Field processing myths

[Antares]

My grandfather always cut the tarsal glands off the whitetail deer immediately upon retrieving the deer, and still does. I have never done it, so I consider it hunting lore.

It's no joke with late season Sitka blacktails. You want to get those tarsal glands off ASAP and try not to get it on your hands or knife while you're doing it.

Any blacktail hunter should be able to smell this picture. You're welcome.

 

[Dexter Grayson]

It's no joke with late season Sitka blacktails. You want to get those tarsal glands off ASAP and try not to get it on your hands or knife while you're doing it.

Any blacktail hunter should be able to smell this picture. You're welcome.

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That’s cute! Here’s what a whitetail’s looks like, runs all the way down their leg. Smells awful and makes loading them up difficult. But I still don’t cut them off.

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[Pilsner]

COLD
CLEAN
DRY
Wash with soap and water or swap out replaceable blades after cutting off tarsal glands/gutting and BEFORE you let that blade touch any meat!
If your meat is gamey that means that you screwed up somewhere along the way.
Gamey meat = poorly handled meat!
You can't change my mind on this one.

 

[eggerhunts]

I've been using duck window liner as a thin plastic ground sheet (polycro) the last few years when processing. Its mere oz and scrunches down real small in my pack. Then I lay it out on the ground and put meat on it as I go through the skinning/quartering process. It has made things much cleaner for me, especially when doing an elk or other large animal solo