Does everyone “tunnel” the anus and other gralloch questions!

[pendle]

Don’t attempt anal tunnelling (can’t believe I just wrote that!) unless you’ve invested in a £475 Emberleaf.

K

Does it have to be a green Emberleaf

 

[Dave Lakes]

Leave everything attached until you have removed the head. Sometimes happens that you get green making it's way out of the mouth when suspended but no issue if you don't cut the oesophagus until everything is clear of the carcass.

Yeah but on that occasion I was keeping the head!

 

[VSS]

Yeah but on that occasion I was keeping the head!

Even so, you don't have to detach the pipework from the head until after the head is detached from the carcass.

(Unless, like me, you like to hang carcasses in the chiller with the head still on because it keeps the neck straight and makes skinning easier.)

 

[User00053]

Don’t attempt anal tunnelling (can’t believe I just wrote that!) unless you’ve invested in a £475 Emberleaf.

K

Definitely some form of perversion to use such a fine blade and more suited to the Mora in matters anal.

 

[artschool]

I carry a small bone saw and split chest and pelvis and just lift everything out.

 

[User00035]

I always tunnel as that's how I was taught and I gralloch on the ground.
My Boker is ideal because it has quite a fine tip. Found it more of a fiddle when I had an EKA swingblade.
Always tie off as well. With a knot rather than a cable tie as the less stuff I have to carry the better.
And checking the nodes and glands of the gralloch is easier too if the rumen isn't trying to empty itself all over the place while you're doing it.

 

[Tim.243]

Don't type anal tunneling into a work computer...

That would leave most of sd members lost then lol

 

[User00040]

I always tunnel as that's how I was taught and I gralloch on the ground.
My Boker is ideal because it has quite a fine tip. Found it more of a fiddle when I had an EKA swingblade.
Always tie off as well. With a knot rather than a cable tie as the less stuff I have to carry the better.
And checking the nodes and glands of the gralloch is easier too if the rumen isn't trying to empty itself all over the place while you're doing it.

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100% this

One aspect in which Scotland is far behind is removing the anus and bladder in the field, complete without contents spillage.

IMO, if you are bringing pellets into the larder, and the anal tract + bladder still in the carcass,you are doing it wrong and have never been shown or bothered to learn the correct way.

Can't have quality venison when contaminats are everywhere.

 

[User00035]

Just thought, there's probably going to be some adventurous individual with fashionable tastes somewhere out there in internet land who's going to be very disappointed when they put "anal tuneling" into a search engine and get directed to this thread.

 

[User00035]

100% this

One aspect in which Scotland is far behind is removing the anus and bladder in the field, complete without contents spillage.

IMO, if you are bringing pellets into the larder, and the anal tract + bladder still in the carcass,you are doing it wrong and have never been shown or bothered to learn the correct way.

Can't have quality venison when contaminats are everywhere.

I've seen carcasses in larders with bladders still attached. That's a no-no for me. I don't leave the bladder or rectal canal behind in rabbit carcasses, never mind deer.

I was taught by an old stalking buddy, now in his 70's, to gralloch this way but when I did my DSC1 they taught exactly the same technique. That was a good few years ago though. Don't know if they still do.

 

[Dave Lakes]

Even so, you don't have to detach the pipework from the head until after the head is detached from the carcass.

(Unless, like me, you like to hang carcasses in the chiller with the head still on because it keeps the neck straight and makes skinning easier.)

Some kind member is sending me a video, I can’t picture it for the life of me!

 

[enfieldspares]

I even do it on gamebirds and wildfowl and chickens. All except woodcock which I cook with the draw inside. As most do. Cut around the anus so that the intestine and the flesh and skin surrounding the anus and the rest of the alimentary tract come out as one complete thing. Although best not search "anal tunneling game birds" on the 'net!

 

[Stalker62]

Although best not search "anal tunneling game birds" on the 'net!

 

[sh1kar]

More stuff to carry but has anyone ever tried one?

The less I take out shooting with me the happier I am, too much stuff is just a faff.

It’s useless

 

[Morkai]

It’s useless

Seems to be another one of those things..you already have a knife so it just looks like it takes up space.

 

[Klenchblaize]

I carry a small bone saw and split pelvis and just lift everything out.

Brave man!

K

 

[Stalker62]

OK

Here's the thing.

I recently bought a really good set of knives, off a member on here. It came with a load of extra 'goodies' and I was delighted with the purchase.

However.

Included in this package was a 'Butt-Out" - I am never going to use it.

In the interest of fairness, happy to offer it in the first instance to the OP @4616Oxon - if he does not want it, then anyone wants to field test it - it's yours.

 

[Dunwaters]

I’d insist on a pre-nup agreement before I gave one of those to anyone.

 

[gixer1]

I have tunnelled in the past but most times now I split the aitch bone and cut the lot out that way…far easier in roe and the bone can be split with a knife unless an old beast….

 

[User00053]

Late season snow with frozen hands and wet at altitude with a number of hinds and calfs not wise to partake of anal outdoor activities matters not what knife you have got never a good idea