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<blockquote data-quote="metal2meat" data-source="post: 2015214" data-attributes="member: 33905"><p>About 15 years ago a buddy and I were headed to an area to do some coyote hunting. Driving on the highway through some large tracts of private land we spotted a bull laying about 200yds off the highway in a pasture. It's antlers were up, not laying on their side so it struck us odd that the bull was laying in the open, visible from the highway and it was already an hour or so of daylight.</p><p>I saw a pick up parked on the side of the road that seemed to be watching the bull. I pulled over and asked the guy if he was watching the bull thinking he'd shot it with a landowner tag and was waiting for help to load it or for it to die. He was the ranch manager and said there were two bulls (one had limped over a hill out of site) and this one was laying there looking hurt. He thought they'd been hit on the road during the night and he had called the game warden. He said "if you want some elk meat you might stick around, maybe the game warden will give it to you". When the warden showed he asked some questions and then walked out to the bull. He shot it as it still alive and got to its feet when got up to it. </p><p>We walked out and the bull was fairly skinny but didn't have any obvious wounds. The warden pulled and cranked on its legs, we rolled it over and it had no visible wounds or damage. He asked the rancher if he wanted it and the rancher said "no, give it to these young fellers". About that time the warden opened its mouth and peered in and came up gagging. The bulls tongue was swollen and green and the smell was horrid. I quickly backed out from paying the warden $20 for a procession tag for it. The rancher said "hell the ivories and antler are worth $20". The warden said "if the meat is bad and you decide to dump it, just let me know where".</p><p>We took it to my game processor, a salty old guy that had been cutting meat for decades. I told him my concern and he said to hang it and skin it on his rack so he could get to the lymph glands. There's a couple glands in the neck, armpits and in between the flanks and rear legs. He pulled them out, sliced them in half and said "see how the color is pretty consistent- kind of a grey buttery color- the infection hasn't spread. It there was infection, the color would be splotchy and not even". The bull hadn't been eating so he was skinny. The meat was a very dark red color. The meat cutter said this bull hasn't eaten and his body has been burning his fat and muscle to live of off. He went into say the animals body is breaking down its own muscle and fat to make energy. He also said the meat would be kind of sweet. It was one of the best elk I've eaten.</p><p>After skinning the head we found a .357 bullet in the elks jaw. It had been shot through the jaw and tongue and the bullet had lodged in the offside jaw bone. It was a nasty rank wound, green with infection but the meat was fantastic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="metal2meat, post: 2015214, member: 33905"] About 15 years ago a buddy and I were headed to an area to do some coyote hunting. Driving on the highway through some large tracts of private land we spotted a bull laying about 200yds off the highway in a pasture. It’s antlers were up, not laying on their side so it struck us odd that the bull was laying in the open, visible from the highway and it was already an hour or so of daylight. I saw a pick up parked on the side of the road that seemed to be watching the bull. I pulled over and asked the guy if he was watching the bull thinking he’d shot it with a landowner tag and was waiting for help to load it or for it to die. He was the ranch manager and said there were two bulls (one had limped over a hill out of site) and this one was laying there looking hurt. He thought they’d been hit on the road during the night and he had called the game warden. He said “if you want some elk meat you might stick around, maybe the game warden will give it to you”. When the warden showed he asked some questions and then walked out to the bull. He shot it as it still alive and got to its feet when got up to it. We walked out and the bull was fairly skinny but didn’t have any obvious wounds. The warden pulled and cranked on its legs, we rolled it over and it had no visible wounds or damage. He asked the rancher if he wanted it and the rancher said “no, give it to these young fellers”. About that time the warden opened its mouth and peered in and came up gagging. The bulls tongue was swollen and green and the smell was horrid. I quickly backed out from paying the warden $20 for a procession tag for it. The rancher said “hell the ivories and antler are worth $20”. The warden said “if the meat is bad and you decide to dump it, just let me know where”. We took it to my game processor, a salty old guy that had been cutting meat for decades. I told him my concern and he said to hang it and skin it on his rack so he could get to the lymph glands. There’s a couple glands in the neck, armpits and in between the flanks and rear legs. He pulled them out, sliced them in half and said “see how the color is pretty consistent- kind of a grey buttery color- the infection hasn’t spread. It there was infection, the color would be splotchy and not even”. The bull hadn’t been eating so he was skinny. The meat was a very dark red color. The meat cutter said this bull hasn’t eaten and his body has been burning his fat and muscle to live of off. He went into say the animals body is breaking down its own muscle and fat to make energy. He also said the meat would be kind of sweet. It was one of the best elk I’ve eaten. After skinning the head we found a .357 bullet in the elks jaw. It had been shot through the jaw and tongue and the bullet had lodged in the offside jaw bone. It was a nasty rank wound, green with infection but the meat was fantastic. [/QUOTE]
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