Leaving the head and feet on a carcase

[Overlay]

Guys
Anyone got any idea on the reason of cutting off the feet or head prior to taking the carcase to the larder prep area

 

[Overlay]

Whenever I can, bleed and small field gralloch followed by clean extraction

Or if on anothers ground = as they want it completed, especially if your on the hill - as instructed

 

[mudman]

Bit of Hybrid, take head and lower legs off at home. Then take these head and lower legs, (and any other waste if home processing), and dispose of elsewhere for the wildlife. .

 

[Rake Aboot]

Less to drag and no point not leaving the waste for the bugs and birds.

 

[mudman]

Deleted

 

[VSS]

Minimum cuts in the field.
Leave head and legs on until back at larder.
Legs off before going in the chiller.
Hang with head on to keep neck straight.
Remove head immediately before skinning (ie, after one week).

 

[Mountain Bug]

I don't see a box that applies to my way of doing things. I rarely hunt further than twenty minutes from home or on my own land and if its cold enough....for f*ck sake its always cold enough....will gralloch them back at the house. Try to skin them warm and then the head, bones, skin and bits go into a container to be dumped on the bone pile as coyote bait. The bone pile just happens to be exactly one hundred yards from my favorite vantage point.

Scott

 

[r judd]

Leave head and legs on until larder. Less cuts in the field the better and less risk of contamination.
Better presented carcass.

 

[shakey jake]

Head and feet off at home, the dogs eat them

 

[Milk no sugar please]

As few cuts in the field for food safety, better light and tools at the larder for inspecting the head and removing legs without dulling my gralloch knife.

 

[Tim.243]

Depends on the situation also time of day size of deer, a big antlered deer on the tailgate is a nice height to have the head off, then in the plasters bath. I take advantage of my hoist as well with the deer being on that then clean them out using the height/gravity. Muntjac get cleaned out close to the truck legs left on then put in tray heads etc in the hedge.

 

[Siggy]

If you are doing your DSC2 and you don't have a "larder" to take your deer back too, you need to take the head and legs off in the field to achieve the performance criteria
Also, if any of the abdominal nodes are enlarged you are probably going to want to check the head nodes before you move it

Lastly, it is easier and cleaner to drag a deer with its head and legs on, so you might want to not remove them in the field.

 

[r judd]

If you are doing your DSC2 and you don't have a "larder" to take your deer back too, you need to take the head and legs off in the field to achieve the performance criteria
Also, if any of the abdominal nodes are enlarged you are probably going to want to check the head nodes before you move it

Lastly, it is easier and cleaner to drag a deer with its head and legs on, so you might want to not remove them in the field.

You would only start taking head/legs off if suspected problem so thats a slightly different issue.
Also, larder or not you would still want to leave head legs on UNTIL it can go into correct transport. Eg tray,plasters bath etc then the head legs would come off.

 

[r judd]

Nothing worse than seeing a carcass thats been dragged with head legs off

 

[Tim.243]

Nothing worse than seeing a carcass thats been dragged with head legs off

Best bit starts at 11.15.

 

[r judd]

They must like the peaty taste

 

[JH83]

The neck and flat joints covered in mud don’t inspire confidence to the game dealer…and lord knows we don’t need the prices knocking down more.

Dragging something (which is how I extract) minus the head ‘against the fur’ is unnecessarily hard work.

No harm in doing it at the truck, but not at shot site.

 

[Sheamus]

I'd love to see those guys do the same the following day. Then the day after that.
They'd soon come to there senses.

 

[mike308]

I leave the head and legs on because I find the carcass much easier to drag head first and the legs whole are much less likely to catch on snags.
I have to drag carcasses up to 1 mile to the nearest track. Quad bikes will not cross rough clearfell.

 

[Tim.243]

Nothing worse than seeing a carcass thats been dragged with head legs off

Depends... to save a bit of weight the heads and greens were left in the field (owner fine with that)
greens on the floor, head off on the cart as I can cut from underneath.
All of this has so many variables to suit from the hills to the flat lands. Just don't drag it through a peat bog unzipped lol