possible newb Q: blowtorching your deer???

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I'm watching the instructional video that came with a game processing kit I got as a gift - at one point the narrator says 'after you've cleaned and trimmed your wild game animal' and there's a few short shots of various cleaning and trimming tasks - including the guy quickly fanning a blowtorch over the carcass.

This I've never heard of. Is it a common practice, and if so... why?
 
I've never seen or heard of it being done. Then again I only recently encountered people who believe they have to hang their meat for a few days to "age" it.
 
Yes, when a farm chicken was made ready for a meal, singing was part of the proccess, after it was picked.
The usual method of farm butchering of a pig entailed lowering it into a barrel of boiling hot water, for a bit, then scraping the hair off. At least some, old time Ukranian farmers, would burn the hair off with straw.
I never heard of using flame on a skinned animal.
 
i use it quite regualrly since most years when we are deer hunting the fur is still changing and molting and some days my meat is covered. i use to wash it off but i had a local hunter show me the blow torch trick and i use it now. afterwards i still wash the meat.

I knew lots fo guys who would use a blowtorch on a pig back home in northern manitoba.
 
I don't hunt and have never dressed a large animal, but strangely I saw that on TV last night. The guy was cleaning a moose I believe. I wasn't paying full attention.
 
Lazy Ike said:
I've never seen or heard of it being done. Then again I only recently encountered people who believe they have to hang their meat for a few days to "age" it.
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Never heard of "aged" meat, eh? Right. Ask a butcher about it.

We age all big game animals for a minimum of 2 weeks at 33 Fahrenheit.
 
I think that perhaps the person running a blowtorch over the carcass was trying to put a 'casing' over the meat quickly, so that nothing could get into it while it was hanging to age. When you hang the meat for some time, a casing will form over the outside, and this does a lot to keep the meat clean and free from bugs, but it takes time to form, maybe the guy was singeing the outside to make the casing, like, right now. Just a guess.
 
I'll stick to the 30-06, no need to get so close.

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We have used a blowtorch for years. After the animal is skinned , the blowtorch burns off any hair that is left. Then it is cleaned with vinegar and water.
 
the show was "deer processing 101" right?
I think the guy did it in there, but he explained why he was doing it. So if he explained it.. why start a thread to ask why he is doing something that he has already told you why he is doing it?
 
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