Many years ago hunters butchered their own deer. Over the year's hunters have become lazy. Most hunters would rather spend money having someone butcher their deer for them, than to just do it themselves. That's ok, but you never know if you're getting all your meat. The seven steps that I'm going to show you can help you butcher your own deer and save you some money.
The very first thing you want to do is to hang the deer by its hind with rope from a poll about 15 feet in the air where no animals will be able to reach it. We use a poll because if you hang it from tree animals can clime the tree and get into the deer. .
Second you want to make sure you wash out the cavity start from the hind legs and work your way down to the neck with cold water, getting all the blood out, while the deer is still hanging from the poll. .
Third while the deer is still hanging from the poll take a small pocketknife and trim around the hind legs to remove the fur. Also make one slit down both legs through the skin and make sure not to cut into the meat. Now the skin and fur should easily pull down. After the fur is pulled down all the way to the neck take a handsaw and remove the head and all four legs. Make sure you cut the legs off just below the knee this way the deer is still hanging. .
Fourth while the deer is still hanging you want to make an incision down each side of the spinal cord to the neck to remove the tenderloins. The tenderloins are the best meat cut off the deer.
Fifth you want to remove both back legs and search for the roast. The roast will be the only large circular piece of meat on the hind legs. .
Sixth cut all excess meat off the carcass and remove the front legs. The rest of the meat can be cut into small steaks, jerky, or ground into deerburger. If you would like you can remove the ribs but its up to you. I don't think the ribs are good to eat. They are small and you don't get a lot of meat so to me it's not worth the time.
The deer spots me! ... Because of the massive amounts of deer being killed each year, deer butchering is big business in Michigan. ... An average deer processor can process 300-500 deer per season. One butcher can easily make $15,000 per hunting season. ... The Indians that lived here before Columbus hunted deer, my generation has hunted deer, and the generation following me will hunt deer. ...
(Deer and Erdoes 471) Lame Deer is inviting us to sit down and basically feel the environment or listen to the air and also listen to what he has to say. ... Lame Deer seems to be most hurt with the way we treat animals today. ... The manmade animals are allowed to stay - at least until they are shipped out to be butchered." ... (Deer and Erdoes 474) Lame Deer's feelings towards the way we use animals are that in which we take certain animals for granted and only think about ourselves. Sanchez as well as Lame Deer seems to love animals. ...
I looked up in horror to see the deer in the second headlamp. ... I had visions of the deer getting up and charging at me in a fury of anger. ... He had found the deer. ... The policeman tagged the eight-point buck for us so that we could bring it to the butcher shop. ... My brother gutted the deer and hung it to dry in the barn. ...
Deer hunters respect the animals. ... Figure 2: Mule deer infected by CWD. ... Their theory was that if the herd size of the deer was reduced, there would be much less animal to animal interaction between the deer. ... Not only are hunters affected by this disease, but local butchers and meat processors have turned away all venison in the area for safety reasons. ... Some of these butchers and meat processors turned away as many as 1000 deer in one season, leaving many hunters with no other option than to throw their carcasses away because not very many hunters are skilled enough to butcher...
(Neergaard, 1999) Inside the cave, the Neanderthal bone fragments were scattered through the cave, mingled with deer bone. If the deer were butchered for food, the Neanderthals almost certainly were too. ... (Chang, 1999) The Neanderthal bone fragments were scattered around inside the cave, mixed up with pieces of deer bones and bones from other game that they hunted. ... Both the brain and bone marrow are both high in fat, so the Neanderthals broke open deers" skulls, and apparently other Neanderthal skulls and limbs, too. ... The fragments of deer bones showed that the Neanderthals weren...
This is contradicted when the jealous wife is turned into a beautiful deer and left to be tended by the loving husband. "To me this is a pretty form, for she will be with us day and night, and it is better to turn her into a pretty deer than to suffer her sinister looks" (1605). ... He was then forced to eat the left over bones from a butcher shop. ...
These animals are slaughtered and butchered in assembly-line fashion. ... Because deer have a high reproductive potential and few natural predators, deer populations have the potential to increase rapidly. ... (Deer Nuisance Problem) Another article states: "Some places have too many deer and too little food for the deer. ... Knowing that deer can overpopulate quickly causes concern because no one ants to see hundreds of deers starving in an area because they have become overpopulated. Hunting deer should then be allowed in order to keep he population low and prevent the suffering of more de...
