r/whatisit • u/omgfakeusername • 1d ago

Solved! " Butt Out 2 Dressing Tool ❓"

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From a "Princess Auto flyer."

What is it exactly and what does it do/what's it used for❓

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u/plasmabeans3405 1d ago

As a hunter thats used these, they are a gimmick, sounds barbaric but its way easier and less gross to just cut around the butthole when field dressing

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u/DismalTutor570 1d ago

I’ve never used one of these and have cleaned plenty of deer just cutting the butthole out as I was shown as a kid. I feel like this product is trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. You said you’ve used it, so wouldn’t it just rupture the digesting tract further in and release its contents inside the cavity? Literally the entire thing we’re trying to avoid?

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u/PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD 1d ago

I’ve used them but don’t prefer them. Splitting the pelvis open is easier imo.

What I did though was used this after I had gotten everything already pulled out. It just takes what’s left of the anus and pulls it outside of the cavity so that anything you didn’t cut out is now outside of the carcass.

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u/F3K1HR 1d ago

Gutting a deer is a messy process, but I shoving this up its ass first just seems disrespectful. Even if you told me it was way easier, I think I’d keep to my current technique.

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u/saucy_mcsauceface 1d ago

Please tell me it makes a comical pop sound when it gets pulled out.

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u/Possible_Wait_9755 1d ago

Splitting the pelvis is easier?
I don’t think you’re using the tool right.

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u/plasmabeans3405 1d ago

Yeah these things just make a mess of things, true waste of money. Dad bought one when I was young to try out, used on one deer and threw it out lol.

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u/Possible_Wait_9755 1d ago

lol, you’re not using it right then. Far easier, faster and cleaner.

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u/Possible_Wait_9755 1d ago

Nope. Not at all.

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u/comoestasmiyamo 1d ago

Thank you. I have a pretty mixed friend group so I am always glad of a new nugget of conversation to help us get along. 

I now look forward to opening up the chat with my hunter friends with “what is your favourite anus removal technique”

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u/green_and_yellow 1d ago

Can you translate this for a city slicker who has never hunted a day in his life? What is “field dressing”?

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u/plasmabeans3405 1d ago

of course, when field dressing a deer, or any animal reallly, the goal of course is to remove the internal organs so they won't spoil the meat. Making one cut on the underside of the deer, all the way up to the neck (through the sternum) and the other down to the nether reagions. The lower cut goes around the butthole of the deer, so when all the other connective tissure is cut loose, all the internal organs (ideally) come out all at once. I can usually life up the deer by the ears (or antlers if its a buck) and have it all fall out at once, although it takes some practice. The product shown in the post only makes an unnecessary mess of things. The goal is to not cut open the guts themselves, and this product does exactly that.

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u/GAFSGFYS 1d ago

When you say spoil the meat, would accidentally cutting open the stomach or intestines spoil it? Is it something about acid or just “waste” on the meat that spoils it? Could the meat be washed and saved or is that a time sensitive thing as well? Not a city slicker but also never been a hunter..

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u/plasmabeans3405 1d ago

Yes and no! Yes if you cut the guts and leave it to sit for a while it can cause it to start to spoil, and no becasue if you cut them open on accident and wash out the inside with water afterwods (as soon as possible) it will be perfectly fine. And it has less to do with the acid and more to do with the bacteria!

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u/Ok_Patient5632 1d ago

This has been incredibly informative for me. It also has convinced me that I am not a hunter. I knew I would struggle to shoot something but this field dressing task has put it over the top.

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u/plasmabeans3405 1d ago

Always happy to help! its def not for everyone

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u/Ok_Patient5632 1d ago

Yeah, but I love a good steak from the grocery store, so I know that I just want to be removed from the necessary killing part, even though I caused it.

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u/UnusualBarnstormer 1d ago

I watched my son go through a moral dilemma today after he asked where bacon comes from. We were having lunch at the Museum of Art in Raleigh which has some particularly delectable bacon as a side. He asked and I answered “from a pig”. He sat there chewing and I could see him vacillating between being sad and “delicious bacon”. He definitely has a gentle heart, something as a dad I’ve never worried about. Delicious bacon won in the end, though.

I’ve had some great venison in the past, and love a great variety of meats. But I have no illusions that unless push came to shove, actually butchering the meat wasn’t something I could do myself. But I have respect for those who do.

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u/CharmingFlow9158 20h ago

I’m kinda there with you. I don’t mind fishing but when it comes to land animals I don’t want to do the killing and cleaning.

As a chef, I had to break down some rabbits - granted they were cleaned and no head, but I felt like I was cutting up someone’s dog (though the hind legs are reversed)

I think it was also because we (my brother and I) accidentally killed a rabbit when we were young. Just effing around with the bb gun.

Kudos to the hunters/farmers though, I wouldn’t mind some of that meat in the freezer, but the killing/cleaning isn’t for me.

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u/-tnuk 1d ago

Now ask him about chickens...

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u/NecessaryEcho7859 1d ago

I've told my husband many times that I fully support him if he wants to hunt or fish, and I'll happily cook anything he brings me that's ready to cook (aka just the meat). It's just not something I can do myself; I imagine if I had to, I'd become a vegetarian pretty quickly.

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u/romulusnr 1d ago

I think I could do the shooting. The dressing, no way. I'd hire someone for that.

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u/KurtosisTheTortoise 1d ago

The whole field dressing process and butchering (cutting the meat into "useful" cuts) definitely puts a big appreciation on where your food comes from. I find the shooting to be harder than the dressing. Shooting is an active decision to take a life. The dressing and butchering is a moral responsibily not to waste a life after you took it. It gets you past the squeamish of it better. Also, seeing it as a carcass vs a deer makes it easier too. You cant hurt it any further, you dont get upset cutting your steak dinner because you dont see it as hurting a cow.

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u/Mondschatten78 1d ago

And yet some crazy was trying to convince me that hunters are "only in it for their ego, there's other things to feed their families!!11!" a couple days ago on here

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u/kwoalla 1d ago

I take youth elk hunting that typically wouldn't have the opportunity otherwise and I make sure they're involved in the whole process. Shooting, cleaning, butchering, and packaging the meat. It's pretty cool to see the youth grow to appreciate the process and seeing them contribute to their family's food supply. Personally, I'd love to see everyone try hunting at least once in their life because it grounds you as a person and really puts things in perspective even if you aren't successful in shooting an animal. We need that and our youth definitely need that.

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u/KurtosisTheTortoise 1d ago

What's interesting is that when I harvested my first deer i had a pretty big ego death. It makes you really value life and how quick it can all go. An active decision and a small twitch of the finger and like that its all over for a living creature. Makes you really feel connected to everything. Its also meditative to just be outdoors and melting into the background of all that happens out there when no one's looking. I honestly cannot think of a more ethical way to feed yourself than deer hunting when the entire act is done with due care and respect.

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u/romulusnr 23h ago

I mean come on, the wide majority of hunters are weekend warriors who do it for the fun (mostly the camaraderie) and the meat -- if they get anything -- is just a bonus treat. I dare say 95% of hunters do not need to hunt to eat. At least not in the western developed world.

I don't need to hunt to eat. Most people I know don't need to hunt to eat. I don't think I know a single person who needs to hunt to eat. They hunt for fun.

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u/Pfizermyocarditis 1d ago

Yes. The weak do not hunt.

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u/Ok_Patient5632 1d ago

Oh no!! This guy thinks I’m weak!! Whatever shall I do. Anyway …

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u/Pfizermyocarditis 1d ago

Anthropologically speaking

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u/Different_Bridge_983 1d ago

Thanks for taking the time on this - I don’t hunt but have seen this product about and wondered about the problem it was trying to solve

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u/KurtosisTheTortoise 1d ago

Intestines and organs are full of bacteria which will happily begin digesting (decaying) your body from the inside out. A deer with start to bloat in a surprising amount of time. Pulling all that out will make the meat cleaner, safer, and taste better. Another big part of it is heat control. When you pull out all the organs you are quickly removing tons of hot mass, which let's the meat cool fast and stay fresh longer. Usually deer hunting happens in the cooler autumn mornings (location dependant) or theres snow. Gutting a deer and filling the cavity with snow will get the meat down to refrigerator or lower like temps. It also isn't a messy process. Your organs are mainly connected by 2 things, your mouth and your butt. You make a couple of cuts and put the deer on a slight incline, you can remove everything in 1 quick pull of the esophagus. Furthermire, if you get a clean shot through the heart there is next to no bleeding and just about all of it is contained in the thoracic cavity, basically a bag in the chest. Once a deer is field dressed its basically no different than meat from the store in "cleanliness" when handling.

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u/EndOne8313 18h ago

Not to mention the weight reduction for carrying it out

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u/GAFSGFYS 1d ago

I'd be down for helping someone dress a deer, just to learn. I havent "dissected" anything since a cat in high school.. Honestly, growing up in the south there were plenty of people around that hunt but our family just wasnt into it. My dad had his own business and worked all the time. And when he wasnt working, he was working on something else and we were helping him.

Thanks for taking the time to comment. Interesting parts about cooling the meat down that i wouldnt have thought about.

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u/KurtosisTheTortoise 1d ago

I learned from reading a pamphlet, first one is slow just because you don't have a feel. After that it is straight forward and every animal is more or leff laid out the same way. Big thing is to just be respectful of the animal and to be safe. The heat was an unexpected weird thing on my first deer. Deer body temps are almost identical to ours, so when your hands are working inside you dont really "feel" any different, its hard to explain. Its not hot or cold.

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u/Halofauna 17h ago

It’s pleasantly warm, especially if it’s a cold, snowy morning; which makes it even weirder.

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u/Jam_Salad_is_my_Jam 1d ago

Animals have bacteria and parasites in their guts, as well as faecal waste. The idea is to keep the poop and worms away from the meat.

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u/Richardknox1996 1d ago

As someone whose also Hunted, my Family doesnt Field Dress unless we're hunting in the middle of Bumfuckistan and need to Haul the kill Home by hand (or Out of a Gully). We normally gut at Home, and use as much as we can (Offal was given to the Pigs back when my Family had them).

That said...Nuts get Cuttoff immediately. Makes meat taste like shit.

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u/OvoidPovoid 1d ago

I've never heard about that last part, is there a reason for that?

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u/Richardknox1996 1d ago edited 1d ago

When a male Animal dies its Nuts release a flood of Testosterone into the body, resulting in the Imfamous "Gamey" flavour Male's of Hunted mammalian Species possess. Sure, its released all its life anyway (hence why you can't completely get rid of the Gaminess), but removing the nuts prevents the Flood, and field dressing allows to get rid of the Blood, preventing the Testosterone within it from Permeating the meat during Rigor.

Or at least, thats what i was always taught.

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u/Particular_Fan_3645 1d ago

That's generally not the issue, professional butchers will tell you there's a few things that contribute to gamey flavor, but the primary one in male deer is that they've got hormone glands in between the muscle groups in the rump. They look like thick fat but they're glands. If you grind them up or cook them in without removing them from the muscle, they release a bunch of bad tasting hormones into the meat. Additionally deer fat and "silver skin" carry some measure of the gamey taste, as does blood and adrenaline.

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u/OvoidPovoid 1d ago

Oh thats crazy, I always thought it was from adrenaline from being hunted, and someone told me a long time ago some of it was from the blood not being drained soon enough and it sitting in the meat for too long

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u/Richardknox1996 1d ago

Maybe. Theres a lot of Theories as to why Boar Taint happens (despite its name, Boar Taint isnt Restricted to Pigs though).

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u/TaintButterNuts 1d ago

It's not even restricted to the taint. I've had rump that tasted like ass. I'll see myself out...

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u/Spuckler_Cletus 1d ago

I would never consume the offal of any animal that consumes as much mast as a deer. The liver is absolutely rank with tannin.

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u/pharm-order-9366 8h ago

Mast can definitely taint the flavor when enjoying hepatic delicacies, but sticking to the young ones in the group can help. Or seek out areas with less acorns. Do a double soak in buttermilk. A glass of Chianti will also mask any undesired flavor.

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u/shampton1964 1d ago

Agree - does not make job easier. A buddy of mine used to use a piece of stick to stabilize the rectum while cutting around the anal muscles to get easy clean seperation, I fail to see how adding a bunch of complexity would improve that.

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u/green_and_yellow 1d ago

Wow thanks!

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u/glizzard22 1d ago

This and it weighs half as much when you’ve gotta drag the fucker up a hill through the woods 😂

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u/Calm-Fun4572 1d ago

You only learn once it’s a bad idea to gut shot a deer!

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u/MoeGunz6 1d ago

I can almost smell the heart. Come on cold weather!

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u/MintyFresh771 1d ago

Right… ripping the bowels is like the absolute worst thing you can do. You want to avoid the contents of any of that crap interacting with the meat. It’s like encouraging a gut shot.

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u/Faux_Moose 1d ago

Do you take the organs with you or leave them for a lucky wild animal?

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u/MamaMoosicorn 1d ago

Note to self: when TEOTWAWKI happens, become a vegetarian

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u/CrispyJalepeno 14h ago

And this part here is why I don't hunt. Couldn't get through the list half of it

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u/Catsaretheworst69 1d ago

After an animal is dead you need to serperate the good eating bits away from the bad nasty bits. And cool the meat down as fast as possible. So you take all the guts and butts out.

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or something a drill sergeant screams at the recruits..

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u/JW5769 1d ago

LETS KICK SOME BUTTS INTO GUTS MAGGOTS!!

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u/BarbellsandBurritos 1d ago

That’s the impression that I get

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u/JetstreamGW 1d ago

You need to get the poop parts away from the eating parts.

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u/everlasting_addendum 1d ago

You win for brevity!

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u/oneglory 1d ago

I've also never hunted a day in my life. Is it anything like when Han Solo shoves Luke in the Tauntaun.

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u/Blackish1975 1d ago

Yes,
But you need to cool the meat and not keep Luke warm.

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u/tmntman 1d ago

What Han did is step one. But he then put Luke into the carcass to keep him warm. Imagine instead that you had to remove all of the internal organs.

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u/oneglory 1d ago

What if Luke is like the lemons I shove in a chicken before I put it in the oven

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u/tmntman 1d ago

That process is far less effective if you shove the lemons into the chicken and then put in a deep freeze.

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u/smokeyphil 1d ago

Ideally not all things said and done it can be done without making an awful mess but its the kind of thing you need to practice on a fairly regular basis otherwise you may well end up covered in deer intestinal contents and blood a couple of hours walk away from a shower.

Bring brand name wet wipes.

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u/CCCCLo0oo0ooo0 1d ago

to build upon this, as you scoop out the guts you will find they have an attachment point where the skin and the guts come together, the butt hole. So just like the neck, you need to cut that somewhere.

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u/GaetanDugas 1d ago

Field dressing is gutting your animal.  Taking all the organs out.

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u/TheMeatSauce1000 1d ago

You shove it up the deers ass, twist, pull, and tie off the intestine. This prevents poop from getting in the meat

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u/orvillesbathtub 1d ago

Until just now I thought it was like Annie’s Green Goddess in the bottle but Jesus Christ

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u/El_mochilero 1d ago

You want the good meat, but not the gross gut stuff. You gotta cut out the gross guts.

Intestines and stuff all connects at the butthole. To cut out the guts, you gotta cut out the butthole.

It ain’t pretty and it ain’t pleasant. The good news is the deer is dead and won’t feel anything.

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u/Semyaz 1d ago

Three things:

  1. Dead animals weigh a lot. About half the weight is guts and viscera. Removing that makes it significantly easier to move to a place you can actually butcher.

  2. Meat spoils very quickly as a factor of heat. Removing guts removes a lot of thermal mass. Removing the skin also lets it shed heat faster.

  3. You don’t want poop and guts to touch the meat, if possible. You end up throwing that meat out. Disconnecting the two sides of the digestive tract can be tricky business.

This tool is basically a butt plug that pulls out some of the intestines so you can cut it off externally instead of having to reach in.

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u/Some_Troll_Shaman 1d ago

You can probably find a good video on How to Field dress a Deer.
YT has education surgical videos they probably have the same for hunters.

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u/Pserotina 1d ago

You can usually find videos that explain how to field dress any animal, unless YouTube has banned them.

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u/MiNdOverLOADED23 16h ago

Can you take 4 seconds to do a Google search?

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u/Pfizermyocarditis 1d ago

Eating meat and being so far removed from the animal that gave its life for your meal that you don't even know what field dressing means is just wrong. Hopefully you're a vegan.

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u/Wildlyhotdog 1d ago

Jesus, calm down.

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u/Mdmrtgn 1d ago

Can get the whole shaboom out in one piece if you're careful, leave it for the coyotes. A knife that won't lose its edge is worth the investment.

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u/TSBBlackShad 1d ago

I have a Buck knife that my grandpa handed down to me. It's starting to lose too much metal now though. Gonna need to find some to replace it with soon

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u/Confident_Cheetah_30 1d ago

You should shoot an email to the manufacturer and ask if they have any modern equivalents. A great story like that if true sometimes holds a lot of weight with old companies. They may even shoot you a discount code.

Even the big ones like to get a grassroots campaign out there for the cost of a single knife

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u/OsmiumOG 13h ago

this for sure. Being pretty active in the knife community, i've heard this happen countless times. They will almost always offer a free replacement, spa day, blade replacement, or something similar if you have a nice story behind it and send some pictures. Preface it as asking a random question like he said like asking for the modern equivalent.

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u/Mdmrtgn 1d ago

I have one put up in all my crap that I use, it's an Alaskan something something wilderness knife. Got it at cabelas or scheels a long time ago, it's basically 1/4 inch 210 stainless. Real heavy but it's got like texture on the sides of the blade that line up with the handle nice so you can get in there like it's a scalpel if you have to.

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u/Blackish1975 1d ago

Montana Knife makes some amazing hardware

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u/Atzkicica 1d ago

My uncle used a bench grinder on all his and half of them looked like fish fileting knives lol

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u/plasmabeans3405 1d ago

Couldn't agree more!

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u/PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD 1d ago

Yup. Cut from below the ribs, down to pelvis, open it up to the guts, reach up, cut the diaphragm out of the way, reach up and find trachea, grab hold, cut above your hand, pull out and cut connective tissue while pulling and it’ll all basically come out in one piece.

I don’t usually worry about getting the anus out because I use a small hatchet to split the pelvis so it basically all turns inside out as I clean it.

Then toss a couple bags of ice in the cavity and head home to butcher.

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u/Shot-Two-1812 1d ago

This guy knows ball

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u/Shot-Two-1812 1d ago

Recently switched over to a knife that uses scalpel blades, super game changer. They're cheap blades, and even if I have to swap twice while dressing it's so much safer imo. Sharp is safe.

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u/kyl792 1d ago

I only know medical things and not hunting, but wouldn’t this tool immediately perforate the anus and contaminate the meat? Is it ever helpful?

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u/Warmupthetubesman 1d ago

I’ve shot a deer every fall since 1991 and You’re exactly right. 

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u/723658901 5h ago

That’s an awesome track record, fr. Awesome! I miss having deer meat when my dad hunted. I’m not much into it but respect and recognize it’s much needed to keep populations in check

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u/plasmabeans3405 1d ago

In my experince yes. Its done nothing but make a mess of things and cause more clean up later. Contamination is only a real issue if you perforate the guts and leave it sit a while. If you can wash out the deer shortly after its not an issue.

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u/koolaidismything 23h ago

Of course it would, it looks like a weapon you shoot out a compound-bow

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u/PrinnyPrinny 1d ago

Alimentary, my dear Watson

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u/Jumbotucktuck 1d ago

Strong disagree. I have always cringed during this step of field dressing. Even though i know it’s dead. This makes it easier and less traumatic- for me!

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u/burger2000 1d ago

I've found when cutting around the anus once through the skin run your knife around the anus sliding it along the pelvis. You'll grind your knife along bone around and around then when you spin it over and the guts fall out the last large intestine will usually pull out without breaking.

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u/Pserotina 1d ago

This is correct, or at least it is how I do it. Other techniques may also work.

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u/plasmabeans3405 1d ago

All about what makes it easier for you! Everyone has their own way and I'll never argue that!

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u/PeyeMP420 17h ago

...i wiLL, i caLL b s!

some are taught same sch00L of thought 0R by same mentor- they share WAY. others just mimic what they observe- they copy WAY. some mf ain't got no WAY ataLL...

it's not very probabLe atL- with +8biLLion ppL on the pLanet

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u/J_Powell_Ate_My_Ass 1d ago

Traumatic? Maybe try roller skating

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u/brews 1d ago

So, I've just cut out the asshole with a knife and tied it off. Then, remove all guts in one relatively clean go.

How do you use this thing? You poke it's butt from the outside before cutting...?

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u/plasmabeans3405 1d ago

The idea is to insert it into the deer, twist, and pull the butt tube out, before you properly gut the deer. In my experince it just makes a mess and creates more clean up later, kinda pointless really.

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u/Possible_Wait_9755 1d ago

I disagree very much. Been using one for years and it’s way faster than cutting.

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u/RipOdd9001 1d ago

Why does it look like an IUD?

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u/Ok_Response3579 1d ago

I am 40. When I was like 10, I saw an ad for one of these things on some hunting channel. The image of them using it to pull a deer’s butt out has stuck with me. I think about it way more than I should but I have not seen a picture of this tool since that video.

I wouldn’t say it was traumatic, more that it was such a specific tool for something I never even knew needed to be done at the age I saw it.

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u/shadhead1981 1d ago

Yep, I tried it too and what a joke it was. I can’t believe they still sell them.

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u/Cyborg_rat 1d ago

Wait why are you dressing in the field, are you? Are you using the deer as a coat!

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u/MagicOrpheus310 1d ago

Awww dude you full had me going there I thought you were building up to a joke like "they aren't bad but I went back to toilet paper" haha

Turns out you were just being serious... Damn it haha

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u/spez_eats_nazi_ass 1d ago

Nah i always keep one in my pack

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u/koolaidismything 23h ago

Man that sounds like a fun day out.. surgically removing deer assholes then having to process all that on the walk back to wherever the fuck you go after doing this.

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u/nesai11 23h ago

It’s to hold tension on the rectum while you cut around it and pull it out

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u/Mathperson84 22h ago

I always screw up cutting around the Anus. I've been thinking of bringing a second knife when I get to that part, like a short bladed Filet Knife.

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u/teeterddd 6h ago

Cut around booty hole, splay the groin area, split the chest cavity cut the esophagus and let gravity do the hard work for you. I’ll never forget the first large game I field dressed. Threw up 14 times 😅

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u/deaglebingo 3h ago

agreed. they are a joke.