Deer hunting, getting it butchered.

**caesius** · 2nd October 2007, 09:22

Originally Posted by Goblin

Yeah I'd love to shoot one myself too.

Looks like fun to me. Spose it depends on the area you live too. Around here there are hunters utes parked up everywhere and on any day of the week.

When you do start to fill ya freezer you might want to get other types of meat too as eating the same thing week after week can get a bit monotonous.

Hell yes fun.

Hmmm you're right about getting bored. Steal a cow perhaps?

**caesius** · 2nd October 2007, 09:25

Originally Posted by riffer

Exactly. And the taste of near raw venison back steaks lasts long after the agony of dragging the animal out of the forest is forgotten.

Like trout fishing, more than half the fun in the adventure catching the damn things.

I wasn't aware there was any other way to eat a steak than near raw?

**riffer** · 2nd October 2007, 09:48

Originally Posted by caesius

I wasn't aware there was any other way to eat a steak than near raw?

Yes, well apparently some heathens actually don't like the taste of blood ya know...

**jrandom** · 2nd October 2007, 09:52

If you just want to fill the freezer, the trick is to know where reasonably large groups of deer hang out.

Often this will be on land that you may not be easily able to arrange access to with full permission, so, er... yes. Once you locate a harvestable herd, you can just sneak back and take one every time supply runs low, but the trick is to know where they are so that you can drive straight to your 'insertion point' and be reasonably sure of finding them within a couple of hours.

Have you done much deerstalking before?

To be honest, if it's a budget thing, what with petrol used to travel around, butcher's fees, and general time wastage, I'd be inclined to just buy whatever beef is on special at the Mad Butcher and make do with that...

**Goblin** · 2nd October 2007, 09:59

Originally Posted by caesius

Hell yes fun.

Hmmm you're right about getting bored. Steal a cow perhaps?

Sheep are easier.

**Krusti** · 2nd October 2007, 10:42

Originally Posted by jrandom

If you just want to fill the freezer, the trick is to know where reasonably large groups of deer hang out.

Often this will be on land that you may not be easily able to arrange access to with full permission, so, er... yes. Once you locate a harvestable herd, you can just sneak back and take one every time supply runs low, but the trick is to know where they are so that you can drive straight to your 'insertion point' and be reasonably sure of finding them within a couple of hours.

Have you done much deerstalking before?

To be honest, if it's a budget thing, what with petrol used to travel around, butcher's fees, and general time wastage, I'd be inclined to just buy whatever beef is on special at the Mad Butcher and make do with that...

Will the farmer not get pissed off though?

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**one-speed** · 2nd October 2007, 10:54

yep it's not really that easy
first you gotta find one,
then you gotta shoot it.Hopefully your aim is good so it do'nt suffer.
then gut it that even means puting ya hand up u know what.
then ya gotta get it back to the car,
then hang it for 2 or three day's,
and by the the time ya done that you might of found a butcher

**Colapop** · 2nd October 2007, 10:59

I can shoot good. I don't have a gun, or much hunting knowledge but I'm keen to fill the pantry... Hunting spots around Welly? Hmmm I reckon the back of Wainui and Rimutakas would possibly be good spots... Hunting shops would have a bit of local knowledge...?

**scumdog** · 2nd October 2007, 12:10

Buy a small block&tackle, hook a gambrel through its legs and hang the beast up from a beam in the gargre. (in the shower is also good if you can do it - makes the clean-up easy)

And get a couple of good sharp knives and a heap of bags and learn to cut the bugger up yourself. (The library will have a couple of deer hunting books that include how to cut up the deer wot you have just made dead).

**caesius** · 2nd October 2007, 13:29

I'd love to do it myself but I don't wanna make an arse of the meat cuts. I've been reading up how to gut them while still in the bush though.

I thought when you hung it up it had to be in a chiller (a LARGE chiller)?

I'm all for the DIY approach, I gotta learn someday. I'm not too sure how a flattie would feel driving their car into the garage only to find a headless carcass.

!!!

Oh god, or a gal going to take a shower and finding said headless carcass hanging next to her Parmolive naturals. On second thoughts holly hell that could be entertaining...

**jrandom** · 2nd October 2007, 13:59

Gutting the buggers where they lie is a piece of cake if you don't mind a bit of blood on your shirt sleeves.

Skinning and butchering beasts properly takes a bit of practice, I still spend over an hour doing an animal these days and my results are never very professional-looking.

You can get videos etc that teach butchering, I'd say they'd be good value (should check them out myself, actually...)

**one-speed** · 2nd October 2007, 14:22

yep my x came home one night
and there it was bambi hanging up in the shed.
but she did get over it
lol

**deanohit** · 2nd October 2007, 15:06

Yea, it's not hard to cut up an animal once you have been shown how to. A deer or sheep is fairly easy to skin compared to a pig if you've got them hanging right. Just take ya time, takes me over an hour to skin a big pig still, but I can do 3 sheep in that time now. You don't need a chiller to hang an animal if you have a cool, shady corner of the shed. Although the mate I was talking about before has a proper chiller that he can hang 6 big pigs in. Mad keen bloke though and he sells alot of the meat he catches. Go for it mate.

**doc** · 2nd October 2007, 17:18

Cmon don't you think you are being sucked in by a troll.Who the fur...k moves into to town and hopes to pay the bills with a bit on the side in the weekends. Would probably get buck fever if he saw a rabbit. Send him to the firearms thread. Regulars .....are you really are you that bored you have to respond to something like this ?