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<blockquote data-quote="Core781" data-source="post: 1727219" data-attributes="member: 106156"><p>lol you should have let it cool first. I'm all about the meat, and I would definitely shoot a buck with a rack like that. I also have use for antlers. But I'm picky about the shot more so now, given the damage done to the meat. I hunt whitetail with larger diameter bullets so I have to be careful with my shot placement. Last year I was heading to get my vehicle inspected. A truck in front of me hit a nice young buck at a relatively slow speed and broke his leg while we were driving through a rural neighborhood. Fortunately there was a Sheriff parked by the college nearby and he saw the incident and quickly dispatched the animal. He shot the deer in the heart, sadly destroying it for consumption. I asked if the truck owner wanted it, he passed. I had the Sheriff tag it and I threw it in the back of my vehicle, I quickly drove to a power line boundary and dressed it and stuffed snow inside its body cavity. This was the first time I did this and within 30 minutes from the dispatched shot made by the Sheriff, the animal was cool. I had the car inspection and the mechanic was a little put off lol.. That tickled me, because so many of these guys no longer hunt and don't get to see this. The shop manager was a little concerned when I told him I had a deer in the back..he started to get dramatic and his father laughed and said its okay. I was home in another thirty minutes and took the animal out back and quartered it. The heart was destroyed from a gold saber 9mm and legs were broken but there was virtually no meat damage, no hemmoraging from the truck. I got a 40lbs of meat from it and a nice set of loin and backstrap. It took me 20 minutes to quarter it and probably 45min processing and cleaning. I cut inside out to prevent hair contamination. I still have a lot of meat in the freezer, but that poor fellas meat was so tender and tastes better than any I have harvested in the field. I did the math and due to the snow packed in the body cavity and rapid transport and no weigh station etc. The deer was processed at around two hours and chilled within 30min. It usually takes me two plus hours to get an animal to a weigh station and I don't always have snow and ice to pack inside. I think I'm going to buy an ice block and keep it in a cooler during the hunt and just insert it into the body cavity from now on. I have a rubber cargo tray in my SUV be warned as the ice and snow melts it will make a mess so have a tray to collect blood and fluids if you do this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Core781, post: 1727219, member: 106156"] lol you should have let it cool first. I'm all about the meat, and I would definitely shoot a buck with a rack like that. I also have use for antlers. But I'm picky about the shot more so now, given the damage done to the meat. I hunt whitetail with larger diameter bullets so I have to be careful with my shot placement. Last year I was heading to get my vehicle inspected. A truck in front of me hit a nice young buck at a relatively slow speed and broke his leg while we were driving through a rural neighborhood. Fortunately there was a Sheriff parked by the college nearby and he saw the incident and quickly dispatched the animal. He shot the deer in the heart, sadly destroying it for consumption. I asked if the truck owner wanted it, he passed. I had the Sheriff tag it and I threw it in the back of my vehicle, I quickly drove to a power line boundary and dressed it and stuffed snow inside its body cavity. This was the first time I did this and within 30 minutes from the dispatched shot made by the Sheriff, the animal was cool. I had the car inspection and the mechanic was a little put off lol.. That tickled me, because so many of these guys no longer hunt and don't get to see this. The shop manager was a little concerned when I told him I had a deer in the back..he started to get dramatic and his father laughed and said its okay. I was home in another thirty minutes and took the animal out back and quartered it. The heart was destroyed from a gold saber 9mm and legs were broken but there was virtually no meat damage, no hemmoraging from the truck. I got a 40lbs of meat from it and a nice set of loin and backstrap. It took me 20 minutes to quarter it and probably 45min processing and cleaning. I cut inside out to prevent hair contamination. I still have a lot of meat in the freezer, but that poor fellas meat was so tender and tastes better than any I have harvested in the field. I did the math and due to the snow packed in the body cavity and rapid transport and no weigh station etc. The deer was processed at around two hours and chilled within 30min. It usually takes me two plus hours to get an animal to a weigh station and I don't always have snow and ice to pack inside. I think I'm going to buy an ice block and keep it in a cooler during the hunt and just insert it into the body cavity from now on. I have a rubber cargo tray in my SUV be warned as the ice and snow melts it will make a mess so have a tray to collect blood and fluids if you do this. [/QUOTE]
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