Gutless Field Dressing

[Huntn coues]

I just have to ask if anyone has tried the buttout tool?

 

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[Kevin]

I'd put my gutless method up against any way, any body wants to field dress an animal. There should be no more waste or hair on any thing if it is done right. I do take the ribs to. A pair of pruning shears that I use to build blinds or clear shooting lanes will snap the ribs off cleanly with no bone chips in my meat! If you don't want to pack the bone out, trim the meat off the outside and between the ribs. Just because you field dress with the gutless method doesn't make you a slob!

 

Kevin

[Huntn coues]

I tried it on my deer last year, and I will never go back.

 

 

The butt out tool or the gutless method?

 

 

[GameHauler]

If I can get the GameGetter to it

I prefur to pull it up in a tree by the head

and gut it, makes that part real easy.

Then load it and take it back to camp.

Hang it by the rear gambles and skin it

As you pull it up.

If it has to be pack out I will go gutless.

[Browning'sCustomMeat]

HNC, yes i have tried it and was not too impressed with it. I can see the point of the whole thing is you are a whopping 1/2 mile from the truck.....kidding! Would I do it again......probably not. I will always gut out any animal. I personally can keep it cleaner that way, less hair and muck and can save a lot more meat. If the gutless way is the way anybody wants to go.....to each their own. However anyone can keep their meat from getting dirty, hairy, and hacked is the way one should do it.......and yes.

 

-Jeremy-

[Huntn coues]

HNC, yes i have tried it and was not too impressed with it. I can see the point of the whole thing is you are a whopping 1/2 mile from the truck.....kidding! Would I do it again......probably not. I will always gut out any animal. I personally can keep it cleaner that way, less hair and muck and can save a lot more meat. If the gutless way is the way anybody wants to go.....to each their own. However anyone can keep their meat from getting dirty, hairy, and hacked is the way one should do it.......and yes.

 

-Jeremy-

 

That would be a verticle 1/2 mile..

 

dang it now I am starting to sound like lark.

 

 

[tjhunt2]

Actually, I can't remember how many elk we have brought into our elk camp with the help of Game Haulers's Game Getter called Amber. You drive to the elk and pick it up, take it away from the water hole and gut it hung by Amber, and then drop it back in Amber and take it to camp where you skin it as you pull it up into the tree with a vehicle and have a few cocktails as you skin it out in comfort. It never got any easier than that. That has been our preferred way but we have had to do the gutless a few times. The gutless way is the way to go if you don't have a trophy elk. A trophy elk is bull or cow that can be driven to.

Maybe GameHauler will post a pic of Amber for those who haven't seen her.

 

TJ

[GameHauler]

Link:

http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/in...86&hl=amber

[tjhunt2]

Link:

http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/in...86&hl=amber

 

Thanks for showing her Mike. All the hard work that went into Amber definitely has made it easier on many of backs including mine.

 

It has the gutless method beat all to heck.

 

TJ

[Ron G.]

Used the gutless method on 3 elk and a bear I helped out on last year. If I can get a vehicle to the animal, I'll probably gut it out and load it up, but if any sort of a packout is necessary, gutless is the way to go for me. I carry an extra emergency space blanket to put on the ground and and as I cut the meat off the animal I lay it on space blanket to cool. If going gutless then game bags are pretty much mandatory to pack with you to help keep meet clean.

 

I think using the gutless method provides opportunity for dirty meat if you are not being careful, if care is taken it can be just as clean.

 

I've unfortunately seen plenty of animals that were gutted (and skinned) that were plenty filthy.

 

I know I stay cleaner using the gutless method!

 

Ron

 

[GameHauler]

I am having a real hard time figuring out why gutless could be any dirtier.

If you are packing an animal out you still have to skin, and quarter it plus more.

The only difference is you are not stepping in a gut pile while trying to do this.

Cape it, lay the hide out to keep the meat clean and all is GOOD.

Taking the time to gut and having the mess makes no since to me.

Heaven forbid it was gut shoot and have to smell it as you prepped it to pack out.

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[GameHauler]

Good thought with the space blanket Ron.

I would think it would fill up pretty quick with an Elk.

I carry electrical pull cord or Mule tape if you want

so I can hang the meat in trees to help cool.

 

[hunter4life]

The gutless method is the only way to go if you have to carry out the meat very far. It is quick and clean and works especially well if a bullet penetrates into the abdominal cavity, because then you don't have to get your hands dirty pulling out the guts that have been punctured. The tenderloins are easy to get once you have seen someone do it. Just cut along the side of the vertebrae starting at the last rib and then you can reach in and use your knife to cut out the tenderloins. If done properly the approach is entirely retroperitoneal and you don't even enter the peritoneal cavity where the guts sit. This is hard to describe, but simple when you see it done.

 

I think that if many of the doubters of this method saw someone do it who knows what they are doing, then they would become believers in the gutless method. I have shown it to lots of people and they have all been impressed with it.

 

I also do not see how gutting an animal is any cleaner because you still have to skin it and quarter it at some point if you have to carry it back to the truck. All gutting does is add an unnecessary step that has the potential to get you dirty if you poke the guts or if a bullet fragment already did.

[GameHauler]

retroperitoneal

peritoneal cavity

And my Dad was a college anatomy professor

 

I got a flawangie(I know the spelling is wrong) for ya bud

 

[Red Rabbit]

Handling the guts is also a good way to invite bacterial infection into cuts and cracks in your skin. A good reason to wear surgeon gloves.