Welcome guest, is this your first visit? Create Account now to join.
  • Login:

Welcome to the NZ Hunting and Shooting Forums.

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed.

Terminator DPT


User Tag List

+ Reply to Thread
Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast
Results 1 to 15 of 27
Like Tree15Likes

Thread: Looking after your meat

  1. #1
    Member homebrew.357's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2013
    Location
    Auckland
    Posts
    830

    Looking after your meat

    Hi all, when you are away on a five/ six day hunt in a bush camp and you have got a deer, how do you look after it before boning it out for the trip out. Which really means how to keep the bloody blowflies away from it, even in April there`s lots of them around, so how do you beat the buggers. I found using some pepper on the deer stops them a bit, but you could end up with peppered steaks, my best trick was with the deer hanging from a tree low to the ground, wrap some plastic around the deer with a small hole at the top and a larger one at the bottom, now light a small smoky fire so the smoke goes up inside the plastic , this will keep the buggers away, don`t like nicotine, not like us humans. A smoked steak is not to bad , so what`s your top way to beat the buggers.

  2. #2
    Member
    Join Date
    May 2015
    Location
    Southland
    Posts
    1,061
    how to keep the bloody blowflies away from it Move to the Mainland!

  3. #3
    Caretaker stug's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2012
    Location
    Rolleston, Canterbury
    Posts
    5,082
    A meat bag made from a pillow case or old sheet works well. Breathes well and the blowies can't blow through it.
    outdoorlad likes this.

  4. #4
    Member Boaraxa's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2014
    Location
    Southland
    Posts
    2,496
    I new a bloke who used to spray his meat with fly spray !! .

  5. #5
    Member Marty Henry's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2014
    Location
    Tararua
    Posts
    7,112
    Meat bag, at this time of year getting it cool and keeping it that way is the problem.
    I believe fly spray works quite well too

  6. #6
    Member
    Join Date
    Apr 2017
    Location
    Marlborough - Pelorus Sound
    Posts
    5,455
    Quote Originally Posted by Boaraxa View Post
    I new a bloke who used to spray his meat with fly spray !! .
    You knew only one (1)
    I know dozens encluding yours truley
    Manu likes this.

  7. #7
    Member
    Join Date
    Apr 2017
    Location
    Marlborough - Pelorus Sound
    Posts
    5,455
    If you can hang your animal off ground
    Smear fresh blood all through gut cavity and stuff fern into all other opening cavities (throat-arse etc)
    You be surprised that you wont get too much blow - but you also must leave skin on
    We did this with chest ofal hanging out too.
    If it rains - and stays wet - get it out ASAP

    If you can get the blood smear to dry - it seals it for many days

  8. #8
    Member
    Join Date
    Aug 2016
    Location
    Gisborne Rural
    Posts
    3,369
    meat bag or mutton cloth, stuff fern between animal and bag so at least when it gets blown its only on the bag. cooling it down is the problem and keeping it cool.Never happen here around east coast this time off year, even april may depending on weather

  9. #9
    Member
    Join Date
    Aug 2016
    Location
    Gisborne Rural
    Posts
    3,369
    I know a guy that puts the whole animal in a creek, guts and all lets it cool down before gutting just to get that heat out of it. All good if you shoot your animals near a creek.
    Huk and norsk like this.

  10. #10
    If your not fast your last Shootm's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2011
    Location
    Mighty Manawatu
    Posts
    3,106
    Don’t put your meat in a plastic bag... it needs to breathe. If you can hang it under a shaded bank with a breeze it will be fine. I use a lite canvas Huntech meat bag with a bit of fly spray around the top, away from the meat.

    I Have Sexdaily. I mean Dyslexia! Fcuk!

  11. #11
    Member
    Join Date
    Jul 2014
    Location
    BOP
    Posts
    4,029
    Huntec meat bags, not sure if they are still available. Once you cool an animal in the bag or overnight when flies are asleep you can bone it out and place in watertight plastic bags and chill in creek.
    Would help keep meat for several days till you get it to a fridge or chiller.

  12. #12
    Full of shit Ryan_Songhurst's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Location
    South Island
    Posts
    10,349
    Eat it
    Name:  images.jpg
Views: 785
Size:  37.5 KB
    Shootm, BRADS, Nickoli and 4 others like this.

  13. #13
    Member Bonecrusher's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2011
    Location
    Tauranga
    Posts
    1,147
    Quote Originally Posted by Mooseman View Post
    Huntec meat bags, not sure if they are still available. Once you cool an animal in the bag or overnight when flies are asleep you can bone it out and place in watertight plastic bags and chill in creek.
    Would help keep meat for several days till you get it to a fridge or chiller.
    Still available :-)

  14. #14
    Member
    Join Date
    Apr 2012
    Location
    Kingcountry
    Posts
    4,931
    Quote Originally Posted by Boaraxa View Post
    I new a bloke who used to spray his meat with fly spray !! .
    Many a deer began it's overseas trip "marinated" with fly spray. The unscented cans were preferable.
    A330driver likes this.

  15. #15
    Member
    Join Date
    Apr 2017
    Location
    Marlborough - Pelorus Sound
    Posts
    5,455
    Quote Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst View Post
    Like the look of the frying pan
    Where from RS ??
    Meat looks like good oldi Angus too - not Friesian

 

 

Similar Threads

  1. Can you age meat after freezing?
    By kimjon in forum Hunting
    Replies: 16
    Last Post: 27-01-2017, 11:56 PM
  2. Meat hunt
    By sometimes in forum The Magazine
    Replies: 1
    Last Post: 07-10-2015, 08:48 PM
  3. First I took all the meat
    By linyera in forum Hunting
    Replies: 1
    Last Post: 06-02-2013, 07:06 AM

Tags for this Thread

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
Welcome to NZ Hunting and Shooting Forums! We see you're new here, or arn't logged in. Create an account, and Login for full access including our FREE BUY and SELL section Register NOW!!