Game Meat Secrets

H4831 said:
I didn't see any one zero in on the best meat saver of all, lots of circulating air! The skinned quarters hung in the shade, in a good air circulating area. In fly weather use one of the methods given to keep them off the fresh meat, but the meat will soon get a skin on it that keeps most of them off. Or, if the meat can be hung twenty feet, or more, in the air, the flys won't get to it. (I have to take other peoples word for this last bit, but I think it works.)
I don't have to take other peoples word for the way the old time camps kept their meat. Logging camps in the bush, without electricity or other means to refrigerate meat, all used a screened in meat house. A roof, with four sides screened in. All meat, every piece had to be hanging, and in most weather, the fresh meat was good for a week. Cool, or colder weather in the fall and it would stay fresh for considerable longer than a week.
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You're quite correct. In addition to hanging in the shade, drying and a skin forming and in conjunction with the benefits of circulating air, there's another little trick we've found and used to help on our Moose hunts in the B.C. central interior. We've cut black plastic into strips and hung close to the 'meat pole'. Any slight breeze moves the strips and seems to scare the flies away.
 
One thing we have done on horse trips is to use the plastic panniers for meat storage.

You put the boned out meat in the panniers and immerse in a creek.

You could do the same thing with a rubbermaid container. This is assuming that you are hunting from a truck and have a creek nearby.

I've also hung lots of meat form a pole stretched over a creek. The temperature over a creek is always a bit cooler.
 
One trick we've learned thats works well to keep the flies off is ground black pepper rubbed on the meat before drying over night if hanging.
 
this is working out well

I am glad I asked for some new Ideas. just picked up the Citric Acid from Pharmasave. Thanks Foxer!

The screen house is a good idea, it is just a little too much extra gear to load on the aircraft.



7 more sleeps!!! I am like a kid waiting for Christmas!

Wheeee uuuhhhh yuk yuk!!! ( I do a better bull call with my bugle)
 
Scout Rifleman said:
The screen house is a good idea, it is just a little too much extra gear to load on the aircraft.
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Ever seen the No-see-um netting cot sized bug nets?

I'd bet a couple of them, and some locally acquired willow sticks, would make for a pretty effective screen house around each half or quarter.

Not huge on the weight or space requirement, either.

But then, neither is cheesecloth or game bags.

Have fun on the hunt. Remember, if you didn't enjoy it because you didn't tag a critter, yer doin' it wrong! :D

Good luck!

Cheers
Trev
 
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