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<blockquote data-quote="ofbandg" data-source="post: 2348545" data-attributes="member: 91402"><p>Our northern hunting trips often last three weeks or more and we are living in the bush the whole time. If one of us gets a moose early it has to hang for the remainder of the hunt. Fortunately, it's cold during the nights, and if we keep it in the shade and wrap something around it the meat stays cool even during the warmest days, which usually aren't all that warm. If we run into an unusually warm spell we cut the meat into sections and put it in a freezer run by a generator during the day and hang it back up at night. That doesn't happen often and it's only necessary for a few hours during the warmest part of the day. The meat doesn't have time to freeze in the freezer. We take a freezer along because it's a day and a half trip home through much warmer country and it's a good place to put much of the food we are taking up with us.</p><p></p><p>As for that dry skin that forms on the meat, we see it as a blessing. It forms a barrier against insects and other small creatures, it even protects against wind-blown sand and dust. I think it also seals some of the moisture in. Sometimes if the birds are bothering the meat we will hang a tarp over the meat pole or wrap the meat in old bed sheets. We usually shoot big old moose because that is mostly what we are allowed to shoot and the meat is always tender and good tasting after all that hanging. I remember one old bull that hung for three weeks in the bush and then hung for another ten days in a cooler when we got back, because the meat cutter was busy, and the meat was excellent.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ofbandg, post: 2348545, member: 91402"] Our northern hunting trips often last three weeks or more and we are living in the bush the whole time. If one of us gets a moose early it has to hang for the remainder of the hunt. Fortunately, it's cold during the nights, and if we keep it in the shade and wrap something around it the meat stays cool even during the warmest days, which usually aren't all that warm. If we run into an unusually warm spell we cut the meat into sections and put it in a freezer run by a generator during the day and hang it back up at night. That doesn't happen often and it's only necessary for a few hours during the warmest part of the day. The meat doesn't have time to freeze in the freezer. We take a freezer along because it's a day and a half trip home through much warmer country and it's a good place to put much of the food we are taking up with us. As for that dry skin that forms on the meat, we see it as a blessing. It forms a barrier against insects and other small creatures, it even protects against wind-blown sand and dust. I think it also seals some of the moisture in. Sometimes if the birds are bothering the meat we will hang a tarp over the meat pole or wrap the meat in old bed sheets. We usually shoot big old moose because that is mostly what we are allowed to shoot and the meat is always tender and good tasting after all that hanging. I remember one old bull that hung for three weeks in the bush and then hung for another ten days in a cooler when we got back, because the meat cutter was busy, and the meat was excellent. [/QUOTE]
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