The Nastiest animal you have gutted?

RescueRiley said:
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.
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Aren't maggots used to clean wounds?
 
Possum.

I'll never eat one.

Ever.

They're like walking garbage cans.

Cut that little f--ker open and the stuff that came out of it made me so sick I had to throw it in the creek.

I washed my hands in Clorox and still get ill thinking about the stench.

The sad part is...I didn't rupture the stomach, it apparently just stunk that bad on the inside.

You cats that eat possum are tougher than I am.

I'd eat a skunk's arsehole before I attempt another possum.
 
Coldwood said:
Aren't maggots used to clean wounds?
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Negatory. Different species prey on different meats. Some are prefer just dead tissue around wounds, others burrow under the skin.

They are talking about bot flies here.
 
Worst thing ever was gutting a buddy's deer that he hit with a truck. Looked like the guts had been blown up. I salvaged the front quarters,neck and the backstraps. The hind quarters had too much damage to be able to eat.
 
I helped a friend clean a gut shot deer, and that's about as nasty as I've been involved in. Didn't think it was completely terrible, but it convinced me to not gut shoot deer if at all possible! Have cleaned a squirrel whose intestines and liver had a bunch of cysts of some sort. He got left for the yotes and coons. I agree with what has been said before, small game only in cold months. A rule of thumb I've heard is to only shoot squirrels and rabbits in months that contain an "R" in their name. (As long as they're in season, of course)
 
Actually it is probably a tie for me gut shot deer or a gator. Gator just has weird smell. Almost like a wiered chemical smell.
 
midnight flyer said:
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
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I've been skinning and gutting all sorts of animals all my life. The only thing that ever made me gag a little was a dove that I had shot that had apparently been hit before. Every little bird shot entrance was infected, bad. :barf::barf::barf: I've seen some pretty nasty wounds on fish, but I never kept any. I have also seen some pretty interesting stuff come out of animals' guts.
 
I think I'll stick to cleaning fish, and leave you gents to the necrotic mammal carcasses.

My poor appetite!

- Mike
 
Coldwood said:
Aren't maggots used to clean wounds?
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Sometimes. Lab-raised disinfected green blow fly maggots. They eat away dead tissue and leave living behind with more accuracy than can be obtained surgically. Removing the dead meat, aka debridement, results in faster healing and less chance of infection.

Apparently maggot therapy tickles.
 
No exactly skinning an animal but my mate was hiking across some very wet bog land in Scotland when he came to a large patch of mud.Spotting a conveniantly sized boulder he decided to leap onto that. Imagine his suprise when the said boulder burst spraying him with smelly bodily fluids as soon as his feet landed on it.Turned out it was a dead de-composing sheep !!!! He then had to hike for the remaining 5 miles or so covered in the foul smelling goop before getting back to where he was staying !!!!!
 
wulfshrunting said:
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?
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I'm guessing he was a homeless alcoholic, which is the circumstance where I've seen it. Getting and staying drunk becomes your #1 priority to the expense of everything else, including hygiene and caring for wounds... It's quite sad.
 
The first time I dressed a duck was a enlightening experience for my gag reflex.:barf:

Rabbits can be kinda raunchy as well.

A gut shot whitetail :barf: will teach you the need for proper shot placement in your future hunting endeavors and is the worst I've came across.

If you can take a duck a deer isn't that bad but you have a lot more visual stimulation with the deer to make you want to :barf::barf::barf:.
 
rocketbomb said:
I helped a friend clean a gut shot deer, and that's about as nasty as I've been involved in. Didn't think it was completely terrible, but it convinced me to not gut shoot deer if at all possible! Have cleaned a squirrel whose intestines and liver had a bunch of cysts of some sort. He got left for the yotes and coons. I agree with what has been said before, small game only in cold months. A rule of thumb I've heard is to only shoot squirrels and rabbits in months that contain an "R" in their name. (As long as they're in season, of course)
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I don't start squirrel hunting until mid October when it's nice and cool.

Our squirrel season comes in right in the heat of summer (why, I have no idea--that's when they're full of wolves) and stays in for a long time.

Archery season on deer opened up the first weekend of this month, but it's been so warm that you'd have hunt your ass off time find them. They ARE stirring, though.
 
Not nasty as in foul and disgusting sense, but when a neighbor offered a downed calf--about 80-100 pounds, that he'd been trying to save with a crippled back leg, I found that the inside of a cow, from the back of the throat to the beginning of the anus, from the bottom of the spine to the top of the skin of the stomach....is ALL guts...no, seriously, ALL. :)

I put it down, and had I thought it through, should have just quartered the good haunches, skinning the sections I chose...but, noooooooooo....I locked into "dressing a deer" mode. I was half-in, half-out of that thing for most of the time.

Odd, I apologized to it before I put it down...even with all my years hunting...just shooting a downed cow seemed...dunno.
 
nasty, that's limited to moose with ruptured intestine and chicken with ruptured intestine. The moose was road kill, the chicken was my first time butchering...
 
randomlooker said:
I'm guessing he was a homeless alcoholic, which is the circumstance where I've seen it. Getting and staying drunk becomes your #1 priority to the expense of everything else, including hygiene and caring for wounds... It's quite sad.
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Jeez, I would expect that sort of poor hygiene to be in other places of the world. I never would have thought it would be with the homeless right here. You're right, it is sad.



This is still a nasty thread, but I'm glad it's here. I've never properly cleaned an animal...well, I've cleaned fish. I never thought about nasty parasites and disease infesting animals that you're wanting to eat.
 
A deer that had been hit by a car. My Bro. called me over to help him out and see if we could salvage anything, and by the time i got there she was just beyond any hope. stomach was ruptured and full of acorns and privet.....just nasty we did manage to save the hide though.
 
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