RE: time before skinning and quartering
 

We hang and skin our deer after we shoot them (During gun season) then the mondy night after the first weekend we butcher em up. we do burn the hair off the quarters before cutting them. But we also wash all the meat before we package it.

RE: time before skinning and quartering
 

I skin and bucther the same day. The meat is tasty to me. My Buddy swears you have better meat if you let the meat hang a few days. He says the meat will be more tender because the meat is starting the decay prossess which makes it more tender.

Hatchet Jack

RE: time before skinning and quartering
 

Time between the two; 5 minutes. Nothing to gain by hanging except putting off a job that has to be done and the longer you wait, the harder it is to do.

RE: time before skinning and quartering
 

I skin and process the same day it is shot . I let it sit in the refrigerator a day or two in large cuts than i process further

RE: time before skinning and quartering
 

I skin immediately, then bone the meat into stainless steel stew kettles that fit in my frig. This way a person doesn't have to worry about the weather and I can slowly clean it up a little at a time for vacuum packing and freezing.