November 4, 2015
Every boys scout should know a thing or two about survival. Never know when you'll have to use hunting to provide a meal or a pelt for clothing. It's usually harder than it looks, and it's important to be trained by experience individuals. Russ and Matt are just those individuals. They had just take down a couple of deer, Russ's staff we benefiting this time, getting some free meat for their freezers.
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Russ & Matt - NB Leaders |
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Boys - from WP, NB and MK troops |
| Boys had been shown how to pull off the pelt to keep it in one piece. | |||
Lots of slicing and pulling to get the pelt down. |
Gets tough near the ends. |
Lot of help holding the deer. |
Some instructions around where to run the knife to pull the pelt off
easier. |
Getting the hang of it. |
It's working... |
Need a couple more hands to pull down. |
Almost over the head. |
More instructions... |
Would you like the head to mount as a trophy? |
Maybe a bit small for that Trophy category. |
A full pelt that you could make a coat out of. |
Some additional uses for the different parts. This could be used on a door
for a coat hook. |
What do you think mom, can I have a deer foot coat hook on my bedroom
door? |
Now that the pelts are off, we're ready to remove the different cuts of
meat. |
The tenderloins are on the table and ready to be cut. |
I'm visualizing steak... |
As you slice the meat there is a casing you may want to cut off. |
Mapping grocery meat cuts back to the animal. |
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| Putting the samples cuts on the Barbee | The deer were mostly grain fed as they graze around farm fields. Taste just like beef. | Russ indicated there was no gamy taste with the deer they get, as almost all the hunting areas have farms around them. | |
Now over to the barbee with some magic seasonings |
These are almost done. |
Maybe I could become a butcher. |
We could open my own butcher shop. |