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Hunter anons, please help my curiosity

Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2024 02:13:24 No.2785295 View View Reply Original Report

How long do you typically have to field dress an animal before it starts to rot? And assuming a hunter didn't have access to functioning modern technology (like electric powered coolers, etc) such as in the case of a shtf event or during old times, how would hunters conserve their fresh kills before the meat started to go bad?
Thanks in advance frens.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2024 02:54:27 No.2785299 Report

Quoted By: >>2785752 >>2786661

>>2785295
Hunting is traditionally a winter activity, so you can take advantage of natural refrigeration. The sooner you get the body opened up and cooling, the better. But deer hunters (especially bow hunters) say you should wait as long as a couple hours before you try to track down your kill. Deer will sometimes lay down when wounded and you don't want to "bump" them and have to track them again by approaching before they're dead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2024 17:22:44 No.2785387 Report

Quoted By: >>2785388

>>2785295
Depends on the time of kill (morning, midday, evening), weather, and temperature. If night time temps reach close or below freezing it could potentially last almost a week hung up. If it's hung up in the sun it will spoil faster. If it gets wet it will spoil faster. If you made a bad shot and had to track it for 12-24 hours you could lose meat with the hide still on. Important tips. Get the hide off asap and get it hung up. Creek bottoms are cooler so if there's one close by then hang it there or set it on some logs. You'll have more leeway in the late fall/winter than in late summer/early fall. Before you make a shot make sure you ask yourself if you can pack the meat out in a reasonable time given the weather conditions.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2024 17:30:26 No.2785388 Report

Quoted By: >>2785389 >>2786672

>>2785387
What about the skins? Do people keep those? How do people preserve them until they are ready to tan them (I assume the first order of business is to preserve the meat)?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2024 17:37:02 No.2785389 Report

Quoted By: >>2785409

>>2785388
Same concept. If there's meat/fat on the hide that could rot if not properly cooled. You can put the hide in a freezer back home until you're ready to start the tanning process. Ethically you should always pack out the hide, head, and hooves last if you decide to keep them.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2024 19:09:37 No.2785409 Report

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>>2785389
What use do the hooves have?

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Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2024 01:28:43 No.2785454 Report

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>>2785409

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2024 01:48:23 No.2785458 Report

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>in the case of a shtf event or during old times
They would've smoked the meat. Butchering something like a deer only takes an hour or two for 1-2 people and then you'd put it straight on the smoking rack, so spoiling isn't really a concern. Except maybe if you had a long way back to camp.
More recently they may have canned or salted the meat. Those can also be done right away if you prepared ahead of time.

I never bothered with field dressing, I just throw the deer in the truck and take it somewhere more convenient to remove the entrails and butcher.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2024 12:33:53 No.2785519 Report

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>>2785454
That looks atrocious.

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Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2024 15:19:48 No.2785536 Report

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>>2785519
Kek

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2024 01:26:45 No.2785752 Report

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>>2785299
Only bow hunters say that. I just go get the thing straight away because Its dead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2024 01:33:04 No.2785754 Report

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Deer will keep for ages as long as they don't get flys on them. The only weather that will wreck venison real fast is a warm wet northerly (in NZ so it won't be the same where you are) but a warm muggy rain is what does it. Keep it in the shade otherwise.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Nov 2024 13:37:28 No.2786661 Report

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>>2785299
I know someone who used to hunt with a knife in the winter. He lured them in a place with big snow with enough frozen surface to keep him on top of snow while the animal sinked and moved slowly. He quick aproach it, grab the buck by the horn and stab his throt with a knife

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Nov 2024 16:46:39 No.2786672 Report

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>>2785388
I tan my own hides, after you skin and do a preliminary fleshing, you can cover them in salt and keep them in a cool place until you're ready to start the tanning. As long as they're salted and cool you can leave them for pretty good amount of time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Nov 2024 19:24:11 No.2786690 Report

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Check out Clay Heyes on YT. He's got a recent video on your first question and a lot of other stuff you seem to be interested in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP3pRtWgbgo

To conserve the meat you can smoke or even airdry the meat in thin strips.

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