De-bone a deer in 8 minutes

[Phil T]

There's a video in YouTube with a link to another about cleaning upland birds quickly.

[Suzuki]

Debone in 8 minutes, trim all the fat so it's ediblle in 3 hours....

[REG]

Not sure how this applies to deer, but when we were up in Ontario hunting Grouse, the camp owner showed us THE slickest way to clean a Grouse ever.

But the bird on the ground on his back, wings outstretched.
Put one foot (of yours) on each wing as close to the bird's body as possible.
Grab a Grouse foot in each hand and pull straight up slowly.
Your Grouse will turn inside out and you'll be holding the breast - ready to go.

I was told that it doesn't work with other birds - but it remains the quickest, easiest, cleaning job of any wild game I have ever seen. And it works - at least with Grouse.

[stinkycat]

Originally Posted by REG

Not sure how this applies to deer, but when we were up in Ontario hunting Grouse, the camp owner showed us THE slickest way to clean a Grouse ever.

But the bird on the ground on his back, wings outstretched.
Put one foot (of yours) on each wing as close to the bird's body as possible.
Grab a Grouse foot in each hand and pull straight up slowly.
Your Grouse will turn inside out and you'll be holding the breast - ready to go.

I was told that it doesn't work with other birds - but it remains the quickest, easiest, cleaning job of any wild game I have ever seen. And it works - at least with Grouse.

We have been doing that for years & years. Works best if bird is still hot or warm. When you are done you have the skinned breast with two wings attached. Every thing else is gone. We would do this out in the field right after the dog fetched our prize. We carried a couple of zip-locks to put them in. It made a lighter load for the hike back to the trucks and it left the carcasses in the field. It also works on pheasants & huns. Have not tried it on waterfowl but I don't think it will work.

[MorganMan]

Wow, that is brilliant! I haven't heard that before....now I will impress the masses with that process. To be sure I will act like this is something I thought of myself as the rest of the rubes are as newbie as me!

It is a wanton waste of meat. Slob hunters that are too lazy to preperly dress out a game bird.

[NWwalleye]

It is illegal in Ontario to do this and continue hunting with the grouse field dressed in that manner.

The CO's will charge you with wasting the rest of the useable meat from the bird.

I now bring my birds home whole and dress the bird, with the step on the wings way ..
I retrieve the legs from the rest of the bird and save them as well .
There isn't much meat on them legs, so I boil a whole bunch, strip the meat ( being very careful of all the small bones) and make a soup out of it .

Originally Posted by stinkycat

We have been doing that for years & years. Works best if bird is still hot or warm. When you are done you have the skinned breast with two wings attached. Every thing else is gone. We would do this out in the field right after the dog fetched our prize. We carried a couple of zip-locks to put them in. It made a lighter load for the hike back to the trucks and it left the carcasses in the field. It also works on pheasants & huns. Have not tried it on waterfowl but I don't think it will work.

Having dressed game birds in the field is probably illegal, at least it is in most states. We dress the birds the same way at the end of the day but save the thighs and upper legs. We give the legs (pheasants) to friends who like to make soup with them (very little meat and a lot of ligaments, bones, tendons).

[Pezman38]

Originally Posted by REG

Not sure how this applies to deer, but when we were up in Ontario hunting Grouse, the camp owner showed us THE slickest way to clean a Grouse ever.

But the bird on the ground on his back, wings outstretched.
Put one foot (of yours) on each wing as close to the bird's body as possible.
Grab a Grouse foot in each hand and pull straight up slowly.
Your Grouse will turn inside out and you'll be holding the breast - ready to go.

I was told that it doesn't work with other birds - but it remains the quickest, easiest, cleaning job of any wild game I have ever seen. And it works - at least with Grouse.

Works with Pheasants too!

[SGPopp]

Originally Posted by bird hunter

It is a wanton waste of meat. Slob hunters that are too lazy to preperly dress out a game bird.

I love when you people don't register or have the guts to put your name behind your statements.

If we hunted for the meat, we would be better off going to the grocery store and buying it at the counter. Far cheaper.

There comes a point of diminishing returns. For years I've only breasted out turkeys and geese. Is this a waste also? Or is the extra 20 minutes worth the 3 oz. of chopped up meat I can get off of them?