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Since I don't want to deal with field dressing and transporting a deer to the processor by myself, I may try turkey hunting in the morning and then do an evening deer hunt when my buddy will be there.

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I just printed out the instructions for field dressing and will take them with me.

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If this is the case, you might be better off alone for the first one....that way your buddy can't make fun of you if you " HURL " LOL

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If I am going to hunt as much as I want to, I have to go alone. I am not as comfortable doing that as I used to be, but it does not stop me if I really want to go.
If your buddy is going to be there that afternoon, you might as well go ahead and hunt, and unless you are uncomfortable with having to field dress one by yourself, you could field dress one if you got it, prop it open up in a shady spot, put a game bag or something over it to try and keep the flies out, then when your buddy got there you could both quarter it up and put it in the ice chest. JMO

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Do you guys normally hunt by yourself?

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All the time. Don't be afraid to try field dressing your deer alone man. Their really isn't anything to it. I know a lot of people that have never done one. I got a buddy that is 40+ years old who don't know how. I should say didn't, I cleaned a couple for him and now he knows. I don't know if it was a blessing or a curse. When I shot my first deer my dad hung it up and said watch boy, I'm only gonna show you this once, and he did. The next time I shot one he said get to it, you need the practice, 25 years later I'm still practicing. He ain't cleaned a deer he's shot since he showed me how to, keeps giving me the you need practice speech. HMmmmmm I'm starting to see a pattern here

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If this is the case, you might be better off alone for the first one....that way your buddy can't make fun of you if you " HURL " LOL

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JB you made me think of something I done to my buddy that was UUUuuuGGLY! I got a buddy that I grew up with since 5th grade, we have done more crap together than I can remember. One of those things is hunting and fishing. We have cleaned many deer together but he has this lil problem, no matter how many he's cleaned if you hit the gut sack he's gonna hurl! One night we had 7 or 8 deer to clean so we roll up our sleeves and get to it. Well rite out of the gate he hits the sack and it sprays all over him, and he starts calling RALPH. He turns to me and says forget it I'm going home, he strips down to his frooty looms and says gimme a ride. UH...NO...you ain't leaving me here to do all this myself, he says watch me and proceeds to walk home since he only lived about a mile down the road. Well now we can't have him thinking he's got the upper hand here. I let him get a couple hundred yards down the road and called the county police. I said hey theres this drunk down here running around in his underwear flashing women. He's even knocked on some doors just to flash people. They come out and hauled him to town for a chit chat. I finished cleaning the deer, went home took me a bath and ate me some supper, then I went and bailed him out. It was all I could do to keep from laughing at him on the way home. All he kept saying was if I ever find out who called the law on me I'm gonna....I was dieing inside!

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Ok, I have an SUV not a pickup truck. So, I think I'm better off quartering and tossing it in a cooler than keeping it field dressed only and taking it whole to the processor. One person can't get the carcass up on the roof of the SUV and I don't have a trailer or attachment for extra cargo using the receiver hitch.

I don't have a tarp to wrap the carcass in and put it inside the SUV either. Don't need a bloody SUV interior. lol



Scott

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