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The worst sound you can hear while gutting a deer..............hissssssssss🤢


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Hahaha... Navlav8r... absolutely right.

To the op... stomach and intestine contents contaminate meat if it is too bad or you leave the animal a long time before gralloching it, high temeratures accelerate and worsen the process.

Best thing is to clean it the best you can, maybe trim some, and if water is available rinse it some.

Rubbing in some acidic solution like lemmon juice or vinegar or even some dry schnaps stops the prolferation of the bacteia that produce the stink and the gamey taste.

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Originally Posted by fishnpbr
No issues here. A thorough rinse n dry and it's good to go. An exception might be a gut shot animal that wasn't found till the next day with warmer temps.


This is my thoughts exactly.


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Wonder how many would buy meat like that in a grocery store. I bet quite a few would pass. I'm fussy about what meat goes into my freezer and even more fussy about what shots I take so as not to encounter it.Washing off does not get the blood locked into meat. If I come across a hunk of meat that is like jello with so much blood in it,It gets tossed to the critters that sneak around at night.


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Just think of it as being pre-digested meat 🤢

Kidding. Cleaned and rinsed quickly; no problem.


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No issues with using the meat if we can get it washed out pretty quick.

Skinning one on the gambrel, on the other hand, can get pretty dicey on the constitution if the smell hits just right.

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The only time I’ve had a gut shot deer affect the meat has been as a result of adrenaline affecting the situation, not the gut spillage itself. If the deer ran a good ways, the gut shot protocol wasn’t followed (back out eight or so hours later, let em bed down, etc) then adrenaline becomes a factor, and you are dealing with some potentially tough meat.

Some of the toughest meat I’ve ever encountered has been from dog drives and the deer are running for their lives. Like dealing with gut spillage in the meat, I clean everything out, ensure the carcass goes through rigor mortis, age for as long as I can and then process. 95% of the time you can’t tell any difference from cleanly taken deer.


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Originally Posted by Dillonbuck
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people wash pig guts and eat and use them for all differant things (Sausage etc) I just had hog maws for supper yestarday.



100%

Have eaten Hog Maw myself.

Most sausage is stuffed in but.
I'd guess most people don't know that.

Common knowledge among country people here.
Not so much pseudo country people.


I prefer real guts to stuff my sausage insteadof those plastic ones. In the sausage world gut is the real deal.


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Yep, no issue for me.

The only thing I do differently (every deer cavity); is after gutting, rinsing & getting hung up, I use a light vinegar / water solution, & a cotton rag as a final cleaner.

I always hang for more than 7 days.

Moisture breeds bacteria, the vinegar solution kills bacteria.

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Originally Posted by MadMooner
I had a quartering to shot that got in the guts pretty good. Small deer. Had a gut funk on the carcass after it was gutted skinned and cleaned.

I gave it a sponge bath with some vinegar and cut/wrapped it after a few days.

Meat was delicious.



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Originally Posted by New_2_99s
Originally Posted by MadMooner
I had a quartering to shot that got in the guts pretty good. Small deer. Had a gut funk on the carcass after it was gutted skinned and cleaned.

I gave it a sponge bath with some vinegar and cut/wrapped it after a few days.

Meat was delicious.



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Originally Posted by New_2_99s
Yep, no issue for me.

The only thing I do differently (every deer cavity); is after gutting, rinsing & getting hung up, I use a light vinegar / water solution, & a cotton rag as a final cleaner.

I always hang for more than 7 days.

Moisture breeds bacteria, the vinegar solution kills bacteria.

YMMV

Wish we could let em hang in my shop for 7 or so days. We generally have the A/C on when unwrapping Christmas presents. Ugh…


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My issue is stopping them freezing !!


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Originally Posted by jwall
NO problem.

After thoroughly rinsing.. I like to let them hang a few days.

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Same here. Rise as soon as possible. Hang and trim as necessary.


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IF a creek is around, wash it out as soon as possible.
This will Help clean out a lot of the Gut Juices !

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One of the hunters on a Javelina hunt got a little enthusiastic but his animal and ended up blowing 5 rounds through that animal. The each shoulder, hip and the skull had a bullet in it. I'm pretty sure he busted the guts. We field dressed it; got it back to camp where we skinned what was left of it; clean it with clean water and packed it in ice. It was good to go.

Now if he had shot the scent sack...different story.

I know I know, 5 shots overly excessive. I corrected him and hew has never done that again.

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I just skin them. Cut the legs, loin and neck meat off. The only reason I go in the body is for the tenderloins and heart. They can be rinsed off most of the time.

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your situation, no biggie.

if it was HOT then a good rinsing with water and quick cool down is in order.

I've had some really really bad gutshot stomach, guts everywhere, quick taking care of it and rinsing with water and no big deal.

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Former sister in law was the gutshot queen. Don't think she ever shot a deer that was not gut shot. Always gutted asap and rinsed meat was fine. Don't think I would of ate the inside tenderloins if they were offered though.

She made a real mess of several deer. Used a Ruger 44 carbine. Brother told her to shoot until it went down or ran away. Well they never ran away and it took awhile for them to go down. Don't think she ever hit a deer in the ribs or forward either the guts or the hindquarters usually both. Last one she shot we found after dark. Smelled it before we saw it. Apparently a mountain lion did as well. Nice to hear a mountain lion scream so close you can't tell which direction it came from. In the dark with no gun. Thank god she is former sister inlaw.

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