Meat Question

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Hey All,


Bit of a dumb question I typically process my own game but i have a trip coming up Nov 11-13 to fill two Mule deer tags. Then i have to work for a few days then head west after elk for a week.

I will not have time to process the Deer (if i get them) so I'm thinking either dropping them off at a butcher, or the big question I was thinking of deboning the meat and freezing and properly going through later. but i was always under the impression you can re freeze meat after you thaw it. Has anyone done that before and lived to tell the tale haha or should i just bite the bullet and spend the money on a butcher.



Again sorry for the dumb question
 
You can definitely freeze that meat, thaw it later to fully process it.
You may suffer a miniscule deterioration of quality, but an upside is
if you do your cutting when the meat is still partially frozen, it is much
easier to handle. [Cutting steaks, for example] I shot a Bison when it
was -35ºC. It was frozen fairly quickly once skinned. We thawed it and
cut it up a week later. It was still great. Dave.
 
If you only knew how much meat is frozen and thawed and frozen and thawed and so on in a commercial setting you'd never worry again. Each time it happens you loose a little quality and moisture and thats about it. It happens every day at butcher shops and meat counters.
 
Like eagleye, the same happened to me and to many others when hunting barren ground caribou, you shoot one at -30 and usually it is frozen by the time your done cutting it lol!
Do not worry about it !!
 
If you can thaw it really slowly in a fridge or cool garage it handles and cuts really well. I have done it lots. I'll get a deer late at night and take off the back straps and legs and debone the rest. legs get frozen whole and deboned later.
 
If you want to still process it yourself, your local butcher may just let you hang it while you are away on your hunt, and pick it up and take it home to process it when you get back from your next hunt. They will charge you for it, but small price to pay in long run. Have done this a time or two myself.
Although when time does not allow, I just paid them to process it for me, and picked it up when I got back from whatever.
 
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