can you float a field dressed deer?

Unread postby **johndeere506** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 7:12 am

If you can't fit the buck in the boat, do you bring a small raft? Or can you float down a river or lake? I'm wondering about contaminating meat.

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Unread postby **JakeJD** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 7:38 am

Yes, I have floated a few deer across a fairly clean running river with no problems. I just walked the deer across with my waders on.

Unread postby **hunter_mike** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 7:53 am

They pretty much float. As far as contamination, i never got sick

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Unread postby **Sam Ubl** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 9:47 am

One piece I hunt is totally marsh, just thick nasty stuff to drag a deer through. There are irrigation ditches, however, because the land was a farm at one time many years ago. Dragging deer in the water is much easier and we've done it several times with no issues with the meat.

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Unread postby **Southern Man** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 10:41 am

JakeJD wrote:Yes, I have floated a few deer across a fairly clean running river with no problems. I just walked the deer across with my waders on.

Yes they float. I did this today.

Unread postby **phishy** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 12:51 pm

you might want to consider when you dress the deer do what i call a minimal dressing, make as small a slit as possible to get the organs and bowel out plus dont remove the bung... you can take care of the finer details at the truck

I do this minimal field dressing regardless, i'm not a big fan of mud and leaves all over inside the cavity

Unread postby **crankn101** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 4:04 pm

I was just wondering about floating a gutted deer, it could possible save me a mile of dragging or packing.

Unread postby **matt1336** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 3:47 am

A deer that's not field dressed will float better for obvious reasons.....no water inside the body cavity. But a dressed out deer will float too, just not as well. I prefer to not gut the deer prior to floating it. It's prettycool how well they float. I've heard it's because of their hollow hair

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Unread postby **Bucky** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 7:23 am

I prefer to field dress after the float... that way the meat doesn't soak in ick :doh:

Unread postby **Dewey** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 7:27 am

Bucky wrote:I prefer to field dress after the float... that way the meat doesn't soak in ick

Same here

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Unread postby **whitetailassasin** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 1:48 pm

I floated mine out and drug him 1 mile out by hand wasn't bad at all. Was surprised meat was fine. Will do again in a heartbeat.

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