Originally Posted by Oldtimr

The glands on a deer's hind legs, the metatarsal gland will not taint the meat of a deer after it is dead, if it did it would taint it when the deer was alive. I always got a kick out of the guys coming out of the woods with a buck with the bottom of the hind leg half skinned. I also have seen hunters cutting the metatarsals off before they gutted the deer. Now there is a stroke of genius, putting your knife in that stinking gland and then cutting the deer with it. Lots of myths out there, removing the metatarsal is one of them.