Killing A Deer Today, What’s Your Plan For The Meat?

[Lawdwaz]

If you kill in these daytime temperatures, what’s your plan of action, especially if you process your own?  
 

The hide needs to come off ASAP at a minimum.  Then of course it should be in the shade or in a cool barn/garage. 
 

Who has a cooler?

[First-light]

Buddy shot his Tuesday afternoon. Hung overnight and skinned and quartered the meat Wednesday. Its in the frig aging .

[moog5050]

I would either butcher same day in these temps or would quarter it and in our extra fridge it would go.  

[farmer 52]

Hang him or her by the back legs, leave the hide on and fill cavity with a couple bags of ice.Skin and quarter at earliest convience and put in fridge.

[doebuck1234]

16 minutes ago, moog5050 said:

I would either butcher same day in these temps or would quarter it and in our extra fridge it would go.  

Ill 2nd this^^^

[Moho81]

My plan is as follows....

Shoot a deer by 10am

Out of the woods deer hung up in the garage by noon

Breakfast/lunch by 12:30.

Skin and quarter deer at 3pm

Drink beer and be happy for the rest of the night.


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[GreeneHunter]

No matter what the weather is I usually go from the kill zone to the butcher ! I don't have time to butcher it myself !

[Fletch]

Gut it, get it out and I’d hang it in the butchers cooler!


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[wolc123]

Gut it, walk up to house and plug in deer fridge, get tractor.  Drive back and load carcass in bucket, cut hoofs off with loppers, skin (very easy when fresh killed), cut head off and leave on hide if doe.  Cut hind quarters off and hang from hooks on top of fridge,  rest front section on neck on bottom of fridge.

Leave in there for 3 days if 6 month old deer (my favorites), 1 week if 1.5 year old, 10 days if older.  Process, grind, freeze.  The grind from the first deer every year goes in zip lock bags, and the rest get vacuum sealed.  

The only problem with this quick cool method, is that the bottom of the deer fridge gets to be a bloody mess to clean, after the carcass comes out.   Hanging the skinned carcass overnight, if it is cool enough, with a catch bucket underneath, helps cut down on the mess.

[SpacemanSpiff]

Eat the whole thing. 

[Nomad]

Our garage has stayed remarkably cooler then outside temps lately . I’d put it in there , our basement freezer is set at minus 5, there’s 4 frozen 1 gallon containers of water and several 2 quart ones in it .

Id stuff a few in the buck , it would be fine for the few hours until my processor opens .

40 some odd years or so of killing deer , this ain’t the first hot weather I’ve killed them in . No worries at all .

 

[Robhuntandfish]

i have a cooler I can get a whole quartered deer into.  But i would take to processor probably and his walk in cooler.  But if recovered after they close the cooler would be the option overnight. 

[Bolt action]

1 hour ago, moog5050 said:

I would either butcher same day in these temps or would quarter it and in our extra fridge it would go.  

^^ Same.

[grampy]

I gotta kill one first!!!!

Then I'll figure out what to do next!

One step at a time. No sense putting the cart before the horse!

[Marion]

I gotta kill one first!!!!
Then I'll figure out what to do next!
One step at a time. No sense putting the cart before the horse!

Agreed. At this point seeing one in general would be an improvement

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[Moho81]

My plan is as follows....

Shoot a deer by 10am

Out of the woods deer hung up in the garage by noon

Breakfast/lunch by 12:30.

Skin and quarter deer at 3pm

Drink beer and be happy for the rest of the night.


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Well this failed miserably. Maybe tomorrow....


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[meateater]

Hide and quarter put in a cooler with ice the tenderloins and heart and liver in ziplock bags just drain and keep adding ice I learned that from my Cajun friend in Louisiana their season is always warm 

[Otto]

Hang it in the apple cooler!

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[wolc123]

13 minutes ago, Otto said:

Hang it in the apple cooler!
 

Might also add a bit more complexity to the flavor of the hard cider.

[landtracdeerhunter]

We have one hanging in an area running 46 degrees packed in ice. I know what I'm doing today.