Fun Survey

[pdk25]

Originally posted by Blackhawk:
Head down.

I always field dress in the woods, so nothing left to drain or stink up.  Besides, Larry Benoit (probably greatest deer hunter of all time) said,

"we don't hang a buck by his neck,that's degrading to the buck,he's too majestic of an animal even in death,to humiliate that way".

LOL, now that is some funny stuff there.  Greatest deer hunter, perhaps, but off his rocker with that comment.  I do it however the mood strikes, but frequently I just tie a rope or chain around the neck and lift it up with the bucket of the tractor.  I can get it high enough that the yotes can only chew on the bottom of the legs a little if sitting overnight before I butcher it.  Pretty funny, the arbitrary rules of what is respectful to a dead animal.  I bet that majestic animal would find it more respectful to let it live.

[T-Bowhunter]

Head down.

Hind legs!

Bisch

[Keith Zimmerman]

I hang by the hind legs head down.  Just never liked the lynched look.  And seems to skin easier that way.

[Possum Head]

head down

[huntingarcher]

Head down,only way I have ever done it.I never field dress or gut one either.We just hang them up pull the hide off and quarter them and in the cooler with ice they go for 5-6 days.

[RedShaft]

Hind legs. Or I use my skinning trough.. Like they use for hogs. Easy to make n work well...

[Carpdaddy]

Neither if I can get a signal to call it in, if so I bone out or quarter up on the ground where it fell. I always have 2 gallon freezer bags in my pack for boned out meat. Otherwise head down.

[mec lineman]

Must be a location thing, I have seen HUNDREDS hung up and all head down. I don't eat the head so I'd rather the blood drain in the head versus the tasty hind quarters. Only in magazines and on the web have I seen deer hung by the head and it seems most of the time it is a northern state.   Guess It is whatever you get use to.

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[Alexander Traditional]

I was taught to hang them up by the hind legs.

[mookie]

Head down I open them up from rear to under the chin when I field dress them.

[fmscan]

Keith,
My head is down cuz I have not gotten a deer this year! So hang yours any way you want....

[joe ashton]

I've done both and I think head up they are easier to skin...

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I hang them head up, after a  couple days, I flip them over and process them heads down.  Not sure if it really matters though, just the way I was taught and they way Ive always done it.

[trad_bowhunter1965]

by the back legs.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I want to add, I asked a buddy about this once and he said he does not care how his butcher hangs them     just as long as he doesn't have to deal with it himself.

[macbow]

I hang head down. I usually remove the head shortly after hanging.

[Ryman Cat]

Head down the strangled look bothers me plus it screws up your cape if he's a dandy.LOL

[Sharp Stick]

Hind legs, head down.