How To Field Dress A Squirrel. Gutless Field Dressing An Elk. How To Process Deer & Other Animals. How to Field Dress Deer Glands. Field Dressing A Whitetail Deer (2012) Field Dressing Deer Instruction Guide. A simple step-by-step guide to field dressing your deer.
Whether you call it field dressing, gutting, skinning or cleaning a deer, this simple guide should be helpful. GENERAL INFORMATION Well-cared for deer and antelope make fine table fare for many people. It is important to properly handle deer and antelope immediately after the shot. How quickly the animal is field dressed and the meat property cooled determines the quality of the meat. However, far too many deer and antelope are wasted or make poor quality eating because hunters do not follow the simple, field dressing rules of good meat handling after the kill. Deer Skinning; How-to Guide. Field Dressing A Wild Rabbit: 18 Steps (With Pictures) Tips For Gutting & Skinning Rabbits. Print this Post For anyone that hunts rabbits or may need to at some point.
Steve Hendeson has this video on how to clean the rabbits in the field in warm weather to prevent contamination. I have watched my father clean rabbits but I have never seen this method. This is the cleanest and fastest while being the safest method I have ever seen. This video is pretty graphic. Photo credit helicopterjeff Rabbit Hunting Rabbit Hunting: Secrets of a Master Cottontail Hunter SOG Specialty Knives and Tools AU02-N Aura Hunting. Game Preparation. TheRabbitWringer's Channel. How To Butcher. There are a few basics you need to know when you are learning to butcher venison, the first of which is: Dont waste anything!
In a survival situation you cannot afford to be picky. That cut of meat that you wouldnt consider buying from the supermarket, like tripe, kidneys, lungs, pancreas, tail and feet, will be too valuable to toss away. Another basic when you butcher a deer or fresh killed animal is bleeding. This involves suspending the animal from the rear legs; head down with a catch basin to catch the blood. Cut either the carotid artery or jugular vein by stabbing the neck on both sides. While the blood is draining, the next step is to begin skinning your kill.
From the circle extend the cut down the center of the body towards the neck. Be careful NOT to cut too deep and pierce the stomach cavity. The next steps in how to butcher is all about retrieving the meat. 3-Minute Cleaning & Cooking Wild Turkey. How To Skin & Gut An Animal. This post was done by a Forum member Alaska Rose, who is a wealth of knowledge of wilderness and homesteading skills.
Learn more from her and others on our FORUM This picture shows the most common way to cut the hide for skinning a game animal. The dotted lines around the legs and neck are the usual cuts for removing the head and lower legs. If you do not wish to keep the skin, you may want to just cut any way you can to get it off the animal the quickest way possible. The reasons behind this could be simple, just wanting to get the job done and you are by yourself and it is getting dark and you just know the crackling brush is a large bear coming to check out the smell of blood.
This picture shows the easiest way to gut a very large animal without being up to your armpits in the body cavity cutting blind, trying to get everything inside to the outside without cutting yourself or a gut. This is geared more toward moose, but works fine for elk or deer, also. Like this: