Resilient Deac
Just wait until next year
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Never field dressed an animal, but how hard can it be once you get the skin off? I can break down a chicken pretty easily and how animal bodies are put together.
At least the way I was taught, step 1 with a deer involves cutting around the anus without nicking the colon. Other than that, severing the windpipe is probably the trickiest part? Guts kinda slide out from there. Like most things hunting and fishing, environment makes things easier or harder. You're typically in pretty cold weather on uneven terrain, and draining the blood on a deer face down without getting dirt and grit in the cavity isn't always easy. Sharp knife, shallow cuts, can be done in a few minutes if you know what you're doing. If you're bow hunting, gotta watch out for the broadhead stuck somewhere inside--don't want to cut yourself.
I've seen people just take shanks and loins to make it super quick. Those people are dicks, though.
At least the way I was taught, step 1 with a deer involves cutting around the anus without nicking the colon. Other than that, severing the windpipe is probably the trickiest part? Guts kinda slide out from there. Like most things hunting and fishing, environment makes things easier or harder. You're typically in pretty cold weather on uneven terrain, and draining the blood on a deer face down without getting dirt and grit in the cavity isn't always easy. Sharp knife, shallow cuts, can be done in a few minutes if you know what you're doing. If you're bow hunting, gotta watch out for the broadhead stuck somewhere inside--don't want to cut yourself.
Really shouldn't puncture any organs!
ETA: But yea if you accidentally cut the colon or spleen you'll spoil the meat and almost certainly gag from the smell too.
Jerky + venison steaks, though I haven't been up to hunting camp in a few years. My dad's brothers have a place in northern Michigan. Just 10 dudes playing cards, drinking til 2 AM, sleep farting for two hours in a crowded room of bunkbeds to keep everyone warm, getting up at 4:30 to go to blinds, and then sitting in the subzero hungover and marveling at God's country. I've seen coyotes, bears, moose, red fox, wolves. Sadly think I've missed the opportunity to see a wolverine; the neighboring cabin (which may or may not be KKK/Michigan Militia) has a taxidermied wolverine that's about 75 years old, but I think even that was shot up in Canada.
it was a really stupid thing to do, but my mom and I followed a black bear around Kings Canyon National Park for a mile or so at a distance of like 25 feet
only time I saw a moose was driving into Yellowstone from Idaho
That is indeed an incredibly stupid thing to do, Juice.
Dwight Schrute question posed to all of you. Why do you play dead during a grizzly attack and fight back against a black bear attack? Don't google it. Go.