Browning300
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nmbarta
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Don't sweat it, just keep at at it.
Everyone has issues buddy, you'll either get over it, or you won't, doesn't really matter if you do or don't as lo g as you have friends that'll help you.
For the most part I'll give a guy a hard time for not taking care of his own, but that's just in good fun. I clean critters every year for people that don't want to.
Keep hunting and keep eating real food. I'll never look down on someone that struggles with certain parts. Some field dress but don't cut......who cares? Just don't quit.
Everyone has issues buddy, you'll either get over it, or you won't, doesn't really matter if you do or don't as lo g as you have friends that'll help you.
For the most part I'll give a guy a hard time for not taking care of his own, but that's just in good fun. I clean critters every year for people that don't want to.
Keep hunting and keep eating real food. I'll never look down on someone that struggles with certain parts. Some field dress but don't cut......who cares? Just don't quit.
Ckgworks
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I hope I wasn't perceived this way......I meant to be positive.....although it probably wasn't too helpful. I hoped to provide encouragement that by doing it, and persevering some people do get over it!
Let a buddy help you on a deer. It's a task, don't focus on the fact that it's blood and guts but that it's simply a task. You will get over it after a couple of times. No worries, go for it. You will be fine.
Canadian Bushman
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The biggest thing is understanding its just in your mind. It feels physical but its not. Its all between the ears. Go hunting with your
friends. Let them help you. If it gets to be too much, walk away and practice taking some deep breaths and clearing your mind.
If you need to, you can start with smaller game like birds, fish, rabbit and squirrels. Which are neater and quick to clean. Working your way up to larger animals as your tolerance increases.
Ive seen very squeamish people overcome it as soon as the first hunt and really come to enjoy it. You can do it to. Im certain.
friends. Let them help you. If it gets to be too much, walk away and practice taking some deep breaths and clearing your mind.
If you need to, you can start with smaller game like birds, fish, rabbit and squirrels. Which are neater and quick to clean. Working your way up to larger animals as your tolerance increases.
Ive seen very squeamish people overcome it as soon as the first hunt and really come to enjoy it. You can do it to. Im certain.
SavageHunter11
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Take your buddies up on their offer. I've never had anyone help me gut my deer and I sure wish I had someone who would have shown me...the first couple were real ugly jobs. Having a mentor is nothing to be ashamed of. Let them show you and learn from someone with experience rather than stumble through it yourself.
Roughwater
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Hi,
I would recommend you start small, as in small animals like a rabbit or a grouse or pheasant. Not as much mess but helps prepare one for bigger things like elk.
I would recommend you start small, as in small animals like a rabbit or a grouse or pheasant. Not as much mess but helps prepare one for bigger things like elk.
I took a friend deer hunting years ago and we were hunting solely for meat. He gut shot a big muley dry doe on a steep incline and had never gutted any animals before. I got below the doe and braced my knees below the hind legs and butt of the animal. I had him holding both front legs as the deer and I slid slightly down the steep incline as I opened her up from the groin to her chest cavity.
This was when he caught a whiff of the guts and exploded with puke down the back of my neck. I came close to gutting him shortly after!
This was when he caught a whiff of the guts and exploded with puke down the back of my neck. I came close to gutting him shortly after!
msmith57
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IF you can't dress it DON'T kill it, when you get hungry enough you'll get over it
It's a mind over matter thing. This post reminds me of my first deer hunt at age 12. I was walking on a ridge toward my fathers stand when I heard the unmistakable sound of someone vomiting. I found a man in his 30s who had just shot his first deer. He had cut too deeply and opened the stomach. Having harvested and field dressed a number of squirrel, rabbits and pheasant, I offered to complete job. Just as I finished, my father came up the trail. As the man drug his deer down the mountain, my father told me he watched the whole thing and how proud he was at that moment.
SavageHunter11
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That's some pretty poor advice. How would anyone ever learn anything if we followed that advice.
get someone to help you with the first one and see what it's like. hopefully you're so excited about your kill and learning how to dress it, you can be ok with it. if it's not for you, then you can always pay someone to do it. if that doesnt work for you, then stick with punching holes in paper. nothing wrong with that.
the only thing that i found odd when cleaning my first kill years and years ago was touching warm, raw meat. the deer only ran about 25 yards so my grandpa and i were able to find it and clean in within about an hour. meat is always cold when you take it out of the grocery store package so handling it while warm was a bit odd. but the guts and blood never bothered me.
the only thing that i found odd when cleaning my first kill years and years ago was touching warm, raw meat. the deer only ran about 25 yards so my grandpa and i were able to find it and clean in within about an hour. meat is always cold when you take it out of the grocery store package so handling it while warm was a bit odd. but the guts and blood never bothered me.
