Skinning question

dakotakid · Sep 19, 2004

I searched the forums and archives and I am pretty sure it was here that I saw it, but do any of you folks have the link to the website that describes the "gutless skinning method"? My hunting buddy and I talked about it and he used it on his antelope this year and it worked flawlessly, I just wanted to see if I could get that link again and re-post it for some of the folks here.

Mike

kilowatt · Sep 19, 2004

Mike,

I have it somewhere here, let me look for it and I will either post it or send it to you.

Brian

dakotakid · Sep 19, 2004

Awesome Brian, thanks.

Mike

kilowatt · Sep 19, 2004

BlackTimber · Sep 19, 2004

www.bowjackson.com

dakotakid · Sep 19, 2004

Black Timber,

Thats the site I was thinking of, I want to e-mail a link to another hunting buddy.

Here is the story behind it. Two weeks ago my hunting partner brings some "hamburger" to me and we grill it up and eat it. Best burger I've had in a long time, bout half ways through it he tells me its stink goat (this guy can be quite the joker so I didnt believe him at first). But then he proceeds to tell me that it was off the goat his wife shot with her cross-bow a few day prior. He and I had discussed this skinning method about two years ago but neither of us had tried it untill now. He said he had the goat skinned and boned out and in a cooler in the back of the pick-up within 20 minutes post-mortum. No open gut bag or chance of contamination from the bladder, and with the meat in the cooler cooling down right away it honestly was THE best antelope and some of the best wild game meat overall Ive ever sunk teeth into.

I just wanted to get that link back to the top of the forums while all of us are getting ready to head afield.

Try it, you'll be pleased with the results.

Mike

ps. as a side bar to this, the Wyo G&F is recommending/requesting that hunters afield this year LEAVE head,hide and carcass IN THE FIELD to help abate the spread of CWD. All you need to do is maintain proof of sex with the de-boned meat same as always has been the case here. Obviously head gear can be considered proof of sex so if its a trophy take it home, but if its a dink, just leave the scrotum attached to the hind quarter ham.

DallanC · Sep 19, 2004

Correct. Antelope meat that gets on ice within 15 min of being shot absolutely is some of the mildest, tastiest meat around (assuming you didnt spend half the day chasing it first anyway).

We are 10 for 10 on terrific tasting antelope and I owe that to the fact we quarter and get meat on ice within minutes of a kill. I love the new coleman 12volt coolers too, keeps water (from melted ice) off the meat and generally by the time we return to our home 8 hours later the inside of the cooler is frosted.

As for the "gutless" skinning of an elk, no thanks as you are giving up the single 2 best pieces of meat on planet earth: 2 fresh elk Filet Minon's.

-DallanC

mmwb · Sep 19, 2004

Gotta agree on the antelope. Never have had a bad one. With one exception, I've always had them in the freezer the day they're shot. The exception was a year we took three days to get three goats. Skinned, quartered, and put on ice, those animals. They were great eating as well.