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How to Clean Up a Deer
Summary: Cleaning animals is a process that feeds the world. I am glad to know that I could get a job in a packing plant just about anywhere, or feed myself when times get hard.
Tick, tick, tick the sound of the deafening silence had been broken by the fallen leaves crushing under the hooves of the elk. As the sound grew closer, I slowly, quietly, ever so quietly raised my Winchester to take aim at the magnificent animal. My pulse quickened thinking of the scrumptious meals I would feast upon during the long winter months in the Rocky Mountains. When the silhouette appeared, I slowly squeezed the trigger, and with a loud crack from the rifle, the enormous cow fell in her tracks. I immediately began the process necessary to obtain the meat from the animal.
I first cut both of her jugular veins so that she would "bleed out" which produces a better tasting meat. The best method I have found for maximizing the return on the amount of time I spend cleaning the animal is to "quarter it out" since...
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