The gutless method of cleaning big game is overrated. I’ve said it, and I believe it. Traditional field-dressing—where you yank the guts out of the critter soon as possible—is the better way to go ...

HUNTING — Field dressing a deer or elk is a no-brainer when you can easily get the entire carcass to a vehicle. Just zip, gut and drive home or to a meat processor. But when all the meat has to be ...

HUNTING -- I've killed an elk near a road where it could be loaded in a pickup exactly zero times in my hunting career. Every one had to be quartered or the meat removed from the bone in the field to ...

Expectant hunters gather around Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks education bureau chief Thomas Baumeister and volunteer Dustin Hover as they demonstrate the proper way to remove a thigh from a deer ...