Thread: Shouldn’t cut up an animal before rigor mortis is complete

As someone who has had giardia from contaminated creek water and throwing up or shitting through the eye of a needle for a week , then 2 weeks just generally feeling downtrodden followed by another week of puking/shitting , and this went on for nearly a year and a 20kg weight loss before the doc figured out what it was , I dare say if you had had that bug also , you wouldn't mind getting your boots wet .
And the cure was worse than the bug . Drop a pill that strips your stomach lining off - which then gave me ulcers ...... another 6 months of feeling like crap - no fun at all .

I learn't the hard way why you shouldn't leave carcasses in a creek and knowing what the possible outcome could be .( it wasn't me that left it by the way. I always remove any carcasses I find in waterways now even if they not mine or died of old age - wouldn't wish that bug on my worst enemy )

Don't think of this as an attack on you - just an observation and my own experience on why it is not the thing to do .... even at the cost of wet boots....

Originally Posted by Nathan F

Im sure you removed the bits over to other side of river and disposed of them under a log etc....positive you will have.... That was the comment and still is correct. I didnt cross the stream I dont like wet boots . I didnt dispose of it under a log either. I did pull the front and guts out on myside and throw it into some scrub. Normally I wouldnt feel the need to justify my actions to strangers from the internet but im feeling a bit attacked here.

Here @Micky Duck

Real good episode that one, thanks for for sharing @steadwah
I wonder if one should therefor carry a game bag and hang it whole in a tree overnight. Walk back to camp and return the next day to cut it up and haul out. That’s if possible of course.

Deer put hot into a chiller is not the the optimum but one put into a safe to cool slow but steady then into a chiller say 6-12 hours later is I've found. Depends on outside air temp of course.

Any gut bag or lost deer left on the hillside will eventually make it's way to a stream...and don't tell me you haven't done it.

A guy I flatted with at uni reckoned he was the first person in NZ to get giardia, he said it was black water out both ends so he never knew which way to face in the bathroom...

yip..taking the "out" you were offered 19 posts ago...MAY have been wise decision in hind sight....
not posting photo that caused the issue in first place might have been wiser still.....

one question springs to mind....why on earth would you want to take that photo in first place????

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

yip..taking the "out" you were offered 19 posts ago...MAY have been wise decision in hind sight....
not posting photo that caused the issue in first place might have been wiser still.....

one question springs to mind....why on earth would you want to take that photo in first place????

Each to their own. Be boring if everyone thought the same as you I guess. Live and let live. Move on.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

yip..taking the "out" you were offered 19 posts ago...MAY have been wise decision in hind sight....
not posting photo that caused the issue in first place might have been wiser still.....

one question springs to mind....why on earth would you want to take that photo in first place????

Why do people take photos?...well fck me, I don't know.

Its a good thread to see who actually hunts a lot and doesn't given the hard time Nathan is getting.
I've lost count of the number of deer I see dead of natural causes in waterways.

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Originally Posted by BRADS

Its a good thread to see who actually hunts a lot and doesn't given the hard time Nathan is getting.
I've lost count of the number of deer I see dead of natural causes in waterways.

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so many pigs killed by dogs in streams that the hunters never got to in time
usually after iv had a drink from the stream downstream from the carcass

not many deer up this way tho

I think an important question remains unanswered - was the stag in the water in rigor mortis?

Originally Posted by thatguy

I think an important question remains unanswered - was the stag in the water in rigor mortis?

No I recon not, But I recon it was chilled

Maybe better than those carrots you sometimes see