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As I was doing some research for my post concering the size of NJ deer, I found myself once again consulting Dr Leonard Lee La Rue III's book, The Deer of North America.
In this book there is amazing amounts of interesting information.
I learned that what many hunters collectively call "field dressing" is actually divided into two different terms when it is discussed in biological circles.
The term "Field Dressed" is properly used as follows.
..the skin on its belly is opened and its paunch, intestines, and reproductive organs are taken out. The liver,heart, and lungs are left in, whith the diaphragm intact.
The term "Hog Dressed" is properly used as followed.
..the carc [no swearing please] is usually split open from the throat to the upper sternum to the pelvic arch. The windpipe is cut off as high as possible, the heart lungs, diaphragm walls, liver, paunch,intestines, and reproductiive organs are all taken out.
The reason for the need to deliniate these two forms of dressing is so that biological statistics and ratios that are made in comparison to live weight can be calculated properly.
I have always "hog dressed" my deer. However I have always refer to it as field dressing. It never even occured to me that someone would use the first method and righfully call it field dressing.
My question is...when other members use the term...field dressing...which method are you really using...Hog Dressing, or Field dressing?
In this book there is amazing amounts of interesting information.
I learned that what many hunters collectively call "field dressing" is actually divided into two different terms when it is discussed in biological circles.
The term "Field Dressed" is properly used as follows.
..the skin on its belly is opened and its paunch, intestines, and reproductive organs are taken out. The liver,heart, and lungs are left in, whith the diaphragm intact.
The term "Hog Dressed" is properly used as followed.
..the carc [no swearing please] is usually split open from the throat to the upper sternum to the pelvic arch. The windpipe is cut off as high as possible, the heart lungs, diaphragm walls, liver, paunch,intestines, and reproductiive organs are all taken out.
The reason for the need to deliniate these two forms of dressing is so that biological statistics and ratios that are made in comparison to live weight can be calculated properly.
I have always "hog dressed" my deer. However I have always refer to it as field dressing. It never even occured to me that someone would use the first method and righfully call it field dressing.
My question is...when other members use the term...field dressing...which method are you really using...Hog Dressing, or Field dressing?