how do you prefer to hang your kill up, head or legs?

[Garrett Weaver]

I have done it both ways, each way works fine. But some people find it wierd to hang them by the head I dont' know why. I like hanging what I kill by the head or rack.

 

[Backpack Hunter]

I prefer to just debone it, and get out of there.

 

[BrentLaBere]

I would have to start this by asking a question. Are you deboning from the carcass or from the quarters. If it is just the quarters I would typically just lay them out on a cutting board. If I have a chance at the whole animal, lets say a deer, I would hang it from the hind legs. Only because I think it is easier to skin it that way and I would normally take more time on the hind quarters. The fronts I just separate from the carcass and debone from the cutting board. Just a shortened version of my method.....

 

[Bullhunter]

I prefer to hang by the legs that is if i get the whole carcass out.  Most of the time i quarter my game so i just hang them by a meat hook.

 

[Fullabull]

I have only hunted elk for a while now and there is no way i have ever been able to do either as we have to quarter and carry them out every time. Would be nice to take one out whole once

 

[EatElk]

Deboned and hanging from a bag

 

[MuleyHunter]

As long as we can get the elk out whole we have always hung them buy there legs. Along with all the other critters we have ever skinned...... coyotes, bobcats, beavers, muskrats, badgers, foxes, deer, and antelope (bears we have always done on the ground).

 

[jls456]

Hind legs.

 

[Kmbingham92]

Debone on a packing hunt but whitetail in Kansas hang from hind legs to skin out.

 

[DSmitty]

Always legs up for deer but have never been able to get an elk out whole. I always quarter it up.

 

[eddew7x7]

I always hang Legs up to make it better to skin.

 

[linds1007]

We hang them by the legs when whole or quartered!!

 

[Mountain Bowhunter]

I ususally do deer by the legs if I am hauling out the whole carcass.  If I'm in the backcountry I will hang it by the head with a rope or just do it on the ground

 

[COelkaholic88]

We hang them by the legs when whole or quartered!!

I've always hung my elk and deer by the legs wether it was whole or quartered.

 

[Fullabull]

For deer I prefer to hang by the head so everything runs out the bottom which where all the nasty stuff was in the first place. Keep the rest of the inside clean that way

 

[turbo1967]

legs up.I think it makes it way easier shin and to quarter

 

[lvthnt]

We quarter them in the field using the gutless method so all you have to deal with puting up in the tree are quarters.  Once you try it you won't do it any other way

 

[Chad44]

never had the option to hang an elk.  always quarter and pack out. 

 

[MT_mulies]

Hind legs. Usually I skin down to the neck and then cut the head off. So if I hung it by the head the whole carcass would be on the ground in about 5 min haha.

 

[Jeremiah Johnson]

By the leg and never had the opportunity to shoot one close enough to the road for anything other than packin them on your back ;D