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Question regarding adrenalin in the bodyies of successful hunts...
mullet:
I caught a little flack over running over the big boar hog with my truck. The reason I didn't load it was one, it was too heavy and the other it smelled worse than urine. I called people on the jobsite to see if anybody wanted it, when they found out it was a two hundred pound boar they said no. Boar hogs and the meat can smell so bad when they are fighting, mating and excited(running from trucks) that the meat is unfit to eat.
We hunt deer with dogs here also and I've noticed a more gamey taste like Ronnie.
Pat B:
I remember dog hunting in the river swamps of coastal SC. The season opened Aug 15 and I was out there each year. Deer run by dogs all day, when shot they were gutted and hung in a screen room to keep the flies off and the temp was 95deg and humidity you can cut with a knife. At the end of the day all of the meat was cut up and distributed among the participants. It tasted as good as any after aging. Like JW, I also believe in aging meat. I used to have an old refrigerater set up just for that. It makes a difference in taste and tenderness. I have eaten meat right off a fresh kill and it was very good but a bit tough.
HatchA:
--- Quote from: JW_Halverson on January 31, 2011, 09:57:36 pm ---Not one of the deer or antelope I have hunted has ever tasted "off". The three legged mulie doe I shot last January was so tough I could't get a fork into the gravy, but she tasted fine.
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LMAO!!! :D
--- Quote from: JW_Halverson on January 31, 2011, 09:57:36 pm ---As for the clean kill thing...I can't stand to see 'em suffer. Clean shot or no shot is a good rule to go by.
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Absolutely agree with that! I realise that headshots with arrows aren't really an option and that the preferred kill-shot is the heart/lung area - I was mainly just questioning his take on "fouling the meat" etc. After reading about the deer being hunted with dogs - it makes me question whether his choice of head over heart really makes that much of a difference because driving around in a truck with 5 or 6 people, a row of spotlights and a few handheld lamps waving about, chasing down the herd as they run around in the dark - that kinda sounds to me like the deer are being agitated and kept active... adrenaline in the system much?? hehehe
Pat B:
With relatively untrained shooters the chances of a kill with a head shot probably outways a kill shot through the heart/lung area. The head shot would probably be a quick kill or complete miss. A shot in the body can go good or bad as far as the meat producer is concerned.
When I started hunting we never field dressed a deer at the kill site but brought it back to camp and used a skinning post for all the cleaning, skinning and butchering. Even after a deer has been down for up to 12 hours(waiting til morning to search) I never had a bad tasting piece of deer meat if it was aged properly.
Sparrow:
I have shot American Pronghorns laying in their bed and ones that just ran a five mile circle,can't say I could tell any difference in the meat quality. Eastern Montana Antelope are prime meat. Don't know a thing about African antelope except what I have read. Brother-in-law shot a big,swollen necked mulie buck one time over in N.W. Montana.Dropped him clean, gutted him,skinned him and hung him in the unheated shop for 10 days.Weather was coldish,snow on the ground. None of the men could eat it ,it was so rank. ??? The women said it was a little gamey,but not bad. ' Frank
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