Didn't know how to title this.
A friend of mine works for a local processor skinning deer. Last weekend a bow hunter brought in a deer that had not been field dressed yet. (happens all the time) so my friend goes to field dress it and gets cut to the bone by the broadhead that was broke of inside the deer.
Just wanted to pass this on and let bowhunters know they need to tell the processor if there is a chance that the broadhead may still be in a deer to advoid someone else having to go through this also.

Every year I am shocked with what I see in Deer camps I go to. People not dressing the animal in a timely manner, folks letting deer hang all day in 50 degree and up weather.

Personally, I quarter mine up when I get back to camp and they go on ice right then and stay there--I also constantly drain the water out of the chest too.

Pure laziness! Folks who do not field dress the deer, learn how, it is not hard...Right!

Then the best is seeing one in the back of the truck in 60 plus weather for the ride home. I have only put them in the back of the truck once and there were 5 bucks in there for four of us on our way home, but it was 25 degrees outside.

Yep,what Bradbury said

i gut mine,clean it out with a water hose. then its off to the locker. our camp is only 20 miles away. theres no need for us to let the deer hang unless it freezing cold. one of the guys that hunt with us sprinkles black pepper and lets the big black flies(blow flies i quess) land on it.

I've worked many deer check stations and it's a shame to see the shape and condition that some of the "hunters" bring in...and I'm using hunters very lightly! The most disgusting deer I ever weighed/aged/measured was a 10 point that was shot the day before, not field dressed and bloated with maggots coming out of the bullet wound and nose! I mentioned to the hunter who brought it in and he claimed he has done this for over 25 years and the meat always tastes the same...yea horrible or the dude doesn't have his sense of smell or taste buds left!

There is no call for this attitude and it just gives power to the "animal rights" groups against the true sportsmen/women hunters out there.

Got off the subject at hand, yes, please make sure you either recovery your broadhead or tell anyone that comes in contact with your animal that it's still in there!

Happy Hunting!!!!!!!

That's awfull! When I was a kid and made my first kill, one of the old guys at the camp watched over my shoulder and directed me on how to field dress that deer. It wasn't pretty, but somehow it added to the memory of that first kill. I was taught that "if you kill it, you dress it"! It's just part of the hunt to me.

spaz

These stories about not field dressing an animal reminds me of a time I was guiding one of my companies customers on the company lease years ago. The "dude" was not my customer thank goodness but showed up wearing new and unwashed cammies, boots the whole rig had just walked out of Oshmans including the 18" long Bowie knife on his hip! LOL! We hunted a little ways from the cabin and he popped a 2 year old 4 pointer with a Texas "heart shot" with a 7Mg because he wouldn't wait for the little buck to turn sideways. I walked up to him as he was dancing around yelling about this being the biggest deer of the dozen or so he'd ever killed. I asked if he ws going to dress the deer right there or did I need to go get the tractor we used back in the pasture. He said "Nah I do this all the time" and flopped the buck over on his back. Meanwhile the buck was already beginning to swell in the 75 degree afternoon. The guy looked puzzled and hemmed and hawed for 20 minutes without starting, so I asked if I could help, he said yeah go ahead since it had "been a while" since he'd cleaned a deer. So I hoisted the deer up in the crotch of low fork and laid the hind legs out and began working. When I opened the skin I knew we were in trouble when I saw the guy puke right beside me and splattered my boots and down one leg at the smell. I left the deer and walked 10 minutes back to the cabin and got the tractor so I could do the job down by the water pump in the "Hangin' Tree"...what a mess...but I kep the customer happy and proud of his biggest deer...and listened to him crow around dinner about taking the buck with the "hardest shot possible"...LOLLOL!!! Then I understood why his sales rep "couldn't make it" that weekend and snookered me into the trip...'cause the guy couldn't hold his liquor either!
Ron
Ron

I used to guide on a place in South Texas and anyone whose ever gutted someone elses gut shot deer will agree, LEARN TO SHOOT BEFORE HUNTING NOT WHILE HUNTING. I'm not saying I've never gut shot a deer but it dang sure wasn't one standing under a feeder at 75yards. If I was a processor all deer would be gutted before I took them. I'd even provide the knives if you wanted to do it at my place. I hate gutting a deer an hour after it's killed I can't imagine 2 days. That's just uncalled for.

My family owns a grocery store in Breckenridge and we are the only processor in the county. We don't take any animals that aren't field dressed. I have done a few for people over the years, but it has cost them . I agree that people are going to hunt need to learn to field dress them and if there is a broadhead in the deer, please tell the processing plant. People can get hurt really bad that way. We have found several over the years.

This reminds me of a time when my brother shot a deer with his bow. All we cound find was the broken arrow shaft. We suspect the broadhead was left in the deer. Don't know if the deer ever died or not, as we could never find a blood trail, but if not, then someone else could have killed it, and possibly have found the broadhead. I would like to think the deer survived, but hope that no one else was cut by the broadhead.