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Thinking about quartering deer vs dragging out. Thoughts??

Yes, Tenderloin. I used to work for Bass Pro and I would check in deer for the state. I would ask the customers what they were doing next and a lot would say I'm taking it to the butcher. I would tell them not to forget about the tenderloin and almost all would look at me crosseyed and say huh. I then would ask them if they had a plastic bag (most had one) and I would cut it out for them. As soon as you can is the best time to get them because when you hang a deer they will dry out. They are inside the abominable cavity up at the back bone by the hind legs. Sweet Meat! Best steaks on a deer! Backstraps are backstraps not tenderloin!
 
Tenderloins can be done without gutting. I’m not a big heart guy, but not sure if a way to get that without dropping the guts


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elk yinzer said:
Yeah, just go into the ribcage at the end and fish it out.
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I've been watching any and all videos about quartering in the field, I saw one that pulled the t-loins but haven't seen anyone talk about the heart. I am mainly interested to not have to drag a deer from deep in public and it also seems to be the most efficient to process the deer. Thanks.
 
smcchevy said:
I've been watching any and all videos about quartering in the field, I saw one that pulled the t-loins but haven't seen anyone talk about the heart. I am mainly interested to not have to drag a deer from deep in public and it also seems to be the most efficient to process the deer. Thanks.
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Pop two ribs and you can get right in there and pull it out. Pretty easy to do!
 
In Illinois you have to bring out the deer intact, or quartered I try and be a law abiding citizen, however at 50 years old, I have found that dragging deer out more than 500 yards sends me into a-fib. Since I am hunting 1000 yards to 1.5miles from my truck I find it hard to bring the deer out whole. You see, in Illinois we have 24 hours to check in our deer via phone and get a confirmation number. No one checks and in fact one year I killed a deer during late season that county had closed 36 hours prior to the start of the season. Two very friendly game wardens came to my front door and asked me if I knew the county had closed shortly before the start of the season. I told them I had checked the Monday before the season (it started on the following Friday). They asked where the deer was and I told them the doe was in my freezer. They asked where the head, and hide were and I said more than likely in the dump with the rest of my garbage. My boys were waving to them out the windows and they asked me if my kids eat deer...I told them I had fed them venison as soon as they got teeth and could eat solids. The wrote me a warning and let me keep the deer.

My struggle is this...do I drag out a deer and risk a season ending health issue (a-fib could send me into a stroke) or do I quarter the deer in the woods. However quartering the deer, when I debone the deer I strip all the meat off and store it in my basement fridge. I know that I could debone the deer out in the woods and leave the bones in the woods. Just a struggle
 
Newhunter1 said:
In Illinois you have to bring out the deer intact, or quartered I try and be a law abiding citizen, however at 50 years old, I have found that dragging deer out more than 500 yards sends me into a-fib. Since I am hunting 1000 yards to 1.5miles from my truck I find it hard to bring the deer out whole. You see, in Illinois we have 24 hours to check in our deer via phone and get a confirmation number. No one checks and in fact one year I killed a deer during late season that county had closed 36 hours prior to the start of the season. Two very friendly game wardens came to my front door and asked me if I knew the county had closed shortly before the start of the season. I told them I had checked the Monday before the season (it started on the following Friday). They asked where the deer was and I told them the doe was in my freezer. They asked where the head, and hide were and I said more than likely in the dump with the rest of my garbage. My boys were waving to them out the windows and they asked me if my kids eat deer...I told them I had fed them venison as soon as they got teeth and could eat solids. The wrote me a warning and let me keep the deer.

My struggle is this...do I drag out a deer and risk a season ending health issue (a-fib could send me into a stroke) or do I quarter the deer in the woods. However quartering the deer, when I debone the deer I strip all the meat off and store it in my basement fridge. I know that I could debone the deer out in the woods and leave the bones in the woods. Just a struggle
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Can you call from the woods, get a confirmation number and be legal?
Just a thought.


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https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015...very-about-spread-of-chronic-wasting-disease/

Here’s a little read on it. So it binds to the plants that the animals have licked, urinated on, or defecated on through their whole lives... their dead carcass would be just one more small area of the woods that the prions would be left (assuming the deer is even infected)... I understand them trying curtail the spread, but seems that adding all that workload on public access hunters in the hope that it makes a marginal difference isn’t worth it. Just my opinion.


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rutjr said:
Can you call from the woods, get a confirmation number and be legal?
Just a thought.


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Yes...as long as I can get a signal. My hunting area is still flooded and the one place I got a stand location is 4.5-5 miles back (love my quietkat bike) and will make sure I have proof of sex and my tag filled out on the head tag...I might just bring out an ear it's a doe and the teats. I'll make sure I"m legal before coming out...just will not drag out a deer that far. I'll fold it over my bilke and bring it out over the bike like a bad guy on a horse.
 
Here’s an interesting thought - we have phones that take high resolution pictures. They also date and time stamp them. What’s to say a fellow couldn’t prove the sex of the deer he just killed by taking a picture? My line of thinking - if you kill a buck, chances are you’re taking the horns out with you - proof of sex. If I’m walking out the woods with a pack full of meat, and I have the picture of me and the doe to prove the sex, shouldn’t that suffice?

It may require some efforts by hunters to get something like this accepted, but it seems worth it. You either have a picture of a skinhead or you’re walking out with a skin head or antlers. No grey area.

Thoughts?
 
Would love to quarter up but I can not find a good pack with a meat shelf.


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kyler1945 said:
Here’s an interesting thought - we have phones that take high resolution pictures. They also date and time stamp them. What’s to say a fellow couldn’t prove the sex of the deer he just killed by taking a picture? My line of thinking - if you kill a buck, chances are you’re taking the horns out with you - proof of sex. If I’m walking out the woods with a pack full of meat, and I have the picture of me and the doe to prove the sex, shouldn’t that suffice?

It may require some efforts by hunters to get something like this accepted, but it seems worth it. You either have a picture of a skinhead or you’re walking out with a skin head or antlers. No grey area.

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The more proof you have the better chance you will not get a fine. Jmo
 
rambotogo said:
The more proof you have the better chance you will not get a fine. Jmo
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I’m not saying do it it now with the regulations as is - im saying it might be a cause worth taking up to get the language added to the regulation.
 
Aeds151 said:
Would love to quarter up but I can not find a good pack with a meat shelf.


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Not necessary, I do it with a $50 molle frame pack. There’s obviously nicer, but for using it only 2-3 times a year it works fine

And to Kyler, I agree, the types of discussions we have here on Thais stuff should be convos we have with wardens when we see them, to at least get our local enforcements viewpoints ( May find that you can bend the rules a little ) then it’s up to us as hunters to make pushes to change rules. I hunt a lot out of state, so I’m not going to try to change another states laws, but it’s def up to locals to go to wildlife commission meetings and speak up about logical changes


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Man thanks for the thread. After listening to alot of the meateater podcast and just leaening about western style hunting in general I always wondered why people drag out whitetails....I've been lucky enough to just hunt on private land with truck access. But after my first trek on public land spring turkey hunting I was do people really drag deer through this??? Honestly never heard of anyone packing out a whitetail, glad it's a thing!

That being said though....anyone know the rules on this for Missouri?
 
Honestly, being able to hang the deer at camp or home and weighing it is kind of a ritual where I am from so I'd only field dress if it was my only reasonable option.
 
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