Thread: Advice on handling meat after the kill

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

Dry ! keep it dry and cool. High humidity will make it turn quick.
Gut cleanly, drain any blood out of the gut / chest cavity, throw it on your back and head out. If camped overnight, hang it where there is a cool breeze down a gully or on an exposed ridge in the trees

Once put couple of young fellas in to paint a hut - radioed that night could I come and collect a pig they had got -got to road end around midday and they had bought out about a 130 pound boar packed in pieces in plastic rubbish bags - opened one and yup fucken near bowled me over - stunk had sweated badly in packs and plastic bags - two dejected looking young hunters -