Thread: Mountain Mules

Originally Posted by Boar Freak

Good stuff @Tahr . Why do you keep the ears on the carcass? I meant to ask this ages ago after seeing pictures of people carrying animals out just kept forgetting.

@Boar Freak for me its a hang over from my commercial meat hunting days. The meat packers (Consolidated Traders in my case) would only take carcasses with their ears on. The ears were proof that they were wild animals and not farmed or stolen.

A deer carcass without its ears on still looks odd to me.

Originally Posted by Tahr

@Boar Freak for me its a hang over from my commercial meat hunting days. The meat packers (Consolidated Traders in my case) would only take carcasses with their ears on. The ears were proof that they were wild animals and not farmed or stolen.

A deer carcass without its ears on still looks odd to me.

OK thanks. I thought there was some reason why people keep them on (special skinning technique or something) .