skinning my young-bull

Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:44 am by allissun

Hi! I am still plugging away at the life preparation stuff... it's kind of warm here, weird for this time of year. You know what I did a couple of days ago? I skinned a young bull. His name was "Chuck". My bull-calf, well he was older than a calf by today. It was a crazy experience. My milk-man, the ex-Nam sniper vet put a bullet through his forehead, and then we hoisted him up by the tendons behind his knees, and gutted him and then I skinned him. Holy fuck, I've never done anything like that before.

Then we put him on the truck after cutting him in half with a sawsall, and took him to the butcher to get cut up into different kinds of cuts. It's something I never ever really thought I could do. All i can say is holy cow-bul about that one.

Hope you doing alright

peace, take care, OK, it's all good.

Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:05 am by Swampman

I'm going to be butchering a pig next week.

Thu Jan 05, 2012 8:39 am by roccman

allissun wrote:Hi! I am still plugging away at the life preparation stuff... it's kind of warm here, weird for this time of year. You know what I did a couple of days ago? I skinned a young bull. His name was "Chuck". My bull-calf, well he was older than a calf by today. It was a crazy experience. My milk-man, the ex-Nam sniper vet put a bullet through his forehead, and then we hoisted him up by the tendons behind his knees, and gutted him and then I skinned him. Holy fuck, I've never done anything like that before.

Then we put him on the truck after cutting him in half with a sawsall, and took him to the butcher to get cut up into different kinds of cuts. It's something I never ever really thought I could do. All i can say is holy cow-bul about that one.

Hope you doing alright

peace, take care, OK, it's all good.

good for you.

over the past 10 years i have slaughtered/skinned pigs/rabbits/chickens/Elk - very "earthy" experience.

how did you dispatch him?

Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:12 pm by allissun

roccman wrote:...
how did you dispatch him?

I don't know what you mean by this, roccman. Do you mean how did he die? My friend shot him, if that's what you mean. In the forehead. He raised the bull, and so he wanted to be the one to take his life. Properly, and quickly. He is a trained sniper, and he did it quickly.

Sun Jan 08, 2012 1:45 am by OldHorseman

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- Ah... That's real doomer work there. Way to go.

- By the knees, you say? As in head-upwards? We usually hoist by the hocks, hanging them head-down to slit the throat for draining. (Shooting first, of course.)

- I'm hoping for a heifer this Spring so I don't have to kill it. Dairy cows are way too pet-like in nature. Even I hate to pull the trigger on 'em. Not like the hogs. Hateful, obnoxious critters had me looking forward to blasting them. :evil:

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Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:44 am by allissun

Haha. Thanks OldHorseman. My first time. He was head down, hung by the hocks. I called them knees out of lack of that knowledge. I grew up in the city so I still have tons to learn. And I accidentally cut through the tendons on one side so his leg released but it worked out anyways. He was very dead when this happened. Shot first, of course.

His name was Butch, and was an experience I am very glad to have had.

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