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Hunter Specialties Game Cleaning System Gets the Job Done
Brad Swadley - JHO ProStaff
- Dallas, TX
March 18, 2008
Hunter Specialties Game Cleaning System
Hunter Specialties comes through with another great product, a complete "system" for dressing and cleaning your game. |
I use a lot of the Hunters Specialties products, especially the cover scent and laundry detergent, as well as the scent wafers and cover spray. We also use the shampoo and bar soap at all the hunting camps that I frequent. I was not a firm believer in it initially, but once I started using the whole system, I could see that my opportunities improved... especially on the bow hunts, where it seemed like the deer were less jittery around me. So I was interested to see just how the Game Cleaning System worked. It had the new Butt Out tool in it as well, and I had never used that before.
We finally headed out around three in the afternoon, so we had a good jump on traffic. The weather seemed to be cooperating, as it was sunny and cool out. We made our way out past Fort Worth and down through Deleon and Cherokee. We finally hit camp about nine that evening, and unpacked. It would be a cold evening out, below freezing, but we went ahead and hooked up the water and started up the hot water heater. I took a quick shower using the soap as I normally do, then headed off to bed.
We woke the next morning to a clear, crisp day. It was early and Tim had started up the coffee pot. The smell drifted through the trailer, and further added to the ambience of the deer camp that morning. I finally drug myself out of bed and slipped into my hunting clothes. I loaded up my backpack with water, snacks and other items to keep me entertained while sitting in the blind. I popped open the latches on the gun case and pulled the Remington 7mm Magnum out and loaded two rounds into the detachable magazine.
We headed out down the trail that cuts through the property. We chatted in a light tone and at the turn in the road, said our “good luck” to each other. I headed down the path towards my blind wondering what the day held in store for us. On this particular lease, we have hogs and blackbucks as well. We are not currently allowed to shoot the blackbucks, but hopefully in another year or two we can. So you never really now what you might see. The last weekend I was at the lease, a wild hog had showed up and let himself into my feed pen. About ten minutes later, a blackbuck buck came sauntering in and paced nervously about ten yards outside the pen. Then to my amazement, he joined the hog in the pen! And to think, I was without my camera.
I finally reached the blind and settled in for the morning. I was in about one hour ahead of sunrise. I attempted to open my windows, but the heavy frost that morning wouldn’t allow me to open them by hand, so I had to get my pliers out and leverage against the bottom of the window and pop it open. After that, I laid my head back and closed my eyes, hoping we would have success that day. It had been a tough year to hunt so far, as the weather had been unseasonably warm and there hadn’t been much rain.
I could hear the feeder whirring, and the corn flying out. I raised my head and surveyed the land around my blind. Nothing. Well, looks like it was going to be a slow weekend. About fifteen minutes later, I noticed some movement off to my left. It was a good size doe and her young fawn coming in. I had talked to Tim earlier on the radio and he had seen some does come into his area as well. I thought we had a good chance to take two does this morning.
I watched as the doe played around the pen for awhile. She was quite nervous and I could tell that she was ready to take off at any time. I finally got an opening and took a shot. She bolted off to the right, then cut back to the left. Without the leaves on the trees, I could see her finally topple over. I called Tim to let him know that I would be out to pick up my doe, but there was no answer. About one minute later, I heard a loud “Boom!” from over in Tim’s direction. Sure enough he had taken a nice doe was well, so we had a double for the morning.
Tim headed up to camp to get the truck and I went out after my doe. I found her just about where I thought and drug her up to the blind where I could tag her. I waited a few minutes and here came Tim, bumping along in the truck. We loaded my deer up and then headed over to his area to pick his up. After that, we headed up to camp to try out the Game Cleaning System.
We hung the two does up on a nice A-frame and pulled out the contents of the system. I tried on the gloves and realized that I needed to use the Butt Out tool. It was suggested that the deer be laying down, but these were already hanging so I went ahead and used it while they were hanging. I was following the directions and was quite amazed on how well it performed.
Then I ran into a slight problem, as it says to tie off the canal before cutting it off. I had no string so I had to send Tim back to the camper to grab some. He did and the rest of the process went smoothly. I used the gloves and we finished gutting out the deer to take into town to the processor. I was quite pleased, and even thought that the Scent-A-Way Field Wipes was a nice touch to add to the system. I also liked the fact that the long pair of field dressing gloves had elastic at the top to hold them in place and keep them from falling down while working on the deer. The only thing I would suggest would be for Hunter Specialties to add some twine in so you don’t have to hunt down some string.
We didn’t get a chance to use the Wild Game Keeper Spray, but did put it aside as it would probably come in handy this summer while out hunting hogs.
We finished the field dressing, and headed into town to drop off the deer. It had been a good weekend and both Tim and I were happy that it had gone just as we had hoped. The Hunters Specialties Game Cleaning System worked well, and except for having to hunt for a piece of string, it worked as advertised. It made the gutting of the deer much more bearable since I ended up with a lot less blood all over me. While I don’t really mind the blood so much, it is nice to stay a little cleaner if I can.
We finally arrived home later that day and I collapsed on the couch and thought back to what a great season it had been. This had been a good way to wrap it up.
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