We're good, man. All cooled off. I'm sure, like I said, it's going to be like, gonna be eating right tonight, big time. You'll see that like, meat that gets, that's cool is, even though it was raining, I had them flipped over so it's been dry. It starts to get almost like a little bit tacky. The drier the outside of the meat gets, the better it is at resisting, like, bugs seem to like it less. Also, it gives you a layer that you can flay away really easily. And you can skin that thin veneer away, and underneath it'll be really nice. Very nice quality meat. Going real slow on this guy here, cause there's no hurry right now. The weather. My main objective is just keep everything clean, keep the hair off the meat. Another trick when you're doing this, when you got to cut through the hide, like down here, it's always smart to cut leather to hair. Your knife winds up cutting through little bits of hair on
the way through, and carries that into the meat. So if you start on the leather and cut out, you make a cleaner cut and you don't sever a bunch of hairs that winds up going between. For long-term freezing, fat deteriorates in a freezer. All meat still deteriorates in the freezer because
what's going on is, you've heard of dry-aged beef. The same decomposition occurs in your
freezer at a much much slower rate. You can put fresh meat in the freezer, pull it out six months later, and it'll be, it'll be tenderized. It'll have broken down a little bit in your freezer. And fat breaks down a lot quicker than red meat. So another thing for long-term storage on meat, the better you trim it, the more it's gonna last. But it's all part of the hunting, you know. It's like, the challenge makes it good. So if you kill an animal that's gamey, but then you don't want to eat it because it's gamey, the same way, I'm like, tough up! Be a man, you know. It's like, you can hack the rain, you can hack the cold, but you're telling me you can't hack a little gamey meat? All I'm doing is getting this thing ready to go back to camp. And later I'll make other decisions about what I want, what my year's going to look like as far as food needs, whether or not I'm thinking I need more jerky and dried meat for hunting trips, small meals for just me and my wife and my boy. That all comes later. These bags are great because they keep flies and stuff off, dirt off. They're breathable. I swear by these things. So I'll leave this here to air out. Keep watching the weather, I don't want it to get rained on more than necessary. But if it stays like this, I'll just let this dry 'til dinner.
