Thread: Fly blown venison

Hi all im after some advice
Just got back from a successful hunting trip, shot 2 deer yesterday morning, had the back legs hanging under a tree for 24 hours in a meat bag, now checking the meat at home ive unfortunately found fly eggs on on some of the meat and a few small maggot crawling on the meat, have cleaned all off that i can see and trimmed off any average looking meat,am i best to freeze the meat as soon as possible just incase i have missed anything or leave the meat to rest for a few days in the fridge and check often ? Or if anyone knows a better way ? Cheers

Wipe / rinse with vinegar if it isn't too severe, then butcher, age, package and freeze. Should be fine for consumption.

Throw vinegar into a cheap spray bottle and give it a go all over. The suckers hate the stuff.

In the fridge will be fine, go buy a couple cheap cotton pillow cases at the Warehouse and put your meat in them on the hill, stops the flys getting to them.

Yep will give vinegar a go, isnt too bad at all but not what im wanna be seeing at the end of a trip

Learn something every day, vinegar, cheers fellas

My bnb has plenty of oldish pillowslips.As I cut the back legs off.Theres a pillow slip in my left pocket,li lift the cut leg up and place the pillow slip over leg.Keeps all dirt off meat from the start.I hang the legs in the truck,3hr drive home or stay another night.Have a can of fly sprey handi just in case one of those big blowies gets in truck as I open a door.My Aircon keeps the legs cool every now in then.
Vinegar,il keep that in mind.

Many years ago.
Shot a goat and was left hanging in shade at home. It was summer. I went to work.
Wife spotted a few eggs, perhaps 1 or 2 maggots.

Hosed it off, in the fridge, we all ate it. Lol. Was yummy too.

The vinegar sounds good.

ha ha the old hunters used to say " turn the lamp of boys bit of rice in the stew " - when we were culling any hint of a crawly and the dog got a bonus feed - hated the buggers - pillow slip great advice - carry a little portable meat safe on 2-3 day trips really good - flimsy zippers though - and wash well they are not overly robust

Freezer is your friend but lay packages in thin layer not all in a heap. Many years ago Dad came home on hot summer's day having skinned line of possums.the blowies had beaten him to them so mechanical rice all through his string pikau full of skins. So he chucked whole shebang in freezer thinking that would kill them all and he could thaw them out in week or two and process skins.WRONG. the fur insulated them and when bag was removed..a shell of skins n fur surrounded a moving ball of horrid fat maggots. They don't like vinegar you say??? Good to know,they hate janola bleach,perfect when they on concrete floor or in drain.

All these years and plenty of seasoned hunters here and heaps of us seem to be learning about how good vinegar is. I've never heard of using it before today.

Dad took me when I was a kid to old hangar they used to fly their venison into back in the 70s and I remember there was old empty cans of flyspray all piled up in one corner. "Whats with all the fly spray dad?"

Dad:

Cup vinegar, tablespoon salt, tablespoon sugar, boil, cool, brush on meat on hill will also act as a preservative in hot weather.

Originally Posted by wtd

Cup vinegar, tablespoon salt, tablespoon sugar, boil, cool, brush on meat on hill will also act as a preservative in hot weather.

Is that the same recipe for Sweet "N Sour venison ..... ??

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Freezer is your friend but lay packages in thin layer not all in a heap. Many years ago Dad came home on hot summer's day having skinned line of possums.the blowies had beaten him to them so mechanical rice all through his string pikau full of skins. So he chucked whole shebang in freezer thinking that would kill them all and he could thaw them out in week or two and process skins.WRONG. the fur insulated them and when bag was removed..a shell of skins n fur surrounded a moving ball of horrid fat maggots. They don't like vinegar you say??? Good to know,they hate janola bleach,perfect when they on concrete floor or in drain.

The little wrigglies cease and desist pretty much immediately too if you shoot boiling water over them. Doing that can be VERY satisfying .....