Thread: How to: Prepare venison hindquarters to carry as a backpack

I tried out the pelvis-less method gibo and boreaxa showed, on some goats last night. Thanks for your pics - learned some more seeing that. I've also heard of people skinning the deer and leaving front legs, back legs and backsteaks sticking to the skin ! That could keep it clean and tidy but might be more suited to rolling the whole lot up and sticking in a pack ?

It's certainly quicker, not having to do the anus, gut removal and spine detachment. It's very much like simply cutting off the leg without skinning it, but you have two attached. I'm not sure how it would go, carrying a big deer legs for a distance, flopping round your neck. (We had plenty of space in our packs this time so just proceeded to skin these ones out afterwards and carried the meat with bones in the time honoured pillowcase.)

The two on the right are hind legs and on the left is front legs.