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10-03-2008, 11:59 AM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Land of Sage and Juniper
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Heads or Hooves??
Actually it's heads or hind quarters...
When you hang your deer to skin, do you hang it by the head or back legs? (Of course, many times we have to skin it on the ground before the pack out...)
I use a gambrel (one I received as a gift, or more often from a green de-barked limb) and hang by the hind quarters to minimize hair on the meat before washing down. Just curious how many do it each way!
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10-03-2008, 12:03 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Rainier, Oregon
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
Hind Quarters
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10-03-2008, 12:04 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Carlton, OR
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
Quote:
Originally Posted by Buckhuntraj
Hind Quarters
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10-03-2008, 12:38 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Corvallis
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob Kaiser
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10-03-2008, 12:48 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
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Originally Posted by Lefty
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10-03-2008, 01:04 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oregon City
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
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10-03-2008, 01:07 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Hillsboro
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
Hind Quarters for years.
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10-03-2008, 01:44 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Vancouve, WA
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
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10-03-2008, 01:44 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Forest Grove, OR
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
HQ's for me too
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10-03-2008, 02:02 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Hillsboro, OR
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
Man, am I the only odd one who hasn't converted? I hang by the neck and don't even cut the head off until I start carving on it!
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10-03-2008, 02:34 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Hillsboro
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
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10-03-2008, 05:42 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Olympia
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
hind quarters for sure.
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10-03-2008, 06:00 PM
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Coho
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Salem, OR
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
Always hung by the head. The old man has done it this way for 50 plus years. If it was good enough for him, it's good enough for me.
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10-03-2008, 06:20 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Corvallis - Hillsboro
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
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10-03-2008, 06:21 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Salem
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
I was a head hanger for 40+ years, but some years ago our deer camp was providing snacks to Gary Soule (sp) the big game bio from Prineville and a trooper. While they were munching, we started to string up a buck by the head and Gary came unhinged. He swore that a large quantity of cerebrospinal fluid would drain from the head into the neck and forequarters if we hung it by the head, and that the meat would be of lesser quality as a result.
We expressed some doubt, (OK we laughed at him) so he grabbed a meat saw and decapitated the buck. Maybe a quart of fluid with a consistency somewhere between slime and snot dribbled out over the next few minutes. We hang head down now.
Gary, I'm sorry we doubted you! If you're on the board, I hear that your boy is fighting in the desert these days. May God keep him safe and speed him home.
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10-03-2008, 06:23 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Sandy, Oregon
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
Hind quarters, much cleaner and use a gambrel.
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10-03-2008, 07:33 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Beavercreek Or.
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
hind quarters and if i can i hang by HQ and skin completly and remove the head with hide attached BEFORE i gut just like they do a Beef. it makes it so clean all i have to do is wipe out the cavity and wrap in game bags then strap on my pack frame. and 2 miles of orange ribbin
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10-03-2008, 08:30 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Amity
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
There will always be a small percentage of the population that reels a spinning reel backwards while the reel is on top of the rod, same goes for those few who will hang by the head. 
By the hooves for me if I have a chance to hang it 
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10-03-2008, 08:46 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Eugene, OR
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
Never hung one myself. Always drop to my knees and skin it on site. I carry a small sheet of plastic when on dusty east side. Head off, halves, and onto pack frame even if its 200 yds. Let halves hang in tree to cool, change meat sacks 1st night to keep clean and have been boning to coolers before leaving camp last few times.
Many of us do operate similar to the ways we were raised. Biggest point ever made to me was to get it cooled ASAP, heat and contamination are the spoilers. (also keep the insects off)
Dream big tonight.
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10-03-2008, 09:58 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Glide, OR
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
Hindquarters. Always figured that the blood running out the neck is better than having it settle into the hams.
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10-04-2008, 02:05 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Oregon
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
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10-04-2008, 04:23 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Toledo, central coast
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
I've heard that hanging by the head is popular in some parts of the South and eastern US.
I use the Butchers method. Skin out the hocks on the tail gate or ground and hang with a gambrel.
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10-04-2008, 07:26 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: St Helens, OR
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
lol, Sorry to hijack but KingSlews avatar is just busting my gut! 
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10-05-2008, 09:29 AM
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Chromer
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Corvallis
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
Quote:
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lol, Sorry to hijack but KingSlews avatar is just busting my gut! |
I second that notion! Creepy!!
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10-05-2008, 10:11 AM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Land of Sage and Juniper
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
No worries about hijacking. An avatar like that demands some comments!!
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10-05-2008, 10:40 AM
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
we use to hang em buy the HQ but we were shown a easy trick to skining them by hanging them by the head. so now we hang all our animals by the head unless it is a big one that we want mounted.
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10-05-2008, 09:52 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 1,078
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Re: Heads or Hooves??
Head down, butt up. That way the head can come off after the skinning job. The head comes out first when I go back to the truck for the pack frame. The head is my id that the deer is mine. It gets locked up in the cab. Cut the deer in half and the front falls onto the pack frame. Back half stays where it is for the return trip. Front half is heavier so you want to pack it out first anyway.
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