Gut it right away or back at the truck?

[Evoac05]

Hey everyone! I just wanted to see what others did when it came to gutting your kill? Which do you prefer and why? Thanks

[YoterHunter]

gut it were i shoot them .less weight to drag.

[Hunterman]

Gut the animal were I kill it.. Why?? I like to eat the meat, and I don't have a camera crew to tell me what a great hunter I am..

Hunterman(Tony)

[steen]

Gut it where it is unless it was shot on private land and I feel the landowner wouldn't want gut in their field.

[Nilehunter]

gut it were i shoot them .less weight to drag.

 

[p-ohana]

Unless the truck is really close, I bone it all out. The only bone that I carry out is the headgear.

[BOWHUNTER45]

Same here ...watching these high rollers on T.V just kills me ....

[ghosthunter]

Well depends. If I can get a truck or ATV near it I will drag it closer to the road so i can keep it clean. Sometimes there are old spurs roads around. If not cut up and start hauling.

With deer we are almost always above our camp. So we do a quick feild dress throw in in or on a sled and head down to camp or the road.

[NWBREW]

Gut it where it lies.

[elkaholic]

LOL! Good way to put it. Why tale all that extra back with ya?? Unless its a duck

[Emptyhanded]

Well depends. If I can get a truck or ATV near it I will drag it closer to the road so i can keep it clean.

 

[TheHunt]

I gut it right away to cool the meat down.  I also take the hide off and slice the hip joint to cool the meat. 

[Alan K]

If it's a reasonable downhill drag to a road I'll leave the guts in until I get down there to keep brush/dirt/hair from getting in on the meat as best I can.  Anything downhill or very far from a road, lighten the load!

[Wea300mag]

If it's a reasonable downhill drag to a road I'll leave the guts in until I get down there to keep brush/dirt/hair from getting in on the meat as best I can. 

+1

[wapiti hunter2]

Once it hits the dirt, it's all about meat care. Gut it where it lies.  If you have to drag it, you drag less weight.  Unless I am almost on the road, I gut, skin and quarter it right there.  Get the meat cooling ASAP.