Not that I think most people will get the chance to process big game after TEOTWAWKI but for those of you who luck into a deer but have not actually butcher one before (and a surprising number of hunters don’t butcher their own) this series of video from Expert Village provides a good guide to getting the deer cleaned for transport back to your base camp. There are books that have great step-by-step instructions (Like John and Gerri McPherson’s Primitive Wilderness Living and Survival Skills) but I’m a visual learner so I like to see things done before I do them.

Now I haven’t butcher a deer myself, I have cleaned a great many fish. There’s no comparison obviously but this – if you have never seen an animal processed before you may want to go watch a fish being cleaned first to build up a little tolerance. Now that so many of you have been through a school system that allows you to opt out of frog dissection you may not have the stomach for this. This is very bare bones but should get you started but a note of caution, this is not a video featuring the safest of knife handling:

Part I:

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Part III: