why do people pack out hooves

[Taudisio]

For those that give the legs/hooves to their dogs, do you just cut it off at the joint and chuck it to them? Or do you skin it? I brought home the legs from my buck and they've been chilling in the freezer. Just been busy and haven't gotten around to figuring out what I should do before giving it to my pup.

I give them to him whole. Peeling the skin keeps him busy for another few minutes.

 

[BDWMT]

Always pack a couple out if it’s not a bad pack. The dogs love them. I will cut them off so they aren’t sticking up and catching on everything.

 

[ThreeOhSeven]

Someone obviously has never had elk hoof soup.

 

[Hunter26]

I say do whatever you want and that is all the reason you need. I hunt with a guy that always has the "right way" to do things and at times I tell him I am not going to do it his way and my reason is I just don't feel like it right now. Job still gets done.

 

[Archer86]

I packed some out this year not by choice though. I leave them on to hang if I am not packing everything out at once. I came back to get my quarters out a of a tree with my horses and there was a couple G-bears trying to get to them luckly horses and a dog was enough for the bears to run about 100 yards away and watch. needless to say I dropped the quarters down and put them on the horses and got out of there before the bears decided they wanted them more then me

 

[MDR]

Bunch of posers on this site. You aren't a true die hard until you make your own glue from the hooves of your harvest.

 

[jimh406]

From anecdotes I've heard, I think it's people not thinking.

 

[LongWayAround]

I left the lower legs on a couple of times for different reasons. It affected nothing and certainly didn't taint my meat.

But some guy on internet doesn't approve. Bummer.