After The Kill: Photography, Field Processing, & Packing Meat
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Success! You've just shot a buck or bull. But should the fun really stop there? Not really. You'll shift gears, sure, but the process of getting great photos in the field, then field processing and breaking down your animal and packing it out can be very rewarding.
This episode, we take an in-depth look at three steps:
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Positioning your animal
- Using the light
- Positioning the hunter
- Setting up the camera
- Framing the photo
- LOOKING and SEEING what's in the viewfinder
- Snapping the shot
Field Dressing & the Gutless Method
- Traditional gutting: Pros, Cons, & How-to
- Gutless Method: skinning, quartering, & lifting off backstraps
- Removing bones
Packing Out
- Cooling meat
- Meat sacks & flies
- Loading your backpack
- Working without injury
- Aging meat on ice
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| 0:00.0 | When the last echoes of your shot rebound from the hills and the scent of gunpowder fades, |
| 0:07.0 | your hunt makes a major gear shift. |
| 0:11.0 | You go from predatory mode to recovery mode. |
| 0:14.0 | There are several crucial steps you should take between your query going down |
| 0:18.0 | and you kicking back with a double bacon cheeseburger. |
| 0:22.0 | Folks, welcome to the show. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm Joseph von Benedict, and this is the backcountry hunting podcast. |
| 0:28.2 | Today we're going to talk through the process of photographing your buckler bowl, |
| 0:32.4 | filled dressing it, meat care in the field, and packing it out. |
| 0:37.0 | First let's take a moment for our upfront Q&A section. |
| 0:41.0 | Brought to you this episode by Timney Triggers, makers of our all-time |
| 0:45.0 | favorite match-grade rifle triggers. This question is from a listener we'll call |
| 0:50.2 | Aaron via Patreon. And he wrote, |
| 0:55.0 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:57.0 | First of all, I want to thank you for the informative content you produce. |
| 1:01.0 | I've long appreciated that it is family friendly and respectful of |
| 1:05.4 | other opinions even if they differ from your own. Well thanks Aaron I |
| 1:10.4 | appreciate that and I do my best. Aaron continued I have a question I wanted to ask. What cartridge |
| 1:17.1 | would you recommend for a youth rifle? In specific I'm looking for a rifle |
| 1:22.0 | with which my 11 year old son can |
| 1:24.0 | hint prong horn, deer, and elk in our home state of Colorado. |
| 1:29.7 | He has a small frame, but he is a tough and athletic young man. I would rather sacrifice |
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