My uncle in NW MT hosted a couple newbies on a late season hunt. They shot two cows that they could get to with the tractor. After hanging them in the shed, my uncle cut out the tender loins and threw them in the snow bank. "Why'd you do that?" They asked.
He said "well, that's the GUT MEAT, its the first thing that goes bad, and if you leave it in it will spoil the rest of the meat".
"Oh, good, get rid of that" they said. Of course, as soon as they walked away, the tender loins went into the fridge.
Just opened the last pack of WY whitetail gut meat. This always makes me smile.
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What a jerk. Not a very good ambassador for the sport when showing newbies the ropes. Should have shown them the value of the fillet mignon instead of being selfish and filling his gut. With people like this we don't enemies of the sport we are making them.
To the comments above, they were neither paying clients or friends. They "self invited" to hunt on his land, as he owns some river bottom ground where the elk come down in the winter. Like I said, newbies looking for an easy late season hunt. But hey, thanks for the input.
I have heard the OP told at least a half dozen different times over the years with very slighlty changed story line specifics. My response was applicable to the joke as told.
You analogy is far from the same thing as you say. If you are going to go in the field with the intent to kill an animal, you have a responsibility to know what parts of the animal that are considered food. Read the wanton waste regs in any reg book in the country. That in no way compares to your dentist pulling a tooth vs filling it.
If they weren’t being charged anything, and they got two free elk off private land, I’d say it’s a fair trade to get the tenderloins and let them half the rest. I ought to start implementing that rule when people hunt deer on my place!
It also sounds like he cleaned the elk for them?? Those greenhorns got a good deal.
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I guess it’s crazy to think someone might teach a person something instead of taking advantage of them?
You can read forums, books, regs, how to’s, etc. all day. It can still be helpful to learn in the moment rather than being taken advantage of because of inexperience.
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What part of that being a joke are you not comprehending? If we are going to "learn in the moment" as you say, maybe we need to pay attention to what is said.
What part of that being a joke are you not comprehending? If we are going to "learn in the moment" as you say, maybe we need to pay attention to what is said.