The Nastiest animal you have gutted?

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Mine was a squirrel at PWYP. George helped me take it apart, and we found out that it had a broken leg. It was full of puss which promptly exploded all over the poor George Hedgepath. What are some of the nasty things you have gutted?

Another time, we had a burmese python caught in Fla. We opened it up and were going to eat it until we saw what was inside. Worms. Not tape worms but some nasty nematode. We took it to a dock and chummed for sharks.
 
Cleaned a couple rabits that were full of wolves. Don't know what the proper name is, but its a big nasty looking worm that gets into the muscles.
 
I'd say a flea infested feral hog up near West Texas. Rabbits are usually nice and clean, birds get feathers stuck all over your hands; so I'd say the hog was the worst thing I've ever gutted :barf:

The meat was good though.....:p
 
SIXFOOTER said:
Cleaned a couple rabits that were full of wolves. Don't know what the proper name is, but its a big nasty looking worm that gets into the muscles.
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Similar story to what I have to post. Friends and I were calling coyotes when a cottontail rabbit ran into open space in front of our blind. These rabbits are pests in cattle country, so I dropped it with the .22. Immediately I went to skin the little guy, and multiple "grubs" were immediately wiggling out of the entry and exit wound. I was simply dumb founded by this display.

The rabbit was tossed into the brush as coyote food. I have not shot a rabbit in the warm months since ('91?).
 
Nothing real unusual for me but I did gut a Pheasant that smelled especially strong once,made me wretch as I was doing it !!!!
 
I gut shot my first deer ever...twice...with a .243...it had just eaten...:barf:
 
I was out dove hunting, and as a matter of course I simply breast the birds. For those who don't hunt these smaller birds (whitewings), the breasting method means you literally pull the bird apart and dump out the guts, and tear off the pieces you don't want. (One wing on for the game warden!)

I guess I shot a bird that had been wounded before. When I grabbed the bottom of the breast and opened him up, the most gawdawful smell you can imagine came out, along with this red runny liquid. It smelled like the job site porta can two weeks beyond the pickup date in the middle of July. It literally made my head swim.

I have a strong stomach. But that trip, every time I breasted bird that was a little gamey, it made me choke.

Nasty.

Robert
 
Definitely a gut shot deer. It's stomach was bloated from all the pressure somehow. Like an idiot I thought I would make a tiny hole to relieve some of the pressure. Well when I did, it shot a stream of stomach and intestine contents that looked like brownish green water coming out of a water hose. Yes some of it hit me. You wanted nasty, that was pretty nasty.
 
I have helped clean out a few deer that have been shot in the guts. But, the worst thing that I have ever had to gut was a big boar hog. It had been rolling in a wallow and it had peeéd all over itself. The smell was far worse than any gut shot deer, that I have ever smelled. The smell was so bad that it left a tast of copper in my mouth.
 
a rabbit. I had been doing garden patrol on a friends herb garden that was being attacked by rabbits. I killed one at 20 feet with a 1oz lead round fishing weight fired from the slingshot. Pulped its head on impact. But when i went to gut it, the muscles and organs were full of nasty black blotchy masses (tulumeria? cancer?) Picked it up and tossed it into the burn barrel, poured in diesel and let er rip.

also a couple of stocked trout that were "wormy"
 
I have skinned thousands of muskrats, and they are very easy to do, but I never could quite get used to the smell :eek: Its just funky.....no other way to describe it.

But, the nastiest critter I have dealt with is skinning coons. Just tons of grease and fat, and lots of scraping. Easy to skin, lots of mess :grumpy:

B
 
Never in encounted a super gross critter, beyond.. flea and tick ridden bunnies and squirrels in my limited hunting career, But I did have to treat a patient who had maggots crawling in and out of open wounds on his feet. His feet incidentally smelled like bad meat or good cheese.
 
My advice - don't read this thread during breakfast.........not good....
 
A bear. That was the nastiest smellin' S.O.B. I ever messed with.
I'm talking BEFORE the knife went in !
 
paunch shot deer. open him up and you could still hear the stomach expelling gas. sounded like wet farts and smelled much much much worse than wet farts.
 
RescueRiley said:
But I did have to treat a patient who had maggots crawling in and out of open wounds on his feet. His feet incidentally smelled like bad meat or good cheese.
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WTF!? This was a person? In the US? That is disgusting...and how the heck do you get to the point where your feet or any other part of your body is in that kind of condition?
 
I wont say the smelliest but the hardest thing I ever cleaned was an alligator snapping turtle...great meat but a bitch to clean....
 
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