How spoiled do you like your venison??

[LIK2HNT]

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.

 

[Sparks Shooter]

I'm not even sure that is a legal deer in CA? ----SS

 

[2lumpy]

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

 

[eelgrass]

I’ve eaten it where the rib cage was gray/green with mold.

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.

 

[Mallardsx2]

My great uncle picked up road kills that were several days old.

It was a different time back then. Lol

 

[elkassassin]

The JOKER Will Be The First To Tell Everybody How Bad Deer Meat Is!

 

[Wapitiwilly]

I guess coolers in Cali are expensive

 

[Wornboots]

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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OMG..

 

[Togwotee]

I'm not eating rotten meat I don't care how it tastes. this is why I won't eat anything from anyone I don't know well.

 

[LIK2HNT]

The JOKER Will Be The First To Tell Everybody How Bad Deer Meat Is!

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.

 

[Wiszard]

I'm not even sure that is a legal deer in CA? ----SS

It's very, very close to not being legal.

 

[elkassassin]

Anybody Ever Hear How The Mule Tasted Several Decades Ago That Was Strapped To The Front Bumper & Headed Back To KALI?

 

[huntindad4]

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.

 

[yoteduster]

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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That's pretty sad

 

[Critter]

A young buck too. A good one to eat. To bad they treated it like that.

 

[hawkbill]

I’ve always skinned and hung or put in a cooler, but there is a group that is from the upper Midwest that keep the hide on their animals and they will swear by it . Stand By!

 

[elkassassin]

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!

 

[heywouldya]

Yeah, he probably should have taken the hide off of that thing.

 

[Mallardsx2]

Yeah, he probably should have taken the hide off of that thing.

and put it in an ice chest. Or a small beer cooler from the looks of the size of that little sucker. lol

 

[Buckfever34]

 

[elkassassin]

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!)))

 

[brutus54]

I'm not eating rotten meat I don't care how it tastes. this is why I won't eat anything from anyone I don't know well.

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.

 

[larrbo]

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]

and put it in an ice chest. Or a small beer cooler from the looks of the size of that little sucker. lol

Maybe one of those large hydro flasks?

 

[Rie bread]

I guess coolers in Cali are expensive

Common sense is at a premium these days

 

[huntindad4]

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.

 

[Sparks Shooter]

No wonder CA hunters spend so much on optics. You'd never see a 'point' like that with a pair of standard Vortex.---SS

 

[RutCrazed]

I guess coolers in Cali are expensive

I guarantee there is a sticker on them saying they can cause cancer

 

[DeerMadness]

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.

 

[twopointdn]

I drove by a camp yesterday, meat hang in game bags in the shade of a tree, quarter in two bags so meat stacked on meat, on a 92 degree day. Not my cup of tea, I had a cooler and frozen water jugs wait from my deer to go into. I keep my meat clean in the field, getting it cooled down ASAP, and processing my own. Lastly I like eating all the game meat I have done this way. Antelope is my favorite meat and it is all in how you take care of it. I will never take my game to a processor again after having copper and lead in my teeth from my archery killed buck that I dropped off. You can’t meat horns so take care of your meat.

 

[hossblur]

I’ve always skinned and hung or put in a cooler, but there is a group that is from the upper Midwest that keep the hide on their animals and they will swear by it . Stand By!

My cousin is a butcher and he agrees on elk.

My boy killed on Sat.

It was quite awhile until it got to the truck, even longer to a cooler.

83 freaking degrees sat on muzzy.

Figure we've lost a bunch

 

[LIK2HNT]

Lost a couple pounds of meat on this bull. Was 3.5 to 4 miles from truck and over 2200 foot elevation above truck. Picture does not show how steep it was. Had to tie antlers off to tree to keep it from sliding down. Wanted to get down the super steep rocky cliff stuff before dark. Basically did not make that. Got one side broke down gutless method but had to roll over uphill and could not do that. To much weight and antlers hanging up on the steep hillside. So I gutted it which was easy cause its feet were facing down hill and everything came out easy and rolled on down the hill. Still could not roll over. So now I stuck sticks in it to keep good air flow and used some water to clean things up. Weather was cold. Loaded up and packed out the first load. Next morning started the long hike in in the cold dark.. Between more rope and a saw we removed the antlers, flipped over and finished the butchering. Soon as we got up there my friend started a fire. Had to constantly warming up our numbing fingers. Still lost a little meat at the hip joint. Just did not smell right.
Have always been able to get an elk broke down right after killing it before. Thought as cold as it was nothing would spoil. Can’t figure how people leave an elk overnight only gutted, or finding it the next day.