I just went down to the local meat processor and showed the one meat cutter there and asked him if he’d eat it, “hellll no, hey Mike come look at this, would you eat that? Hellllll no”. 🤷♂️
Yeah they offered very reasonable solutions I just don’t think I can swing another week or more trip in the immediate future beings as I’m just getting home for a 10 dayer. Work can pack sand but I got little kids that I’d like to be present for.
If I thought I could just drive over (9hrs) and...
The funny part to me is that I got a fairly definitive answer from rokslide before I even heard back from either warden, the biologist, or anyone else I contacted. 🤣
Rokslide kicks a$$
Head was pretty average size.
Antlers though, they’re huge!!! 🤣
No he’s a small 6. Which I don’t really care about the antlers but it was a grind of a hunt so I can’t say I’m crazy about the idea of going back for round 2.
So here’s the scoop. The warden called me back, she had to consult with her supervisor. Said they have never seen something like that before. They both agreed that it was sarco. They said according to the WWW if you cook it to 165 it should be safe to eat but they are fine if I decide to discard...
I only just now realized that.
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In any event, wouldn’t ya still think a game warden would pick up their phone during general rifle season? 🤷♂️ No huge rush I guess, just...
Yeah he was chock full, dealt with a lot of elk before and have never seen this.
Regardless of weather it is “safe” to eat or not, i think it might give me the willies to eat it with that much of it in there. Especially with 3 little kids that will be gobbling it down.
I will see what the...
I just got out of the woods this morning so I plan on giving her a ring shortly.
Every cut throughout the entire animal. Every muscle group had them and if I cut across the grain of the muscle you could see hundreds of little white ends
I was processing an elk a couple of days ago and have never seen this before. They were throughout the entirety of the elk. They didn’t wiggle. Any ideas?