I wear them to stay a lil cleaner. But if the deer has a disease or bacteria cooking the meat will kill it. That afterall is the purpose of cooking your food. Just like boiling stream water for consumption

 

Most bacteria and any sort of infections will be removed when cooking the meat. Also getting blood borne disease into your blood are different than eating meat from what I understand.

 

Cant Deer Carry e-coli, ? Google this... E-coli in whitetail deer

 

E-coli exists in Feces.

 

feces are in your intestines. It is a good idea to wear gloves while gutting, but alot of people don't do it. Im sure a small population gets sick from it, but not enough to convince others.

 

I never used to wear gloves, but started wearing them at work. Then started wearing them to minimize blood on my hands. You know, there never seems to be a good place to clean up when you are done gutting a deer and by the time you get somewhere its dried out. It also helps keep from getting the blood under the fingernails.

 

I like to wear rubber gloves cleaning one when it's cold outside. Keeps the hands much warmer. Otherwise, I never wear them.

 

I never wear them, doesn't make sense to me, I don't get blood past my wrists gutting anyways but to each their own....

 

Never killed a buck worthy of a shoulder mount. I find it impossible to not have blood beyond the wrist when you have to cut the aorta on deer nitrile gloves make life easier and cleaner.

 

I've done it both ways. Most of the time with no gloves. Doesn't bother me at all and the only reason I wear gloves sometimes is just to stay cleaner.

 

Same here. Sometimes i throw a pair of long vet gloves and some nitrile gloves in my pack. Put the nitriles over the vet gloves to tighten things up and when youre done just peel em off. No mess is nice sometimes, especially when its cold out and you dont feel like washing in a freezing river.

 

I wear gloves so i dont get blood on my truck when i drive back home.

 

I don't see why anyone gives a crap if someone uses gloves or not. I use nitrile gloves if available which they usually are. Just keeps my filthy hands off the meat. Also, if they get soiled....change them out. Most times when gutting you don't have access to a sink to wash your hands....

 

I never wear gloves and have gutted many deer 34 years worth and im still kickin:dontknow:
I do make my kid wear them though??

 

We have a local butcher who cut himself with his butcher knife and got real sick. I don't remember if he caught lunes disease or what it was but he was super sick from it. That's reason enough for me to wear gloves.

 

I buy and use the packets that come with the shoulder length gloves and the latex hand gloves that go over those. I use them because I have no interest in having blood on my sleeves, up to my shoulders, under my fingernails, or fat residue stuck on my hands. I keep my car clean and I have no desire to get blood or deer musk all over by steering wheel. Plus, sometimes the gloves are just enough to keep you from accidentally nicking yourself with the tip or edge of you knife while cleaning the deer. When you're done, peel them off inside out to contain all the blood, ball them up, stuff them back in the bag they came in, and toss them in the trash at home.

Just because it's hunting doesn't mean you have to come out of the woods with blood all over you. But if you like that type of stuff, have at it.

 

Where do you get these kits from?

 

I wear shoulder length field dressing gloves and then nitrile gloves over them. Peel them off when you are done and throw them in a grocery bag and you dont have to worry about getting blood all over your hunting clothes or car. I could do it without them but I dont care to scrub my hands and fingernails for 5 minutes when I get home.

I also just wear nitrile gloves when I butcher the deer just because its less mess.

 

Y'all may think this is strange but I never gut the deer. Bring him back to camp and hang'em up by hind legs. Drop the hide all the way down to behind the ears, remove back straps, front shoulders, neck roast, de-bone the hind quarters while hanging, then cut down the soft tissue down to the last rib cage allowing the gut to lean forward out of the way so I can get the inside straps. Then lower the whole carcus into a gut bucket and take it to the camp dump site. The only thing I leave is the ribs and MS deer dont have enough meat on the ribs to worry about. It's been over 10 years since I have gutted a deer or had to fool with cutting out the arse/blatter.
Went to Montana a couple years ago and that was the first time I had ever seen anyone feild dress a deer.

 

I usually use the shoulder length ones too. $1.00 a pack keeps ya clean an if you keep heart or liver just hold onto it an pull the glove off inside out with heart inside an tie it to leg. Or make a cut in rib an tie it there, won't get lost dragging.

 

I personally dont use gloves anymore. Even with a shoulder mount deer, were I cant break the ribcage, and get blood up to my elbow, the blood comes right off with a handful of leaves. It dries so quickly. Gloves would be a wise choice if you have any open sores or cuts on your hands. Thats the only way anything is going to get transfered to your system from the deers blood.

 

Never wore gloves while gutting, never will. In fact, I just gutted a buck Friday evening with an open wound on my right hand and no shirt on, up to my elbows up his neck cutting the wind pipe. 4 days later and I'm still alive........:wink:

 

I wear em. I don't mind getting blood all over me, but I'll prevent it if I can. Plus I always have random cuts on my hands. No sense getting deer blood in my blood.

 

Some people just don't like to get their hands "icky"

 

I wear gloves to keep my arms/hands cleaner and my truck cleaner when I drive home.

 

I do it, cause it helps with keeping the smell off my hands

 

Bingo...absolutely hate having my hands smell like deer guts for 2 days. Regardless of how many times I wash them

 

I wear gloves just to stay cleaner. I keep water and anti-bacteria and soap at the truck so I can wash my hands when I get back. I did have a scare last year. I shot this huge wild boar about a mile or so back in the woods. It started getting dark and I was by myself. There were a lot of bear in the area. 2 weeks before my buddy and I were hunting this area when he killed a small pig. A bear walked right up to it about 30 minutes later and started eating on it while he was in his stand. It wasn't bear season so he couldn't shoot it. Anyway I was quartering the boar and cut the skin for a shoulder mount. I had gloves on but I was in a big hurry and slicing fast. Somehow while moving his head around one of his tusks sliced my hand pretty bad. I was bleeding like 'a stuck hog' (hehe, no pun intenede). I will admit I was concerned since this was a boar. When I finally arrived at my truck around midnight I could get to the anti-bacterial stuff fast enough. Wrapped my hand up in a towel and got out of there. The next day I expected to see redness, swelling and expected a lot of pain. But I all was well. Just looked like a normal cut from a knife with no redness or swelling. I was definitely blessed on that one. But guys it is a good idea to keep some sort of anti-bacterial or other infection preventing ointment with your or in your vehicle. The quicker you apply it the better chance you have of not getting any infections.

 

I wear gloves to minimize hand washing, get done cleaning a deer pull'em off and eat breakfast don't even have to wash your hands. Haha

 

I normally still have plenty of blood on my but my fingers and most of my hands will be relatively clean if I wear gloves. It is easier to clean up that way but more importantly I have a lot of small cuts and cracks on my hands all the time. I just don't want to have a bad infection from something that is easily preventable. My taxidermist friend at one time thought he was going to lose a finger from an infection he got from mounting fish I think. It is not worth it to me.