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Game is any animal hunted for food or not normally domesticated. The type and range of animals hunted for food varies in different parts of the world.

This will be influenced by climate, animal diversity, local taste and locally accepted view about what can or cannot be legitimately hunted. Sometimes a distinction is also made between varieties and species of a particular animal, such as wild or domestic turkey.


How To Field Dress An Elk

Shoot the animal first and, as you approach carefully (ideally toward the animal's back), you should be alert to the animal's eyes to make sure it's dead! If its eyes are closed, it is not dead. If it blinks when you extend a stick or your rifle barrel to touch an open eye, then it is not dead. If it is not dead, then shoot the animal again, placing a follow-up shot through the chest to cause rapid bleeding from the lungs, or possibly to hit the heart. (A shot through the rib cage area will damage a minimum amount of meat and will produce massive bleeding from the elk's lungs to ensure a rapid death.) Do not attempt to cut its throat while it is alive. A bull elk will normally weigh between 400 and 700 pounds and will have antlers with sharp points. This animal is very strong, even if injured and should not be "handled" until it is dead.

If you want to mount the elk's antlers in a shoulder mount style, then you must "cape" the front half of the elk, and you should never cut the elk's throat. Basically, the capeing process begins with a single cut of the hide that is made around the body about six inches behind the front shoulders and a second cut through the hide along the spine that begins at the previous cut and ends at the mid-point of the scull base, about two inches back from a line between the two antlers. After these two cuts have been made, the hide is pulled (and separated by knife point without penetrating the hide) away from the body. It will be necessary to make two cuts from the original cut that run down the back edge of each front leg and then make cuts separating the hide from the elk's body at each knee. It will also be necessary, once the cape has been skinned toward the head until only the head still has skin attached to separate the elk's head and attached cape from the body by cutting through the neck. Keep this trophy cold and dry. As soon as possible, get this head and cape to the taxidermist.

Make sure to cut the animal open from the bottom between its legs, being careful not to cut any of the "guts".

Now start gutting it, start again from the bottom of the elk and work your way up to the throat.

Make sure if you cut the elk's head off make sure to leave evidence of sex attached to the body. (Each state's hunting regulations define what is required for evidence of sex.)

Cut the gut from the inside of the body and remove from the body cavity

Saw the brisket open and cut the wind pipe free

Pull the rest of the upper part of the body innards out

Hold the hind legs up in the air and get some water and drain the blood out of the animal with some cold water

Now you are finished dressing the animal

If the animal is not at the truck you need to drag the elk with your partner to the truck

Once you get the elk to the truck lift part of the body onto the tailgate having a couple of people in the bed of the truck to pull it, also having some people on the ground lifting and pushing while the others are pulling

Warnings

Don't cut yourself with the knife

Watch out for the saws sharp edge when you are cutting the chest cavity

When you are cutting the pelvic bone watch out for the urine sac to not pop it and put urine all over the meat of the elk

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In the U.S., Mexico and Canada, deer are the most commonly hunted big game. Game species in North America include:


Bobwhite Quail, an important North American gamebird.

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