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Wounded deer safe to eat?

Posted on 1/12/15 at 9:19 pm
Posted by Ton Chou
On the Levee
Member since Feb 2010
757 posts
Posted on 1/12/15 at 9:19 pm
Shot a deer that another guy wounded in the front leg the week before. Wound looked clean and had no smell but I'm iffy on eating it. Threw the wounded leg away. It just had a little yellow around it but was a light pink otherwise. Safe or no?
Posted by Cracker
in a box
Member since Nov 2009
17668 posts
Posted on 1/12/15 at 9:21 pm to
Sure
Usually the lactic acid will make them taste bad but nothing wrong with it. You can always make gumbo
Posted by ZacAttack
The Land Mass
Member since Oct 2012
6416 posts
Posted on 1/12/15 at 10:45 pm to
It's probably okay, like said already may not taste the best.
Posted by PaBon
UPT 17th W/D
Member since Sep 2014
1886 posts
Posted on 1/13/15 at 12:29 am to
quote:


Usually the lactic acid will make them taste bad


huh? I'm fairly certain that it is not the lactic acid in the muscle fibers that will make the rotten/wounded area of flesh taste bad. Just saying.
Posted by DownSouthDave
Beau, Bro, Baw
Member since Jan 2013
7366 posts
Posted on 1/13/15 at 12:33 am to
Depends how bad the wound is. If it's a rotten stinking puss filled leg, I'd probably throw the whole thing away, chalk it up to a mercy killing. If it's not too bad and the rest of it looks kosher, then I'd give it a shot.
Posted by TJG210
New Orleans
Member since Aug 2006
28335 posts
Posted on 1/13/15 at 1:23 am to
If the meat smells fine, I would eat it.
Posted by fishfighter
RIP
Member since Apr 2008
40026 posts
Posted on 1/13/15 at 5:00 am to
Would not chance it. I would hang the deer in the woods and night hunt it for pigs and yoders.
Posted by SCwTiger
armpit of 'merica
Member since Aug 2014
5857 posts
Posted on 1/13/15 at 7:39 am to
Not for me. Killed a big 8 pt my dad had wounded 4 days before (terrible neck shot through the meat only). It had flys and maggots in the neck wound, but would have survived had it not been walking across my plot when I got to my stand that afternoon.
Not worth the risk. I would give it away.
Posted by swanny297
NELA
Member since Oct 2013
2189 posts
Posted on 1/13/15 at 7:51 am to
quote:

front leg


I don't eat the legs there isn't much meat on them.
Posted by KingRanch
The Ranch
Member since Mar 2012
61590 posts
Posted on 1/13/15 at 7:51 am to
Would eat
Posted by Bacon84
Texas
Member since Oct 2012
649 posts
Posted on 1/13/15 at 7:58 am to
quote:

Not worth the risk. I would give it away.

so, you won't eat it, but will give it to someone else to eat?
Posted by REB BEER
Laffy Yet
Member since Dec 2010
16168 posts
Posted on 1/13/15 at 9:00 am to
I'd eat it if the meat all looks(and smells) fine.
Posted by hardhead
stinky bayou
Member since Jun 2009
5745 posts
Posted on 1/13/15 at 9:29 am to
Sausage
Posted by bluemoons
the marsh
Member since Oct 2012
5503 posts
Posted on 1/13/15 at 9:45 am to
Yall are some tenderfoots. Use your judgment, if the meat looks good, eat it. If it looks bad, cut off the bad part and eat the rest.
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