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The key here is to leave carcass and head intact haverting only hams, shouldersFeral hog backstraps - gutless technique and backstraps.

Since you won't open cavities it's not necessary to skin out the full body but only legs and edible meat from back, this may save also a little time but everything depends on each hunter's skills and ability to perform the full process.

First thing to do is skinning each leg separately, thus the next steps will be performed four times, one for each limb.

1. Make a circumferential cut on the leg just an inch over the hoof

2. A second cut must be done perpendicular to the first one, from the hoof up to the body

3. The final cut on the skin is following the hip/shoulder perimeter from the front to the back

4. Once all cuts are complete the utility knife must be used to peel the skin and expose meat

5. When the limb is skinned, make a deep cut on the muscle over the joint until reaching it. This way you will be able to detach the limb from the carcass

Steps 1 to 5 must be followed for each limb and finally proceed with back straps harvesting.

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Personal protections is mandatory because there's a real risk of brucellosis when skinning animals, specially wild animals, thus contact with body fluids must be avoided at all cost.

On the other hand two knives are necessary because wild hogs skin is realy thick and strong, compromising not only the blade but also structural integrity of aWild hog field dressing regular skinning knife and the last thing you wish it to have a faded blade at the moment of skinning.

Once your tools are ordered and animal body positioned on its back, properly washed, proceed to open it following the next steps:

1- Begin the cut on the pubic bone on the hog's back; move towards the front up to the mid line, just cut skin and the underlying fat. 

2- Once you reach the midline from one side, proceed accordingly with the other, at the end you will have two cuts ending on the middle line.

3- From there move upwards through the belly until reaching sternum

4- Once the skin is open, proceed with a second, deeper cut in the midline, this one must open muscle layer but must be performed carefully to avoid internal organs puncture 

5- Some hunters stop the cut at the sternum while some others move upwards to the neck, if you do so, it will be necessary to cut sternum to gain access to the chest cavity and remove hearth and lungs

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1. Just remove internal organs

That's the best way to preserve meat. Harmful bacteria live inside gut and other internal organs. Once an animal dies, its own bacteria begin decompositionWild Boar Field Dressing process from inside to outside; in addition environment bacteria begin their job from the skin, leading to corpse decomposition.

To slow this process there are two critical steps, wash thoroughly the entire body to remove external, environment bacteria and remove internal organs.

By doing it you will be able to proceed with the second step: cool down the meat.

When meat temperature drops, bacteria begin to grow slower and decomposition process starts later, then a great way to buy a long time window to get back home without wasted meat is removing internal organs and cool down meat as soon as you can.

Some hunters remove only abdominal viscera leaving chest content intact, on the other hand there's a group of hunters who remove both, abdominal and thoracic viscera. It might be a little more time consuming but it assures better preservation, however if you are in rush, removing guts and all abdominal content remains paramount, while thoracic viscera may wait a little bit.

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So you must EVER use a safety harness attached to a good quality, well placed safety rope, otherwise there's a real risk of falls and injuries (even death!)

3. Keep your hands free when climbing!

Sometimes hunters try to climb to their stand with all of their gear on their handsTree Stand Safe Climbing or back. That's a tremendous mistake!

Extra weight as well too many elements to deal with will change your balance and compromise three points contact, increasing your odds for an accident.

Instead of carrying everything with you, just go up freely and use a haul line later to raise or lower your gear and apparels. Perhaps it will take a little longer, but it's a million times safer!

4. Muzzle down!

All guns and firearms must be moved unloaded and with their muzzle pointing downwards. No matter how many times you have repeated the operation and how much practice you have, it's critical to follow this rule.

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With the above in mind, we offer a compilation of current safety rules to keep you and your teammates safe when hunting from a tree stand.Safety Use of Tree Stands

First thing to keep you safe is total awareness of what is safe and what 's not, so read carefully below to keep updated your safety plan on the trees.

Safety Topics Related to the Tree:

Once you have properly scouted the area and have decided where to place your tree stand, it's time to choose a tree to do so; this is the moment to remember:

1. Use only living, healthy trees

Dead or weak trees as those looking bad and sick are not a good choice because they might collapse due to the combined additional weight of both stand and hunter; moreover, some trees might not resiste neither the stand alone, so choose a tree in good shape.

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