One major thing hunters do wrong is allow their animal quarters to get dirty. Always get the hide off and let the meat cool,” Rinella added. Some people think it keeps the meat cleaner, but the meat can spoil faster, especially in warm weather, if the hide is left on the meat even for short periods. “The hide of an animal also holds heat so I don’t like to leave the hide on my quarters. Gutting an animal is a must, even when it is cold out, if the animal must be left for a long period of time,” Rinella explained.Īnother thing Rinella does is get the hide off. Big game animals hold a lot of heat in them and you need to get rid of that heat. A big animal like an elk cannot be cooled fast enough. If for some reason, I need to leave an animal overnight before I start cutting it up, I always gut it. “When I kill something in the backcountry, I don’t like to leave the guts in the animal overnight. Heat is enemy number one when hunting in the backcountry. “Making sure field care is done right often results in good table fare.” “One of the main reasons some wild game tastes bad on the table is because it isn’t taken care of properly in the field,” says Rinella. He makes his living harvesting game and turning it into high quality meals that his friends and family enjoy eating. No one knows that better than Steven Rinella, Host of the MeatEater on the Sportsman Channel. Making sure meat stays clean and cool and doesn’t spoil is a tough job when hunting deep in the backcountry. After all, for most of us, taking home high quality meat is one of the main reasons we bow hunt.
In warm temperatures, when one member of a hunting party kills an animal, all hunting stops and everyone pitches in until the animal is off the mountain and on its way to a game cooler. Getting the meat off the animal and cooled down becomes a top priority. When the temperatures are extremely warm, everything changes. When the daytime temperatures are in the fifties or cooler, a bowhunter can take his time cutting up and deboning an animal. One of the biggest problems a backcountry hunter faces is what to do with the meat after the kill. One dream many bowhunters have is to spend an extended period of time in the backcountry chasing elk, deer or other big game animals.
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