I've tried leaving in the bag, only to wind up with crust + a lot of the bag sticking to the crust. I'm sure the type of bag, temps, humidity, etc all play a role. But was no help that time. I think I read somewhere that you can use plastic wrap - I could see that working.In regard to the crust...if you don't like that crust you can leave the meat in your game bags right up until you go to butcher...as long as the bags are dry. I did this with my elk this year...it hung for 9 days. When I took it out of the bags to butcher it the meat looked exactly the same as the night, I put it in the bags.
I don't normally do that but the garage in our new place never dips below 55 degrees, so I hung the meat from a tree in our yard (perfectly acceptable in N. ID). I felt like it needed to be bagged if it was going to be outside...I don't know why I felt that way but that's what I did. Thats what we do with meat shot early on a long hunt.
Me too!I shouldn't have read through this thread....now I'm thinking about hunting deer and elk! like I have time for that!
Billy’s killing Mule Deer does and they are definitely bigger than a WT or BT doe...probably 10-12# finished product bigger.Nice work @Billy. Just curious about how many pounds of meat do you get off of a doe?
Heading over to help you... eat it!! Mmmmm... let's go fish and camp sometime... I'll even cook it!I think I'll get around 50 pounds give or take a few.
That's a slippery slope! Next you'll be eatin' store-bought meat.Heading over to help you... eat it!! Mmmmm... let's go fish and camp sometime... I'll even cook it!
I actually get Waygu ground beef from a friend.. 3 or 4 lbs at a time.. She and her husband raise Waygu cows, maybe 10 or 12 and slaughter a few a year. They both eat carnavoire, especially him.. they have like 11 dogs, a donkey named Max, chickens, goats.. a real farm! And even a distillery on their property! Pays to know the right people..That's a slippery slope! Next you'll be eatin' store-bought meat.
^ this. Even birds sucks (smell, boiling water, etc), though getting the last quack out of a duck is a little fun.And all of this is why I lost interest in hunting large animals a long time ago. A hunter from childhood, the 'enjoyment ledger' was becoming upside down.
I can well remember the day of hunting I came back to my truck skunked, and felt a distinct sense of relief that I'd bagged nothing, and didn't have a shitload of carcass preparation, butchering, and admixture ahead of me.