308 or 30-06?

[corbanzo]

The guys in Canada shoot them ans clean them in the water all the time. Their camp is a large boat . They have no problem with bad meat. Is water in AK that filthy ?

And after they clean it the run the boat to the lodge?   I get meat cool and dry as fast as possible.  Having meat soaking wet, especially when the elements aren't going to help you cool them, and I don't bring all sorts of paper towels or whatever DM is using....
 
I guess if you didn't have to have your meat keep for 3-7 days it wouldn't matter too much.  But such is the case how we usually hunt moose.

  Cooome-on, do you think i never hunted out in the bush, where i had to keep meat for several days or even a week before flying or floating it out???
 
  I have used snow, but mostly it's warm out in the sept. moose season, so i just used my hands, wiping the excess water off the meat, then hanging it right after.  The meat dries it plenty fast doing that!
 
  Once dried, keeping it from re-wetting is the real secret...
 
  DM

But we agree that getting it dry, and keeping it dry no matter the situation is important???    -When in the field so all you bathtub cooks can keep your ice party goin. 




I don't see a problem with clean ice water I guess....   My 16' cat won't hold a cooler that big though!


I would rather just cut and pack it...  why get the blood out??  Good juices in the meat...  doesn't seem like a problem with me.  I love opening a good package of meat, take the juices in the package and keep it in the marinade, then when you cook the meat turn that bloody spicy marinade into a sauce...  mmmmmmmhmmmmmmm

[SHOOTALL]

Why get the blood out ? Been the way to do things since Biblical times  But also it is a high source of salt (reason for blood pudding in places where salt was hard to come by) so getting it out can be healthy .

[nomosendero]

Juices are there without the blood & you don't get all the blood, but the excess

[Drilling Man]

But we agree that getting it dry, and keeping it dry no matter the situation is important???

  You can shoot one in a swamp or even in the water, getting it wet when you butcher is no problem, but i agree that once you wipe the excess water off the meat, then air drying it, it NEEDS to be kept dry...
 
  I'm not saying soaking like some of these guys do, will cause it to spoil though, because it's kept near freezeing when it's soaking.
  DM

[corbanzo]

Why get the blood out ? Been the way to do things since Biblical times  But also it is a high source of salt (reason for blood pudding in places where salt was hard to come by) so getting it out can be healthy .

Well we always slit the throat of each moose and pour it into a cup and drink and let it run down our chins.  But that is just, you know, habit.  Hard to break those. 


A little scotch in the cup first... that's the stuff.

[SHOOTALL]

Fantastic !