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Field Dress the Deer (Gutting)

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What happens here

After arriving at the outdoor processing site, the first critical step is to field dress the deer. This involves making a clean incision from the sternum (the chest bone) down to the pelvic bone, carefully opening the abdominal cavity. All internal organs, referred to as 'inners' or viscera, are removed and left in a pile. This process serves two main purposes: rapidly cooling the carcass to prevent meat spoilage and providing a food source for local wildlife, such as eagles and other scavengers, adhering to a 'waste not, want not' philosophy.

Goal: Remove internal organs to cool the carcass and utilize for scavengers

Tools and materials

  • Latex Gloves — Maintaining hygiene during the gutting process
  • Sharp Knife — Making precise incisions for gutting

What they say

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yeah anyway so the first step in a process like this is you've got to remove the innards not the hide or the meat and we came out to the eagle tree because it's easier to remove it here and not have mega Predators around your yurt we don't need bears and wolves coming out to your place cuz that's what's happened and I will save you guys the bloody gory details of what you've got to do but I will just walk you through the first step so you guys both know cuz I'm going to let you guys do it you make a slit from here all the way down to the back you open this cavity up now she's she definitely got a full belly in there you open that cavity up and then then you pull all the innards off and you leave them in a pile here that way the ego's got to eat it but you've got to reach all the way up and you got to get the esophagus all the way from here so your knife's going to stop about in here this is where the rib cage is so then you got to reach in and you got to yank everything out well the organs are going to Super nutrients the innards are going to feed the Eagles so this animal is going to get completely reused from top to bottom from stem to stern so that's a good deal and if you

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