[BaxMaine]

Once again, it's fine. Amazing how many people will waste an entire deer over one small area.

Im sure there are plenty of things you dont eat that other people would find weird. Do you gut your deer, or eat it all like some do in other cultures?

 

[cebert07]

no problem with the deer cut off the bad part are eat the rest have done this personally on 2 deer with no problems. I personal say make some summer sausage with it do this with all my older meat, tough meat and meat that it scraps. No need to waste the rest of the deer if its good meat.

 

[tjandy]

If you took it to a processer they wouldn't touch it. You be the judge. I would put it out for the yotes.

................ and hunt the yotes. :thumb:

 

[M.Magis]

Im sure there are plenty of things you dont eat that other people would find weird. Do you gut your deer, or eat it all like some do in other cultures?

To me, there's a big difference between not eating all organs, and throwing an entire deer away because of a wound.
And by the way, processors do NOT throw every deer with a wound out. If they did, a large percentage of people would not be getting their meat back, and you can bet they'd be on here complaining about it. Ask any processor how many deer they get in each year with wounds and I bet they can't count them all.

 

[BaxMaine]

To me, there's a big difference between not eating all organs, and throwing an entire deer away because of a wound.
And by the way, processors do NOT throw every deer with a wound out. If they did, a large percentage of people would not be getting their meat back, and you can bet they'd be on here complaining about it. Ask any processor how many deer they get in each year with wounds and I bet they can't count them all.

There is a big difference between a "wound" and green smelly puss pouring out of a deer. The rest may be fine, but like you find eating deer guts gross, some of us find eating an animal that is spewing out green smelly puss gross. Im willing to bet food banks wouldn't even take it if they knew about it.

 

[103309]

I wouldn't do it. Gangrene gives me the willys!

Gang Green is a nickname for the New York Jets.:wink:

They stole the nickname from the Eagles. Gang Green was the nickname of the Reggie White lead defenses of the late 80's and early 90's

 

[M.Magis]

There is a big difference between a "wound" and green smelly puss pouring out of a deer. The rest may be fine, but like you find eating deer guts gross, some of us find eating an animal that is spewing out green smelly puss gross. Im willing to bet food banks wouldn't even take it if they knew about it.

The puss is simply the result of a wound. I've butchered plenty like that, as have many other people. Cut the bad part away and process the rest like normal. It's no big deal, and certainly no reason to waste an entire deer.
I never said anything about "eating guts being gross", I don't know where you got that from. I've eaten plenty of the internal organs.

 

[DB444]

It probably wouldn't hurt you but....

I'd be thinking of that green pus everytime I took a bite---no thanks!

 

[AkNomad]

I killed a nice bull moose back in 06 and he had a huge chunk of meat missing from his left hindquarter which had scabbed over and nasty looking. I cut the affected piece of meat off and ate the rest and it was delicious. If the meat smells fine I would not hesitate to eat it.

 

[PassYoungBucks]

I wouldnt of even stuck my knife in it.

 

[BaxMaine]

The puss is simply the result of a wound. I've butchered plenty like that, as have many other people. Cut the bad part away and process the rest like normal. It's no big deal, and certainly no reason to waste an entire deer.
I never said anything about "eating guts being gross", I don't know where you got that from. I've eaten plenty of the internal organs.

There are different levels of infection, as you describe, a small wound, I would probably cut around it. An entire leg smelling terrible with green puss is an obvious sign that infection does spread, if it didn't, why would anything else but what is around the wound be bad? They use to cut off people's legs and arms with gangreen to prevent the spread of infection, not because they thought it was a cool thing to do. Infection spreads.

If you are ok with it, thats cool. But dont look down on others who find it flat out disgusting.

 

[twisted1600]

There are different levels of infection, as you describe, a small wound, I would probably cut around it. An entire leg smelling terrible with green puss is an obvious sign that infection does spread, if it didn't, why would anything else but what is around the wound be bad? They use to cut off people's legs and arms with gangreen to prevent the spread of infection, not because they thought it was a cool thing to do. Infection spreads.

If you are ok with it, thats cool. But dont look down on others who find it flat out disgusting.

I don't care how hungry I get or what anyone says,I'm not eating people meat!ukey:ukey:ukey:

 

[FlyingKO]

The infection could have moved to the blood already also. It would not be worth taking a chance on. My brother in law shot one in the leg a few years ago and we found it and shot it again a few weeks later and it was exactly as you desribe this one to be and all of the meat had a bad smell to it.

 

[Big Country]

I am usually very open minded about such issues.......but I don`t care if the surgeon general comes on here and says it is OK to eat the unaffected meat.....I ain`t doing it.ukey:

 

[BaxMaine]

I am usually very open minded about such issues.......but I don`t care if the surgeon general comes on here and says it is OK to eat the unaffected meat.....I ain`t doing it.ukey:

Im bookmarking this post, we finally agree on something.

 

[AintNoGriz]

I shot a buck 2 years ago late season that was handicapped in the back end. My father-in law has been bowhunting since they started here in Kansas. He knew something wasn't right w/ the buck just looking at it. He told me not to eat it. I argued w/ him. I hung it in his barn and when I pulled the skin down past one of the hips, all this nasty puss came oozing out. It was the worst smellin stuff ever. The buck had a hole the size of a tennis ball above his hip and it ran along his spine, one huge empty cavity. Needless to say I gave the yotes a good mealukey:

 

[kx90]

I am usually very open minded about such issues.......but I don`t care if the surgeon general comes on here and says it is OK to eat the unaffected meat.....I ain`t doing it.ukey:

I agree. I mean if it were just a small wound that you could cut out and all was good, fine but when you have to cut off the entire leg of the deer, no way.

I will not run the risk of getting sick over it. I would just go back out and fill another tag since I started with 5.

 

[Big Country]

Im bookmarking this post, we finally agree on something.

As you grow older, I am confident we will agree on more and more subjects.:wink:

This is a start......

 

[buckeyboy]

Once again, it's fine. Amazing how many people will waste an entire deer over one small area.

If the infection was throughout the entire deer the deer would have been dead.
cut off the leg the rest will be fine. when a person gets gangreen do we kill the person ? No we cut the leg off. dont waste the meat it will be fine.
if you die then we know I was wrong. just kidding.
any infection that spresds gangreen obviously did not spread or the deer would have died. besides when you cook the meat the tempeature will kill any bacteria . all meat even super market meat contains bacteria.
do some research before the animal is wasted.

 

[junglerooster1]

hutning coyotes is way more fun that puking infected deer meat. sacrafice that one for the sake of predator control and kill another