feild dressing the deer

[Lance]

Sometimes it's called the poacher dress method because it's so fast and easy.

Keep meat cool, clean and dry! Do not put it in plastic unless it has cooled all of the way through first! That can take all day and night so I use a breatheable game bag.

I like to rub clean blood over the freshly exposed meat. The blood will make a protective scab when it drys and it will keep the dirt from penetrating the meat and keep the flies from laying eggs. Flies and dirt love wet meat! And wet meat collects bacteria! If you wash it then make sure that you dry it completely right away.

A quick way to ruin meat is to try to remove a scent gland. It will come off with the hide.

If you want to get to the entrails, you can easily remove the ribs with any knife, simply cut the soft cartilage that connects the rib to the brisket and lift the rib, the cartilage that connects the rib to the other side will break right off. You can even take off the whole rib cage this way if you like to keep the meat on the bone.

Don't leave any hide on. It holds in heat and gets hair everywhere.

Just remember COOL, CLEAN and DRY!

[dave]

I have found that just seeing and scaring the animal is much easier. That is my no gut method. It seems to work well for me. That way I can say it was as big as I thought it was with no problems from people that can't read a tape measure.