Thread: Looking after your meat

Must be a old angus had to use a axe to cut it up

Well all good ideas guys, but watch that soaking in the creek bit, I did that with my sausages once and a bloody big eel got them and Fireflite your telling porkies, I did 2 1/2 months tour down the mainland and used up two boxes of 12ga #4 amo to keep the buggers at bay, should be classed as big game!!, How to keep the fly's off your 120lb blow fly. This time of the year if you shoot a deer, get it home quick and with my caravan I would stuff a bag of ice in the chest cavity and lay it in the shower box, leave the plug out so water can dribble out, home!!.

When i was leaving in town i had to buy a few bags of ice and put it in the chest cavity and it did work. But you can't beat bringing a animal home and banging it in a chiller, wait to its dark to skin it and cut it up when there are no blows around

I use a duvet cover to put it in

Originally Posted by bigbear

I know a guy that puts the whole animal in a creek, guts and all lets it cool down before gutting just to get that heat out of it. All good if you shoot your animals near a creek.

We use that trick works great just like a fridge, just put back legs n steaks etc in plastic bag tie the top and the bag to something in case off a flood

I've hung plenty of rear quarters and back steaks in a cool area, with sum breeze, and coated meat with fine black pepper, to keep flys off, liberal use esp in creases and folds, in the meat. I skin the rear quarters befor pepper and hanging,
I've never bothered with any kind of meat bag, except for the trip out in the pack.
Plenty of huts in NZ have a meat safe, good place, if ones near buy,

Originally Posted by homebrew.357

Well all good ideas guys, but watch that soaking in the creek bit, I did that with my sausages once and a bloody big eel got them and Fireflite your telling porkies, I did 2 1/2 months tour down the mainland and used up two boxes of 12ga #4 amo to keep the buggers at bay, should be classed as big game!!, How to keep the fly's off your 120lb blow fly. This time of the year if you shoot a deer, get it home quick and with my caravan I would stuff a bag of ice in the chest cavity and lay it in the shower box, leave the plug out so water can dribble out, home!!.

If you get one down my way can throw it in the chiller for you until your homeward bound.

Originally Posted by Boaraxa

I new a bloke who used to spray his meat with fly spray !! .

Yep... "Chiller in a can" is what I call it.

Nothdude, "I don`t care what you say, this duvet has a funny smell about it.
Thanks Tetawa, could be in that way now I've got a 4x4 to tow my caravan.

Got my mrs to sew up a light mesh meat safe from a cheap bed fly net. I take that on drive in type trips. Used it at Stewart Island, can get two yearlings in it.

For normal walk in trips I just carry 4 old pillow slips in a small dry bag (stops them going mouldy in bottom of pack). I break down deer on the spot it's shot, legs and backsteaks, straight in the pillow slips to keep clean and can breath/cool/keep flies off. In the pack and then hang in tree in shade at camp.

If you can hang in a gorgey creek gut in shade and over water it heaps keep it cool.

Planennutz, You have got it back to front, it`s put the beer Cans in the chiller!!, .
Southernman, yes , I got this idea when hunting on Steward Island, by the hut I found a large bag of salt and one off pepper, for awhile I couldn't work out what the pepper was for , then I got it, but the bloody possums loved peppered venison.
G W H, Dress out on the spot is a good idea, have seen a video on it and no need to gut the deer , also cools the meat quicker . gees my trigger finger is getting icky with all this deer slaughter!

Fly spray was common in our meat hunting days. Was always said Germans liked their meat gamey and strong so that's what we gave them. If you rationed the spray a bit on a trip you could get 5-6 deer out of a can.
If hanging a carcass always open hip joints to remove heat rapidly.