How do you guys like to hang your deer, our lease owner swears its best to hang by the head.
I'm still undecided. Looking forward to the expertise of you guys

I put a game triangle between their rear legs, and string them up rear feet first. I think it's easier to process them rear legs up. I can get to the areas I need to better with a knife. Plus, they do not swing around as much hanging from the rear legs as they do from the head. I also gut/field dress at the same time, and gutting them is a little more challenging this way. But a few good knife cuts and a good hand scoop will remove all the inards. I've done it both ways, and from the ground. I prefer rear legs up.

I had a very noted longtime taxidermist tell me one time if you were going to leave a buck hanging for several days to hang him by the antlers with his head up. That way all the blood and fluids in the body would go down and not into the face and head. Don't know if he was correct but have seen a lot of deer with a puffy or swollen face when left with the head down. If it is a buck I will immediately skin the deer since when the deer is still warm they skin much easier. Then I gut it and leave the meat to hang in a cooler if one is there. If not then I quarter and put on ice. If it is a doe or buck not being mounted I will gut it on the ground then I will hang it with the head down so it can be skinned quickly later on.

Only reason it would do that if you fill cavity with water then you get a water head as we call it the just hanging won't hurt it but can't remember who it is on here but one guy from rowlett did it two years in row brought in "water heads".

Hanging head down makes it easier for skinning the deer if you plan to take the hide and horns to a taxidermist.

If I'm far away from where I'm going to take the deer to start skinning and quartering, I will gut it in the field. If not, then I hang the deer down and the guts stay in the rib cage as I cape and quarter the deer. The ribs are usually left in tact with the guts inside and they drop into the gut bucket to take to the pile or hole or area we have designated for the disposal.

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Gut them where they fall. No guts to haul off from camp, and I've got bait for coyotes for tomorrow (if it makes it that long). Plus that makes them lose weight, and a bit easier to move into a truck or 4 wheeler.

Hang them head up with the rear legs still on the ground, for less swinging. Skin, shoulders, back strap, tenderloins, neck meat, rear quarters, cut the head off, in that order. Place in the cooler, open a beer.