I cut mine up when it is still hot and flinching.I have tons of guys over to my house to eat elk/deer. Every one of them ask how I get the tast of wild meat out. I allways tell them not a dang thing but no one beleves me[some of them are standing there when I cut the meat up]

If you want good meat to eat here is a few thing I think make a big dif on tast.

1st kill a young animal.

2 DO NOT kill a big buck in full rut and think he should tast good. He has been running around not eating for DAYS,

3rd Do not let the guts set in your deer for HOURS. If you bow shoot a deer and leave it for 4 hours in the heat,How can you think it would be good.Sure wouldnt leave a TBone out there for hours.

4thWhen you get to the animal gut it 1st.All the picks and jumping around can be done after he is cooling.

5thAfter guting the deer take the time to cleen ALL the guts and Crap out of the animal.Leeve a pile of **** in him and he will tast like it :}

6th Close the rib cage up if you have to drag the deer for miles.Use rope around it. This keeps all the dirt/grime out.You will never see any one drag there TBone in the dirt.

I do a ton of prossesing for friends and public. You would not beleave some of the crap they do with there meat.It is just like any meat out there treat it as A steak and not a dead deer it will tast like steak.To me all this is just comonsence.I just cant beleve some of the things I see. Than they wonder why the deer tast so bad.

Charles Bradford