hunting public land will be new to me. I have always hunted private land. I will be hunting in LBJ and if I earn a chance to shot and take a deer can I clean them and 1/4 them out in the woods away from my hunting area of course. I live in a suddivison in Haslet and I do not think my neighbors would like that to much. I thought about bringing all the items I would need to clean and butcher my deer simply hanging it from a tree or a makeshift hanger on my trailer hitch. Nighttime would be tuff but what eles to I have. any suggestions would be appreciated.
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The law states you may only quarter the deer till it reaches it's finall destination or a processor. More details are in the 2009-2010 hunting publication.
I have, in the past, feild dressed, in what I thought to be appropriate area depending on the unit. I don't like field dressing in my hunting zone either. But then it depends, because varmits will sometimes clean it all up over night and the deer are used to them doing that. If I wasn't planning to be back for a week, then I'd clean on the spot or a couple hundred yards away. I don't like doing it by the parking areas becase it gives other people the idea that deer are in there
, and then it gets pressured. It also dosn't get cleaned up by the varmints as readly, and causes parking lot unplesentness (smell and dead carcuss), Kinda like litter dose.
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I can see where it could be a pain but it is part of hunting. I can quater a deer without gutting or skining it except for the back strap but that is easy enough skin back to get to them. I may loose the tenderloins but would be a lot eaiser. Lets face it if you walk a good 15-20 min to your hunting area dragging a deer with no place to clean it does not make much since especialy if it weighs a good amount. I would like to see what other people that hunt public land do. Of course if it is a trouphy then I would find somewhere to hang it so I could cape it out. other wise I would cut the horns off and bring them out with the meat. it can put you in a tuff spot thats for sure at least at night. do any of the camping areas in LBJ have a place to clean deer?Comment
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drag it out of your immediate hunting area and then clean it.
If you take it to a camping area I personally don't mind if you clean it there and then dispose of the refuse somewhere else--others might have other opinions.
But the last thing you want to do is get your neighbors and neighboring hunters angry.
Just be ameniable to making 'most' of them happy.Comment
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i like that thank youComment
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Second the comments above, field dressing the deer out of the immediate hunt area and away from the camping areas has worked for me.Comment
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Nicely put Pat
. Hope all is well on your end?
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Last deer I shot, not on public land, but an interesting solution offered by the landowner. He helped me drag her to the edge of the lake and we field dressed her there. The close proximity to water made it easy to clean the knife and rinse out her body cavity. Of course, she got a complete washdown with the hose as soon as I got her back to the house, but it was neet and clean doing by the lakeshore. May be an option if your public land area is on a lake (preferably a large lake). He said to let the entrails float off in the water, and gulls were tearing into them before we left the shoreline.Comment
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Awwww heck go clean it under Pat's stand he won't mind....LOL how have you been Pat, haven't seen or heard from you in ages I hope everything is dandy with you. Did you hear or see that Bob Hall got an award this year, can't remember what it was but I think it was the Life Time Achievement Award.
dc83169 Pat doesn't mind either if you clean your deer next to his camp...LOL just kidding.Comment
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Most places I know of will only let you field dress your deer in the parking area away from the immediate hunting grounds, but I have also been places where there was no such regs and people would drive up close to their spot and just throw it in the back of their truck after field dressing out in the unit. There are many old carcasses laying around at TBR and it hasnt effected the hunting in those areas one bit. To each his own, doesnt really bother me either way. I usually clean mine around camp and bury the carcass.
I remember this subject coming up last season and some guys were saying they had killed several deer over the gut pile from another deer that was field cleaned?Comment
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