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Joined: Apr 2013
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I dropped off a gutted deer not skinned January 6th at the processor. My questions are, how long will a deer keep in a 38 degree cooler without ruining if its quartered up? Will meat last 26 days before freezing?
It is hard to kill or catch anything sitting on the couch!
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The longest I've ever had to wait was about 10 days
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Old Mossy Horns
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We hung one 21 days once and it was fine. Sounds like they forgot about your deer to me. I took one quartered to calera last year and finally got it back 6 weeks later. They said they froze the quarters to keep until processed. Turned out fine but won’t take another to them.
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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Booner
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Tons of places are freezing your deer in quarters and then thawing them to process. It's perfectly acceptable and happens with store bought meats every day and I've done it quite a few times on deer I've processed myself.
Last edited by hallb; 01/31/24 11:51 AM.
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Ok I didn’t think you could refreeze deer meat once it thawed out.
It is hard to kill or catch anything sitting on the couch!
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As long as they froze it your good. Over 21 days hanging is too much. You an Escimo any ways they hang their meat all winter so quit worrying.
Its not the will to win but the will to prepare to win!
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my processor freezes the packaged meat after processing it.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
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muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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A butcher told me that as long as the cut of meat is getting processed further in some manner after thawing and refreezing it's totally acceptable. A big portion of the beef and chicken we buy in the store was previously frozen, then thawed to put out in the case...then we go buy it in bulk and refreeze it. I've never had an issue with it.
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Old Mossy Horns
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Mine always frozen when pick it up. I hav had it take 3-4 weeks or 7-10 days
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self
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The place I take it to for smoked sausage tells me to just go ahead and freeze it before I bring it to them, that's what they're going to do with it anyway. And they are a long-time operation that processes all kinds of animals, so I figure they know what they're doing. Plus, their smoked sausage is really good.
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Drop off, gut, hang in cooler for 10-14 days, cut and package, freeze and call me to come pick up. The whole process is about 11-15 days.
Lord, please help us get our nation straightened out.
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My processor hangs the deer with the hide on and thaws and skins it when he is ready to process it. Might be 3 or 4 months before I get it back. Best processor I have ever used.
Grandma said...Always keep a gun close at hand, you just never know when you might run across some varmint that needs killing...
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I was told 3 weeks when I dropped mine off Sunday.
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The processor I use in MS has a 2-3 week turnaround
In your darkest hour when the demons come, call on me brother and we'll fight them together.
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Pumpkin - The Thermal Expert
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Got two at one right now, been there 3 1/2 weeks. Never took this long before
Last edited by jwalker77; 01/31/24 08:56 PM.
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Place I been using hangs it for 10 days and then process. It’s generally a bit over two weeks turnaround. But I’m good with that cause I know it’s my deer
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Early in the season about a week. Come January, bout a week and a half to two weeks.
Life is a journey. Make sure and bring plenty of Beer.
My luck has been so bad lately, it could be raining pussies and I'd catch one with a dick broke off in it.
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Early in the season about a week. Come January, bout a week and a half to two weeks. Same here in the Shoals.
I can't stand a thief.
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Are you getting your deer back?
I have always wondered that. I debone my own and fry, crockpot it and make deer wraps with it. I never had to urge to get any processed.
I love the rut. The woods are like a bunch of roided up meatheads fighting over a girl.
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