Hanging phesants

[Spook]

Which way up do you hang your game? and why??

 

How long for? and why?

 

Thanks

[Hodmedod.one]

Which way up do you hang your game? and why??

 

How long for? and why?

 

Thanks

 

birds by the necks. rabbits and hares by the back legs.

hanging time depends on how gamey you like your meat and the temperature.

[lurcherboy]

I have always hung mine head up :unsure: And thought that was gospel.

 

But I recently met a couple in a local boozer and got talking to them. After a few rounds it turned out that the hubby was employed at the Sandringham estate a few years back. So we chatted and I asked him about the shooting there and one thing led to another, we had many more jars until we became poisened by the bad beer and went blind. But thats another story.

 

The upshot is they hang upside down.

 

The reason behind this is all body fluids will keep the meat moist and educated tongues WILL know the difference when it's on the plate

 

Must be well thick then

 

 

 

LB

[dazza]

I hang my pheasants by the neck for three days

[decroyffe]

don't know how close to the truth this is, but your meant to hang the things till all the fluids and maggots drop, head up. fresher the better for me tho, got two brace today, they'll be done and ate tomorow for supper

[apbuild]

I hang my birds by the neck.

 

In cold weather, I hang for up to a week in the outhouse, but that depends on how rich you want the meat to taste.

 

Rob.

[henry d]

Head up for a fortnight

[the hitman]

I gave a workmate a brace of pheasant, he asked me if they had been hung , no i said they were shot!.

[Whitebridges]

Which way up do you hang your game? and why??

 

How long for? and why?

 

Thanks

 

birds by the necks. rabbits and hares by the back legs.

hanging time depends on how gamey you like your meat and the temperature.

 

 

Usually hang mine for about 4 days in cold weather.

[pin]

All this bunkum about wait for the first maggot..

 

I'd not want to eat anything flies had not only had a chance to lay eggs in, but that had hatched and eaten up the neck to drop out the beak?

[fulltimeshooter]

Imagine tucking into that on christmas day!

[kiwi]

i dont hang them here its to warm here in northen new zealand ,shoot them, clean them, and in the fridge hate flys , if im late home or ****** , i have a sealed bucket i put my game in, keeps the rats away to,

 

talk about rats any one had a problem of them getting into ducks phesant , when i did have a few ratys around if i left a bird in the garage over night the friggen rats would have a go at , they genarly eat the brains out first ,and **** on the bird to mark it. no rats now but they are a round