How spoiled do you like your venison??
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Sparks Shooter
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I'm not even sure that is a legal deer in CA? ----SS
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I’ve eaten it where the rib cage was gray/green with mold. The quarters were too, we cut a layer about 1/4 inch deep off the quarters and fried it up.
The first meal was a little worrysome but when we woke up without a belly ache, the next morning, we went ahead and eat on it the rest of the week.
However, it had been hanging out in a cool/cold barn for 3 weeks and never got hot, like you’re taking about. As a kid growing up, we never had electricity so we hung all our meat, wild and domestic, (mostly domestic) all through the late fall and winter, wrapped in a canvas tarp and hung in the cottonwoods. Never a problem but……… eating spoiled meat…….. that’s a whole different deal. Wouldn’t do it LIK2
The first meal was a little worrysome but when we woke up without a belly ache, the next morning, we went ahead and eat on it the rest of the week.
However, it had been hanging out in a cool/cold barn for 3 weeks and never got hot, like you’re taking about. As a kid growing up, we never had electricity so we hung all our meat, wild and domestic, (mostly domestic) all through the late fall and winter, wrapped in a canvas tarp and hung in the cottonwoods. Never a problem but……… eating spoiled meat…….. that’s a whole different deal. Wouldn’t do it LIK2
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eelgrass
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If you catch it early and it's not too bad you can wipe it down with vinegar and get rid of it.
I took a deer into a meat market to hang and while the butcher was writing me a receipt a guy brought one it that looked like this one in the photo. The weather was hot. The butcher told him to take it to the dump.
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My great uncle picked up road kills that were several days old.
It was a different time back then. Lol
It was a different time back then. Lol
elkassassin
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The JOKER Will Be The First To Tell Everybody How Bad Deer Meat Is!
Wapitiwilly
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I guess coolers in Cali are expensive
OMG..How spoiled do you like your venison. All 25 pounds of it. Played leap frog with this guy from just south of Shasta to southern Redding. 102 degrees in Redding and mid to high 90’s from Shasta south. No wonder why hunters get a bad rap.
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LIK2HNT
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I never hunted elk for years for the same reason. When I was young my dad would get elk from guys at work who hunted out of state. It tasted like crap. Same for Antelope. Until I shot and butchered my own I did not realize what I was missing. I just took it for granted that people knew basic field care.
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It's very, very close to not being legal.
elkassassin
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Anybody Ever Hear How The Mule Tasted Several Decades Ago That Was Strapped To The Front Bumper & Headed Back To KALI?
huntindad4
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I'm surprised the tag stayed on that monster!
I do not care much about someone seeing a dead deer and having a problem with hunters about it. I am very discreet with the animals I kill and haul but don't really care what others do in that regard. But the wanton waste of that deer in that heat is disgusting.
I lost a whole deer one time that I thought I did everything right with. It was hot but he hung in the shade near a creek. I think it was 2 days. Took the deer home and straight into a cold room of 35 to 40 degrees. Deer didn't stink until I cut into it a day or two later. And it was stinky. I had treated numerous blacktails the same with great success.
I called a friend who had two bucks hanging in the same tree. He checked his and said they were fine. I told him to cut into them. Same deal...rotten. Only bucks he ever lost as well.
The only thing we could come up with was there was typically a better breeze through the camp than this trip and the nights were a few degrees warmer.
I do not care much about someone seeing a dead deer and having a problem with hunters about it. I am very discreet with the animals I kill and haul but don't really care what others do in that regard. But the wanton waste of that deer in that heat is disgusting.
I lost a whole deer one time that I thought I did everything right with. It was hot but he hung in the shade near a creek. I think it was 2 days. Took the deer home and straight into a cold room of 35 to 40 degrees. Deer didn't stink until I cut into it a day or two later. And it was stinky. I had treated numerous blacktails the same with great success.
I called a friend who had two bucks hanging in the same tree. He checked his and said they were fine. I told him to cut into them. Same deal...rotten. Only bucks he ever lost as well.
The only thing we could come up with was there was typically a better breeze through the camp than this trip and the nights were a few degrees warmer.
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That's pretty sadHow spoiled do you like your venison. All 25 pounds of it. Played leap frog with this guy from just south of Shasta to southern Redding. 102 degrees in Redding and mid to high 90’s from Shasta south. No wonder why hunters get a bad rap.
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elkassassin
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Hide On Is gonna Keep Them From Cooling Out Quicker!
If it's Cold Enough I Guess HIDE ON-HIDE OFF Wouldn't Matter!
If It Isn't Cool/Cold Enough To Hang In A Tree!
They Need To Be Skinned ASAP!
They Need To Cool As Much As They Can Before Throwing Them In To An Enclosed Type Of Cooler!
Never Throw WARM Meat In To A Sealed Cooler!
If it's Cold Enough I Guess HIDE ON-HIDE OFF Wouldn't Matter!
If It Isn't Cool/Cold Enough To Hang In A Tree!
They Need To Be Skinned ASAP!
They Need To Cool As Much As They Can Before Throwing Them In To An Enclosed Type Of Cooler!
Never Throw WARM Meat In To A Sealed Cooler!
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Yeah, he probably should have taken the hide off of that thing.
Mallardsx2
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and put it in an ice chest. Or a small beer cooler from the looks of the size of that little sucker. lol
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Anybody Got A Picture Of The Rig That's Pulling the HEAVY Load?
I'd Like To See If it's Nilly PROUDLY SPORTIN His PISSCUTTER!
(((RAZZIN Ya Nilly!)))
I'd Like To See If it's Nilly PROUDLY SPORTIN His PISSCUTTER!
(((RAZZIN Ya Nilly!
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I don’t like to eat anything from anybody that I don’t know processes their own game. I refuse to eat anything from a processor. You don’t know what the hell you’re gonna get or how it was taken care of.
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I worked in my dad's locker plant when I was a kid. My job in the fall was skinning the deer hunters brought in. It was really unbelievable to see the horrible condition of some of the animals some guys showed up with. Those were the first to complain about meat loss in processing because we trimmed off the dirt, pine needles and spoiled bloodshot meat.
huntindad4
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Maybe one of those large hydro flasks?
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Common sense is at a premium these days
huntindad4
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My first thought was I hope a kid killed that little thing as a first buck. But then I thought better of it and I hope not. What a terrible experience that will turn out to be for an example of how to be a hunter.
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No wonder CA hunters spend so much on optics. You'd never see a 'point' like that with a pair of standard Vortex.---SS
I guarantee there is a sticker on them saying they can cause cancer
DeerMadness
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But ice blocks and get an old sleeping bag to cover. And PETA people won't get their panties bunched up along with ruining your table fare.
