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VIDEO: How To De-Bone a Sheep and use TAG Bags
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Great video! I'm very particular about field care of my meat and I really appreciate someone taking the time to put a top notch video together. Very articulate commentary as well!
I couldn't tell from the video, when you are deboning the rear legs do you follow the connective tissue between the muscle groups to access the femur, or do you just make an incision straight to the bone and cut around? My preference is to follow the muscle groups so I expose less meat (and don't waste any steaks), but that isn't always practical. I've also been known to suck it up and pack out the femur so I can make better cuts at home, but that only works during certain senarios (time until home, outside temp, length of hike).
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For sure, i follow the bone on the pelvis with removal from the carcass, but you could separate the muscle groups when deboning. It takes longer to make sense of the muscles and separate each cut, but doable. Probably adds about 7-10 minutes with practice, but the easiest is to just cut to the bone and work out the leg bones.
Larryhttps://pristineventures.com
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Good video!!! One bit of caution when trimming away bloodshot meat. My hunting partner was ticketed in 2003 for trimming and discarding bloodshot meat from a caribou. The trooper collected a literal handful of bloodshot meat as evidence, it weighed about a pound, and some of the pieces he picked up were literally the size of a quarter. My buddy decided to fight the ticket in court...he lost, and had to surrender all the meat and the horns. The outcome from the judge in Dillingham was that bloodshot meat may well be undesirable, but it's not inedible, therefore he stated that it should not have been discarded.
He still thinks it was a BS situation, however, we don't discard any meat at all till we get home. I know folks who trim away while in the field...just a word of caution.
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I have enough science to prove that blood shocked meat is not only inedible, it is riddled with source bacteria from visceral fluids, shocked marrow, bullet fragments, hair, soil, and other nasty sources that would jump start a bacterial colony post haste. I would love the opportunity to present that in court...without a lawyer. There is no prosecutor in the state that could argue with laboratory results.
I trim at least 1" around impact wound channels, and I would highly advise hunters do the same.
If you decide to bring it home, I would strongly advise NOT housing it inside bags with edible meat.
I would also bring a jetboil to court and cook up some wound channel debris for the judge and DA to taste...I bet good money they wouldn't eat it.https://pristineventures.com
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Originally posted by Larry Bartlett View Post
I trim at least 1" around impact wound channels, and I would highly advise hunters do the same.
That judge obviously didn't read the regs.....Sheep hunting...... the pain goes away, but the stupidity remains...!!!
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Judges are always subjective about laws, and will always interpret laws as they see fit, not what the definition states in regulation, statute or code.
Larry, nice video. I've butchered a lot of animals and I learned something from watching it. Thanks for posting it.
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