I usualy have my hair stylist Raheem work his magic, it's Fab. seriously though after doing my first and only hog I had no hair on the meat but some sandy grit that wouldn't have been there with a quick wash and scrub to remove 90% of the caked on mud and dirt. so if a water hose is avail thats what I'm gonna do. make-up kit might help for the photo, then you could tell the hunter and hog apart.
Me,weather i do it in the wood's(gut'em) or at home i throw them up on tailgate of truck.Make's it a lot easier on back have'n it waist high,open it up an let it roll off on ground or trash can if at home.I would rather do it at home where i have water hose available in case i boo boo on sump'n...From house to where i hunt is about 10 miles so i can get it there in a timely manner...I've seen guy's that throw them up on tailgate an not even gut'em,reach in an pull tenderloin's out,cut backstrap out,cut quarter's off and chunk the rest.Poacher's skin'n is what i call it,i like to see them tenderloin's when i take them out,and the neck,they'd be surprised at how much hamburger they just threw away.... :taz
OK some of you are going to jump back at me , But what did your Grand father and Great Grand father do after they shot their game. I have hunted since I was a small boy 53 years. Back when I started hunting you didn't have bags of ice or people to process your game. Yes we would gut the game as soon as possible and hang it from a tree. I use to carry a can of pepper with me and would cover the meat the best I could this would keep the blow flies off. Then wash it off and cut up meat . also keep it out of the direct sun. Many people in other countries hang meat out side for days and then eat it and I have to say many of them out live us. Oh and what about the old days when people would strap a deer on the hood of their truck and drive it around town showing it off. You would think this would cook the deer, I never heard of someone dieing from eating it. Gut them as soon a you can and try to keep the meat clean and as cool as possible but remember you GGGG Grand father ate meat that hung for days and weeks and it didn't kill them, if it did you wouldn't be hear reading my post. :sailor
Our for fathers did exactly what you described since that was the only way to do field dress, cool meat, and transport animals back then.
The residual effects of them field dressing, attempting to cool, and transporting in this manner during present day is the all too familiar sound we all have heard of how wildlife supposedly has a "Gamey Taste". The "Gamey Taste" is caused by improper field dressing, transportation, cleaning and cooling of meat, in another words, spoilage. Yes, many folks in other countries, as well as our country used to hang meat to dry in the sun. There digestive systems were used to eating meat cured like this and it didn't bother them at all. They didn't eat meat in anyother form since they didn't have anyother way to "keep" it. The meat was dried and cured in the sun or they didn't have any meat at all to eat, period. If we were to do that today, it would make everyone of us sick as hell. Think about it.
As our Supreme Nacho outlines and points out, rinsing and washing hogs prior to skinning and quartering is also my prefered method. Personally I don't like ticks, flees, parasites, dirt, mud, and sh_t all over me, the meat or my game when I am cutting it up. Once I have gotten the hog to the cleaning station or skinning rack, hang him up, out comes the water hose and a quick wash down is done. Now I've only killed about 30 or 40 hogs in the last 12 years and consider myself an amateur hog hunter, but I have never had one that tasted bad or had a "Gamey Taste" after it come out of the oven. Leanest and tastiest pork we've ever eaten...
As for the perfume, make-up, shampoo, soap and beauty salon treatment, normally I pass on all that and try to get the animal washed, skun, quartered, and on ice ASAP. My two cents...
How about using a curling iron on the tail??
Right on Gunboy, we are not used to all that bacteria now and the reason so many do not eat wild game was the improper care and gaminess of the taste.
Being from TX and living close to mexico where you can still see animals hung in outdoor meat markets with flies all over them even today, it makes my skin crawl. If you ever taste the meat in Mexico in the rural areas in normal places to eat not the tourist traps, you too will taste the gamey flavor of the food...a lack of cooling and care...not my favorite at all.
