Dressing a Deer

Though I haven't ever done this myself I see it as a useful thing to know in these difficult times for mankind on earth.

My daughter and her boyfriend were returning from a 10 Vipassana retreat in Oregon. Out in the country near their home they came upon a recently hit deer on the road. It's pelvis was smashed and it was very slowly bleeding to death. Most people would just have driven by and not have cared and let nature take its course. But, first of all they didn't want this creature to suffer.

So they looked in the trunk for something to put the deer quickly out of its misery because it had no chance to survive a smashed pelvis in the world we live in.

So, since my daughter's boyfriend couldn't find a club to dispatch the deer from its misery, he found a long knife used in the kitchen and slit the deers throat. This quickly dispatched the deer. However, I told them afterwards, "Imagine if you were that deer. Would you want your throat to be slit? It would be much better to hit the deer on the head to quickly put it out of its misery."

Anyway, after meditating on the deer a while they realized that this deer shouldn't go to waste on the side of the road. First of all, since they ended the deers life in mercy to it. They knew the time it had still been alive and so the knew the meat would be good. So the picked up the deer and wrapped it in a tarp and took it home and gutted it and hung the meat to drain. Then they looked up dressing a deer on youtube.com.

Later, my daughter's long time female friend that she traveled to Norway with for a months father had gotten about 100 deer that had been hit from the road and turned them into venison and jerky. So he showed them how to debone a deer because they had no idea how to do this.

He also told them that if they came upon deer roadkill from a car or truck that they could check under the armpit of the deer or buck. If the armpit is still warm a little then the deer died very recently. If not, it has been dead some time and not to take the carcass unless you know some other way of making sure it is safe to eat and not too old already.

In these times of starving people all over earth it is another way to survive these times if you come upon road kill that hasn't been dead to long or hasn't been to severely mangled.