Road Kill Deer
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 11:17 am
So the neighbors a mile or two away phoned just before bedtime, it was 630. They had just hit a deer and wanted to butcher it but didn’t know how. Did I know how and would I come help?
How hard was it hit? The head took out the grill and a headlight. OK, might be some good meat. I went over. A yearling buck. It had been dead over half an hour, but I cut the throat anyway so it might drain some. Skinned around the hocks so we could insert a spreader. Hung it up from a beam in the shop and skinned and gutted it. Almost no sign of being hit. When I got into the chest cavity, some clotted blood chunks were there, so I figured maybe it bled internally. Never got to bed til real late, must have been after 9.
Let it hang over night and cut it the next day. When I got into one haunch, there was blood, some clots and that slimy stuff, but not in the meat, so that got trimmed and into burger, not roasts, checked for bone chips. The femur had been broken, I hadn’t noticed the evening before. Cut some nice chops and a couple roasts, shank and neck for wonderful stews.
These people have goas and are getting a gun license and want to live of the land as much as possible. So as we are winding up, he says “I wonder if I should buy a meat saw?”
I said, “Well, how much butchering are you going to do? A deer or two and four a few goats over a year? Then maybe you should, depends how much you are going to use it.”
“Oh, watching you do this and how complicated it is and the work, we aren’t going to do any butchering.”
So I was telling my hunting buddy in Alberta about this. And he suggested maybe they could save money by just getting a picture of a meat saw. And then a picture of a deer, put them together and it might work just as well.
Good neighbors, but I don’t understand everything about them. No comprendo.
How hard was it hit? The head took out the grill and a headlight. OK, might be some good meat. I went over. A yearling buck. It had been dead over half an hour, but I cut the throat anyway so it might drain some. Skinned around the hocks so we could insert a spreader. Hung it up from a beam in the shop and skinned and gutted it. Almost no sign of being hit. When I got into the chest cavity, some clotted blood chunks were there, so I figured maybe it bled internally. Never got to bed til real late, must have been after 9.
Let it hang over night and cut it the next day. When I got into one haunch, there was blood, some clots and that slimy stuff, but not in the meat, so that got trimmed and into burger, not roasts, checked for bone chips. The femur had been broken, I hadn’t noticed the evening before. Cut some nice chops and a couple roasts, shank and neck for wonderful stews.
These people have goas and are getting a gun license and want to live of the land as much as possible. So as we are winding up, he says “I wonder if I should buy a meat saw?”
I said, “Well, how much butchering are you going to do? A deer or two and four a few goats over a year? Then maybe you should, depends how much you are going to use it.”
“Oh, watching you do this and how complicated it is and the work, we aren’t going to do any butchering.”
So I was telling my hunting buddy in Alberta about this. And he suggested maybe they could save money by just getting a picture of a meat saw. And then a picture of a deer, put them together and it might work just as well.
Good neighbors, but I don’t understand everything about them. No comprendo.