Warning, this episode has profanity and graphic video of deer guts.
Jean-Luc Godard said "all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun." This TechTrek will use a New York City night club and a knife. Last Thanksgiving I was intensely reminded of why the knife is
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is one of the most important technological inventions to date. And that I really don't know how to use one to feed myself.
It all started in a club in New York City on a Friday. A good start to any story.
See, it was a kinda lame "bridge and tunnel" crowd as we Manhattan snobs say, but interesting at times. My mission was to help a friend with a puppet light show, and then things got a little crazy as they sometimes do. Anyway, one thing led to another and the next morning I found myself heading for a cabin in West Virgina with a couple of friends. And the morning after that a neighbor with a bad back stopped by and asked us for help with a freshly killed 8 point buck.
When you kill a deer you need to take out all the guts so the bad juices from its digestion tracks don't ruin the meat. Field dressing also makes it much easier to haul it out of the woods.
As a kid I hunted, but I never got a deer. And I loved knives. My favorite were Buck knives. But it wasn't until this moment that I truly realized why they are called Buck knives, it's because use them on Bucks! The knive's smooth exterior and blade is specifically made to field dress a deer and easily clean up.
This was a little gross, but who knows when you will need to know how to use a knife to feed yourself???
(Disclaimer: This was a legal kill of a 100% organic deer. All parts of the it were used and recycled, with 0-transfats. A low carbon footprint was maintained throughout the process.)
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