quartering game...

[Guy Miner]

Several times I've quartered, and even boned out game instead of trying to drag a carcass out, just field dressed.

Anyone else do that? I learned years ago on an elk hunt in the back country. Makes it much easier to get the game out, and with practice I think it could be pretty quick. I'm not so quick at it... :grin:

Yesterday I packed out the two rear quarters and the backstraps as well as the head of my mule deer buck. My son took care of the rest. It was a tough hike up the hill and out, but nowhere near as bad as it would have been trying to drag a deer carcass up that hill and a mile back to the truck...

 

[DrMike]

Guy,

I've certainly quartered a fair amount of game. In some instances, it is the only sensible way to get the game out of the bush.

 

[sask boy]

I have also taken out a number of Moose and Elk in quarters I have been lucky that my cousin hunted for many years with a butcher and knows exactly where to cut
We skin the animal as well as we always carry a bag of cheese cloth. Getting the meat cool as quickly as possible is important.

Blessings,
Dan

 

[jmad_81]

Of the five bucks that our party took this year only my pregnant wife's could be drug to the truck. I'm pretty sure that if she could of gotten out and hiked with us that we would of had to of packed hers out as well. On every one of the bucks that we packed out we dressed, skinned out the top half and put the backstraps and hind quarters in one bag and then the tenderloins and front shoulders in another bag. Then we flipped it over and did the same thing to the other half. We then split the skirt steaks and neck meat up. On deer I leave the hide off and the bone in. When my bro and I are elk hunting we skin and bone everything and try to get all the meat out in one trip with two 70-85 lbs packs. The size of the packs depends on the size of the bull. The last time we did it it was 2 year old bull, if it had been a bigger bull we would of had to make two trips. Big bull elk are big animals, I'd hate (ok I'd really love it) to have to try to pack out a moose!

 

[DrMike]

I'd hate (ok I'd really love it) to have to try to pack out a moose!

It gets to be like work right fast.

 

[Antelope_Sniper]

Never had to quarter a deer.
Quartered a few elk, and one we mostly boned out on the spot. If she had taken 2 more steps we would of needed the frying pan.

 

[Divernhunter]

Never quartered a deer but I have boned them out to pack them out from "way-back" in walking. Even took a fish fillet knife to bone them with and double garbage bags to line my pack after the meat cooled so not to have the blood leaking on my back and the pack. When I was done there was not enought meat left on the bones to make a sandwich. All the small pieces went into hamburger or peperoni sticks and the large muscles make great steaks or jerky.

 

[SJB358]

Same here Guy, I grew up on the East Coast, but once I learned how to quarter and debone any four legged game it became the way to go. Even if it is a short drag, it is easier to skin, quarter, debone and pack that meat out, rather than having to deal with a carcass. It takes about 30 minutes to handle a deer. Plus, it is easier carrying a deer in a ruck, than dragging it through crap. Scotty

 

[JD338]

I have only quartered deer out west. I have also quartered elk and caribou.
It is the only way to go.

Here in the mid west, I drag them out. Behind the house its an easy drag down hill. During rifle season in the UP, snow makes the job a lot easier.

JD338

 

[OldMan]

I hunt in places that you can't drive so I will quarter the animal, but the rib cage gets boned out! Once you have boned out the rib cage you'll never pack meat any other way if it's any distance! Does anyone know what a bull elks rib cage weighs boned out? It's heavy!

 

[FOTIS]

I boned one out this year for a friend.....