Go in deep!

[sndmn11]

Come on @sndmm11 some 550 and and a carabiner and you will have legs wherever you want them

The meat cut-up keeping it clean is a struggle.

 

[feanor]

Oh yeah that’s super cheap. I can hold the leg and still scroll through Twitter and Instagram.

 

[ScreamingPotato]

Come on @sndmm11 some 550 and and a carabiner and you will have legs wherever you want them

Handcuffs work great also.

 

[sndmn11]

Oh yeah that’s super cheap. I can hold the leg and still scroll through Twitter and Instagram.

#frontcountryhuntingwithkyle

 

[Hnthrdr]

The meat cut-up keeping it clean is a struggle.

Always tough to keep it clean when your handling massive meat

 

[Ucsdryder]

@sndmn11 you definitely don’t get a pass for pussing out because you’re scared your meat is going to get a little dirty. Get a piece of tyvek or a space blanket. Hold meat with one hand, slice with other, lay meat on tyvek. It’s like I have to teach you everything.

 

[Billy Goat]

@sndmn11 you definitely don’t get a pass for pussing out because you’re scared your meat is going to get a little dirty. Get a piece of tyvek or a space blanket. Hold meat with one hand, slice with other, lay meat on tyvek. It’s like I have to teach you everything.

It's just extra seasoning. Nobody knows the difference after the grinder anyways.

 

[svivian]

Or just cut the quarter off skin on and hang it from a tree and peel the skin off when its hanging. I do it all the time

 

[5MilesBack]

But your name says it was a full 5 miles back..... Sorry, had to!

If I included cows, my name would be 6milesback.

Thankfully, hiking is not one of my weaknesses. As my buddy has told others "Once he sets his nose toward the truck, forget about keeping up.......he's gone".

 

[Ucsdryder]

Or just cut the quarter off skin on and hang it from a tree and peel the skin off when its hanging. I do it all the time

By all the time he means once in 2017 when he killed an elk.

I don’t like keeping the skin on. It always seems like a good idea but then it always gets my meat dirty. Skin off before I touch the meat is my go to method.

 

[Billy Goat]

I lay one side open all the way usually so it can start to cool. Bone out on the animal, can use a large meat bag under a ham if need be to let it drop onto. If you put a back leg up over your shoulder it's not hard to work down the femur and control the ham with one hand while you are deboning. Roll it off onto a large meatbag, then once off you can pick it up and get it into a bag. I use large bags, if using smaller bags a lightweight tarp, or using part of the hide, fur on the dirt will work.

Extra paracord is nice to sometimes to hold an animal, especially rolling over. On a slope once you move them, sometimes they don't want to stop.

 

[svivian]

 

[BDRam16]

The irony of this thread is that @Ucsdryder @Hnthrdr @feanor @svivian are all in my phone, and I know @cnelk is on Ucsdryder's speed dial.

You could kill a bull in a dirty nasty place and I bet all of it would be more than halfway out if not in the cooler by 12 hours after you put a hand on it.

My two helpers were sick this past weekend and I was solo. I wasn't worried about moving the meat so much as cutting up a "medium" bull on my own in a clean manner. So I knocked two days off of this first trip and will add them elsewhere.

I don't think much in terms of distance; X miles in one place might not be anything in another place. A good trail for 3 miles takes me about as long as a 1/2 mile in deadfall. Low grades versus high grades, etc.

Wanna be friends???? Lol

 

[5MilesBack]

I lay one side open all the way usually so it can start to cool.

Yep, me too. Skin one side and debone or quarter it. Then flip it over and do the other side. Right after I took this pic, it started pouring rain for about 45 minutes. That didn't help anything.

 

[Ucsdryder]

Yep, me too. Skin one side and debone or quarter it. Then flip it over and do the other side. Right after I took this pic, it started pouring rain for about 45 minutes. That didn't help anything.
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I bet that made for a mess. My worst was a bull that wallowed in mud right before I killed him. He was black from head to toe with mud. What a mess.

 

[sndmn11]

Wanna be friends???? Lol

Sure, send me a text.

Yep, me too. Skin one side and debone or quarter it. Then flip it over and do the other side. Right after I took this pic, it started pouring rain for about 45 minutes. That didn't help anything.
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This is where I start to eff up. I get something laid open, like-ish shown, and then start cutting the hide and subsequently get hair and dirt all over what is skinless.

@sndmn11 Hold meat with one hand, slice with other, lay meat on tyvek. It’s like I have to teach you everything.

You're telling me you can one hand lateral raise a whole elk quarter, but can't carry the thing out? #burgerpower

 

[Ross]

Meatpoles are an elk hunters best friend to keep things clean by yourself

 

[5MilesBack]

I bet that made for a mess. My worst was a bull that wallowed in mud right before I killed him. He was black from head to toe with mud. What a mess.

Actually that was probably the cleanest elk break down I've done. That bull fell dead within 2.5 seconds of the arrow hitting him. So that skinning job was a piece of cake, I could just about pull it all off with little cutting it was so fresh. At least the first side, that rain delayed me enough that the second side was tougher to skin, but still wasn't a big mess from the rain.

Compare that to my daughter's bull that apparently had been rolling around in a dry wallow all day. SMH My gosh what a mess. Dust and dirt everywhere on every bit of the meat and his body.

 

[Billy Goat]

This is where I start to eff up. I get something laid open, like-ish shown, and then start cutting the hide and subsequently get hair and dirt all over what is skinless.

How do you cut the hide?


As soon as I get a hole, the blade is on the inside of the hide, facing out. Cutting through the hair into hide produces hair everywhere.


I assume you know this, but if you didn't or for anyone else, it's a big difference.


I watch videos of people quartering deer or elk quickly and they are cutting through hair into hide. Can't imagine the mess.

 

[Billy Goat]

Yep, me too. Skin one side and debone or quarter it. Then flip it over and do the other side. Right after I took this pic, it started pouring rain for about 45 minutes. That didn't help anything.
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This is a fake pic.


I see absolutely no yellow jackets.