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I hate doing red deer on the ground, absolute pain in the arse!
What is the hardest deer to gralloch?
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Roestalker39
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Yeah they’re in a slaughter house
, by the time most lads have done faffing about with the suspended gralloch kit I’ll have had it done on the deck
Ok.....do you faff around hanging it in the chiller or leave it on the deckYeah they’re in a slaughter house
So a different take. I am very lucky to have multiple estates, farms and small holdings I shoot over. I also travel north most years at least twice on the hill for Reds and forests for Sika. I relish gralloching and indeed dragging my beasts oop north as it’s all part of it. And what I damn well paid for!
At home quite happy sorting the Roe and Muntjac and occasional Fallow out.
C50-120 a year
For me the hardest deer to gralloch is the one I didn’t want to shoot in the first place. Any species. But duty to landowner made me. I am cold. A long way from truck. It’s getting dark and the gralloch and recovery is going to be in the dark I feel like a warm fire and a GnT. I recall the email. Deer are hammering wheat/turnips/willow etc etc etc
I like the place and recall lovely summer stalking. A deer steps out and stands perfect broadside. Last knockings. B0110x. I line up and prep for a long evening and write off dinner and fire. I finally get the bugger in the larder and decide a live pic of it to land owner in order
I just wasn’t in mood but duty compelled and I pulled the trigger and went from there knowing it was 3 hours of my life I wasn’t going to get back
I do respect you professional boys. Especially Sika lads. Stalking Rosehall and Loch Shin for Sika etc for many years alone I had the utmost respect for Adam who would come out at night with tracking dog and quad to look for my deer. Although I take a lot of pride I would find 8 in c10
my lesson. In the end enjoy all of it. It’s part of what we do and pulling trigger. Gralloching. Butchering. Eating. Is but a modicum of why we do this stuff.
but in the end if for whatever reason not up for gralloch. Don’t pull trigger. Done this a few times
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At home quite happy sorting the Roe and Muntjac and occasional Fallow out.
C50-120 a year
For me the hardest deer to gralloch is the one I didn’t want to shoot in the first place. Any species. But duty to landowner made me. I am cold. A long way from truck. It’s getting dark and the gralloch and recovery is going to be in the dark I feel like a warm fire and a GnT. I recall the email. Deer are hammering wheat/turnips/willow etc etc etc
I like the place and recall lovely summer stalking. A deer steps out and stands perfect broadside. Last knockings. B0110x. I line up and prep for a long evening and write off dinner and fire. I finally get the bugger in the larder and decide a live pic of it to land owner in order
I just wasn’t in mood but duty compelled and I pulled the trigger and went from there knowing it was 3 hours of my life I wasn’t going to get back
I do respect you professional boys. Especially Sika lads. Stalking Rosehall and Loch Shin for Sika etc for many years alone I had the utmost respect for Adam who would come out at night with tracking dog and quad to look for my deer. Although I take a lot of pride I would find 8 in c10
my lesson. In the end enjoy all of it. It’s part of what we do and pulling trigger. Gralloching. Butchering. Eating. Is but a modicum of why we do this stuff.
but in the end if for whatever reason not up for gralloch. Don’t pull trigger. Done this a few times
s
Roestalker39
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No I hang in a chiller or just in the garage if the ambient temp is cold enough, how ever I’ll guarantee I’ll put a beast that I’ve gralloched on the deck next to a beast that’s been suspended gralloched in the larder and you won’t know the differenceOk.....do you faff around hanging it in the chiller or leave it on the deck
Roestalker39
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It doesn’t bother me one way or the other to be honest I just see hoisting it up just to do a gralloch a waste of time
Dunwaters
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I mostly agree, especially since you make the cuts and fiddle about with the bits before you hoist it way up there.
Roestalker39
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One thing that makes me laugh about the argument for suspended gralloch is that it cuts down on contamination but once it’s been gralloched it ends up getting dragged out anyway
This is about 'which deer you find the most difficult to gralloch'. Not the technique you use.
just saying.....
might be grumpy as my night vision is not working at the moment.
just saying.....
might be grumpy as my night vision is not working at the moment.
Roestalker39
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Okie doke , none
Dunwaters
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One thing that makes me laugh about the argument for suspended gralloch is that it cuts down on contamination but once it’s been gralloched it ends up getting dragged out anyway
True, and some of the more vocal proponents of the suspended gralloch are recommending it for the bigger deer, which are a total pain to hang without proper lifting gear and too long to work on without a ladder.
Each to their own I suppose.
I use a small knife, hultafors do a v tiny short blade, almost needle point. excellent for munty anal tract.
Also good is the casstrom safari alan wood knife or similar.
as for the bladder - carefully touching a v sharp knife against connective tissue when starting that part exposes enough of it-depends if you have large hands. I think people have difficulty when they use a not so sharp knife and go digging...
I definitely find reds a pain, from the drag to the floor gralloch-just hard on the back.
I just split the H bone and peel the lot out as the bladder can be xl egg size so as I am going to eat it I don]t fuss abt the bit of dry area just don't want to pin the bladder... no good crying over spilt **** lol
You can’t see bacteria
John Gryphon
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Hardest DEER? Moose!
I realised that when I gutted this bull that my arms needed to be a foot longer as it was a task reaching in full arms length to sever the 'cord' of the heart lungs bunch.
My bull has been gutted as shown in the pic.
Some sambar we have gutted have had to be tied to a tree on precipitous hills to arrest any further sliding and they along with those others that choose to die in a berry patch can be awkward.
That is a sambar stag in those blackberry canes,he crashed through 10 yards on his last run and decided to snuff it in the middle af 10' canes.
I realised that when I gutted this bull that my arms needed to be a foot longer as it was a task reaching in full arms length to sever the 'cord' of the heart lungs bunch.
My bull has been gutted as shown in the pic.
Some sambar we have gutted have had to be tied to a tree on precipitous hills to arrest any further sliding and they along with those others that choose to die in a berry patch can be awkward.
That is a sambar stag in those blackberry canes,he crashed through 10 yards on his last run and decided to snuff it in the middle af 10' canes.
I use a 3 inch Opinel for everything, one cut across the base of the tail, then one either side to form a triangle so to speak, pull it back towards you and tie it off, it doesn’t matter if you drop it back in then, when you perform the gralloch it’ll be nice and clean,you don’t need a big knife
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