Dude, if you are paying someone to "gut" your deer............please.

First thing I am doing after squeezing the trigger is reaching for the knife to get the guts out of it and start the cooling process......................I have never in my life heard of someone paying to have their deer gutted.

FDXX75

For the life of me I never would have thought that anybody would not immediately gut their deer until getting on this forum. It's always the first thing I do after killing one and actually the last thing on my mind before squeezing the trigger,"do I feel like gutting a deer".
As for "caping", if the deer is going to be mounted I let my taxidemist skin & cape, if not I skin it.

Both bucks that i took this year, I gutted. Any deer that has to be dragged any distance is gutted. Sometimes if it's bad out, and I can get to the deer with the truck or wheeler without dragging it, and the deer is going to a friend( who will pay for gutting) , then I don't gut it.

Sometimes I prefer hanging it and skinning it before I gut it. That keeps the hair out of the inside that way.

Many people that hunt fields and dry areas don't gut deer around here. You would be surprised at the people that drive right up to their deer in their pickup, throw it in the back and drive straight to the processor where they can check it in as well.

If you hunt a long way from the processor or maybe in areas where it may take alot of time to get a deer out, then you probably do gut every one. Every deer that I have killed on Chaney was gutted because they were usually hard to get out. maybe one or two that I had help on were not. many times where I have hunted dragging a deer through swamps and thick areas a deer can get pretty nasty before you get it out.

let's see......pay ten dollars to have it gutted at the processor OR do it yourself in sleet and temps in the teens while standing in backwater in the dark, holding a flashlight in your mouth..........which one do I take...hmmmmmmm...LOL?

well, your wife guts yours- so anyway