Gut shot!!!

[caribou]

"Ah told me folks I was headed out West to trap Beaver...they acted like they was gutshot....." ..LOL!!From the movie Jerimah Johnson.

Anyhoo, I figured Id tell you a trick Ive been using when its nessesarry....

SOMETIMEs.....we do indeeed shoot them in the guts... a
bad shot, a bad day, the planets alignment along with an earthquake under Sumatra threw ya off.... or "Whatever" we come apon our Caribou (Or Deer, if it is so) and we see that our Remchester ultra mag blew out the heart, and ended up taking a 65* turn for the worst and the guts are leaking green foam.....

Well, #1, it is NOT ruined!

We proceed to gut as usual, cutting "Up" from butthole tto the lyrnx, and then pulling them "Down" and out , finishing back at the butthole.
Usually, I remove the Liver in this sweep, but seeing all that green goop, with some nasty old stomach acid and sticks half chewed, I leave the Liver in and cut it LAST.
I actually slice it in half. This drains ALOT of blood into to contaminated cavity, mixing all nice and good. The Caribou is on his back still, so I'll roll one and smoke it, or have a cup of tea and top off my gas tank.....maby 10 minutes in all....
Then its back to my Meat, and low and behold, the congeeled mass slops out when I flip 'em over and all in one nice reddish/black/green blob.
A wipe down for any bad pices, and all is well....

I dont really mind a two part liver, its still good, and it works every time.

So think of this rather than "Ruined"....and I dont know about you, but Caribou chew Moss nice and small, it mixes wll with fat and rice, to be eaten with tounge and Heart......called "Amilik"....but Im getting hungry writing this....

 

[brandonc]

Thanks for the tip.

 

[ants]

I'll save all my caribou moss for the next time I see ya.

 

[caribou]

Save me some moss......and I'll make dinner.

Fact is , if we Havent shot our Caribou inna guts, we can make the whole fella into a real good feed, especially with freezing weather.
After beheading and splitting the leg skins and cutting the knee joints (For a smaller over all animal) leave 'em on their backs....... Well take a nice fat bull, and "Sorta" gut him.....
Pull off the belly skin pice, then cut the belly meats from the inner thigh to the sternum on both sides. Leave the stomach in place.
Take the intestines, heart/lungs, tounge, liver, kidneys and trachia out as usual. Toss the lungs to your dogs, and put the intestine in a bag, so you can use the casing later.
Cut up the kidneys, liver, and some of the inner loins, as well as chopping up all the intestinal fats you could get.
Pop a small hole in the bloated belly and stand back...LOL!

Make a small slice in the stomach and scoop out about half of the contents.
Put the cut up meats in the Stomack and close.
Bank the animal in snow and leave it for a day or two.

Go home and start your Heart and Tounge soup, let it simmer real slow on the wood stove....

Come back when its frozen, as it will then be "Done" and remove the now frozen stomach by prying it out and chop the contents into pices that you can thaw at home.

Hang the bull in a warm place (Your meat shed, with a nice fire built)and skin 'em. Repeat the freezing/thawing 3 or 4 times, untill it is a tint of green on the outter layers of fat.
Butcher and debone the meat the last time it thaws.....Itll be like butter.....Eat chopped up with seal oil and greens, it just melts in your mouth, and elders can suck it into pices, with out dentures...Or bring a chunk inna house and ferment it as long as you can stand, refreeze it and eat it then.....kina "Peppery", but still very good.

You now have "Amalik" and its damn good!
Chop and thaw and mix with rice and Garlic, Mmmmmmmmm........
Or eat frozen , smothered in Seal oil.......Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


Better than Mc Donalds!

 

[H&Hhunter]

Caribou,

Have you ever eaten stink flipper? I never could make myself..

Or another one that I used to see the locals enjoying down on the Kuskokwim was I think they called it Clintchik or something like that. They'd bury a salmon head for about a week or so then dig it up and eat it after it started to decompose. They say it is real good but I never was brave enough to try it either.

I have had Eskimo ice cream it wasn't to bad. A little congealed seal fat and salmon berries go a long way on an empty stomach.

 

[The Bushmaster]

Well I guess I'm not as hungry as I thought...Thanks for saving me some money not having lunch...

 

[caribou]

LOL! Mmmmmmmmmmm..............Lunch.

H&H, Last stink Flipper I had was at Elephant point , on Escholts bay.....
you know, with some Mustard, stink flippers aint so "Stink"
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........Fermented meats , alla around are really like a good Danish Blue cheese.......or a nice Rougfurt(sp?)
Fermenting Salmon heads is popular yet.....
Buried in permafrost, in a grass bag, covered with wads of grass on cool day, to keep out bugs , but let air circulate, and it is some awsome stuff.
Just NEVER use plastic or your playing reulett with Botulisim.