Carcass Handling

smallfry

Theres a carcass handling seminar being held by the WDAI in Roscrea this Sunday. Hopefully it'll be an interesting afternoon.

http://www.countrysideallianceireland.org/content/view/785/1/

I'll be travelling from Mayo and so far I'm on my own. If anyone would like to join me PM me, I would be glad of the company...

smallfry

underthetumb

Was thinking of goin swell, have a wedding sat so may see how the head is first. Anyone ever been to it before.

Fallow01

Go to them every year & it's well worth visit, you'll learn a lot plus there's bargins on deer butchery gear & a free venison BBQ!

Heading there on Sunday but coming from the opposite direction to you

ah sure !

would love to go but won't have time.
It would be nice if they could have one of those seminars our way , the West that is. We also have a few deer around here !

daithi55

shall be there myself

smallfry

PM sent to cz223.......

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declan1980

I was at it and it was good to learn where to look for the tb signs, and Dave dunne helped me out with a problem I was having while skinning the deer. I was a bit disappointed at missing the breaking down of the deer on the table.
I thought the guy that was talking about rifle maintainance went on too long, and I didn't have time to see what I really wanted to see because I had to go to work. I found out later on he was only supposed to give about 15 minutes talking, but he went on for the guts of an hour. Small bit pissed off now

Fallow01

Was there too, I thought it was an excellent event - plus the venison bbq

I learned a lot from the rifle maintenance guy, he gave tips you'd never read or hear anywhere from a guy at the top of his game - did you see his F class rifle!! It was more like half an hour but he did like to talk & 20 mins would have been enough. Got one of David's DVD's for €10 & it shows all the carcass breakdown you missed.

They said there'll be another one in Cahir early February

Great to meet other deer-stalkers at these - well done to all involved

daithi55

well said fallow1
ive been to a few of these seminars now and its been kinda the same thing ie identifying disease skinning and butchering..
its very good when the add something new like the tracking dogs or the rifle cleaning
there wasnt one person there today that didnt learn something new from the guy showing how to clean a rifle
and it makes all the difference even though some people think it doesnt
its like some people that watch hunting dvds and say there wasnt enough shooting in it... its very easy shoot a deer in my opinion the work only starts once the deer is dead

some people there were even amazed how david made the skinning and butchering look...but all it takes is a good knife and a good sharpener along with a bit of practice