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Well speaking as someone who works in s sporting goods store, this tool is used far more than a cherry pitter. Especially where I live. A large percentage of households have at least one hunter. So much so that there are programs for hunters to donate their extra deer to needy families, since 1 deer can produce almost a year's worth of meat for a small family.
Damn right that sounds good. And I bet you could use your Butt Out 2 dressing tool to remove both the deer butts and the cherry stones! It's now a multi-tool!
As a deer hunter myself, I often think how many freaky hunters are out there who have done sexual things to their dead deer. The thought is disturbing to me, but humans in general are fucked in the head so I know it happens, probably a lot.
A mature (3.5 y/o) deer, on average, yields around 60 pounds of boneless meat. It varies a bit when considering factors like shot placement, how thoroughly it's butchered, and the deers overall health.
How necessary is this tool though? If you're dressing a deer you still need to cut open the stomach and cut out the guts and genitals and at that point cutting around the butthole is just a few more cuts with your knife. Then it stays attached to the intestines and all comes out together. I cant see carrying an extra tool like this with such a specific and limited use into the field. What does it even do, exactly?
Those last few cuts around there are fairly precise cuts along with cutting the bone to get access. It’s a pain for hunters that haven’t been shown by an old timer. Once you get good and have a wire bone saw it takes about 1.5 mins.
My fiance's dad does that shit after the sun goes down with barely any light. I'm gonna have to remember to ask him to teach us one of these years before he gets too old...
Let’s hope it will be better than my lessons! I got “cut it open. Reach up and you’ll feel something real. Cut that. Drag all that out of the way. Cut the pelvis, break it and cut the whole butthole out. Start pulling and cut anything trying to stay in.”
Yeah my dad used one at least one of the times he brought a deer home but it wasn’t essential and we hunted so close to home we didn’t have to field dress and mostly just brought the whole carcass home and processed it in the garage. I miss that
You have to chop pr saw through the pelvic bone to get the ass and bladder out and this is a difficult part of the process I suppose this might avoid that issue
Not to be too graphic on here, but the.. tension... it causes to the skin around the anus when you pull outward makes these cuts a lot easier as the area has a lot of... elasticity....
Okay, so, this device is essentially a buttplug you stick in the deer and it makes it easier to cut around? It doesn't remove the sphincter on its own? You still need to do knife work? This just plugs it up to contain the contents and make it easier to cut around? Is that right?
It’s a huge time saver. Typically in the field, I use it to pull out the rectum/lower intestine by sticking it in, twisting and then pulling it all out about 6 or so inches. When the rectum is twisted free, tie it off with a zip tie and cut behind the zip tie.
As I open the deer up to the sternum and cut through the rib cage and pull all the internals out, you can pull everything out and the tied off rectum will slide out through the hollowed out anus area with all other organs, intestines and stomach effectively removing the parts that will contaminate the meat.
My family used to hunt a single deer once a year and take it to a local butcher who would process it into a variety of cuts. Then we'd store it in the deep freeze. Lots of Hamburger Helper with venison instead. Wayyy cheaper than buying ground beef and other cuts outright for the year.
Places with lots of hunters naturally also have lots of local butchers. Its part of the local economy anywhere deer are in abundance and families hunt game for actual food.
I lived in southern oregon most my life, this is super common. I know three separate butchers who make a huge portion of their business butchering game, or local household farm animals like pig or cattle.
Often families in these areas also will co raise cattle. As in someone has some land. And two+ families pay to rent land for a cow. Year or two later the cow is butchered by local butcher and the butcher and families split the meat. In those cases the butcher takes a portion as their pay, and the families don't have to butcher it themselves. (My family did tho, core childhood memory at like 3-4 years old my first time).
You deep freeze most the meat. It lasts a whole year for a family of 5 for meat almost daily in one form or another.
Alternatively, once a year all the uncles go out hunting together, bag like 6 deer or some elk, bring them all in to butcher, and now several families also have meat for the year. My best friends dad did this every year. Since he stayed with my family often and my mother always helped their grandmother out in town shopping etc (especially after my friend and I left for the navy) he got a good portion for my family as well, not just the group he went out with.
Its part of the local economy anywhere deer are in abundance and families hunt game for actual food
Can confirm. Western NY, Home Depot has hand-written signs noting home many deer any deep freeze on the floor can hold, e.g. 21 c ft, "Holds 3-5 deer!" (hypothetical example)
Yup same here in Louisiana. Deer season the deep freezes in every store are marked with how many deer they hold. Cool to hear other regions do that as well!
Family is from small town Iowa, not a grocery store for almost an hour. Guys go hunting and come back to a family friend who can butcher the deer and gets to keep a portion as payment. Most is given back and stored in large freezers in the basement and given to family and friends. Hide gets used too but I never learned much about it but every year we would get a buck’s head mounted on a plaque and have the kids hot glue stuff to it like plastic coins, earrings, googly eyes, etc.
I kill 2-3 a year. I skin/butcher/vacuum seal it all myself.
1 fills my freezer, the other 2 I'll give out packages to friends and family who either don't hunt or have gotten too old to really hunt now. There's tons of places around me with signs that say "donate a hog or deer here." I don't know the specifics, but i know those shops work with churches and women shelters to give meat to those in need
That doesn't seem like nearly enough meat for an entire family for a year from a single animal. Am i vastly underestimating how much meat comes off of one deer?
I mean. A buck can be anywhere from 150 to 200 lbs. Obviously not all edible meat, but still quite a lot. And a struggling family isnt eating meat every meal. When I was a kid, there would be stints where I didnt eat meat for a month or 2
Last deer I took was 140lbs which is pretty good for my region but I ended up with about 50lbs of meat. I think you overestimate how much comes off a deer, I don't think like a third of a pound of meat a week per member of a family of 3 would be considered fed for a year
You are right. It is not enough to feed the family solely on venison. We always take around 4 for our family of four, it all gets ate and it's certainly not the only meat we eat.
So one may be all of that particular meat they want, but it's not going to keep an entire family fed
Yes, and it is not that hard. I worked at a deer check station where we gutted deer for scientific measurements, and have gutted hundreds of deer. Once you are taught what to do, you don't need this tool.
I grew up with a giant cherry tree. My mom would make us kids climb the tree to pick cherries, then pit the cherries for several weeks each year, so she could preserve them and we got cherry pie year round. We had FOUR cherry pitters and the kitchen looked like a scene from DEXTER.
it is very specific tool. But it does the job very well. I am sitting in my tree stand as I type this and I have one in my back pack. Hoping to use it today
It does. You insert it in the anus and then, when you pull it out, it pulls out the colon. You can then tie it off to prevent the feces from getting on the meat when you butcher the deer.
There are so many reasons why I don't hunt.
It's really cold outside.
Looks boring as hell.
I'm not waking up that early.
Venison is gross.
Don't want to pull a deer's butthole out.
This is exactly what it is, my uncle used them upstate when we would go hunting. You put it in the anus, twist around, and pull out. Iirc brings not only the organ out but also the “gunk”. Very handy when gutting on the side of the mountain. Only natural alternative would be to scoop everything out with your hand
Theres a famous youtube girl that has a horrible connective tissue disorder where this has happened to her a few times...her organs just kind of fall out of her butt so she had to have some organs removed.
It is an alternative to the usual method of breaking open the hip to get out the intestines. You basically pull out everything through a hole, where the anus would be. The plastic thing is used like a hook.
One of the more valuable parts of the respective venison (the hind legs) has no way to be damaged this way.
In Germany we call it "ringeln" wich basically transltes to circeling or drawing a ring around something.
Actually works fkn great. Worst part of field dressing a deer is pulling its asshole out and trying to not get shit everywhere. Sorry for being vulgar but it is what it is
This is correct. Its part of dressing the deer before bringing the carcass back. The organs start to stink really quickly and this tool helps remove the innards cleanly.
Organs and guts very quickly spoil compared to the meat. Leaving them in will ruin the meat, so removing the organs and guts is required to preserve the meat. That means every organ from the neck to the butt has to come out. It’s easier than it sounds because there is surprisingly little actually holding things in place.
The challenge is the butt opening that is attached by skin and membranes. You don’t want to just sever the poop chute because poop would spill and get on the meat, and it would mean leaving a portion of a bacteria filled organ attached at the anus. Cutting the connective tissue of the anus away from the skin and meat is delicate work and is somewhat time consuming. This tool is supposed to make the process easier.
As a hunter thats used these, they are a gimmick, sounds barbaric but its way easier and less gross to just cut around the butthole when field dressing
I’ve never used one of these and have cleaned plenty of deer just cutting the butthole out as I was shown as a kid. I feel like this product is trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. You said you’ve used it, so wouldn’t it just rupture the digesting tract further in and release its contents inside the cavity? Literally the entire thing we’re trying to avoid?
I’ve used them but don’t prefer them. Splitting the pelvis open is easier imo.
What I did though was used this after I had gotten everything already pulled out. It just takes what’s left of the anus and pulls it outside of the cavity so that anything you didn’t cut out is now outside of the carcass.
Gutting a deer is a messy process, but I shoving this up its ass first just seems disrespectful. Even if you told me it was way easier, I think I’d keep to my current technique.
of course, when field dressing a deer, or any animal reallly, the goal of course is to remove the internal organs so they won't spoil the meat. Making one cut on the underside of the deer, all the way up to the neck (through the sternum) and the other down to the nether reagions. The lower cut goes around the butthole of the deer, so when all the other connective tissure is cut loose, all the internal organs (ideally) come out all at once. I can usually life up the deer by the ears (or antlers if its a buck) and have it all fall out at once, although it takes some practice. The product shown in the post only makes an unnecessary mess of things. The goal is to not cut open the guts themselves, and this product does exactly that.
When you say spoil the meat, would accidentally cutting open the stomach or intestines spoil it? Is it something about acid or just “waste” on the meat that spoils it? Could the meat be washed and saved or is that a time sensitive thing as well? Not a city slicker but also never been a hunter..
Yes and no! Yes if you cut the guts and leave it to sit for a while it can cause it to start to spoil, and no becasue if you cut them open on accident and wash out the inside with water afterwods (as soon as possible) it will be perfectly fine. And it has less to do with the acid and more to do with the bacteria!
This has been incredibly informative for me. It also has convinced me that I am not a hunter. I knew I would struggle to shoot something but this field dressing task has put it over the top.
Intestines and organs are full of bacteria which will happily begin digesting (decaying) your body from the inside out. A deer with start to bloat in a surprising amount of time. Pulling all that out will make the meat cleaner, safer, and taste better. Another big part of it is heat control. When you pull out all the organs you are quickly removing tons of hot mass, which let's the meat cool fast and stay fresh longer. Usually deer hunting happens in the cooler autumn mornings (location dependant) or theres snow. Gutting a deer and filling the cavity with snow will get the meat down to refrigerator or lower like temps. It also isn't a messy process. Your organs are mainly connected by 2 things, your mouth and your butt. You make a couple of cuts and put the deer on a slight incline, you can remove everything in 1 quick pull of the esophagus. Furthermire, if you get a clean shot through the heart there is next to no bleeding and just about all of it is contained in the thoracic cavity, basically a bag in the chest. Once a deer is field dressed its basically no different than meat from the store in "cleanliness" when handling.
As someone whose also Hunted, my Family doesnt Field Dress unless we're hunting in the middle of Bumfuckistan and need to Haul the kill Home by hand (or Out of a Gully). We normally gut at Home, and use as much as we can (Offal was given to the Pigs back when my Family had them).
That said...Nuts get Cuttoff immediately. Makes meat taste like shit.
After an animal is dead you need to serperate the good eating bits away from the bad nasty bits. And cool the meat down as fast as possible. So you take all the guts and butts out.
In my experince yes. Its done nothing but make a mess of things and cause more clean up later. Contamination is only a real issue if you perforate the guts and leave it sit a while. If you can wash out the deer shortly after its not an issue.
See, I differ here. Part of posting here is sharing new things to other users who may not have ever heard of this. I saw it and looked it up and watched a few videos on how it works. I never would have learned about this without this person posting the question. Social learning.
The beauty of people asking these things on Reddit is threefold, imo:
1. OP gets their answer
2. Other people get a random lesson in something in their feed
3. The correct answer is invariably accompanied by some absolutely hilarious ones, this being no exception
Used to remove the anal tract from a deer to ease the process of field dressing the animal. Go to the 0.30 mark of this video to see it in use if you are not squeamish.
It's for field dressing (removing the guts and internal organs you don't plan to eat) a deer. There are plenty of other ways to do it, but with this tool, you shove it up the butt and it grabs onto to the anus. You cut a circle around the butt hole.Then you cut through the esophagus. Now you just pull on the tools handle and you can drag the whole digestive system out. Mind you, I have never done it this way, I've just seen videos.
It's for field dressing a deer and cleanly removing the lower intestine. I've used this tool many times and it works well. Helps to keep things clean for meat processing.
The description is literally in the photo of the advert you provided. use a little bit of context clues. you're clearly in a outdoors / sportsmans / hunting sales flyer. do you think its for cabbage? maybe its for gardening...
When hunting you field dress the animal by removing the organs, you need to cut around the butthole for the intestines to come out. This tool makes it easier so you don’t have to finger the butthole and functions as a guide for your knife
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