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Never used a tail pull before but after butchering a 900lb steer solo last week I'm a believer now
Spent 4 hours fighting the back leg on a hang until a buddy told me to tie a rope to the gambrel and pull the tail toward me, cut the whole hindquarter off in under 2 minutes, anyone else find that trick changes your workflow?
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charlie19817d ago
Yeah once you get the angle right it's a total game changer. Hard to go back to fighting with that back leg after that.
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parker_webb17d ago
Fighting the back leg on a hang" is exactly what killed my last solo deer, so I looked into this tail pull method online and saw a guy claim it saves like 30 minutes on a pig. Tried it on a lamb last month and it worked way better than I expected, the whole back end just dropped off clean. I'm sold on it for anything bigger than a deer now.
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Oh man, I was totally the opposite on this for years. I always thought pulling the tail was some gimmick that would just tear up the meat or make a mess. But after wrestling with a big boar hog last fall I finally tried it out of pure frustration, and honestly I felt like an idiot for not doing it sooner. The way it separates the joint is almost too easy, no fighting or hacking away at stuff. I'm with you now, it's crazy how much smoother the whole process goes once you stop fighting that back leg.
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