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I always offer. If you hunt with killers they don’t usually need the meat.
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We never split anything. Person that kills it keeps it all and if they want to split it they can.
I've always went with the assumption that the guy who notches the tag gets the meat. I've never run into a situation where I was hesitant to share a significant portion of the meat from tags i've cut nor have my hunting buddies ever hesitated to offer up meat to me. Thus its not something i've put much thought into.
A lot of how we've handled it has to do with how much meat someone already has in the freezer and how much game they eat.
it’s definitely not an “obligation”, but when a buddy busts his hump for you my personal feeling is he’s going to get some meat (well earned meat at that) for his much welcomed helpYou wouldn't have to or feel obligated to if he was a true buddy. You'd do the same for him without expecting anything in return, right?...
it’s definitely not an “obligation”, but when a buddy busts his hump for you my personal feeling is he’s going to get some meat (well earned meat at that) for his much welcomed help
Yeah , exactly! LOL. This is spot on. Should be a given to share meat when someone helps you pack your bull out and is a long time friend. Be different if the guy didnt even bother to help and just sat in camp and waited. lollet's see- a buddy helps you pack out two full loads of elk a little over 4 miles out, most of it's downhill (but not all), unfortunately there is some blowdown you can't get fully around so you have to contend with that, there is also some not so forgiving sidehilling that has to be contended with as well
it takes just about all day and you've now tallied up 16-ish miles (8 miles mostly uphill, but without a load and 8 miles with 70-80-ish lb packs)
yeah I'm not giving that SOB any meat- right
When I've done this (we call it the sausage party) everybody takes what they want and feel is fair, if somebody abused that they don't end up invited back. It seems to be working out that if we're making sausage people will bring pork butts and usually leave with about the #'s of sausage that they brought in pork butt.Resurrecting this to add another dynamic...
let's say you shoot a big critter solo and team up with others for a "meat cutting party." Elk and moose are big critters and goes much quicker even with one extra set of hands. I think whoever filled the tag should take the majority but I like to give some meat to those that helped the processing. How have you guys divided things up in that case?
If splitting the meat is expected then it is determined before the hunt how that will be done. Not after.I'm usually a solo hunter when I have tags in my pockets, but I did a group hunt this weekend with 4 guys where 2 of us were tag holders and 2 were not. I has the only one to fill a tag. It was an antelope so not a ton of meat to go around and I absolutely love antelope. We shared the heart that night and I definitely plan on cooking for the gang at a later date, but I also want to give them some meat too.
If we were splitting the bill at the butcher it'd be an easy answer, but I do all my own processing so I'm wondering: How do you all split up your meat post-hunt?
One place I hunt every year has a butchering party. Guys that don't even hunt show up to help cut up deer. These guys are all lifelong buddies and are getting together to have a bit of beer some good eats and just hang out. I alway offer the guys who are there without a deer some meat. They rarely ever take any. If they do they just want a few packages of ground. At that party the guys will eat a small does worth of meat.Resurrecting this to add another dynamic...
let's say you shoot a big critter solo and team up with others for a "meat cutting party." Elk and moose are big critters and goes much quicker even with one extra set of hands. I think whoever filled the tag should take the majority but I like to give some meat to those that helped the processing. How have you guys divided things up in that case?