not so pros

[huskihl]

You skin then head up?

I do. The only reason to hang them the other way is to split them down the spline.

 

[beaglebriar]

He's just hanging over night to drain

It's funny how people handle their deer differently across the country.

Here we get the hide off almost immediately after they're killed. We hang them head down also.

I know some guys from NC that say they don't gut a deer until they get it home. Guess they can kill so many that it leaves the woods a mess otherwise.

One of them did that here and said guys accused him of poaching!

 

[huskihl]

It's funny how people handle their deer differently across the country.

Here we get the hide off almost immediately after they're killed. We hang them head down also.

I know some guys from NC that say they don't gut a deer until they get it home. Guess they can kill so many that it leaves the woods a mess otherwise.

One of them did that here and said guys accused him of poaching!

I hang them by the head and leave them as long as I can. I skin them when I butcher them. Never wanted to cut off 1/4" of dried out meat and throw it away

 

[USMC615]

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Grandpa is happy. I just had to help him gut and drag a nice 9 point out of the woods

Nice little 8-pointer...be some good groceries!

 

[beaglebriar]

I hang them by the head and leave them as long as I can. I skin them when I butcher them. Never wanted to cut off 1/4" of dried out meat and throw it away

Never had that problem. I usually let them hang for about 3 days if the weather is right.

 

[Genius]

I hang them by the head and leave them as long as I can. I skin them when I butcher them. Never wanted to cut off 1/4" of dried out meat and throw it away

That's how grandpa taught me to do em, so that's how I do it.

Nice little 8-pointer...be some good groceries!

At first he thought it was a 8 pointer, but he had one small point that was about 1 1/2" long.


It's a decent buck around here. We don't get the spread around here that you guys down south or the Iowa guys like Clint see.

 

[huskihl]

Never had that problem. I usually let them hang for about 3 days if the weather is right.

Yeah. At 3 days it wouldn't be dried out at all. I let them hang longer if I can. A week if it's 50°. 2 weeks at 40. 3 weeks at 30. I like the taste a little better and to me, they seem to be more tender the longer I let them hang. If I was only getting steaks from the loins, and making burger out of the rest, I wouldn't worry about hanging them that long. I try to make steak out of everything I can, and turn the rest into jerky. All 3 kids and I love it rolled in fish flour and cooked with onions.

 

[leadfarmer]

Good nite

 

[Time's Standing Stihl]

So happy for my addition to the shop. I feel like I stole it for $25. Brand new condition.

It was such a long walk inside from the shop!

 

[huskihl]

So happy for my addition to the shop. I feel like I stole it for $25. Brand new condition.

It was such a long walk inside from the shop!

Kegerator, fridge, or smoker? Or the boot? $25 is a lot for 1 boot

 

[p61 western]

So happy for my addition to the shop. I feel like I stole it for $25. Brand new condition.

It was such a long walk inside from the shop!

Nice score they sure come in handy.

 

[Time's Standing Stihl]

Even got a boot to drink out of! Lol

 

[Time's Standing Stihl]

Kegerator, fridge, or smoker? Or the boot? $25 is a lot for 1 boot

GE fridge. College fridge on roids!

 

[Time's Standing Stihl]

I wouldn't complain for a $25 boot either....there is a lot of material in a size 15!

 

[Time's Standing Stihl]

You guys hanging your deer got me looking through pics. This is what happens when I let a buddy barrow my gambrels. Had to use an old set of Harley bars!

 

[P.M.P.]

This is how I hangem the head low wouldn't want to skin and quarter them any other way

 

[huskihl]

This is how I hangem the head low wouldn't want to skin and quarter them any other way
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I've always found it cumbersome to cut the hind quarters off when the body is hanging from a gambrel. I hang with the head up, cut the hide around the neck, slit it up the back and up the front and peel both halves of the hide off. Remove shoulders, remove loins, remove hind quarters, drop the carcass into the tractor bucket and haul it out back

 

[Stihl working Hard]

Thanks, and right back at ya.

Thanks buddy

 

[Stihl working Hard]

Here's a before and after. Not perfect but much better than it was.

Looks great Buddy nice job there

 

[Dub11]

Sup guys just starting my Friday at the shop !!!