The gutless method. Why aren't you doing it if you have to pack out?

[asilmas]

A couple of comments in another thread had me curious. When I moved to Montana a few years ago I learned about the gutless method and have done it ever since. It's clean, fast, and easy. I only cut what I am taking out of the woods.

But it seems some guys call it a fad and have moved away from it. I'd like to know why and why they are doing instead.

Why get into the guts when you don't have to?

We've always done the gutless method on elk and mostly on deer unless our truck is nearby. Then we'll gut it and drag it out. No need to ever gut an elk unless you wanna keep the liver or something.

 

[Ridgerunner338]

To each their own, every situation is different and whatever a person is comfortable with doing, as long as they get all the meat out, they get no argument from me!

 

[justin davis]

I do the gutless method. Then if I want the heart I break a rib and get the heart

 

[j3h8]

This thread seems to confuse the gutless method with bone-out, a lot. If you're in the middle of nowhere, you are not dragging out any larger game animal. You are going to quarter it and pack it out that way with the bone in, or you are going to quarter it and debone it and pack out the meat only.

Gutless vs gutting has nothing to do with packing out an animal. it's all preference as to how you want to process before breaking it down further.

 

[DiabeticKripple]

i gut when i can get a vehicle close. any further than about half a mile and im doing gutless.