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Originally Posted by Lefty-Canuck
If you have a walk in...skin it...no need to leave the hide on and drag that hair into a clean cooler. Butchers don't leave the hide on a side of beef in a cooler.
LC
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Actually,I first learned about leaving the hide on from an article featuring a major meat processing plant in Wisconsin iirc?Their facility processes a few THOUSAND deer per season,peel the hides off with mechanical skinners etc.,and hide on aging is what they recommend whenever possible.The exception being,if I hit a shoulder etc.,I'd want to skin it ASAP and stop the bloodshot from spreading,but for a good double lunger or head/neck shot.....no worries?
Walk in or not,let's say we are huntn buds and both shoot bucks on the same day?you skin yours,I hang mine hide on,and we agree to butcher them after 21 days in our walk-in.Yours will be the dark carcass encased in a 1/8" dry rind,and mine will be the moist and fresh looking slab o'meat that looks like it was shot yesterday.
