yards of everywhere so j just gut and drag to the ATV. Why couldn't you get everything out but the ribs and tenderloin then just real quick and easy get our he guts? Seems cleaner and like it would add only five minutes

[birddogdad]

any of you peeled your skins with a truck winch? I have and it works great! tarp under animal to keep clean, couple minutes and poof you are done.. it does work better before animal is completely cool too...

[davk]

Lots of good videos on Youtube ... and probably more bad.  Check the comments and you'll usually get a good idea if its a good or bad video.  Lot of people have a little different way to do things.  Watch and read as much as you can.  Like most things you can pull good tips from multiple sources. 

[EmeraldBullet]

Lots of great advice here. I want to do the best I can on my first hunt, but obviously a lot of the knowledge has to be attained through experience. Thank you all for helping me.

I was originally thinking of hunting the 408, but now I'm thinking the Mt Baker area might be better. Anyone have some advice for a beginner? I'm not weary of totting through thick brush. My issue with the 408 area is most of it is private and you need permission. While I am able I wouldn't mind hiking in somewhere and setting up a camp and hunting from there.

[7mmfan]

I was originally thinking of hunting the 408, but now I'm thinking the Mt Baker area might be better.

I'm assuming you meant 407? Mount Baker has a ton of country, and some very nice bucks. As is the case with most national forest these days that hasn't been logged in a long time, finding deer can be difficult, and they are often isolated. If you put your time in there, you will find solitude and maybe a nice buck. Your best opportunity for that area would probably be the September high buck hunt in the wilderness area. Get high into the alpine, get away from the trails and you might find some deer.

 There is some private timberland up north in the 407 that you can walk in/bike in too, some you can probably even drive into. Some of that ground is open for Late Buck in November as well, which would be your best opportunity for getting a buck. You don't need a lot of ground to be successful. My suggestion would be to find some ground you know you can hunt, find a 2-5 year old clearcut in it and get to scouting. Learn the entrances, exits, escape routes. Find the best vantage points and learn how the wind works in the area in relation to where the deer may be coming from. Success when hunting blacktails often boils down to patience and staying in a bucks core area for a long time until he makes a mistake.

[csaaphill]

Ya I'm of the old school method gut the deer and drag to truck. I'd quarter only if I had a long way to go. Yep lots of videos on how to.

[WaltAlpine]

If you're hunting close to your rig, then by all means, field dress, drag to truck, and skin at home. It would be an impossible feat where I do most of my hunting. And yes they had a lot of hair on the meat, that doesn't have to happen when doing the gutless method. Its pretty easy if you take your time to keep most of the hair off.

What I don't get, and I made a post specific to this a while back, is why guys insist on fighting through the guts to get the tenderloins. Just wait until you've gotten all the other meat off and then spill the guts and get them easy peasy?! Am I seriously the only one that thinks this makes sense?

It makes perfectly good sense.  Just bring a sheet of thin painters plastic to lay the meat on to cool as you go.
No need to get a lot of hair on the meat

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[police women of America]

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[Buzz2401]

I prefer to get the guts out asap so you buy yourself all the time you need to skin ,bone out,ect. safely.Most people that do gutless method leave a lot of meat behind .I hunt Idaho every year and you better get all the meat between ribs,tenderloins, neck.ect. or you will get a ticket if your meat bag is too light.To each his own but I am in no hurry while carving on a carcass with a knife miles from the truck.

I agree if it is early in the day then I will start the gutless method because I know I will be able to get it all out.  I like to leave the hide on anything I can't get out that day.  I never seem to be able to find a good place to hang quarters that I feel is safe from predators.  If they have a choice of eating on skinned bones or chewing through hide they are gonna take the hideless.  Its amazing how fast three or four coyotes can devour a quarter that is skinned.

[csaaphill]

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[biggfish]

Get on you tube and search how field dress a deer with Steven Rinella, very good video he even touches on how he goes about leaving proof of sex attached.