Re: Is field dressing a deer necessary?
- From: Chris Barnes <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 12:14:35 -0600
ks1911 <ks1911@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I guess you built your house yourself, repair your truck yourself and
make your own clothes too? After all its quite simple and there are
tons of info on each of the subjects out there.
Some - yep. Actually, we just finished building our house. Things I did
myself included:
(a) diging all the ditches to bring water from the city meter to the
house and to 2 out buildings (a barn & tractor shed), and all the
trenches to run electrical service from the house to those out buildings
(b) laid the PVC pipes in those trenches
(c) all the electrical (in the house and out buildings)
(d) all the wood flooring
(e) all the painting
(f) all the insulation
(g) all of the appliance installation
(h) laid the brick sidewalk
(i) all of the landscaping
(j) build both the wood "split rail" cedar fence along the road, and the
chain link fence for the dogs
Fwiw, I am a computer geek - I've never done construction in my life.
Which is a large part of the reason why I wanted to do as much as
possible.
There are tons of things out there that we could do if we wanted, but
many of use choose not to. Each of us trades money for goods and
labor everyday, why should butchering a deer be any different?
There are several reasons why it should be different:
(1) It is an extension of the reason to hunt itself. None of us on this
group hunt to provide food for our families. If that was the case, you
should sell your computer and take the money to the grocery store.
Instead, we hunt to re-connect with the nature that is within us. In
other words, we are 'doing it for ourselves'.
(2) You get it done the way you want it - something I've never seen
happen to 100% effectiveness. See my description about something as
simple as getting the right number of steaks in a package...
(3) No matter how trustworthy the butcher is, he won't care as much for
your deer as you do. That is to say, they're main concern is getting
the job done just as fast as possible. As a result - they waste an
awful lot of meat.
(4) Everyone thinks their butcher is trustworthy. The fact is, many are
not. Unless you are there watching them do it, you have no way of
knowing whether or not the meat you got back was from your deer, or if
you got it all.
Now - even with those 4 reasons (and I'm sure others on this group can
come up with others), if someone wants to take their animal to a
processor just because "they want to" - that's fine.
Where I get on my high horse is when idiots like Dcomf continually
proclaim lies such as "it takes special skills" or "it takes special
tools" as a justification for it.
Hunters are men of action. Lies do not become us.
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