There’s a little bit more to hunting than just finding a deer and shooting it. In order to get the best tasting meat you need to field dress that sucker ASAP, which means removing all the messy bits from the inside. You know, the ones that contain the bacteria and foul smelling stuff that makes for stinky and unhealthy meat. Following Dan’s kill, I helped Tyler field dress the buck in anticipation of its pending donation and we got it on film, complete with a play by play overview from the sawsall surgeon himself. Naturally, if you’re not a fan of blood and guts this might not be the film for you.
Well….. How did it taste?
Are you guys donating it to PETA(people eating tasty animals)?? Glad you guys are donating it to needy families!!
Wish more people would do this!!
OMG!! Texas Sawzall Massacre!!! Someone call the SPCA, call PETA, call someone!!(running around waving arms in air and screaming like a little bitch)!!! Sarcasm Off.
Thank again for helping out those less fortunate than most of us are!!
+1. It truly warms my heart to see you younger guys thinking about those less fortunate. Points, guys.
Yummy, watched that while eating my lunch. Looks a lot easier than it was to clean my moose! Makes me want to go on a hunt soon.
I’ve only had to “peel” a pig before lol
I too am sitting here watching this while eating my lunch. A co-worker almost hurled there’s when they saw it lol
Quick question.
Removal of scent glands, do you guys do it first or after? I know many say use a separate knife, and do it first.
And thank you for donating to less fortunate!
I do it first, and then wash the knife.
They don’t actually taint the meat, they just smell terrible and will get that smell all over whatever they touch.
Sooooo, who gave you that cool knife with the gutting hook on it?
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Great informative video. Too bad you aren’t butchering it yourselves, I’d love a TTAG guide to butchering a deer. But donating the carcass to needy families is a very worthwhile cause in itself so good for you guys. Good first buck too, Dan. Congrats.
“ArdieVerde” does it slightly different. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm9jn_KyrJk
I always tie off the intestines at the very first. Any reason you guys don’t. Those little “butt out” tools work.
NSFW? It’s a shame that has to be branded like that. Now where’s my cane?
I get queasy when I slice bologna, but I still watched this viddy without a single incidence of projectile vomiting. Kudos!
Just shot two this past weekend myself. Should make for a lot of good eating come this winter. yum yum.
Edit: after gutting those deer I’m seriously considering getting a knife with a gut hook on it. I’ve heard this one is good: http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Steel-Master-Guthook-Concealex/dp/B000EUD3NM/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1OAUJAWRWCDUN&coliid=I13PLHX9ONDFG2
but it doesn’t have serrations.. oh well.
So you have your BSI but you failed by not observing scene safety!
I have never seen or done this before but I have to admit it was amusing at parts. I dont find it at all disturbing, Ive been in an OR for human organ procurments (harvest).
I chuckled a little bit when you first laid it out and put the front legs behind the antlers and then just died when Nick lifted up the back legs. No perverted thoughts at all, it just looked hilarious.
Great video. I always wondered about how this is done. One day Ill try hunting.
A tube within a tube, my friend. You, me, the deer and the hogs.
By the way, watching a recipricating saw used on a human sternum is ummm odd at first. Especially when the battery dies and the techs forgot to bring a backup.
To continue the EMS comments: When using a Sawzall make sure you have cut ALL the way through the object (impaled fence post in a drunk driver, hypothetically) before releasing the saw trigger. Otherwise the object might “shudder” disturbing vital organs. Hypothetically.
Nice job, this the the “work” part of hunting. Along with the drag when you shoot something that dies at the bottom of a ravine where the 4 wheeler won’t go.
The process is half technique, half skill and half art. Each time you will improve.
There are tricks that you’ll get over time. Tools that work well and some that don’t.
I’ve got it down to about 8 minutes. My hunting partner is a surgeon, his are done in under 5.
Keep hunting!
Fascinating video! I’ve never been on a deer hunt, much less seen one field dressed. Well done!
Watched this with the kids today on the big screen. Great video, glad to see you guys take your time and work safely even under the pressure to keep things moving that you feel with a camera pointed at you.
Great job guys. Thanks for this. For those that don’t have sawzalls out in the woods, any tricks to getting that pelvis bone split without piercing the plumbing?
A Sawzall is a little much to pack for a day field, if you don’t have a handy ATV. But a knife made from a Sawzall blade makes a great tool for splitting the pelvis.