So EKM, you guys apperantly hunt in a "known" CWD area, and if so, do you have all animals tested for CWD, and if so, have any of them tested postive for CWD?
We never seperate one animal's burger meat from the other, but we hunt in an area that has not had CWD found, yet!
Also, do you add any pork or beaf trim to your burger?
Howler,
Yep, they found a couple deer on a hunt behind the fence place called the MotherWell Ranch that is in our GMU. To my knowledge no CWD elk yet and by deduction no we have never had a CWD animal taken in our camp. We do voluntarily test every animal and if we ever get a positive back we can all discard just the meat from that animal and keep the rest.
We add zero tallow to our burger in camp. We use burger to make "shootable jerky", salami, and pepperoni. For the salami and pepperoni rolls we do add other meat/fat.
For elk chili we cube non-burger meat.
EKM