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Meat and Trophy Care
Posted by Akres on Oct 19 2005
Leave it on the bone as much as possible. It can't cool well, all waded up in the bottom of bags.
If you have to leave a sheep, goat, etc, for even a few minutes, cover the eyes and face. It is the first place birds will work over the cape. Use a game bage or your shirt if you have to.
You can make a fly poison bait, using any number of pesticides and a bit of sacrificial meat. Lay it near, but not right at the meat cache. It will significantly reduce the number of flies quickly.
Do Not get intestinal fluid on the meat. It is full of bacteria and rapidly spoils the meat.
Keep your knives and saws CLEAN. They too harbor nasty stuff.
NO SWAMP WATER on the meat. Bad Stuff
Yeah, its late, your tired, your hungry, your wet, your cold, etc. But you must hang the meat or put it on a pile of brush (rocks if necessary) and cover it from above with any available material you have at your disposal. This is doubly true for those individuals that are float hunting and have to make a new camp each evening. Take the meat out of the craft and get it hung, before you make your camp.
Always use extreme caution when returning to the kill site. It is best if you pre-determine a site you can view the area before you leave the first time.
Flag the kill site well. Remove all flags when the last load is removed. Sounds impossible, but I will relate a tragic tale of two experienced hunter I knew back in the day. They shot two very large bull moose, not more than fifty feet apart. Field dressed them and returned the next day, and the next and the next and the next. Never did find the kill site. How could this happen? They returned to camp in the dark and got disoriented for whatever reason. As Mike stated a GPS is even better. Believe me it is difficult to retrace one's steps, if the terrain is flat, fog is thick, it is rainy and overcast and you have nothing to relate to except the next birch tree fifteen feet in front of you.
Don't leave the meat hanging any longer than you have to. Aging game meat is not necessary. Prompt processing is a lot more vital.
Double wrap before you freeze it. Vacuum packaging is better, but around here we don't have to worry about it staying in the freezer that long.
It is best to freeze game meat before you eat it. Freezing kills all the parasites.
Don't feed scrap, uncooked meat to pets. They too are susceptable to parasites.
If you find you cannot properly take care of that much meat at one time, or can't possibly eat that much, Donate It. Don't waste it.
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