After you harvest your deer WITH YOUR BOW.
 

After you harvest your deer WITH A BOW, I found that if you hang your deer in a cooler or out in the cold weather for at least a day after you skin and clean it, It makes for much better and more tender venison. A biology teacher once told me that the enzymes and cells break down while hanging in a cooler acting as a natural tenderizer. It works! All 3 deer that I harvested this past BOW SEASON were handled this way and I ate the venison from each. It was all delicious. The first deer was a doe which fed on corn primarily....the second was a buck which primarily fed on woods forage such as acorns etc. The last was a buck that fed on soy bean. By taste you cannot tell them apart. I do believe this process works best and I'll continue to process the meat this way. Forgive me for this post being a little boring, but I figured some of you may benefit and enjoy your venison to it's fullest after you kill it WITH YOUR BOW!! Good Luck.

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Edited by - fisher501 on 01/15/2002 12:27:15

RE: After you harvest your deer WITH YOUR BOW.
 

Rofl Fisher501. That was as about as on topic as you could get!

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RE: After you harvest your deer WITH YOUR BOW.
 

I am sorry....but I gotta ask....

...Will the deer taste different if I used a gun? <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>.....

I sincerely apologize......and I think they taste better when they are taken with a bow anyway...<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

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You guys are too much!! <img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle>

&quot;Enjoy and respect the great outdoors;
Teach our kids the same, someday they'll thank us for it!&quot;

RE: After you harvest your deer WITH YOUR BOW.
 

Ok, now your off topic again!

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RE: After you harvest your deer WITH YOUR BOW.
 

Bow kills definitely taste better. It has to do with bleeding and all..

You age 3 days only? You should get a fridge like I have and age them for up to 12 days at 32 degrees. You won't believe the difference.

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Where is the sarcasm smiley when you need it LOL! Fisher, my question to you is what to do when you don't have a cooler to hang the deer in? We do our own processing at home. For example during bow season in PA last year it was in the 70's, can't leave him outside. Will quartering the deer and packing it on ice in some camping coolers produce the same effect? Most of the folks I know were scrambling during bow season to get the deer processed ASAP to prevent spoilage.

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On topic..... Off topic....???????? I missed something. Anyway.... in answer to the question. Weather permitting I like to let them hang but it doesn't usually work that way in Maryland. We don't have places with coolers to hang deer like a lot of states. Usually the most you can hope for is over night. In early season it's usually so warm I have them skinned and boned out within an hour of getting them home. I put the meat on trays with some wax paper over paper towels to suck up blood. I cover with plastic wrap and put it in the fridge for 3 or 4 days.

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I hung my deer for 8 days this year, and the meat is delicious. I didn't skin it until I butchered it though, and lost a good portion of the meat from where the (sorry guys) slug went through. If I'd have skinned it earlier, I could have cut that portion out and lost less meat possibly.

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Seriously, I'm fortunate to have a neighbor who is a retired farmer/butcher who has a walk in cooler... he is also an ex-BOWHUNTER <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>. Tribal, your idea with quartering the meat and putting it in coolers would work I'm sure as long as you keep the meat cool. Excellent idea!

&quot;Enjoy and respect the great outdoors;
Teach our kids the same, someday they'll thank us for it!&quot;



Edited by - fisher501 on 01/15/2002 12:56:06