I will eat any game except deer. While it is cooking it smells just like it did when it was being dressed.
I will eat any game except deer. While it is cooking it smells just like it did when it was being dressed.
Those trophy antlers taste like OLD bull horns. and I don't turn up my nose at mountain oysters.
I mentioned that I never used water to wash out the insides of the deer. When I gutted one out it was always where I'd shot it, and I sure did not have access to a water hose. The theory is that if you use water out of a jug and slosh it around the cavity it will only spread the blood etc, around the cavity, but using paper towels will not. It always worked fine for me and I never had one that was "gamey". I will admit that if I had access to a water hose it would have probably done fine.
We rinsed them when we got back to camp... then butchered...
One thing we always did was if we had to drag out of a field the deer was wrapped in a tarp to protect it from the mud.
never saw where not cleaning the cavity imparted bad flavor in the meat. When I butcher I allways take off the top layer of silver skin and slice off a very thin layer of meat on parts that don't have it to protect them. Never seen where a water hose hurt a thing either. Maybe if you hosed one out on a hot day and left it sit warm for a long time afterward. Some will cringe at this but we shoot ALOT of deer. Sometimes as many as 5 a night and even field dressing them is kind of a rough dressing for us. We don't even cut out the but hole. I do that at home when the deer is hanging. I just don't see where it hurts and even when I used to do it if your not careful you are taking a contaminated knife and slicing into meat. I sure don't have time to carefully and surgicaly field dress five deer in the field. Get the guts out and stack them in the truck and worry about the fine parts when there hanging at home with good light and its comfortable enough to take your time. My old bod even after round dressing 5 deer doesn't even want to bend down. Don't know what some of you fussier guys would do if you gut shot one. It would take a case of paper town and youd about have to drive a point in the woods to get enough water to thoroughly clean one. I don't worry about the mud either. Ive never had to eat the hide anyway.
We hunted harvested and plowed fields... gumbo mud that added 50 pounds to each boot... rather not pack that into the gut cavity... not when a tarp is light, add a couple ropes and easy to drag...
If games taste is other from spoiled, I've heard the white sinuous and bone marrow wil make for a bad taste. Buffalo meat is pretty dry as little fat. I've been to a venison chili taste and did't really like any but it just isn't beef.
Whatever!
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