Butchering meat

[Arctic Lake]

Treed and Fella ! I’m thinking if we got a bull the first few days of a hunt I could drive back into town about a 90 minute drive to my buddies house and cut it up there and freeze it . Was not thinking of cutting it up at camp ! No ice in camp either .How long have you kept game on ice before cutting ? That’s a lot of Coleman coolers . Any thoughts ?
Arctic Lake

[Arctic Lake]

I know what hanging in a controlled environment is as I was in the meat buis for 25 years 4 degrees Celsius or lower and humidity is a factor as well . Were in the bush and the temperatures of the coming couple of weeks look warm in 7-25 .
Arctic Lake

[Treed]

Ahhh. Ok that makes more sense. I think Ron’s suggestion is the best. Get it inspected and you are good to go. You could always freeze partially broken down and take it home and butcher it. I do that when I hunt out of our cabin.

[chris]

I have been down this road before and contacted a co for clarification.
I own a cabin/house in a different region than my primary residence. I do most of my hunting there so I asked the local co if I could butcher a deer at my cabin and bring it home frozen. He said that would be an offense. Like others in the post have said you can't butcher it yourself until you get to your primary residence. The only exception is that you can bring it to the local co office and they will check it and give you permission to butcher it.

[Fella]

Treed and Fella ! I’m thinking if we got a bull the first few days of a hunt I could drive back into town about a 90 minute drive to my buddies house and cut it up there and freeze it . Was not thinking of cutting it up at camp ! No ice in camp either .How long have you kept game on ice before cutting ? That’s a lot of Coleman coolers . Any thoughts ?
Arctic Lake

oh yeah makes sense for sure. I do think you’d run into the “proof of sex and species” issue though

[john-brennan]

You need to freeze it after butchering that makes it tough at camp.

[Arctic Lake]

Treed and Fella Thanks Again ! Praying to the weather gods for cool temps for our trip . Leaving Tuesday morning , be in the bush on Sept 28
Arctic Lake

[Arctic Lake]

Chris I hear ya . Does this apply only to one butchering it himself ? What if a fell brought out a bull early in his hunting trip and took to a butcher locally had it cut up and frozen so he picked it up on the way home to his primary residence several hours away . Not that I want to do that as I’m very capable of doing it myself. Not trying to stir the pot it’s just that you mentioned cutting it yourself .
Arctic Lake

I have been down this road before and contacted a co for clarification.
I own a cabin/house in a different region than my primary residence. I do most of my hunting there so I asked the local co if I could butcher a deer at my cabin and bring it home frozen. He said that would be an offense. Like others in the post have said you can't butcher it yourself until you get to your primary residence. The only exception is that you can bring it to the local co office and they will check it and give you permission to butcher it.

[Getbent]

Chris I hear ya . Does this apply only to one butchering it himself ? What if a fell brought out a bull early in his hunting trip and took to a butcher locally had it cut up and frozen so he picked it up on the way home to his primary residence several hours away . Not that I want to do that as I’m very capable of doing it myself. Not trying to stir the pot it’s just that you mentioned cutting it yourself .
Arctic Lake

licensed butcher’s have to record all the information from your tag and LEH if applicable.
good luck man, worry about the stuff you can control and everything will be gold.

[elker]

Interesting discussions so far. It seems that we should hunt moose elk bison after mid October to avoid the meat waste. Before mid October, focus on deer.

that is what I’m going to do. Leaving at the end of the month for a week deer hunting