Spysar wrote:I also always cut the tarsal glands off all my deer . I hang them by the back legs and I don't want that tarsal drooling down onto my ham.
But the best reason to cut them off, is to hang them where you hunt. Makes it smell "deery". How many times have you jumped a buck, and immidietly smell that tarsal smell? Or walking up to a dead buck , and you smell that musky tarsal before you see the deer? Some guys don't key in on the smell, but I always smell it. If I can, bucks easily can.
Great point I smell bucks all the time when hunting. You can smell freshened scrapes also.