Thread: Meat Contamination

shoot a red deer through the vitals WITHOUT hitting shoulder bones...eg through the crease and you will loose approx 1 cup of meat from entire carcass...did it twice in last couple of years... shoot same deer through shoulder bones you will loose at least half a shoulder...so you loose a little but not a huge amount. shoot a deer or pig through rear ham (done it too many times to count) you will loose quite a bit of meat that is bloodshot or contains fragments of bone of projectie...its pretty easy to spot what is mashed up/cut up.
neck shoot deer you loose sweat stuff all.
the whole "must use mono projectiles or steel shot" thing has gone a long way in last few years and has less to do with meat contamination than it does with do gooders trying to remove lead from enviroment...... if you look into it the big birds of prey eating carcasses was a MAJOR point used.....they would have to eat a lot of shot up carcasses to get enough to be an issue.
to the origonal poster...dont overthink it,as others have said,if it looks like shit...it probably will taste like shit and could be shit.
if it looks like good clean meat....all good.