Thank God, tag it, gut it.

The 1st thing I do......turn to my Buddy Joe and ask him if he brought his knife?

I yell, turn off the light and stop the truck!

and, hurry up and load him before someone sees us....

....and hope he is 13 inches.

but at that point, who really cares lol.

I usually finish my beer first

Sit and let it bleed, thank God, poke it with the barrel of my gun to make sure, fill out tag and harvest log, cut off the hocks, use the butt out II and gut it. Pictures if someone is there to take them if not load it up and off to the processor.

Unless it dropped, I usually wait about 20 minutes to half an hour before I even think about getting out and looking for it. I shot a buck this year by taking out both shoulders. He literally tried to leap, but couldn't hold either front leg up so he ended up shoveling the ground with his face as his back legs pushed him forward. Obvious kill shot, but I still didn't go check the brush until my buddies got there. He didn't make it 5 yards, but I've had a bad experience pushing a mortally wounded buck, so I just won't do it.

Then I slam several beers as hard as possible.

I do a victory dance

thank GOD...

lift the animals head and admire what just happened. then take some photos if i have my camera or cell phone. i usually gut the deer in area that would not affect hunting - due to coyotes.

Cut it's throat to bleed it out. Same for hogs.

first thing i do is call my buddy. Pictures, tag and transport to gutting area.

Guess you are not going to be shoulder mounting that bad boy?

First thing is texting everyone with BBD!

Second thing is everyone gathering around the buck for some celebration. That would consist of taking turns on taking pulls from a bottle of Gentleman Jack. That can be quite fun at 7:30 in the a.m.

really..noone on here starts writing a check?

The very first thing I do is take pictures.

Next, is get him loaded up and back to the cleaning rack. Nothing needs to get cut off before getting him back to camp.

Pray for the gift of that animal and it's life. Then Pics and a shot from the "Kill Bottle."

I pee all over it to mark it as mine. I have some friends with some thieving ways.

tag it. take pics. then load it up and take it up to camp to clean it

Doe: tag it

Buck:

Tag it, load it on ATV, go to camp, cut of tarsel glands, wash hands, field dress.

Wait for the "was that you shooting" texts, then tell them to get there but over here to field dress. Then pop a top

So if you cut the hocks off so you dont get anything on you do you also skinn the entire leg from the hock down? cause there is wizz all over that too.

Why does skinning one reduce the sage taste in a deer? I would think they get that from eating it... which has nothing to do with their skinn.

We shoot take pics gut quarter and put on ice and finally remember to put a tag on the horns or go find the leg out of the gut pile to tag it.