Thread: Fly blown venison

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.

Excellent recipe will keep that in mind.

Originally Posted by RUMPY

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.

Get to your local supermarket quick before all the other hunters, me included, beat you to the last bottle

Black pepper sprinkled liberally on meat helps to deter the flies in first place.summer is problematic for flies.winter much easier lol.

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.

About mid spring Mrs longshot commandeered some slightly over ripe rabbit carcasses for the garden, several nights later on a cold evening I went out with the thermal to check for little pesties in the garden. Three times there was a strong heat signature in the garden but nothing to be seen in the torch light. It turned out these were the places where the ‘slow release fertiliser’ had been applied. The rabbits had been buried in relatively shallow holes and the maggots and maybe the bacteria were numerous and active enough at this point to warm up a fairly large patch of soil.
One lot actually cooked a new planting.

Between having a blanket of possum fur and a bunch of friends to keep each other warm, it’s hardly surprising they survived in the freezer.


As an aside, the vinegar thing is new to me too.

no any sign of flys and for me out - cant stand the thought of serving up wild shot meat and someone finds a crawly even cooked - just could not live that down - no need - a little preparation in summer - the pillow cases - little portable meat safe - does not take much to protect ones hard earned venison -and flys are fast - one morning in Pirongia culling goats - shot a nice pig 120 lb young boar about 8.30 in morning - hung him up and went back to retrieve my pork about 11am and bloody fly blown -

Summer sika in the Kawekas gets flyblown on your way to retrieving the deer

Then they lay eggs in yer Swanni or polar fleece if you stop for too long

I'll definitely be 'acquiring' old pillow cases that wifey decides to biff...but I use Hunters Element meat bags....surely they are fly proof and still allow the veni to breath?.

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

no any sign of flys and for me out - cant stand the thought of serving up wild shot meat and someone finds a crawly even cooked - just could not live that down - no need - a little preparation in summer - the pillow cases - little portable meat safe - does not take much to protect ones hard earned venison -and flys are fast - one morning in Pirongia culling goats - shot a nice pig 120 lb young boar about 8.30 in morning - hung him up and went back to retrieve my pork about 11am and bloody fly blown -

Try to think of it as "wriggling rice" if that helps

One spring day when I was meat hunting on the Orua tops we left 2 sets of HQ's on a small patch of snow in the tussock and piled snow on top of them.

It got warm and on our way back later in the day I mused to my mate that I hoped the meat was ok. He had a look through his bino's and said "ah-oh, it looks like someone has left the fridge door open".
The snow had completely melted away and there was a million flies. We didn't recover any of it.

Originally Posted by Twodiffs

I'll definitely be 'acquiring' old pillow cases that wifey decides to biff...but I use Hunters Element meat bags....surely they are fly proof and still allow the veni to breath?.

They are excellent so long as you seal the draw chord by wrapping and knotting it around the opening.

Yes I use old pillow cases from the op shop too.

In the past I have soaked my pillow cases in vinegar first and then dried them. I like the smell as it reminds me of my second favourite food……marinated mussels.

Out off interest are you using white or malt vinegar

What's the worry, maggots don't eat much.

Anyway, just more protein. Lol

Originally Posted by hunt08

Out off interest are you using white or malt vinegar

Either but I prefer malt with my mussels and
Lots of onion and garlic��